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Mane: Black
Tail: Black
Coat: Black
Eyes: Black
Height: 16.5 hands
Tail: Black
Coat: Black
Eyes: Black
Height: 16.5 hands
- Name: Temperance
Nickname: Tempe
Age: Fourteen
Gender: Mare
Breed: Friesian
I was respected, honored, and revered. Eyes that looked upon me saw an emblem of safety and knew they were under my protection. My rider and I. There were six of us, six horses under the care of four humans. We all belonged to the police force, but were a branch of our own. Horse and rider, patrolling where cars could not, sent out on missions to find missing persons or recover stolen items. We were a team, my rider and I. He cared deeply for me, and I for him, and nothing could ever separate us, or so I believed. The call came on a Wednesday night. Someone had taken a child hostage and escaped into the woods. The woods was our domain, and so we went.
It was urgent. We needed to find these people as fast as we could, and my master wasted no time in pushing me forward into the dark, searching for this man. I heard a pop. I felt him falling. Another pop. Something grazed my shoulder, ripping into skin and flesh and streaking by me with a high-pitched whistle. In a moment, all my training was lost. I had felt pain before. I had even felt worse pain than what was gracing me now, but it was so sudden. I could not see where it had come from, and I knew it was going to happen again. I ran. I ran from my rider. I left him laying on the ground, dying. I knew he was dying. I knew I was leaving him to die. I could not stop myself from running into the woods.
I was six when I ran. For eight years, I have lived in the wild, free to roam and move as I please. It has been eight years of hell. I miss my old life, where I lived everyday with a purpose in mind, to protect my ride and others from harm, to save those that had been lost in the woods or find the bodies of relatives so their mothers and fathers could finally know. Now what am I? I have mothered five foals in the wild. Three have died, taken by some predator or sickness. Two have lived and left me to my own devices, making their own herds or who knows what. This is not the life I want. I am done with herds, with horses, and with humans. I do not want any of it. If only everyone understood...








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