Shadowflax woke with a start. Then she froze seeing the other mare beside her. she gently eased herself away. She was thirsty. She gimped about 3 miles to the path that led to the watering hole, it was a crack in the cliff face were she had been attacked. she warily stepped through the opening and walked slowly through for about 1/4 of a mile. then she saw and smelled it. The mountain lions body lay there and it wreaked like dead animal. she held her breath and walked pasted seeing where its skul had cracked when she had kicked it. When she made it out into the little circular valey she smiled, her memory had not done its beauty justice. cliff faces rose like walls in an almost perfect circle only breaking once where the entrance was. in the middle was a round little pool and on the far side was a little stand of trees that acted as a shelter. if you looked up the perfect blue sky shone bright, you would never guess that the night before such a bad storm had gone through. off the east wall a small waterfall fell into a little stream that led to the pond in the middle. She limped forward and drank from the stream. It was big enough to home at least 25 horses easily. She knew she was the only one who knew about this valley, asside from the mountain lion which was now dead, and she wasn't sure if she wanted to share her secret with anyone even sun. She knew it would be mean to keep it from her though and that if shadowflax wanted to survive the long healing process without being eaten by a predator this was the only safe place to do it. She gave one last look and decided it was time to go get sun before she woke.
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