The next chapter, with Sylvie's mind all awhirl! I hope you all enjoy this one!!<br /><br /><br />Next:<br /><span class="shadow-holder" data-embed-type="deviation" data-embed-id="651549515" data-embed-format="thumb"><span class="shadow mild" ><a href="https://snore23.deviantart.com/art/SHDYCF2-Chapter-10-Secrets-Revealed-651549515" data-sigil="thumb" class="thumb lit" onmouseover="if (window.LitBox) LitBox.hover(this, true)" onmouseout="if (window.LitBox) LitBox.out(this)"><i></i><img class="lit" src="https://st.deviantart.net/minish/main/defaulttag2.png"><span class="wrap" style="width: 150px"><q>
        <strong>SHDYCF2 Chapter 10: Secrets Revealed</strong>CHAPTER TEN<br />Secrets Revealed<br />It took about an hour for her parents to show up in their car. She had bid Stetson good night and watched him walk back over the hill towards his parent's farm. Ah, she thought, if only he'd been a centaur too, or I a human again. And she blushed, even now, as she remembered leering at his butt as he walked away. Thoughts of him and her played in her fantasies for a few minutes before she pulled the plug on it. Ahh, she sighed, I bet he's probably already got a girlfriend. Lucky girl<br />Now, she watched her parents get out of the car with a mixture of trepidation and joy at seeing them again. It seemed like forever since she'd last had an opportunity to do this, and she was eager.<br />&quot;Mom!&quot; She laughed, rushing forward.<br />The older woman jumped at the shout and the charge, bracing herself seconds before Sylvie swept her up in a gigantic bear hug. Her father watched from the safety of the other side of the car.<br />&quot;Huh. It's...good to...see you too, swee</q></span></a></span><!-- ^TTT --><!-- TTT$ --></span><br /><br /><br />Prev:<br /><span class="shadow-holder" data-embed-type="deviation" data-embed-id="651534254" data-embed-format="thumb"><span class="shadow mild" ><a href="https://snore23.deviantart.com/art/SHDYCF2-Chapter-8-The-Nightmare-651534254" data-sigil="thumb" class="thumb lit" onmouseover="if (window.LitBox) LitBox.hover(this, true)" onmouseout="if (window.LitBox) LitBox.out(this)"><i></i><img class="lit" src="https://st.deviantart.net/minish/main/defaulttag2.png"><span class="wrap" style="width: 150px"><q>
        <strong>SHDYCF2 Chapter 8: The Nightmare</strong>CHAPTER EIGHT<br />The Nightmare<br />Smack! Scrape! The noise woke Taryn from deep comforting sleep to wide wakefulness in seconds. She blinked in the dark, disoriented for a moment. A whimper snapped her gaze to the mattress next to her and the writhing black mass on it.<br />&quot;...No!...I won't...Nightshade.&quot; Sylvie's hoarse whisper barely sounded in the dark, even to Taryn's sharp hearing. So quiet, she could barely make out her last word: &quot;suffering&quot;.<br />Lurching to her feet she let the blanket fall from limp hands. Slipping silently to Sylvie's side, she dropped to her knees and tenderly took her head in her arms. For a moment, she lay in Nightshade's comfortable trailer, cradling her friend when she had nightmares in Nightshade's Circus and they both held each other until they fell asleep.<br />Whether it was the comfort of memory or the comfort of feeling someone close by, Sylvie's breathing steadied and her twitching subsided.<br />Her own tension ebbing, Taryn felt her thoughts slowed</q></span></a></span><!-- ^TTT --><!-- TTT$ --></span>