The splash of tears into a puddle of rain
Almost entirely silent with the muffled whines of a mare that has just gotten home with more food
Mourning a loss that she wasn’t present for. A loss that she wishes she was there for. Then maybe the monsters would have taken her to
Nearby is the remnants of a raid. A band of religious extremists that despise the existence of these creatures not born by god, but of man, got together and hunted the ferals. They found her foals and special friend
The mate lays at the entrance to the alley. Having died attempting to stop them. The foals were mutilated within the nest. The first to die had awoke the rest with its dying screams
The mare stops whining. Just silently crying. The cold quiet air of the dead of night only being cut with sniffling and distant cars
Before she hears it
A muffled peeping
She jumps up still silent searching the nest. She can’t find it. She has to keep looking
She stops realizing that she must’ve imagined it
She goes into the nest pushing the remains aside and cuddling the memories of what she had
Wishing to return or atleast have the pain end
She wakes hours later. The sounds of the waking city having awoken her. She pushes the food she had found aside and decides to try and go back to sleep. She rolls over so the light would stop being in her eyes
Then she hears it
The recognizable sound of hungry peeping. She fears she imagined it again but then she feels it. A small tug at her utter as the peeping stops
She sits upright and looks down
She finds a small foal. It isn’t one of hers but with the dried crimson splashes that are slowly fading to brown on its yellow fluff, it must’ve lost its family aswel
She let’s the foal feed. Watching silently. When the foal finishes it attempts to blindly fumble away
She grabs the foal lifting it up and setting it on her stomach. She reaches over and pulls the nummies close
And there they lay. One surrounded by the remains of its family and the other covered in them. Nothing connecting them together aside from being victims of the same senseless violence
Together they lay in that alleyway sharing a quiet moment
(Decided to try porting one to test. Hope its flared correctly)