Dear Journal,
Today has been a... crazy day. To start, another survivor arrived. I know, it's crazy how fast they suddenly come. Radio broadcasts may be nice, but blasting out a stereo means those without radios can hear you. Anyway, he arrived. This is where things get... unfortunate.
He had no horn or wings, he'd look like a normal horse were it not for the giant eyes and diminutive stature. This was the second worst part of it all: he was a kid. I may not know much about our new anatomy, but I can tell a child when I see one. He was young, and seemed very scared. I asked him how he got along this long, and he just told me he was looking for his mother, and that he thought she passed through this store a bit back. I was chuckling then, poor kid with dementia. No way that both a mother and son made it together. Then he said she passed through two days ago, and asked me if I'd seen a female pony named Barbara.
I asked him his name.
He said his name was Jamie.
I just split up what may have been the last family on Earth. Everything clicked. That look in her eyes, that determination mixed with sadness and fear. She was a provider: a mother trying to protect her son in a world gone crazy. Can I fault her for that?
I just asked if I can fault a woman for killing. Or, attempted killing. She could have asked, and we'd have given her stuff. People do crazy things when they're afraid. Another problem arises, I never had time to remove Barbara's corpse. I've been keeping the kid in my room all day so he doesn't see it. He's asleep right now.
In Max news, he's... staying pretty much the same. From what I can tell, his condition hasn't worsened, but he's still in a great deal of physical pain. While changing the bandages today, I noticed that using my hooves to apply them caused him great physical pain. So, I thought back to how I felt and what I was thinking while fighting Barbara, and tried it again. I levitated a bandage to him and carefully applied it as best I could. I wasn't as clean as with my hooves; I'm not very dextrous with my telekinesis yet, but it was less painful. I think that's important.
God, I still feel no excitement over grasping magic. I would've rather never learned magic than have learned it this way. I swear on all that's holy Max, you're getting out of this.
– Leon
H-hey guys. I-it's me again. Good ol' Max back on the scene. Leon didn't want me to do this, so I waited until he fell asleep. Yes, this does hurt like hell. I... AH! Sorry, I m-moved myself in a bad way. I'm... I'm dying guys. At least, I think I am. Leon keeps telling me I'll live. Admittedly I've been getting better. I just.. don't see myself making it. Maybe I'll be wrong. Hopefully I'm wrong. Ma-AYBE I-i'll get through j-j-just fine. GAH the pain!
Ok, i-it's calmed down a bit. I hope the pain goes soon. I got myself some painkillers while Leon wasn't looking. How'd I get them? Leon got some for me before he took into consideration that it might be bad for me. I'm only going to take them if it just becomes too much. Leon's right, I don't want to- GAH!
I-i'll see you guys later. P-peace out!
– Max
Dude... turn on a light, it's getting too dark
It's good that I'm a Thestral; I can see in the Dark, and I see some pretty serious shit right now. Dammit, I just finished writing clop and was going to write some about "later that morning" but I don't think I'll be able to now. Not without reading something else at least.
.... Forget you read that! Major Spoilers.
6067555 Curious, curious.
6067526 You know, I'm CONSIDERING adding a dark tag...
6067558 I'm gonna delete the chapter and put in a dick tease if you delve any deeper
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6067505 Alright then.
6067665 The alicorn is the official name for a unicorn horn. Like legitimately, look it up if need be.
6067679
Well, the more you know :)
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Not even a full month, with all that means in store after store still carrying if nothing else loads of tinned foods, and she really thought that was her best idea? Kill all other survivors, to somehow keep her kid safe?
I'm sorry, but that's such a level of short sighted stupid I honestly can't sympathize in the slightest with her. She turned rabid and had to be put down for the safety of others, end of sad but rather easily solved moral dilemma.
Poor, poor kid, though. Not sure what's even worst, hearing your mom snapped like that or never knowing what actually happened.
So I'm not sure I understand why Barbra attached them. Unless it's something we aren't supposed to know yet. It isn't as though she needed the supplies from their store, since there's an entire world of them and they only have one store. (not to mention it's been such a short time that pretty much everything is where everyone left it (and they could just eat grass anyway)). Maybe it's something that hasn't been revealed, in which case that's cool, otherwise I just don't get why the mother would go so nuts and kill people.
Unless you're saying she just went insane, in which case I suppose that works.
6069384 A few things caused it. First, she wanted supplies. Yes, she could have gone anywhere, but it's easier to go to a place that has established supplies that are organized.
Which brings me to a question I'm sure you will ask: "How is it easier to have to go, kill two people, and steal their supplies." Yes, her mind did go quite a bit once the Purge happened. She had Jamie as an anchor, but otherwise she'd probably be far gone. She's not necessarily psychopathic though. She does worry others are, which brings me to my third and biggest point:
She's worried that others will attack Jamie. She wants to take everyone out so that no one will hurt Jamie. Of course Leon and Max would never have hurt him, and from her time with them she should know that. Paranoia.
You may or may not learn more about her through Jamie, but that's a basic overview of what I can tell you right now.
6069377 Yeah, I've decided not to stay. I'll probably stay within a week or two of the most recent post, but yeah. The only problem is I'm bad at remembering, so I'll likely forget.
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You can't really blame her IMO, yes she tried to kill.
In fact you can blame her : damn you Barbara!
Anyway, I suck in psychology, but if you have bad conditions of living ( like I don't know, struggles to get bits, got a child and had divorce ), BAM! 9999/10000 of the population disapears and you're a horse.
Now you have to survive and you still have that kid who is as scared ( or even more ) as you and you can't really say everything's going to be okay.
It's been what? 10 days?
Considering the survival thing, she might got a mindset of a survivor faster than the other characters due to her child.
Her days might be like : scavenge / eat /sleep since the begining and now she is with other survivors.
They are better than her: got a shelter, rations... one even has magic.
The question is where was her son?
She was testing the fields for her son and I don't know, Paranoia?
She cared for him so we can't really blame her.
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