>be a fluffy runt >you have just been born. your eyes are not yet open >you feel sticky and everything around you has a strange smell >you chirp instinctively for your mama but she doesn’t clean you or feed you >instead you feel a pain as something hits you! >”dun wan stupit babeh.” >you don’t know what that means but you think it’s mama saying it! why is mama mean? >you start to cry. you don’t know what else to do. >you lay on the cold ground, shivering, shaking, sobbing. you chirp for a mother that won’t come. >you hear voices over top of you >”wuh won wiff babeh?” >”babeh is stupit babeh! nu wan!” >”is nice babeh. tuwip take babeh.” >”take dummy babeh! daisy nu wan!” >”daisy?” >”wuh?” >”you bad mumma. dummy fwuffy.” >”take stupit babeh an go way!” >you feel something pick you up. you chirp for mama out of fear, even knowing now that she won’t help you >after a little while you’re put on the ground but now it’s soft >you feel something licking you clean. your fluff starts to puff up and you feel a little warmer. >”tuwip wuv babeh.” she whispers to you >your eyes still closed, you don’t know who is talking to you… but you feel her hold you against her warm fluff >you feel her heartbeat and you calm down >”babeh wan miwlk?” >yes! you want milk! must have! >you feel movement again and now a plump teat is rubbed against your mouth. you latch on and drink hungrily from it. >you finish drinking, your tummy full. you feel arms pull you back up into warm fluff and you hear someone cooing to you >you coo back to whoever it is… glad you have food. glad you have a warm place to sleep. >you fall asleep. >when you wake up your eyes open for the first time. you see a smiling fluffy mare and you’re cuddled in the fluff on her belly >she’s cream colored with a red and green mane and tail >”hewoo babeh! mah name tuwip!” >”peep?” >she guides you back to her teats again. you drink hungrily, forgetting about your mean mama.” >”i take gut cawe of babeh. tuwip wuv yuu.” >”mama?” >”tuwip mama naow.” >and so it went. Tulip was a kind and loving fluffy. she had a den she dug herself under a pretty bush >her nest was soft, the floor covered with moss and pretty blankies - “borrowed” from humans, she said >you found out that Tulip had two foals right before you… but a bad human took them and gave them the bad hurt >her babies screamed and cried for their mama but she couldn’t help them. the human touched them in a bad place and then smashed them on the ground >Tulip cries a little when she talks about her babies. but then she says she found you and she loves you. >she says your mama is a bad fluffy who didn’t want you, but she knows you’re a good, smart fluffy >she names you Wildfire. you’re not sure what it means but you like the way it sounds. >you spend a lot of time nuzzling in her fluff and suckling her teats. Tulip hugs you alot, cooing to you >sometimes she cries then, too. she says it’s because she remembers holding her babies. >some time passes. the white sky ball comes and goes three times. you’re getting to be a big fluffy. >Tulip says you’ll make a mare a good husband some day. >she says your white coat and red mane make you look handsome >you’ve stopped milking a while ago but you still live in the den, helping Tulip to clean it out and find good   nummies. >you learned quickly what berries are safe and what aren’t. >one day you and Tulip are looking for nummies when a strange fluffy gets in your way >”yuu nu come dis way. dis Daisy pwace!” >”hewoo Daisy.” >Daisy? You know that name… that’s… that’s… >”yuu bad mumma.” >”YUU NU SAY DAT! DAISY IS GUD MUMMA! GUUUUUD!” >Daisy is your mumma. >”dat my babeh? giff back babeh!” >”nuu! wiwlfia nuu babeh. wiwlfia nuu yuu babeh!” >”wan back!” >”yuu… yuu cwazy fwuffy.” >”daisy… nuu… CWAZY! NUU CWAZY!” >she foams at the mouth. her eyes are wild. >”bad hoomans come, take daisy babehs… huwt dem. kill dem! I WAN DAT BABEH BACK NAOW!” >”he nuu babeh. yuu bad mumma, yu say he dummy babeh.” >”WAN BABEH BACK!” >Daisy charges Tulip suddenly, leaping up and kicking her in the head with her hooves! Tulip falls to the   ground, blood coming from her mouth >”NUU! TUWIP!” >you try to give her hugs, try to get her to stand. her legs are shaking. >Daisy grabs you by the ear with her mouth and tries to drag you away. >”yuu dummy babeh! yuu come wiff mama!” >”nuu… nuu… NUU!” >you lash out with a hoof, smacking Daisy across the nose. she bares her teeth in anger >”bad… BAD babeh… hit mumma? bad babeh hit mumma? MUMMA HIT YUU!” >you’re nearly her size, but Daisy is stronger. she strikes at you, hitting you in the chest. you fall to the   ground, the wind knocked out of you >gasping, trying to get up, you see Daisy standing over you >she raises a hoof over your head >”if daisy nuu haff babehs den NUU ONE haff babehs!” >out of nowhere, Tulip plows into her, knocking Daisy to the ground. >the two trade hooves and bites back and forth. you try to intervene but get knocked to the ground. >Daisy makes a fatal strike on Tulip. blood sprays from her nose and she collapses to the ground >”Daisy… smawt fwuffy. gut fwuffy. take babeh.” >”hey… mumma…” >”wha?” >you buck her full on in the head with your rear legs. you hear a sickening crack as her neck breaks and hangs at an odd angle. >Daisy falls to the ground. somehow still conscious, she stares at you and Tulip as her tongue hangs out of the side of her mouth >”guh.” >”Daisy bad mumma. wiwlfia HATE Daisy!” >”guh…” >”Tuwip… Tuwip… pwease get up…” >”nuu wiwlfia… Tuwip get bad huwt. Tuwip go way soon…” >”Tuwip was best mama. Wiwlfia wuv Tuwip mama.” >”Tuwip… wuv… wiwlfia…” >her eyes close. you hug her tightly. your real mama… your BAD mama… stares helplessly. >you look at her and frown. “bad mama. weave babeh. kiwll good mama. kiss my poopies.” >you return to the den. it’s yours now. maybe you can find yourself a nice mare. >Tulip was a good mama and taught you well. >you will remember her fondly. that other fluffy… what was her name? doesn’t matter. she was a bad mama. you’ll forget her soon enough.