Survival-shy

For how long she sat there, she couldn't remember. It was probably only a few minutes, but it felt like time had stopped. She had understood what went through her head, but in terms of understanding, her train of thought had derailed.

I'm Lost

She was aware of what was happening around her. The rain continued to pour as relentlessly has it had been. The bandages on her back and wings where  beginning to get damp, and would need to be replaced. The flashlight she had been carrying was sitting on the ground in front of her, where she had dropped it, still turned on and point to the left where it had rolled towards.For only a few moments, that didn't matter, as Fluttershy continued to process her thoughts

I'm Lost

What will happen to Angel?

What will my friends think?

What should I do

More and more questions began to pile up. How will I get home with my wing like this? Where would I go?

What could be here in the forest with me? How will the injured animals do without me? More and more questions piled up, and Fluttershy was starting to feel overwhelmed.

As many different scenarios went through her mind, eventually she came to a breaking point. She sat there in the rain for almost fifteen minutes. After those fifteen minutes of sitting there, taking everything in, something i of her gave her a little kick, and knocked her out of her trance. She realized just how much the rain was pouring, and how dark it was now with the clouds.

The same thing that awoken her from her little also began to give her insight, like it was a part of her instincts kicking in. Find some shelter and get out of this rain. She did as she was told, and, after putting the flashlight in her bag, set off to find some shelter.

Going through the forest got even harder to do without direction. It gave Fluttershy a new sense of fear she hadn't felt before. Now, without having a specific direction to go, she became even more afraid of what she could stumble in to in the dark. The sense of being watched also grew, as it felt like something unfamiliar didn't appreciate her presence, and wanted nothing more than for her to leave.

Despite the fears she was facing, something else kept pushing Fluttershy to go on. Normally she would have found a place to hide, one where she could have stayed away from anything that could harm her. But all around her, the large trees and wild bushes would only keep her out of sight. Despite her desire to move in a nearby bush or up one of the nearby trees, she kept on her way, being pushed by the instincts that continued to guide her forwards.

Eventually, she reached a large intrusion in the forest. It was a piece of rock reaching up, higher than she could point her flashlight and still see in the clouded darkness. She started by looking to the sides, and discovered to the left a small cave leading in to the rock.

Fluttershy thought about it for a little, and quickly decided to use it as shelter for the night.

She entered the cave and found it to be much more pleasant than outside. The water from the rain ran through the bottom of the cave in a small creek, leaving the sides nice and dry and creating little noise. The sides were not grimy or covered in moss, but instead were dry like the floor, proving that the rock didn't have very many cracks the rain could seep through. Showing her flashlight around, she found very few bugs and no spiders or snakes. It would be just about perfect for tonight.

Going over to the side, she found a small intrusion in the cavern wall that, upon testing, she found could hide her view from the outside of the cave, in case anything came by.

Fluttershy took off her bags and took out her medical kit. Now half asleep, she added some more bandages on to her back and wings. There was no way she could fly anytime soon, and it might not be healed for a while.

After clipping the bandages down, she got straight to what she had wanted this whole time: some well deserved rest. Curling up in to the little nook in the cave, she began to drift off to sleep.