Yang watched the herd from a hill, the sharp wind that was found higher up blowing her dark mane in her face. The small mare stood tall, as though she had won a difficult fight, but her eyes shone with sadness.
"Was I really meant to be in a herd?" she murmured softly, gazing at the happy horses who played down below. She had never felt that she didn't belong this strongly. When she had first stumbled across this group, which was at the time fairly small, she had thought that her feeling was because she had been in solitary for so long with only her brother for company.
Now she realized that she wasn't fit for a life with others. Ther only horses she had been comfortable around were Aiden and her brother, Yin. Her heart hurt thinking of how she had to leave them, but she couldn't bring them with her.
Glancing down at the others one last time, Yang turned around sharply and galloped away as fast as she could, the black mare's pitchy mane and tail flowing behind her as she tried to convince herself that she was doing the right thing.
She didn't even know what was happening in that place anymore, there were dozens of new horses and foals who she knew nothing of, and she seemed to have been forgotten. She was no more than a distant memory in the minds of most. If the ones you had thought of as friends didn't give even the smallest thought for you, it wasn't worth reminding them that you were something more than dirt.
Or was it?