86: Rory and Ruby - Prompt One: Ignorance is Blissby *Forget-Me-Not-Fields

Traditional Art / Mixed Media / Fantasy

Prompt One: Ignorance is Bliss
2. Your horse/rider somehow realized that time has stopped in the forest.
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Story

Rory started to feel suspicious. This place didn't seem right... at all.
"Ruby ... Let's get out shall we?"
Ruby Bite, a crossbred Cornelius Unicorn, had some of his own teleporation magic.
The vampiric stallion didn't seem to mind that command. His horn started to sparkle .. the magic sorrowed them .. and nothing happened.
"Ruby?" Rory sounded confused. What the hell was wrong?
The stallion got mad - he started to buck, kick, rear, and the magic remained dormant around his horn.
"Ruby Bite! Stop it! Bite!!" Rory pulled the reins, in effort to keep him calm, but it didn't work. The stallion was furious!
Ruby Bite really was. Why couldn't his magic work here? Something was blocking it!
After a rodeo ride trough the forest, Ruby Bite calmed down.
Rory sighed, and petted the stallion's neck. "What was that all about?"
The stallion turned his head, and his eye met Rory's.
A strange sensation went trough Rory. Ruby tried to tell him something. A feeling.. magic .. something strange. Rory tried to make sense out of it. The stallion tried to explain, tried to reach him .. and for some strange reason, Rory suddenly tough off a story his mother had read to him once. About a witch, who wanted every creature in the forest to be quiet. The story ended when the witch froze time. Or at least, he couldn't remember more then that.
"Bite?" Rory carefully looked at him. "This doesn't make sense. Why .. " Ruby Bite wasn't so gentle this time, and the story came more clear to his eye. Rory swallowed. "The story is ... true?"

Story

Reference - [link] ~ ~Bundy-Stock