2010/9- Bonds

Reiko

I love my sister. I do.

It’s just..

Just..

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I am awake. The sunlight wakes me, warm on my back, and I am surrounded  by giant trees in the Birch Forest. The birds are singing happily. I  wonder if they have to worry about anything? Standing, I stretch,  shaking some grass stuck to me from the morning dew.

She is gone.

It’s nothing unusual. She probably wandered off again, chasing a  butterfly, or a rabbit. She forgets where she’s going and what she’s  supposed to be doing. It’s always been this way, since she could walk.  We are twins, sisters. I can sense she’s near, or if she’s gone too far;  our bond lets this happen. If it wasn’t for this bond, I think I might  lose her permanently, ‘cause she wanders off all the time. You see.. She  can’t speak. She tries, but she just can’t. I don’t know why. But it  doesn’t stop her from being happy. Everything makes her happy in this  forest.

Mother and Father, the other deer, they couldn’t understand her. Because  she couldn’t talk, couldn’t keep up with the others. Always wandering,  doing her own thing. I always found her in the end. I just need to  remind her that she always needs to stay with me, to be safe, and never  wander off, and she’ll be okay. And to never trust strangers completely,  because they could hurt her. We are only little fawns, but I can  protect my sister, I’ll protect her with my life if I have to.

Shizuka. Someday I will make everything okay for you. I promise.

Shizuka

The little doe had wandered beyond the reach of the birch forest, having  followed a butterfly in its search for nectar. She skipped, ran,  leaped; little limbs leaving the ground every now and then. It wasn't  until the insect landed on the soft petal of a hyacinth that Shizuka  came to a crashing halt. She giggled before she fell to the flowerbed  beneath her hooves.

A sunbeam fell upon the white of her belly as wild green eyes gazed  upwards, black-socked legs held in the air at various angles. She held  her two front hooves together as she observed the canopy. Then, she  smiled. If only Reiko were there to share the view.

Reiko

"...Shizu!", the fawn exclaimed, running up to her twin and stomping one  of her front hooves. "How many times have I told you not to run off?"

She sighed, watching her sister's ears droop, butterflies dancing around  her head. "Look, I know.. I know you like to play with the  butterflies... can't you at least wait until I wake up so I can come  too?" She wrinkled her nose as a butterfly landed on it. 

Shizuka

Shizuka's ears fell like the white of winter, slowly. Snowflakes, you  see, enjoy their freedom, their graceful fall from the heavens, until  the earth finds them and they're grounded. Grounded in some sense of the  word, the fawn rolled back onto her belly to ponder her sister's  question. How many times had Reiko told her not to run off? One too  many, to be honest. Shizuka was always leaving her sister's side at the  flash of a butterfly's wing or a curious face. She never meant any harm,  though; she just didn't know any better.

The young doe pouted a bit, her green eyes focusing on nothing but the  disappointment she had caused. She nodded at the second question before,  out of nowhere, leaping to her feet to nuzzle her sister. It was her  way of saying that she was sorry. 

Reiko

 "I know you're sorry, Shizu. But.. you can't talk...how can you tell me where you are? I just get so worrie-"

Reiko sighed. They'd had this talk so many times. She nuzzled her  sister. "Why don't you lead me where you want to go today. I will  follow."