Hopeful Hooves: A Unicorn Friendship Tale

CHAPTER SEVEN: COMFIRMATION

"Mama, Papa, here is my new friend Charity," declared Aurora to her parents, whom Charity recognized as the Kiangs who defended her from the other Kiangs. "Charity, here are my parents."

"It's a pleasure to meet you," Charity said with joy.

After talking about how she met Aurora and how the two became great friends, she said, "I would like a little help on this paper, and it says that these things come from the h____ on the head to the heart. I believe it would be acceptance, but it can't be. Acceptance doesn't come from the horn on the head."

Aurora's mother read the paper and then stated, "Because the paper is not talking about the horn at all, but the heart."

Charity stared at her in disbelief. "It makes no sense at all because the heart is in the chest, not in the head."

"My wife does not mean the organ that pumps blood, Princess," answered the father, "but the core of your being, where feelings are, in the brain, in the head. That kind of heart."

"I don't get it."

"When our daughter accepted you, that made you feel touched, because she truly meant it from the heart," he added. 

"You both probably didn't know, but we already knew she was here and although everyone objected, we wanted you to survive. It did not come from our horn, because both of us do not even have one," he continued, gesturing with his hooves towards his hornless head, and towards his wife's similar head. "It came from the heart. When you saw the fish in his unpleasant situation, he did not pity himself. Instead, he accepted another fish, although she was tiny. It is acceptance of both ourselves and others. And I am so sure the other things in the paper are character qualities that you and your kingdom must see."

The once gray alicorn had now become a bright sky blue. She was no longer depressed. She was happy, and she wanted to give this happiness to other. She then wrote down the word, and this is what it said.

THE THINGS NEEDED TO BETTER THE LAND

IN ORDER TO BETTER THE LAND, THE THINGS THAT NEED TO BEEN SEEN MUST COME FROM THE HEART IN THE HEAD. THE LAND NEEDS ACCEPTANCE, C_____ G_________, I______, H______, T_______, AND THE GREATEST OF ALL, M____.

The Mother Kiang left to get a paper in the mail, but she came back with a serious tone. 

"Charity, you have solved the paper, but you have to leave this mountain. Another Band has found that you are here, and they are going to get rid of you. Aurora, you must take Charity to your grandmother's, for it is peaceful and gentle."

"But Grandma is in India, and we couldn't travel that far!" complained the Kiangicorn. "It would take weeks, and with Charity's injured limb, we shouldn't go that far."

"But we have a boat you could use, and your friend just told us that she could swim," replied the Father Kiang calmly. "You have a straightforward route, the Brahmaputra River. And we have been there before, and you are old enough to travel yourselves."

Aurora agreed, and her parents exchanged nuzzles. "Goodbye girls, and have a safe trip."

As the two unicorns trotted away from the house, Aurora couldn't help but look behind her with sorrow.

"Don't be sad, Sunshine," Charity said, trying to comfort her. "Don't be sad, Sunshine," Charity said, trying to comfort her. "I have also experienced being separated from my parents, and it is difficult. But we will both see our parents again."