out-40: Satra

Satra barely managed to stay awake for five minutes in the Kirinaria Mercenary Camp. She fell asleep as soon as the kirin walked out to check what the others were excited about. When she started to awaken, she could hear the trotting of some hooves and the wheels of a wagon over the humps of a road. What woke her up however, were some droplets of water that splashed on her face. “Oh gee, I’m sorry, if only the road weren’t so bumpy…” She heard the voice of a mare. Satr...

She opened her eyes at least. She didn’t know how long it had been, all her senses had completely gone numb, yet she had been awake like that for quite a while before eventually falling asleep. She did wake up a few times only to find herself in that total darkness, and she thought it would be like that forever. She wished she would die, better than whatever that was, but thankfully this time she could actually see and feel something - sort of. Everything was blurry, and the colors were all...

Satra opened her eyes at the screams of the stallion.“AAAGHH THE GHOSTS!! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!” She caught a glimpse of the outside: strange figures rose from the swamp, with big, bug-like eyes and sharp horns. The stallion was still tied up to the wagon, and in his panic to set himself free, he knocked it over, pushing it into the swamp. Satra jumped, trying not to touch the water that started to flow in. She climbed on top of the wagon, ...

For weeks, the wagon carried on like that across Equestria. They always made sure to provide food and water for Satra, which made her quite angry at the beginning. She refused to eat for a few days, until she eventually gave in. She hated those ponies, but she told herself that she had to stay healthy or she wouldn’t be able to properly run away.   One night, the wagon exchange went somehow differently.  “Be careful when you sleep, she ...

Satra woke up in the wagon dragging along a dirt road. At first she was surprised not to be in her bed, but then she recalled the events of yesterday. That stallion came and adopted her, got her in the back of his wagon and left the Crystal Empire. She eventually fell asleep. Now she could hear him talking into some sort of communication device. She knew not what that was, they didn’t have such things in the Crystal Empire.  - An...

Satra grew up in the Crystal Orphanage, amongst many other fillies like her. Unlike them, she preferred to play all by herself, read books and such. But she was no nerd, she desired not the company of others, she just enjoyed far too much by herself. Some tried to bully her, only to regret it later. So now they all just kind of avoided her, only occasionally calling her a freak. The caretakers tried to care for her like for the other children, but she could sense th...