Nira was
bamboozled.All these years of owning a potions store and she had never had a break in.Till that day.She trusted everyone
too much.Laura used to tell her that.She didn’t ever believe people to be
capable of evil.Maybe,it was because she travelled so less.Or maybe because the
only places she had ever been to , was the Blue Forest and Lantern village.
The open door was what told her that there had
been a break-in. Laura consoled her.Together ,they began walking along the long
rows of shelves of potion bottles,hoping that nothing had been taken.They had
covered almost all the shelves when suddenly,Laura spotted the loss.The healing
serum had been taken.A current of invisible relief washed across Nira.The other
one was still intact.Masked as a sweetening syrup,the fruit of her long toil,lay
the gift.
***
Leo’s horse
didn’t like water.That was going to be a problem considering the fact that the
army was faced with a river right then.
“Charge on,White
Thunder!!”,Leo tugged at the magnificent stallion’s bridle reins.It merely
whinnied and gave its master a sad look.
“Oh,come on..we
gotta get across.Haven’t got all day,my pal.”
White
Thunder nimbly placed one hoof in the water.And immediately pulled it back.
Leo sighed.He
got down from the saddle,put one arm around the horse’s neck and spoke gently
into its ear.
“I need to
find my father,old pal.He was taken away and you know how fond of him you
are.Its just a little water..we wade across now and I’ll give you a nice lump
of sugar when we get back”
White
Thunder nuzzled his face against Leo’s shoulder silently agreeing to what his
favourite person had said.
Leo mounted
his horse yet again and they moved onwards,the rest of the army following
them,all their gazes fixed on the horizon.
***
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