Thorn of Discord
L'homme qui est different
Thorn's dream
Thorn sat up, and immediately felt...odd. He looked around and found himself in a clearing of a forest that he knew all too well, the Forbidden Forest. He rose and scratched his head, checking to see if he hit it falling. “What in the world....” Had all that god stuff been a dream? Did he eat something bad? Was he going crazy?
Thorn rose, bracing himself on a tree. “Rrrrrrose? Rose!” In the distance, Thorn spotted Rosemary, the most wonderful mare he ever met. He ducked and weaved thorugh the trees, but she managed to keep just ahead of him, no matter how hard he ran. “Wait! Come back!” She turned to face him, deftly making it up a tree. “This is the tree...with my name....” For a monent, Thorn rubbed the spot he carved his name into the wood, but he heard Rose's laughter from above.
Not wanting to lose her, Thorn jumped, barely manageing to pull himself up to a branch. Down below the ground appeared to be a mile or so away. “Sonuva...” He climbed branch after branch, but the tree just kept on going and going. He lost track of time, climbing, but on the horizen, the sun was high in the sky. Thorn still had eyes on Rosemary, so he climbed for all he was worth. “Rose! Rose? Where'd you go?"
He found the top of the tree at last, but Rosemary was nowhere in sight. What was in sight was a forest without boundry, rolling hills and....“Is that....the cottage?” He spotted his home very close by. The tree must have moved for it to be this close, but that didn't seem important just now, as things took a turn for the worst.
“No, don't go in there!” The small home became an inferno, and from his perch, Thorn watched the mare he'd been chasing calmy enter the front door. He leapt for her, but she slipped right thorugh his arms. He swore under his breath, and cursed the Pirate King for starting the fire. The ground felt icy cold, and when he looked up, the cottage was nothing more than a pile of ash. “No...no!” Thorn dove into the ashes, and dug through them madly. He flipped burnt beams, rubble and other peices of the home, but he couldn't find her. “Where are you?!”
“ROSE!”