The Black Beauty (Wattys 2015)

Prologue

My name is Katy.  I am sixteen years old, and I am a horse-shifter.  This is my story.

Have you ever experienced the wind flapping through your mane and forelock as you gallop through vast plains and over rocky slopes?  Have you ever known what freedom feels like, knowing that it isn't free?  Of course you haven't.  You aren't a horse-shifter like me.

Well that so called freedom can be taken awa any second of any day.  In the blink of an eye, and you probably won't even know it.  But I do.  It happened to me.  LIke yesterday, when I was caught by the people that run the Wild Mustang Round Up.  It isn't a beautiful sight.  

But I am.  

My coat, black as night, red as fire in sunlight.  My mane, dark as coal, wild as the wind.  My tail, as dark as ebony, that can't be tamed. 

My spirit, ha, it is as wild as wild can be.

I.  Can.  Not.  Be.  Tamed.

I am The Black Beauty.