The River's Edge
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It was said that any foal sired by such a creature would be stronger and swifter and than any raging river, and more beautiful and fierce than the wildest waterfall and more sure-footed and fearless than any mortally-bred beast. To match such traits with the sweet, loyal temperament of her pretty mare? The foal that resulted would be magnificent.
She also knew the stories, of the creature's appetites.
She knew it would eagerly devour any who strayed into its reach.
She knew it would eagerly devour her.
And she wanted to be safely back in the village and away from the water when night fell.
Her heart was in her throat as she approached the riverbank, anxiously scanning the gently flowing current for the telltale ripples that could warn her of the creature's impending ambush. But as long minutes passed without sign of the creature's reappearance, she began her tentative approach to the bank where she had secured her mare's tether.
But as she knelt to yank the stake from the spongey ground, she didn't see the surface of the river begin to ripple.
There was no time to even scream as the creature erupted from the river, lunging directly for her.
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- Part 1 of The River's Edge
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The surface was calling to her. It called to her as it hadn't for many, many long moon turns.
Long enough that there were days where she honestly forgot of her life before.
Before she had taken her mare to the river's edge and found herself bred by the Creature that lived there just the same as her mare.
Before she had instinctually welcomed the Creature back to her bed as the waning crescent moon had hung in the sky.
Before she had birthed the child sired on her by the feared Creature from her human - her very mortal - body.
Before she had bled out her mortal life's blood from that very mortal body even as the Creature's offspring had slithered free from her womb.
Before her creature, her mate had claimed her and been claimed by her in turn after it had woken the fae-creature long dormant beneath her human flesh.
Before she had embraced her life beneath the surface of the water, in the wide bend in the river.
But this night, one that echoed the oddly bright moonrise despite the barest sliver of moon that hung in the sky of the ones where her Creature had planted their offspring within her womb, she felt the call of the surface.
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- Part 2 of The River's Edge