The Survivor

Killed another gull, the same way I did the first. I was too hungry to torture it the way I had been promising myself. Or maybe my mind is saying that is wrong. Dear Celestia!! Please save me! Who am I kidding. No help now. I need to survive. I gutted and ate it. Squeezed the tripes and then ate them, too. It's strange how you can feel your vitality surge back I was beginning to get scared there, for a while. Lying in the shade of the big central rockpile, i'd think i was hearing voices. Shining. Rainbow Dash. Spike. My old friends. I cried. I miss them so much too much I miss.

There was a group of Pegasi. It flew right across the island. I tried to climb to the top of the rockpile and wave to it. My back hoof went into a hole. The same damn hole I got it stuck in the day I killed the first bird, I think. I've fractured it, compound fracture. It went like a gunshot. The pain was unbelievable wait, it still is! I screamed and lost my balance, pinwheeling my front limbs like a madmare, but I went down and hit my head and everything went black. I didn't wake up until dusk. I lost some blood where I hit my head. My hoof had swelled up like a tire, and I'd got myself a very nasty sunburn. Sunburns are bad because of the radiation on your body caused by the Sun. Celestia is sweet andknd but the Sun is still a huge fireball.I think if there had been another hour of sun, it would have blistered.

Dragged myself back here and spent last night shivering and crying with frustration. Crying for my friends too. I disinfected the head wound, which is just above the right temporal lobe, and bandaged it as well as I could. Just a superficial scalp wound plus minor concussion, I think, plus my horn still aches. That's swelled up too. It's going to fall off any time now. but my leg ... it's a bad break, involved in two places, possibly three. I walk with a limp. Oh it hurts so bad.

How will I chase the birds now?

I bet those Pegasi were looking for me. I wonder if Rainbow was in it. Now they'll never notice poor litle me on this small isle.

Sweet Celestia my leg hurts so bad.