A Blanket of Starlight

Based on the Sanders Sides Centaur AU created by @fangirltothefullest on Tumblr. If you haven't seen it, check it out! In fact, all their stuff's amazing!A part of him holds to the deep and paralyzing fear that the longer he runs, the more he prolongs the sure and inevitable retribution of the whip. That for every stride, every meter, every moment of airborne gallop, it's worth will be taken out in the flesh of his ankles. Another second, minute, hour, day stolen from the time he has strength to even stand. Even now his feathered fetlocks scream with the pulling of poorly healed scar tissue and muscle. And each step is like descending into a vice of iron nails.Virgil runs anyway.---Desperate to escape the only life he has ever known, Virgil finds himself taken in by fellow centaurs Patton and Emile and their human friend Thomas. Under their care the promise of freedom is a tempting lure. But healing takes time, and is a journey that never truly ends.