A Secular Haze

Uriah was so lost in thought that he had not heard the new intruder approaching. His horned head turned slowly, his golden haloed eyes focusing into the darkness. Shadows began to take shape as a rather small winged mare stepped into the low light. She was most assuredly real, although where she had come from had yet to be determined. She was plainly in her appearance, he had seen many bays when wandering the plains. His mother had been a spectacular silver bay. What he honed in on though where her wings. He had always envied the other pegasi of his birth flock, their freedom to go where they pleased with no hindering attachments to the world below. He could only watch from his perch as a young boy as others his age flew above. His face did not betray his envy and bitterness though, his expression bore the same calmness it always had.

“I am not sure…” He answered after a momentary pause. Adrenaline was still pulsing through his body, and his limbs still shook from the impact. But, except for those and the cuts and bruises from his flight through the forest he was fine. Still he felt, strange, his flight through the rift and his arrival in this dark world had changed him somehow. Uriah’s gaze wandered now, focusing on nothing in particular as his mind tried in vain to process all that was around him. “What is this place? Do you live here?” He inquired has soft, flat voice carrying only the hint of curiosity. Were there others waiting just beyond his sight? The shadows seemed to move of their own accord, and no matter how used to the darkness his eyes became he could not bade them to leave.  

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