14 THE POST HORN GALLOP
As William accepted Sarah’s embrace, the pain in his left side vanished. He cuddled up to her and stroked Kiddy’s muzzle. “I feel as if this is how it should be” he said quickly.
“It can be however long you want it to be, my darling. You are in your natural element again now”.
“Yes, it feels like it too. So what happens next?”
“Anything you want. You can have or do anything that you want, except influence the lives of the Surface-dwellers. They must make those changes for themselves... For example, you cannot stop them fighting, lying or cheating... they are there to learn how to do that themselves, just as we were... many times. These are difficult lessons to learn. The instinct to look after number one is born in us, it is why babies look at their parents so,
