"Finally!" she said.
She was small and she had crossed the red river to womanhood, but she was young. Achingly young. She stood in the forest. There were no roads. Her legs were bare and dirty up to half the shin, her dress tattered to the knees.
"Where are your kin, Stargleam?" she asked the unicorn.
It lowered its horn, the glorious alicorn of its kind. It could not speak. The girl felt no emotion from it other than a heavily curtained dismay.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
In answer, Stargleam turned.
A tracking beacon winked in its mane.
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Matthew Daniels
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Matthew the imagery and symbolism in this story was breath taking. My heart broke a little when I read the part about the tracking beacon on the unicorn. I interpreted that as someone "owns" it or that they are endangered and being "protected". Will you be writing more of this story?