A Strange Tail

by Fuji.Lynx.of.Quinn

Romaine "Roman" Herbal is a young colt from a small farm community called Hooftown. His life was completely average and simplistic until a sudden wrong turn - or quite a few, really - led him into an apprenticeship that he was not expecting. Suddenly, new opportunities and adventures are flooding his life - making it a strange tale to tell.

1. Prologue: Hello

Prologue: Hello

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Hello.
My name is Roman. I am an earth pony, getting along in my years. I'm not old enough to be an elder quite yet, but I know the time is coming for me to begin taking my age into consideration. The older I get, the more I find myself looking back on my life and contemplating all that has happened to me. That was when I realized that I wanted to share my story - and the stories of those that I had met - with others. I wanted to write my memoirs, I suppose.
For you see, I did not have a particularly normal life nor were the others in my life normal. I went through trials, sacrifice, and war. I saw sad endings and happy endings. I saw life. I saw death.
But my story starts far before any of that. I was nine - a colt living in a small, country place called Hooftown stuck in between Neighagra Falls and Manehatten right at the foot of the mountains. It was a small place, but a quaint one. It was all that I had ever known.
My family ran the local herbal and tea shop. We were rather large. I was foal number six and still had two younger siblings (twin sisters). Out of the eight of us, I was the only colt. I never felt that I suffered being among my sisters, though, nor my rather eccentric mother. We were a close family, if a rather large and loud one, and we were all loved very much.
I will begin my story in this little place called Hooftown - for it is there, not long after turning nine, where my normal, country-pony life turned into something much greater - and stranger - than anypony could have possibly predicted.

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Salutations and greetings. Welcome to A Strange Tail, written and illustrated by a mix of Al'Hope and BethyMarie. We hope that you enjoy the story as much as Bethy and I, Al'Hope, have had writing it. We will have irregular updates, but we promise to finished the story. Each chapter will be accompanied by an illustration!

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