A Wolf Among Sheep [open]

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Carmen

Finally mid afternoon had eaten away the morning chill that had lingered and it was exceptionally warm in the sunlight. Steam still coiled from her nostrils but the trail she had left in the frost was disappearing as it melted and the mare felt more at ease in case she was being followed. Her blonde tail whisked against her bright red flanks as she walked, as if her pinned ears were not enough to show off her sour mood. Carmen was traveling south from her home herd that had resided in the north, where she had lived for quite a few years now. She did not want to live a cold winter alone, knowing it could very possibly spell death for her and she was not quite ready to die yet. Not before her revenge...

Carmen had been raised in a nomadic herd that prided itself on strength and ferocity. Mated pairs were not chosen for feelings but for equaled strength and skill. There Carmen had quickly climbed the ranks and become lead mare for the strongest stallion in the area. She had challenged mares and mares had challenged her for her spot and she had never been defeated. She was a shining jewel in her stallion's eyes for her ferocious ruthlessness when it came to challenges and soon horses just learned not to get in her way. Everything was perfect for Carmen and she had even been prepared to birth a foal for her stallion. She'd known it was a colt from the day she'd felt it move but when the time came to bring it into the world, her son had failed her. He had been a stillborn.

Seen as a disgrace to her stallion, he meant to exile her. She had argued, saying it was their son's failure not hers as a mother. Had she not borne him a son? Had the colt been stronger he would have survived and that was not of her concern. From there the entire herd rose up against her. No one talked back to the stallion and kept their tongue. As much as it burned her, she ran, instantly labeling herself a coward instead of dying with honor and going down with blood in her mouth. That was not the way Carmen decided to die, however, and she knew she would be returning to that herd very soon and it would not be her dying, oh no.

Remembering her plans for revenge, a sinister smile curled her lips and her one blue eye seemed to flicker hideously with anticipated triumph.

{ooc} Ramble ramble ramble.