She was wrong. So incredibly wrong. After just a few days she had realised how wrong she had been. The Canterlot suburbs were a million times better than those in Manehattan. In Canterlot they were much more generous and caring. In Manehattan they wouldn’t even blinked if you died in front of them. She thought she was starving back there in Canterlot, but here? She was downright dying.
No one would share food with her, no one even gave her even a single bit and more than once she got told to leave if she valued the way she looked. She didn’t have to think hard to figure out what that meant. And the one time someone did give her food, she ended up being mugged and mildly beaten. It was just a punch in the face, but she was in such a poor state that it hurt more than it should have.
She hated this so much. But she had nothing. She couldn’t go back. Her only option was to look for a different place to beg for food and money. Again. She had been here for almost two weeks, surprised that she even lasted that long, and had tried three different districts already. She was about to keel over from hunger but she wasn’t going to give up.
She got up from her temporary “home” and wiped her limp and filthy hair out of her face. She was going to try one more place. The harbor. She could probably at least steal some fish there. And if not? Well... She didn’t want to think about what she’d do if this also didn’t work. She still wasn’t going to sell her body, even IF they still wanted her frail and starved body. She liked to think she still had some dignity left.
She stumbled out of her alley and looked up. It was already night. She’d spend almost the entire day sleeping. Again. She sighed.
“Better get going before it’s dawn again,” she mumbled to herself. She pulled her hoodie over head and stuffed her hands into her pockets. While she walked she barely payed attention to her surroundings. She had already gotten the directions the harbor. At least, she hoped they were correct. She’d been given wrong directions before and it wasn’t fun to walk into a district filled with gangs at each others’ throats. She could only hope.
As she walked she suddenly noticed something green out of the corner of her eye. Someone pointed at her. She couldn’t see their faces beneath their green hoodies. She then heard them chuckle quietly. She shrugged it of as just some jerks making fun of how poor or how dirty she was. She kept on walking.
As she turned a corner she noticed something green again. She looked back, but there was no one there.
“I don’t like this...” She mumbled nervously. She started walking faster. Another corner. Green again. She looked. No one there.
“No no no no...” She was getting scared. She started walking even faster. Another corner. More green. She looked. And there they were, getting closer and closer.
“Crap!” She started running, hoping she was going the right way. She heard them shout and then heard two sets of footsteps quickly closing in on her. They were faster than her. Much faster. She ran into an alley and knocked over some trash cans, hoping it would slow them down.
As she ran towards the other end of the alley she heard someone yelp in pain. It had worked. But she was still scared out of her mind.
“I shouldn’t have come here. I shouldn’t have been so stupid. Why why why Why WHY?!” She was crying, her legs burning up. She couldn’t keep this up. She couldn’t keep running anymore. Her breathing had become ragged and shallow and she started to feel light headed.
She suddenly felt someone grab her hair and pull on it. She slipped and fell flat on her back, the air knocked out of her from the impact. She saw someone look at her. He had scary, green eyes and black skin underneath that green hoodie. He was grinning at her. He was missing two of his upper front teeth.
“Thought you could get away, didn’t you?” He grabbed her by her hair and pulled her up, pushing her against a wall. His voice was gravelly and a little high pitched. “You made my buddy trip, you little bitch.” He was tall and lanky.
She tried to catch her breath. “I don’t...” She gasped. “I have nothing! I’m broke! I have nothing! Please!”
He laughed. “You hear that, Plank? She thinks we chased her for money!” She noticed the other guy, who was slightly shorter but still lanky. He also had black skin and green eyes. He had a gash on his right cheek, probably from tripping. He was also grinning. She noticed they had the same emblem on their chests. Change-something. She was too scared to focus on that.
“Please,” said Plank. “One look at you and we knew you were broke as hell.” His voice was lower and smoother. His grin became wider and more menacing. “We also noticed that you ain’t from around here. And you know what that means?”
She knew exactly what he meant. She just hoped she was wrong. “N-no?” She managed to squeak out. Plank then got awfully close to her face, an evil grin on his face. He then whispered.
“It means no one’s gonna miss ya when we’re done with you.”
She then kicked the one holding her in the groin. “Gahk!” The pain caused him to let go, and she tried to make a break for it. She ran out of the alley and started screaming.
“HELP! PLEASE! ANYONE HELP!” But Plank had already caught up with her and grabbed her by her shoulder, throwing her back into the alley, her head hitting the ground. Her head pounded and the world spun around her from the hit. She raised her hand to her head. It felt wet. It wasn’t raining.
“You little BITCH!” The nameless one yelled as he kicked her in the stomach. Her vision was getting blurry. “You’re gonna pay for that, ya hear?!” He kicked her again.
”Hey, Sh..k, don’t kill her yet!” She had trouble hearing. Everything was becoming hazy. ”We haven’t had our fun yet.” She only saw two blobs of green and black.
”You’re r.ght. So, wh..s go..a go f.rst?” She had trouble understanding them. She thought she heard heavy footsteps. Everything hurt. The footsteps were getting closer. Everything was spinning. She thought she saw a bigger blob appear behind the two blobs.
”I was w.ndering the s.me thing. Who am I g.nna hit f.rst?” She heard someone say. A rough and low voice. She heard two other voices yell in surprise. And then they yelled in pain.
And then, everything went black.