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"Every morning I wake praying that today is not the day one argument becomes another tragedy"
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(DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A SMALL AU AND SLIGHTLY SWAYING AWAY FROM CANON AND I DO NOT OWN ANY CHARACTER FROM MLP)

Rain Shine is a respected leader of the Kirin, a mare who's admired for her patience and devotion for Kirin kind. To most, she appears as the image of serenity, a calm voice, a leader who seems to know the right path no matter how dark the skies grow. Very few have ever seen her lose her composure.

That image has become exhausting for the Kirin queen to maintain.

Since the Kirin have reclaimed their voices, the valley has changed. Laughter is now a constant through the canopies, songs drift between one soul to another. Children argue, fillies tease one another, and emotions that have been buried for so long of the wretched silence she had forced onto them now flourish openly. Every Kirin cherish this new chapter closely....

Everyone except the one responsible for silencing them, and in the end returning their voices and protecting them..

What else is one to do? Rain Shine remembers the fires and anger that caused the forest to almost weep. The sheer amount of terrified faces and overwhelming helplessness of watching her kind, her very soul become creatures they could not control. Despite her composed front, the poor queen could never force the memories to fade just because the village found its voice again.

Despite agreeing to abandon the silence and wholeheartedly believing Autumn Blaze that Kirins could experience emotion and not succumb to it with literal proof that another path did exist. Yet.. belief is not a certainty.

Every single heated conversation, every small bicker catches her attention. It makes her want to crawl into a ball from the lapse of fear of the anger returning and instead of playful arguments, she can only imagine the flames climbing higher, and higher, scorched tongues licking at ancient trees and families running for safety. Though she will not tell anyone, she cannot afford to show weakness for her fears.

So instead, Rain Shine offers that small calm smile and reassures the Kirins that the new times will continue. She didn't regret giving her family their voices back.. but how much longer can she stand to hold the fear that tears at her heart, her very soul? She hates that she thinks that way and its tearing her apart. For the first time in many years, the calmer soul in the valley is no longer certain she has the answers.