Stand By Me (open)

[nala]

Florence

The islands were tropical. Either for this reason or for some other completely unknown reason, it was not uncommon to find rain sprinkling the beaches in the early morning hours as the sun began to rise. There was never a full downpour unless it was the hurricane season, but that didn't seem to stop Florence from soaking herself in its chilling warmth every morning it came. Her mane and tail looked like blood dripping from her ghostly white body, dulling in the rain. She would stand still for hours each morning on whatever beach received the rain. She always seemed to know just which one it would be too, for she was always standing and waiting for it, not missing a single drop.

Her slim body was accompanied by no one this morning, and her tail drooped with a heaviness that it usually didn't carry. Her head clung to its height, eyes scanning out into the ocean looking at what no islander dared question. Florence had been experiencing this ritual for around two years straight now. It started when she was two, when her beautiful mother was still alive, and it hadn't stopped, besides from the day of her mothers death, since. Her hooves sunk into the moistening sand as the sun rose higher and higher, peaking out from behind the ocean horizon. She didn't say a word and she didn't move a muscle until the sun was fully in the sky and the rain slowly stopped. Only then would she return to daily life as if nothing had ever happened. It was as if she was waiting for something each morning, and each morning that something failed to come. No one dared question her, and rarely did anyone join her. Instead, Florence remained the only equine soaked and bathed every morning and the first riser in the herd. Her abnormalities where noticed, but her personality seemed to cause them to be set aside. She was loved by nearly everyone, unfortunately that love was not the love she was looking for.

ooc: so im thinking if your character is a member of the herd they probably know Florence already... so we can just start em up as friends.

oh and if you didn't already figure it out... Florence is gay and shes struggling with it because as is life its not "normal".