Eventually the young foal woke, coddled by the fungi who’d kept her company. Her eyelids rose slightly and blinked a few times before her head slowly rose up to examine the world around. The head of the ‘growth’ did the exact same, rising in tune with the foal it watched. She tried to get ...

Foals are fragile creatures, but their prey nature made them all the while equally resilient as far as a child may be deemed to be. As soon as they're born, they're capable of getting up onto their own two feet within minutes, and within minutes more they are capable of all the running and jumping and such that a child would be happy to do, of course- not without the risk of falling on wobbly untrained legs. Being able to run, as a prey creature and a young one ...