The light of the full moon bathed the brown back of the old centaur.
The beginning of winter made itself felt, causing the air to condense when I opened my mouth.
-Look carefully at the stars...- He said with a deep and calm voice- Terrible times are approaching, but we cannot get involved with the evil of the world. - His completely white eyes looked at me without seeing me- His work is only with this land and with everything that sprouts and lives in it, his duty is to keep that cycle in balance.- He hit the ground with his strong hooves- All of us we live on these lands and we owe ourselves to it. But humans are terrible beasts that destroy everything in their path - he continued as if some old memory came to his mind- They are selfish and hedonistic beings...
YES! - someone jumped into the bushes - I also heard that his sinister eyes can hypnotize you! And from his hands can come out claws that cut a tree in half! - His thin fawn legs fluttered to the sound of his long ears, while the expression on his face could only be translated as that he had eaten blue mushrooms again.
-Felt... - said the old man covering his face as if he could see it clearly.
- And not only that! - Felt continued circling around the old man- If a human touches you, he will contaminate you!- he leaned towards us raising his tail in front of the old man's face- Because they can hit you the evil... - he said sticking out his tongue.
-FELSABAT!!!
-Yessss…? Kronx… - said the fawn hugging him from the waist to which he just reached.
-Stop making the wise words of our ancestors sound like the howls of a fox in a trap!
Felt slid a finger from the old man's lip to his navel and said…- I really sound like a fox-
Before he could finish his sentence the old man picked him up with his antlers and put him on his back. Slowly they disappeared into the bushes.
-Felt is crazy…
- But the old man loves him as much as the oaks….
-She loves him like an oak! - laughed the other centaurs who had seen and heard everything.
- How do you know how to recognize that kind of thing?
-Well, simple... you take care of it as much as you should take care of your stone and spiritual guide...
- But only because you want to, not because you have to- another centaur stressed...
-Ahh... I understand... - I said without understanding anything...- like my spiritual guide... . MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE! Oh! No…
I ran away…. while listening to the laughter of my friends in the distance,
-Trix, seriously?!
- Those rabbits won't survive the winter…
- What bad luck the rabbits had…
-Don't forget the squirrels
-Yes, and the….
Ahhh!!!!
YES, I know... my responsibility in this forest is the rodents... the small and beautiful rodents, super soft and fluffy balls of fur... but there are many... MANY... And they burrow everywhere, in places where they shouldn't even be... ahhh…
When I got to the burrow near the creek, under a rotten log about to collapse, I took the rabbits out and relocated them by digging another burrow myself… My work was done… it wasn't complicated… but it's tiring…
Ahhh .. I sighed... It was already night, very late and yet I still hadn't been able to sleep...
But something woke me up completely... something had fallen on my back...
Could it be one of the giant spiders that Krato had told me about? !- I thought I was on the verge of fainting…. yes yes… we are one with nature… one with nature… but not like this…. Nooo, not with insects, arachnids or anything else with many… MANY legs….
I breathed and felt one of the legs of that thing get tangled up with my hair, I shook myself and still it didn't get off me...
When I got up enough courage to turn around, the panic turned into surprise...
It doesn't have helmets...- I said walking around the figure on my back- it doesn't have hair... it doesn't have so many legs either... I think it's missing legs... It looks like a small mammal...
Ugghhh- said the thing with missing legs...- it hurts...
The thing speaks.... - just… fear took over me for a second - humans speak…. but they only say curses and blasphemies… and this one says that something hurts….
Little horse- he said with a childish and sleepy voice - take me home…
I-He's a human…. And he's riding me... I've been contaminated... I won't be able to get married... I won't be able to return home if I turn into a monster because of him!!!
-Ughhh– Bruaaa… - the human vomited next to me…
- Triferhontex…- I said to myself- you are a brave centaur… and you owe all living beings….
-I'll die… - moaned the little human tightly tied to my hair- this time it's the end!!!….
It doesn't look like he's going to die with that force, but I can't leave him in the woods either, and if someone finds out that he touched me… not only that… that he mounted me! ... I will contaminate myself... - I looked at my hands and my body... everything seemed the same- well... maybe if they are boys they don't contaminate the same as if they are big... They told me that humans were big and ferocious... Better... better I help him out of here…. but no one else must know…
Little horse…
All right… let's go to the border… only that far… I can't get out… It would be breaking too many rules in one night.
I ran as fast as I could until I could see something that separates the forest from the human village...
-Horse... I live there... - he said pointing to a large human house, which stood out among the others.
In the distance I saw many humans, without a doubt in the shadows and with fire above their heads, many humans were running from one side to the other….
"Don't let them see me... don't let them see me..." I advanced, hiding in the bushes... - hey…. human... hey...
The human hugged me with his small hands - Hey... come on... can you walk?
his head shook on my back…
I sighed in resignation… well… just a little further…
I advanced to the edge of the lake that had been covered by a thin layer of ice. I leaned over and lay on my side so that the human fell to the ground without getting hurt.
-Hey... human...
-Hen...
-huh? hen? (As a chicken?)
- My man is Hendrick…- he said looking into my eyes…
I had never seen eyes of that color… like blood… his gaze did not seem perverse, however I covered his eyes with my hand… well. I'm touching it… but it doesn't change anything in this circumstance….
-You have to shout… do you hear me?…-I told her firmly- so they can find you…. you must scream… or you will freeze here…
-If you stay with me until they find me…. I won't be cold….- he said rubbing his face against my hand… you're very warm…
I had no choice, both their lives were in danger…
-This… Hen… I'm sorry…- I said standing up but not standing up so as not to stand out in the horizon, it was good that it was winter and my white hair and fur melted into the snow
-You're not a horse…- He told me with a sleepy look….- But you're amazing….
-This is not the time to admire me... less with what I am going to do to you...
A scream came from the forest and I ran, ran far away as the torches closed in on where I had left the tiny human.
-Thanks… I heard in the distance… between the little boy's cough…
-Does he thank me after I kicked him? - I couldn't believe it, to be evil creatures... he... didn't seem to be...
Maybe not all humans are evil...
Maybe...
The fire of the torches must have been an omen, because it was the last thing I saw in my dream and now the forest was on fire, just like the flames burning in the hands of the people who went for that child.
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