Chapter three
The Wild Horses of Grandfather OdsShe listens and makes a face. Geya it is. I don’t like her much, do you?
Hieronymus blinks and stretches. Exactly. She is not to be trusted, that one. Too wrapped up in the human sphere. Wants their worship, always wants more power. But what does she want with me, eh Hieronymus?
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Gwenn Benet pushed the horse she had stolen from Arkady as hard as she dared, but Ajax continued to be skittish and hard to handle. All animals behaved this way when they sensed the presence of Keth Dirane inside her. She had found it easy enough to hide the existence of the Goddess from most of her friends and family, but animals possessed far more intuition. Her mother knew the truth, of course, for she had been able to ask Lalluna why her daughter talke
