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Eris had only a pitifully small amount of experience with horses -- they were mostly unfamiliar to her, giant beasts others somehow controlled and bent to their will. She did not understand their training, and having encountered one or two mules and donkeys in Eterne with a bad attitude and perhaps a lackluster training history, the hybrid was usually wary of them. Larkspur's horse was not so very different, though Eris had spent more time around this particular horse than any other. Her chartreuse gaze uneasily wandered around the cave and over the arch of the equine's neck and the thick off-white mane there. Her eyes slid to the floor, studying the distance to the rocky ground, knowing full well what might happen to her if she fell and struck her head. Then, they were moving, the horseflesh shifting and rolling beneath her. Though she had initially jerked in surprise, she soon became used to the rhythmic movement and ceased to think about how high off the ground she was and how, if the horse spooked, she would be able to do little else save cling to the animal's neck and hope it slowed down.
Instead, her concentration focused on the Anathema territories around them, blazing green eyes sweeping over the area in futile effort to see what she could. The hybrid did not think the pale child was here, but she did not wish to miss any signs of Wretch's presence. “She was here?” Eris asked after a moment, gaze turning to face Larkspur. He was up ahead of Eris and the horse a little bit, and the equine followed him docilely, a soft grunt occasionally issuing forth from her. The canorous clopping of her hooves on the hard ground seemed to fill the air, drowning out the softer noises of the night. She was a fair sight larger than any other horse the coal-shaded woman had been around, but there was no nervousness within the animal -- she was calm in the presence of her owner, scarcely aware of the weight on her back.
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