The Horse in the Mist

The Search

Samantha didn't relax until she heard both of her parents snoring. It was 10pm and she was laying in bed pretending to be asleep. She swung her legs off her bed and put on her boots. She creeped down the stairs passed Elsie, and walked out the front door. She looked at the old barn and hoped that maybe , just maybe she could keep the black mare for herself. She crossed the border of her ranch, onto the wild side. She looked at her map and followed the path.

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Thirty minutes later she arrived that the place Emily,was talking about. Hundreds of trees circled a herd of horses. The same herd Emily had said was the mare's. But where was the mare? Samantha saw two bays, an albino stallion, a buckskin, a pinto, a chestnut, an old gray, an appaloosa, and a strawberry roan, but no jet black mare. The legendary mare was not with her herd! After I few more minutes, she signed discouraged and cold and started home. She was half way home when she heard the leafs of a tree ruffling. A light mist was in the air as the sun started to rise. Samantha snapped her head around when she heard a twig snap behind her. Before she turned around and ran she saw a black thing run by. Samantha didn't have time to think because she was running as fast as she could all the way home. She made it home at 1 am. She changed her clothes and lowered her self into her bed.