Liyanna hated horses.
There was a vast multitude of reasons but for now she could a think of a few. First off they had ruined her hunt for the evening if not the season. She stripped off her clothes and stepped into the cheap yellow shower. She turned on the water as high as she could and simply stood in the shower looking upon her surrounding. She lived in a small rundown trailer on the local native reservation most people in her tribe did. The bathroom that she currently called her own lived up to all the amenities that a trailer bathroom sought to have. In short, it was a Spartan as a bathroom could be. The walls of the room used to be white but after years of use they a fallen into a rather ugly shade of greenish yellow with either of the colors being more prominent in certain areas than others. She looked at the water that was being washed down the shower drain; most of the tub was a pink mixed with copper stains of green. She reached blindly to the wall to pick up a dish of soap. Only to return with a couple of Chiclets of dial. She looked at the paltry amount of soap in her hand and threw it down towards the drain. How the hell antibacterial soap could get moldy was beyond her. She thrust her face into the lukewarm stream of water and felt the sting of her bruises. The hunt hadn't ended well; she leaped for the back of the horse's neck. She had landed firmly but still managed to slide back towards the tail of the fleeing beast and then with one final kick from of its hindlegs she went flying into a tree. Specifically the trunk, to hit the leafs or bushes would have been too kind for the evening. God did she hurt like hell, and she smelled as well making it even worse. Wild horse would roam through her part of the woods form time to time. As prey she hated them, deer and elk were always tender and clean but horses not so much. Elk and Deer were noble animals and once cornered would die with dignity, horses on the other hand weren't, they always smelled of sweet and fear . . . and manure. Cowardly lumbering things she wished she'd found better quarry to finish her night with, now she was hungry and hurt. The horse had gotten away leaving her heavily injured and smelling like shit, guess that what you got for biting one in the ass. She turned away in the shower and winced as the water cascaded around the cuts in her back. She had gotten the beast pretty good from what she'd seen. With wounds as deep as that the animal couldn't make it very far for very long. She hoped to the moon that it hurt more than she did right now. Liyanna would have gone out to check, the horse was bleeding a rainstorm it wouldn't be hard to track down but she couldn't, not tonight. Tomorrow was the first day of her senior year of highschool, after this year she'd be free to run off and do what she pleased.
She listened intently to the beating of the water droplets against her skull and lost herself in the monotone rhythm. The almost thundering sound of the water drowned out the bruises and the cuts that she currently bore. With a final sigh of reluctance she went and turned the t faucet off. Rising from the shower she put on an old faded nightgown that had previously belonged to her mother. She stepped out of the washroom and entered the trailers dark and narrow hall. She went to her small room and lay down on her bed for a while. She tried to close her eyes but was roused by the sound of the television in the living room down the hallway. She groaned as she got up and went to investigate. There sitting in the living room was her two younger siblings. Liyanna cleared her throat to get their attention, they both quickly glanced over their shoulder to meet her gaze. "Beth, Gabe it's time for bed. The first day of school is tomorrow" Both of them protested " But Anna! I don't want to go to school! I want to stay here!" Liyanna let lose a small sigh although she had to act as their parent their gentle whines couldn't help but to tug at her heart. "You must go to school and learn, you ever want to get out of a place like this" Liyanna gestured around to the dilapidated interior of the trailer. Gabe spoke up with the smallest bit of hope in his voice "But Anna, you have a way out don't you? You'll take us with you . . . won't you?" Liyanna bit her lower lip to try to force back the tears, she quickly shock her head and recomposed herself. "We'll see Gabe, will see" With that she grabbed the remote and shut the TV off and with a few quick grasps she grabbed the children by their shirt collars and marched them off to their bedrooms. She closed the door behind her and slumped against it. A single teardrop ran down her face, as she looked out the dusty windows towards the brilliant full moon in the sky. She had promised her mother she would finish highschool. Even if she was dead it didn't matter. . She would do it for her. Once she was out of highschool then she would be free, free to do whatever she wanted. She could escape and maybe she'd bring Beth and Gabe with her. With a heavy heart she wandered back into the trailer's living room and laid herself out on the couch, despite scolding her siblings just moments ago for watching TV so late after a few minutes of restlessness she found herself fumbling for the remote. The pain from the hunt was too much to drown with sleep tonight so she might as well try to drown it in cheap soap opera's. She looked at the weathered pink clock on the wall. It was 2 am; she wouldn't get to sleep for another several hours.
