Chapter 41

• When he had told the guards to meet at the stables, I thought we were talking about the old stables or what used to be the stables. As I stood outside watching the stable hands bring out the horses I didn’t know what to do. They were real horses and like everything else in this realm, really large. When one of them stopped in front of me with a gigantic white horse I just stood there feeling like I should be asking for something I knew how to work, a motorcycle or even a bicycle. Riding and steering a horse wasn’t something I had the slightest clue how to do.
• “Never ridden, have you?”
• I looked away from the huge beast to Chase as he walked up behind me. “City girl I’m afraid.” Craning my neck, I looked up at the big blue eyes of the animal. “I don’t think I’ve ever been this close to one.”