How many of you think unicorns are fake animals that only exist to amuse little girls? They're so pretty in the stories, with gleaming white bodies and long, flowing manes and perhaps hooves or a horn of gold. They're gentle and kind and have healing powers. They love princesses and people of noble birth. Well, I'm here to tell you that while the unicorns of legend don't exist, there is a breed of horse, called the shandavar, that lives in the wild places of the world, and they possess a single, twisting horn, and if you manage to somehow get that horn, it has the power to make your wildest dreams become reality.
There's just one problem: no one's ever been able to capture a shandavar and get its horn. Oh, people have tried, and some have come close, but shandavar are extremely dangerous, wild beasts, and to even approach one is to have a death wish. They kill people with those horns; they'll run them right through. They lure people and prey by pretending to be wounded and then turning on those foolish enough to approach them and attacking viciously. Shandavar are always surrounded by this mist that, if it's inhaled, disorients anyone who breathes it and has the power to create terrible illusions. They live in the mountains, near volcanoes, in the dark woods, and anywhere hazardous to man.
Hunting shandavar is like hunting death.
My sister and I are hunting shandavar.
Our home was destroyed. The rest of our family is dead. We have nowhere to go, no one in the world who cares about us. But if we can find a shandavar and get its horn, we can fix our miserable world. There'd be no more pain, no more suffering, no more death....Everything would be right again. It's an impossible task, and we'll probably die, but we have nothing else to live for now.
The shandavar are our last hope.
We left our ruined home two days ago, along with a sixteen-year-old boy whose parents were also killed. It's him and the two of us, all alone in the wild, hunting a savage beast that will kill us.
This is going to be interesting.
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