Flowers Falling all around Me

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 She was away from her herd, wandering a bit further than normal from the safety of numbers. There was a sweet smell that lured her closer and closer to a tree that she could see. Warily, she would keep an eye on her environment, making sure that no predators were around to ambush her. Her heart hammered in her chest as she realized how vulnerable she was when she was alone... that blind spot directly behind her...

 She didn't expect anyone in front. 

 She could see another now, who had been hidden by the hill. She stopped staring, ready to bolt... until she realized it was a doe!

 She released a breath that she didn't realize she'd been holding. Ah... doe. They were fine. Deer were like horses. Predated on everything...

 She hoped the other didn't mind company. 

 She stepped closer, rehearsing what she wanted to say in her mind until she was close enough to speak. She took a breath and then asked timidly, "Uhm, i-is it okay if I eat the appes here, t-too?" She didn't want to intrude upon the other's space if it would 'cause her any upset. Hopefully she could make a friend today.

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 When the other jumped and bolted away, it made Strawberry feel like she should be bolting. She exhaled sharply through her nose and began to look around panicked, until she realized the only thing that had scared the doe had been herself. Oh, oh, that was a relief! "Th-thank-you! Sorry for scaring you..." She said with an apologetic smile as she forced herself to calm down. 

 The other herbivore came towards her and Strawberry too would help close the gap between them by stepping forward. "Serendipity, that's a pretty name." She said shyly with a smile. Serendipity, a happy accident. It fit their meeting, actually. How she hadn't meant to stumble on another friendly creature but had. "My name's Strawberry. I live with my herd not too far from here." She'd been looking at the ground, searching for the perfect apple to munch on. She found it eventually and grabbed it in her mouth and pulled it from the ground. "Are you from around here?" She asked before breaking it apart in her teeth and feasting on the sweet fruit. Ah, it tasted wonderful!

 It was nice to have someone to talk to, someone she didn't have to worry about, especially not when the other seemed just as timid as she did.

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 How very sweet! The blue roan mare smiled bashfully, ducking her head demurely and saying a softspoken, "Th-thank-you." She felt so lucky to have found a nice doe here! A sweet doe with no tendencies to suddenly turn and attack or whisk her away forever. You know, those things that Renegade warned her might happen with rogue stallions. 

 "Oh?" Strawberry wasn't sure she'd ever met a lone deer before. 

 To be fair, she'd hardly met any deer at all. "Maybe you'd have luck in that direction. I think I've seen a herd or two over there." She pointed her nose across the river where there was a cluster of trees. Unknown to her, she was indicating Elkshire territory where lots of deer lived in peace. She'd seen those deer but had never been brave enough to introduce herself. 

 "That would be real nice if you did. It's always good to see other groups like us around here." You know, the non-pointy-fanged kind. No offense to her pointy-fanged-friends, of course. "There's a lotta wolves around here... b-but some of them are surprisingly nice." Like Uriel. Who blessedly didn't eat meat. That was strange but definitely good.

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Yup! Sounds good to me! We can have a new one near Elkshire.

 Dark? Oh, yes, it did... didn't it? Strawberry wasn't all too sure about that. Dark and foreboding... fangs sneaking up to attack you from your blind spots... in the dark. She thought about it, growing increasingly more anxious about such thick woodlands. 

 Would the tree roots reach up to entangle you? Trip you? Drag you down while something munched on your bones?! She hadn't thought of forests like that before... but the dense ones like that? She gulped. Growing steadily more nervous with each passing moment. 

 "H-h-h-wh-what?" She blinked, snapping back to the present when Serendipity spoke to her. Go with her? Why, that sounded absolutely foolish! What if they were eaten?! She didn't want to be killed! No! Absolutely not! There was no way she'd go in there! Not for the most delicious carrots in the world! "S-s-s-s-sure. I'll g-g-go with you..." She stuttered out with a terrified smile. 

 Why? Because it was her fault that the nice doe was going there and because she didn't want to be rude and say no. The herd would be fine without her for a little while, she would wander back afterwards. 

 If she wasn't eaten by something...

 She gulped and looked at those woodlands past the river. She hoped they couldn't find a way across.

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