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Golden eyes shone dully in the moonlight, having been robbed of their energetic gleam long ago. Carousel's cloven hooves trod the same path she had taken the night before, and the night before that...and the one before that as well...
A cold wind ruffled her silky black mane but otherwise effected the slowly walking creature very little. She sniffed the breeze in a hopeful manner but her fine head quickly dropped, hanging low so it almost dragged along the dirt with her hooves. Her eyes were half-lidded; Carousel looked almost dreamy, and no wonder; she had taken this same route so many times over the years that she didn't have to think about where she was going.
Surely her lonely midnight treks through the carnival's abandoned rides was futile, and somewhere in the back of her mind, Carousel knew this. She passed a roller coaster, its high, looping tracks long since caved in to litter the ground beneath it, and then a small, dark building, barely visible in moon's weak, silvery light, declaring itself a "haunted house". These were the same places she walked by every single night, and she didn't even lift her eyes to look at them.
What else could she do? The carnival, abandoned, broken and dark as it was, held her and her spirit...but nothing else was alive like she was. Nothing else walked and talked and could feel pain and loneliness like Carousel could. So she walked, and the flowers around her neck sent a sweet smell on the cold breeze, and the dead rides creaked and the leaves stirred...but she was alone.