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On the Day We First Met
An EA Alternative
Prologue
Horse and rider were one in the wind. The boy could feel it in his face as he spurred the stallion on. This was the first time he ever disobeyed his parents and took the horse out at night.
He was still considered a boy, even if he had watched eighteen summers come and go. His father always referred to him as that boy who had been too independent, the boy who had so much and was giving it all up. These were the slowest years of his life. He was bored living in that big, drafty castle where everything was rigid, everything was controlled. He was tired of it. He wanted to be like any other boy his age. He wanted to have fun. The last thing in the world he wanted was to be a prince.
He hadn’t thought about where he would go at two thirty in the morning. He shook his head and smiled. He shouldn’t even be out at night like this, but he couldn’t wait until the morning. All he thought about was that he had to get out.
He hadn’t even realized where he was or how far he had gone. The night charades were over. Maybe he should turn around. He could probably make it back to the castle by the first light of dawn. He turned the horse around and made his way back.
He caught sight of a chipmunk that ran quickly across road. Suddenly the horse reared and he was thrown backwards, hitting his head on the rock, knocking him out. The horse, freed of its burden, stood on his hind legs, whinnied and galloped off in the opposite direction toward its freedom.
The boy lay on the ground unconscious, not moving a muscle.
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