White Stallion 1

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CHAPTER 20 – White Stallion

"Hmm, her majesty is fast and talented to be able to ride a horse that way. Let me see who is the lucky horse that got selected."

Moving into the stables, Azzura took her time admiring each horse in turn. For a moment there, she even got to the point of forgetting why she was indeed there until she got to the last stable and did not find a horse there.

"Wait a minute…" She dimmed her eyes at the empty stable and then back at the other horses. "Oh my goodness!"

The more she stared at the empty stables the more her hands began to shake as her mind took her down memory lane.

It was like a dream before her, as she saw a past flash before her eyes. She was still young and she managed to get into the palace.

One day on one of her visits to the stables, a place she visited whenever she had any little free time due to her love for horses, she had wandered to the last stable where the horse, White Stallion was and thought it was like every other horse she could play with and dashed there.

To her surprise, the horse had actually reacted in a different way from the rest and raised its legs, ready to impale her with its hooves.

Luckily for her, one of the attendants was close by and quickly he came to her aid, pulling her from there before it actually did more harm than intended.

She could not believe her eyes. And just that experience had actually scared her so much from entering the stables. It took her some time first before she could return to visit the horses but since then, never again had she gone to that side.

It had been close to three years now since that incident had occurred and she had completely forgotten about it been there as she made sure not to exceed the first half of the stable when she visited to avoid recreating such a traumatic state for herself again.

It was like her brain stopped functioning. Even then she was told and warned that the horse was separated from the others for a reason. It was the wildest horse or most stubborn one there was.

At times it could allow you to carry it out to ride but once you are atop it, it can be very funny and injure you.

For most people, it refused to let them even come close to it just like Azzura and for the others, which was but for a selected few, it allowed them to enter, just like Vidor but once he was sure you were getting comfortable, he would become another thing entirely and rest till it gets you off its back and injure you badly in the process.

However, the last person to ride it was his majesty, King Vidor. When it had injured the king, no one dared get close to it again, save for when they took it out occasionally for a stroll to walk in right outside the stables.

"Oh no! Why didn't he warn her of the danger?" Azzura found herself asking in her mind.

She stopped thinking and rushed out. She needed to stop Era from riding it before something terrible happened to their beloved queen.

In the same vein, as soon as the head attendant finished, he hurried over to deliver the good news to the one who has sent him.

"Greetings, my lord, my lady."

"Rise." Lord Caspian ordered.

"Thank you, my Lord." He did as he was commanded and with a smile on his face, he awaited their go-ahead.

"Go on. How did it go?"

"My lady, I got the message just in time. It was just after your servant left that she walked in and immediately I showed her to the horse."

"What did she say? Did she not find it suspicious?" Diona asked.

"My lady, the tale I told with the horse did not give her opportunity to. She actually pitied the horse and took him with her."

'Great."

'But do you think that would be enough to kill her or something?" Lord Caspian asked.

"My Lord?" The attendant was confused. "He wasn't told they wanted to kill her or that very extreme stuff.

All he was asked to do was to show her to the White Stallion and have her ride it for a certain amount of reward. Now he was hearing something else.

"But my Lord, I never…"

"You do not have to worry much, father. I instructed someone to cut a bit at the saddle. But not to the point of being noticeable but when she keeps on riding on it, it would definitely cut and even if the White Stallion did not want to injure her before, it would scare it off and then drag her along as it runs away. What better way to cause a ghastly or fatal accident than that?"

"Brilliant, Diona. So brilliant. You have done well," Caspian praised as he averted his gaze at the head attendant.

"But my lord, I was not aware of that. If anything goes really wrong and his majesty finds out, I would be in a really big problem."

"Nothing would go wrong. Besides, you should not even worry about her reporting yo as she would be badly injured to even speak."

"But my lady…"

"We had already set the plan in place when we heard she was going for a ride. All we needed was a way to ensure that she rode it and that was where you came to play. So relax, as long as you do not talk, no one would know. Or did you inform anyone?"

Quickly the image of Azzura flashed before his eyes but he quickly shook it from his memory. He needed the money and that was why he agreed to her deal. "No, my lady," he shook his head, quickly.

"Good. You would get double your pay since you now know the plan."