The twitching of her ears woke Holly from her sleep. She realized quickly that there was a shift in the aura of the forest. The trees seemed to be upset and the butterflies were nowhere to be found. Holly knew she couldn't be alone, though she was the only faun she knew of that lived in the wood, she was certain that her forest friends had no reason for hiding. Her ears twitched again... No, she was definitely not alone.

She shot to a sitting position, suddenly overcome with giddy excitement. It had been too long since she'd seen another faun. She'd never seen a human before and was positive none would wander in this forest... Still, she didn't give up her hopes of seeing a human for once. If only her ears would stop twitching.

There was a sound off in the distance... A voice. Holly jumped to her hooves and excitedly followed the voice. The closer she had gotten to the voice, the more she realized that there were multiple voices coming from out in the woods. Whether or not they were human or faun, she was unsure, still, she called to them...

"Hello?" Holly waved. "Hello?!"

"It sounds like a girl..." Holly heard one of the voices say. Ah, so these were humans, then.

"I'm not a girl!" Holly called, "I'm a faun! Please, I'd be most happy to welcome you into Cosmi-" But, Holly was cut off by an overwhelming sound of feet stomping on the forest floor, the footsteps coming closer and closer to her at a rather quick speed. When the humans finally came into view, she noticed they carried strange items with them. One had something that looked like a stick that was bent like a crescent moon with a string attached to both ends. One human pointed something at her with the crescent moon stick and before she could react, another stick with a sharp edge on it had flown and gotten stuck in the tree next to her...

Holly understood, these humans were firing weapons at her! She did what was logical in this situation, she ran. The voices and shouts of the humans were rather loud in her sensitive ears. Holly ran as fast as her hooves would carry her, dodging trees and foliage in her hast to get away. All the while the only thing going through her head was, "Why?" Why would they want to harm her? She had done nothing to them!

Holly ran and when she could no longer hear their shouts, she kept running until she was completely out of breath. She stopped by a large tree, only a short distance away from the foot of a mountain. One of which, she'd only seen a couple of times in her life. Holly leaned against the tree, allowing tears to fall from her eyes. The butterflies were right. Humans were not nice. As much as Holly tried to rationalize their behavior, she found she couldn't and had no explanation for why they'd want to hurt her when she posed no threat.

Her silent tears turned into sobs and she sank to the forest floor and wept.