"Who's that, Dawn Flight?" Starspark asked.
"Shhh! They're getting closer," Nyx whispered as she put her hoof over Starspark's mouth. She then dragged herself and Starspark under the cover of a bush close by.The hoofsteps grew ever nearer, building tension in the otherwise eerie silence. Clip-clop, clip-clop.
"Who is it?" Starspark queried, her voice muffled by Nyx's hoof. Not able to be sitting still quietly any longer, Starspark ran out into the clearing. Her eyes immediately met those of the pony who had made the hoofbeats. The stranger's soft, fern-colored green eyes popped in distinction from her chocolate-brown coat, which blended smoothly with her curly mane and tail of mahogany and burnt umber.
"Hello, there, little one. Are you lost?" Starspark looked up at the earth pony mare in silence, with her lower jaw hanging open. "Well? I would assume so since nopony I know likes to be in this place, alone in this place at the very most. Do you have a home I could take you back to?"
"Uh...," Starspark said. "I don't exactly have a home to be taken to. All I remember is waking up in a sack with no idea where I was..."
"Oh. Um, w-would you like to come to my home? I know it's sudden and all, but I do have an extra room if you'd like... to... maybe... stay?" the mare stuttered. Starspark nodded. "Ok, then. By the way, my name is Coco. I have a feeling that you're going to need to know that." Coco winked at Starspark in conclusion.
Coco and her family would provide love and care for Starspark, even though all of them were earth ponies and she was a pegasus. But as she walked away from Nyx, as she left her behind, the feeling of abandonment reignited in Nyx's heart, and tears followed in symphony with the howls from the Timberwolves resonating in the forest.
"Why does my life have to hurt me... Why can't it just leave me alone?"
"Because it doesn't like to be fair, that's why."
"Not you again... Can't you see that I want to be alone?"
"Well, judging by the fact that you were abandoned AGAIN, I thought I'd come back and cheer you up."
"And this is supposed to make me feel better? Gee, thanks."
"What can I say? I'm a little ray of sunshine."
"Oops! I left my sack. I have to go back and get it," Starspark shouted. A glimmer of hope shone in Nyx's eyes as her ears heard Starspark's hoofbeats racing towards her. Could she actually be coming back to get her? Or was she only coming to get hre sack, as she had said? "Dawnflight!" Starspark whispered. "Are you still there?" Nyx stepped out from under the bush and nodded. "Who were you talking to?"
"Just myself. I do it when I'm alone...," Nyx responded. She wasn't lying...technically.
"Ok, then. Hey, do you want to come with me? Coco seems nice and since neither of us appear to have family...I mean, come on. We're in the Everfree Forest for crying out loud! Come with me. Please?" Nyx considered the offer. She wanted to feel loved and appreciated more than anything. She...she had to go.
"No! You're not going anywhere." The unseen voice snatched control of Nyx and turned her around, pushing her legs to move and gallop away from Starspark.
"Hey! Wait! Where are you going? Wait!"
"Why did you do that? I-I had a chance to have a family! To have a sister again! Why...why did you do that?" Nyx sobbed.
It was for your own good. For our own good.