Aftershock

Silence

Aurora had been waiting for her father to come home for three days now. Her mom kept assuring her that he would be back any moment. And Aurora believed her, after all, she was just a filly. Aurora was born into a family of warriors. They were called Finches by the changelings, the ones that Aurora's father and mother would spend almost all day fighting. Although, ever since Aurora had been born her mother would have to stay home and her father would go out alone. They lived in an encampment instead of a city or village like all the other ponies in Equestria. Since they always had love-hungry changelings barging through their woods trying to get into Equestria. But now, all Aurora could hear, was silence. She strained her ears, stuck her head out the window, and even tried to use a funnel to capture the slightest bit of sound, but nothing worked. She hoped that the silence meant that her father was okay and could come back, that the changelings had given up and gone home, that the rest of her life could be normal. But what happened next, was the complete opposite.