Bottomworld - Chapter 2Chapter 2. A Meeting with Maude. Ellis later on would say that it took her somewhere between half an hour and the rest of her life to learn to walk on four legs, but in truth, it was perhaps closer to an hour before she was able to stand and move forward without collapsing. She looked a little drunk, and if she had watched more nature video, she might have recognized her stumbling as that of any newborn foal. But an hour or so later, she was on her way to wherever the others had been found, winding through thin green foliage of palm trees, bushes, and a wavering sea of ferns. Marie, ever ebullient, flitted about Ellis's head like a mot
Bottomworld - Chapter 11. FallingEllis fell.At first, the best she could think was that the world was black around her, but after a bit of falling, it had turned vaguely red-orange.Or at least she felt that the best she could describe it was that it was falling. It seemed a little closer to floating perhaps, but there was a distinct downward feel to it that she couldn't quite put her finger on.Not that there was anything to put her finger on. The orange haze had given way to a world at sunset with an orange sky yielding to deep blues high overhead. By its motion, she was high above it and definitely falling. There