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CRACK! Was it thunder? Must've been! It rings in my ears, it leaves me in a ice cold world o' dark, dark pain. I can't see. Everything hurts, but, my neck... I can't feel anyfink!

No. No, I can feel summit, alright. Grass... and warm sunlight...

What's my name? Where am I?

...Mummy?

[Biography]

Day 1:

The Pond is NOT my friend. I can't go near that thing. Or the stream. I fell in that as soon as I tried to hop over. I would have used the bridge... but there were things there.
I think they're deer.
...I think I'm a deer. That can't be right, I don't remember being a deer before now.
But I was a frog when I fell in the deep part of the stream. Maybe I'm a frog? I don't feel slimey...
I try to get a good look at them (deer, I mean) but they always see me. They look at me, and stand up, and come close and... and I can't bear it. I run for my life. Who are they and, what should I do?
I spent the whole day running from them. I couldn't find anywhere to hide. There's some tall fuzzy topped grass that I went in and hid. And the blueberries were tall enough to cowar under. But I can still hear them. From all over the place they moo and roar and make such scary sounds.
I'm still afraid of them, mostly. There was a nice one, a big warm brown one. He smells nice. He smells like he's not going to eat me. So I hid behind him, and his blue and yellow friend with funny antlers that look like sticks with round things at the end.
The deer with skullfaces are scarier. Skulls are scary...Skulls. And Bones...
...Bonesy?
I'm tired. The doe will keep me safe, I think. I hope she doesn't leave me while I sleep. I don't know what I would do if a deer ate me up.

Day 2:

Today I tried to jump the stream again. I thought I could do it- I've seen other deer do it! He was big and fluffy and grey and had a big nose and he was kinda fat. If he could get his big belly over that gulley, surely I could too!
But I fell. And I fell on a sharp rock and it hit my face... and it cut my nose.
...What, this old scar? Pfft. Make ye comfortable, an' I might tell yeh how I got it...
And it really, really hurt... I didn't cry though- not till I could find a place to hide where no one could see me cry. It bled lots and I tasted blood on my face. It stings when the wind goes over it.
I fell asleep for a long time, and when I woke up it wasn't bleeding any more. So I went and ate some flowers and some clover to cover up the blood taste.
Ugh, Blood tastes like a bad Port kept uncorked too long, don't it? Pass me that bottle, will yeh?
Then I sniffed out the big brown stag that likes me. He was with his blue friend, and another, BIGGER blue friend! He had really BIG antlers! And a colourful face. And he was fuzzy! I was scared of him because he was so big. But then he looked like he was scared of me! And I laughed so hard I fell over and rolled around! And he laughed to. So he's nice. I met another stag with a butterfly coloured body and one of those scary skull faces. But he was nice, too. And and and there was a BIG Giant BIRDY. I was really scared of the birdy. I went to say hi and it crowed at me! I ran behind my new, big, blue friend. Brown friend licked my nose clean, and I sat down beside them both until I fell asleep for a while...
I met many deer today. I was almost over whelmed, and had to take a little nap. But, when I woke up, not many deer were left. I ran around calling for them. One deer frightened me by scuffling his feet and putting his ears back, so I ran for it into the birch forest. I kept finding this mysterious stag, with wide red antlers and a strange red streak on his flank. And that skull face...
I found a fountain in the forest! It's surrounded by mushrooms that took my flowers away. But when I lingered a little too long, a bolt of white light cracked the world, right beside me! It made such a horrible sound!
CRACK!
I bolted. I ran as fast as I could, as far as I could. I ran to the pond and collapsed into a heap and I cried, I didn't care who saw me. I just curled up. I hope it all goes away, these scary things!
I hate lightning...

Day 3:

Today was a good day! A nice day. I met my Big Blue Friend again, and found out that his name was... oh. It's very long. I'll try to say it:
Eye-Or-Dag-Near?
I think I'll call him Dag. Big Blue Uncle Dag.
We played today, him, and me, and a lot of other fawns. Someone turned Dag into a frog! And we played hide and seek, where he hid in the trees, and under deer, and I'd have to try to find him, and chase him! I hopped like a frog, too.
Later on, I met a very wise old mummy deer. She told me to wash my face- just like a mummy should, I suppose, but it stings to wash it, still. She took me to meet the Twin Gods at their statue, and we got turned white! She took me to the Oak, and I roared inside it. It was really loud and I startled myself- I get so frightened!
Then she took me somewhere where I felt strange. She showed me a place called the 'ruins' and told me Man built it. I recognise the word... and I felt like I had been somewhere like that before...
Ain't the fornication beautiful?... I refer, o' course, to the wonderful architecture! Comin' from the word 'fornix' what means 'arch' in latin... No, truely! I ent tellin' lies... this time!
But it was so spooky. I couldn't look at it too long. I had to hide behind Wise Mummy again, because I felt like, going near would be very bad, indeed.
Wish I could get married in one o' those. They'd not have my sort, though, would they?
Oh, sure. They'd have me outside of it... have me hung, that is.
CRACK!
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One last visit with Big Blue Uncle Dag, after Wise Mummy went to sleep, then I wanted to lay down too. I feel safe laying down to sleep when I have somebody to watch over me. I hope I have another good day tomorrow!

Day 4:

Today, nothing much happened. I slept a long time, and when I awoke it was because of a horrible racket with lots of deer mooing and playing and dancing.
Keep that noise down, Lads! By Thunder! I've got a splittin' headache an' all...
I went closer to the pond and looked into it. Had a drink, and ate some lillies, too.
I called out, a lot more today than I have before. I miss Wise Mummy. She's like a mummy for me. I don't have a mummy.
My mum's the best there is, I'll tell yeh. Raised seven younguns she did! Only I turned bad...
I want a mummy, though. I feel so lonely, even if I'm around the big deer. The grownups have their own fawns to look after, I guess. Sometimes, I just want to sit near someone. Sometimes I just want a cuddle.
You know how it is, don't yeh? Bein' at sea, so long.. Oh, it does make a heart lonesome...
Sometimes... I feel like my heart breaks when I'm alone. Like it shatters...
Today, I fell asleep by the pond, waiting for my mummy to arrive...
And, though Mummy never came, when I woke up from the grown ups chattering around me, I saw a pretty doe over by the bridge.
Well well well! Aren't ye a lovely one! C'mere an' sit wi' me a whiles, my lass. I've got some stories to tell what yeh might like to hear...
I went to say hello. She seems very nice, and she turned herself to look like a peacock and danced with me!
Though she didn't stay long. I hope I see her again soon! Now, I'll move to a quieter spot so I can go back to sleep...

Day 5:
I danced with Big Brown Uncle Virgil and Big Blue Uncle Dag today, but I was very, very sleepy and kept sitting down and taking naps- sometimes in the middle of the dance!
Ah! No more dancin'! You carry on, my girl, but my old Bones is Achin'...
I saw Uncle Dag and another stag playfighting in the flowers. I wanted to play too.
What's that, Lads, New game? Has it got much 'rithmetic in it? Go on, teach me how, then! I stood beside them and tried to join in but, all I could do was pretend. I asked Daggy to playfight with me, but he said no. Just because I'm little!
Whatcha mean I'm too young to learn to fight, Pa? I beat our Eddy up all day at home!
I wasn't frightened today. Sometimes I was. At first I thought Daggy and the other stag were fighting for real.
Steady on, boy! Enthusiasm's all right but yer not supposed to kill me!
But it was alright in the end. I was very, very sleepy today, so I fell asleep in the mushroom circle. I learnt to turn deer into other creatures, today! Birdies and Bunnies and Froggies... So that's how Dag was a bunny today!
I suppose yeh could say I like animals... I like what they're supposed to mean to folk. I've got the cockrel, what's name is Rumplestiltskin after the fairy tale, he's fer the hens kept below. I like him, for they say I strut much like a cockrel after long at sea. I like them Stags, too. They get to keep all them hinds to themselves... Wish I had that sort o' pullin' power, eh wot!
The sun is warm, here. But I don't want to sleep alone... but I see a deer near by the bridge, with a crazy boney black pelt and big feathers and one of those scary skull faces... but the deer feels nice to be near, and I don't think they might harm me...

Day 6:
I slept most of the day, today. I was so tired from all the excitement of this last five days! I think I'll sleep some more, though.
Yeh know what's right funny, lass? How sleepin' makes yeh tired. Ent it a funny world?

Day 7:
Slept again, today, after running all the way around the forest- at least, all the places I know. I ran so fast that when I stopped to eat some tastey clovers, my poor little hooves couldn't take the idea of wandering any farther, so I settled down for a nap, and before I knew it it was the next day.
Shhhh, Ellie! Let Little James sleep. You know what Mummy said, that little ones need to sleep a lot...

This has been a very busy week for a very little me. But everything is still so new! I'm glad that I'm not so scared anymore.
I hope next week will be just as much fun!