Rainbows in Rain Storms

So his last adventure out hadn’t been…brilliant. The colt had had to give an explanation somehow, of how he managed to come home smelling of smoke. How he’d nearly caught the forest on fire...How he'd burned his shoulder…He didn’t tell them about what grabbed his hoof. They might not have let him out again if they knew he’d let that happen. So when he’d finally convinced them he could go out again, he decided he best explore the beach this time instead of the forest. Maybe it had its monsters too, but he could at least see them.

It would have been great. The colt was finding he loved the sea, it wised expanse and open air feeling. But of course, it was raining again. Rain pounded the colt’s head and hardened the sand so it only served to bog him down. Even the flames at his back hissed and spit in the downpour. He was opening it would let up, he wanted so badly for it to, but no, it rained and rained. The colt was just about to give him, to turn and head back to the forest when in the haze of the beach rose….a rock? A cave? He hurried to it. It didn’t matter what it was. If it offered him protection without making him go back in that forest just yet, he’d take it.

Running, as much as one can run through quick sand, and with the limp from his still sore shoulder, the colt stumbled under the awning of the cave. He shakes he small frame, but he does not shiver like most do in the cold. There were, however small, some comforts of the flame licked feathers on his back. Their warm drafts of air ever wrapping around his spine, warming his small body. Picking his head up, the sea blue eyes finally look around to what he’s found. It is staggering. Glittering rocks and colorful stones wrap and cover the cave. For the moment the colt is dumbfounded to a stop. Perhaps if he had seen the wonders of Helovia’s heart caves, he wouldn’t be so taken aback, but those were gone…

@Akeli