A mare and her master-- their muscles rubber and stiffening under summer sweat-- push through to the riverbed, a creekbed, rather. Because the morning haze is risen and their are feet sticking to the clay they can't saunter despite their urges, despite their excitement. Her shoulders twitch and he slaps her hind, then tugs the reign and says come this way, old girl, this way.
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