Chapter 3
We rode for the entire day. Non-stop. Whole towns flashed by. Hills and forests were a blur on either side of me. Several times I remembered I hadn’t eaten since dinner time the previous night, but I wasn’t hungry. It must have been the excitement. A couple of times I thought about my mother. I wondered where she was and what she’d be doing, but then I remembered her duplicity and told myself I didn’t care.
Eventually, the sun began to slip further towards the horizon, painting the sky with vibrant pink, gold, and orange, and highlighting its masterpiece with traces of blue and purple before finally the black of night swallowed the whole lot down and we were riding in complete darkness.
We arrived at a small forest and only then did Reginald bring Duchess to a stop.
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