Rated teen for various incidences of swearing.

Denver Baldwin, a soldier with nothing to return to after the conclusion of a conflict, resorts to the life of a drifter. Starving, cold, and exhausted, he keels over in a forest after a fruitless hunt, and is on the brink of death until he is taken in by Fluttershy. Their relationship develops from there.

Ponies are humanized in this fic, and it happens to be my first.