Horse Meadow Book One

Fifteen

  Fifteen

Stella bit down hard on the limb that Kyla had given her to help with standing the pain. She had been out in the pasture when the foal had started coming. The pain was only bearable because she knew why she had to be able to stand it. She let out one last, final heave, and the foal was out. She looked over to see it struggling, still inside the sac.

The woman ran out of a building, until she reached Stella. At first Stella was scared; she thought that this human would hurt her baby. But Kyla comforted her. "The human has come here to help." When Stella heard that, she relaxed.As the woman opened the thing that the foal was inside, Stella got a good look at it for the first time. It looked so damp, small, and helpless. Stella reached forward, and started licking her foal, as she had seen many mares do before.

This seemed to warm the foal up very quickly.

As Stella watched, the foal unsteadily shook itself, and tried to stand. It was not very successful the first few times, but as time passed, it seemed to gain strength, until it finally stood and walked. As the foal took it's first few steps, Stella nuzzled it. It let out a happy whinny, then fell over. She nickered in amusement. By now, Stella could tell that it was a filly.

It had a ginger colored coat, with two neat white socks in the back, and a snip of white on her nose. She's beautiful, Stella thought.

I think that I will name her Koni. She had always loved the sound of the name, and she thought that it fit her little filly.