Aurora looked out the window, to where she had her horse SpitFire tethered to a pole.

"Let's just say I got something to prove" she whispered her eyes glittering with determination.

~ "I'm Not Marrying Him!" yelled Aurora "He's the same age as Poppa"

"Aurora, sweetheart" said Kelsey Jenkins, Aurora's adopted mother "Me and your father can't afford to take care of you forever"

"I don't need you to take care of me"

"Trinket, your just a girl" said Noah, her father "You can't take care of yourself. You need a husband"

"I need no one" whispered Aurora through clenched teeth.~

"Whose this?" asked a girl coming up to kiss Blink.

"Dis is mah Sista" replied Blink "Rora, dis is mah goil Sapphire"

Aurora looked up and smiled. The girl was tall with a wild tangle of bond curls and beautiful blue eyes.

"Hello, I'm Aurora" she said "You can call me Rora, or Ror"

"Nice ta meet ya Rora" replied Sapphire "Your brudda's told me so much about ya"

"Oh, I forgot about Spitfire" said Aurora "Does anyone know where Sheepshead Racetrack is?"

"Whose Spitfire?" asked Jack.

"She's my horse" replied Aurora "My friend Isaac helped me make arrangements to keep her there"

"I'll take ya" replied Racetrack excitedly "Da Track is like mah second home"

"Relax Race" said Sapphire "Ya gotta sell, I'll take her"

"don't you?" asked Blink.

"Nah, finished" replied Sapphire "Sides, aint every day, I gets ta talk ta ya sista"

"Okay" replied Blink "I'll see ya back at da Lodgin House"

Aurora hugged her brother and followed Sapphire outside.

"You ever ride?" She asked.

"Me?" replied Sapphire "Nah"

"Hop on"

"Okay"

The boys watched in shock as Sapphire, who had only seen a horse on the streets confidently hopped onto the back of the beautiful white horse.

"So Blink?" asked Jack "Where's ya sista been all dis time?"

"Well, afta our parents died, we was sent to an orphanage. Rora was adopted foist. She went to live on a ranch in El Dorado, New Mexico. I was adopted by a family in New York." Said Blink " Soon afta dat, dey died and I became a newsy"

Aurora was lost in thought as Sapphire.

~ "Hello, Aurora" said Nathaniel Hendersen "How's Spitfire?"

"Fine,"

"I thought maybe you had reconsidered selling her" he replied "She's a fine animal"

Aurora walked out of the stables and into the blinding sun. She spun around on her heel.

"Spitfire is not now, and never will be for sale"~

"Bastard" she whispered.

"What?" asked Sapphire.

"Nothing. How long have you and Nick… I mean Blink been dating?"

"Ya can call 'im Nicky If ya want, he is ya brudda afta all" said Sapphire as they walked through the gate "About two months"

Later That Night…

Blink and Mush sat on the stoop of the Lodging House smoking and discussing Aurora's surprise arrival.

"I jus feel like she aint telling me sumptin" Blink exclaimed.

"Maybe she's telling ya all she kin"

"I dunno, I jus hope she aint in trouble"

"I'm sure she aint"

"Well, night Mush"

"Night Kid"

Aurora sat on her bunk under Sapphire smiling. She finally believed she had done the right thing. She was with her real family and she felt like she belonged. It had taken a lot to leave El Dorado and her parents but She had to be where people believed in her….

So? And anyone got ideas on who her boy should be? I think maybe Jack but I aint sure.

Carryin Da Banner,

Revolution