Wednesday - Pets

Character: Miranda Delacroix


He wasn't her pet exactly. He was much more valuable than that. He was her transportation, her cargo carrier, her companion, her only friend. She couldn't do her job without him, at least not anymore. She had scrounged the money together to buy him from countless jobs she had done across the frontier. You would think a horse wouldn't cost that much, but real live horses were rare on the frontier and his size and breed made him even rarer. She'd been all set to buy a mechanical horse, but there he'd been, as beautiful and black as the sky. She had fallen in love.

He made life on the frontier that much easier. She could get from one town to another quicker and safer than she could on foot, and she could escape towns that much more quickly. He could carry all the gear she needed. He was at risk of course, being made of flesh and blood. There were hundreds of things that would like nothing more than to make him their dinner, but she protected him.


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