A Pegasus for Christmas by Zoe Chant

Author:Zoe Chant [Chant, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

When Celeste had woken up this morning, she hadn’t expected that she would end up stalking a horse.

Then again, nothing about today had really gone as she’d expected. The past few days had brought more excitement and confusion and – well, other feelings – than the previous two decades put together.

But there’s definitely something weird going on with that horse, she thought as she sidled along a fence, eyes darting back and forth, trying her best to look like this was a completely normal and reasonable thing to be doing. I wasn’t imagining it. I’m not going crazy. But it’s almost as if – as if –

It was as if she had known the horse. Which, okay, was maybe just a bit crazy. She didn’t spend nearly enough time here on the island to get to know any of the resident animals, and, even if she did, it wouldn’t be enough to cause that weird feeling she’d felt in her stomach when she locked eyes with it.

Which was another thing! What kind of horse would hold a staring competition with a random passerby? And if she didn’t know better, she would’ve thought that at one point, the horse looked almost… embarrassed? Which was impossible.

It was just a horse! Get over it! You’ve got way more important things to be worrying about.

And yet, here she was, sneaking about the backstreets of Portsmith like a cut-price version of one of the detectives she was supposedly always writing novels about. If anyone spotted her snooping about, she would be in for one hell of an interrogation – even a reputation for eccentricity could only get her so far before people started getting suspicious. And, she had to admit, her behavior right now was definitely not something to inspire confidence in the hearts of the locals.

She flattened herself against a wall and peered cautiously around the corner, nibbling absently on her gingerbread.

The horses were being led into a field, tucked away behind some houses. It was a pretty secluded area, with the only other people she could see being the kids who were leading the horses. Presumably everyone else was off enjoying the festivities at the end of the parade.

Part of her wished that she was doing the same thing, eating good food and having fun – or even just doing what she was supposed to be doing, which was investigating the tremors and keeping an eye on Pierce. But she hadn’t exactly been able to come up with any kind of reasonable excuse to follow him back to his accommodation and interrupt his work, as much as she had desperately wanted to.

About the best she’d been able to manage was picking up a second gingerbread man on a whim and tucking it into her pocket, with some sort of vague thought about how she might give it to Pierce later once she caught up with him.

Thinking about it now, she cringed a little. What, exactly, would she say to him? Hi, sorry

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