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Luv, Kat
I jogged up the stairs and into my bedchamber. I rifled through my wardrobe and found a short, sun yellow dress that would do well to ride in. I walked downstairs and bumped into Jacob, our manservant.
"Hello, Princess. Your father is looking for you. He needs to talk to you,'' he said cheerfully, his wrinkled face stretched into a broad grin.
"Can you tell him that I'm taking Nesses for a ride? Tell him I'll be back in a little," I replied, bustling out the door. I had taken so long that Nesses had jumped the fence, ran up to the front gate, and was trying to get past the guard, who had tears of laughter rolling down his rosy cheeks. The guard guffawed as Nesses made another lunge at the door, and he grabbed his lead rope. The centaur turned, saw me and whinnied with delight. The guard was out of breath with laughter.
"You…have…one…silly, annoy-…annoying…centaur," the guard gasped between peals of laughter. I laughed along with him, than swung up the six feet to Nesses' back. Fritzy came running over, barking madly, when we were getting ready to leave. I didn't know what he wanted, but Nesses did. Gently, he scooped up the puppy in his arms and handed him to me. I got it now. He wanted to go on a ride too!
"Canter," I ordered. He has such a fast canter that it's as fast as my horse's fullest gallop, but so smooth that I don't need to hold on. "To the Zoo!" I yelled.
The Zoo is where we keep the castle's exotic pets, like wild centaurs, (I found baby Nesses hurt and abandoned by his herd.) gnomes, ogres, phoenixes, talking parrots, and unicorns. I have a phoenix, unicorn, dog, horse, centaur, and a parrot that spoke Ogrese. My phoenix is called Flames, my unicorn is Silver Cloud, my dog, is, as you know, Fritzy, my horse is called Fancy, my centaur is Nesses, and my parrot is Samoy or 'Annoying Bird' in Ogrese. I went over and visited Flames. He greeted me with a squawk that set a neighboring bush on fire. Nesses grabbed a bucket of water that was lying near the compound and quickly doused the flames. With a smile, he galloped back to where we were standing and said proudly, "All gone!" as he only knew simple sentences. He was not naturally supposed to talk, but had spent many years with me working on simple words. He was a very talented centaur and although it took him awhile to pronounce some words right, he eventually learned.
I rode him back to the stables. I put him back into the paddock and whistled my call for Silver Cloud. It was three shrill notes, then a low note with an up tilt on the end. Trotting smoothly to the gate, she looked amazing. Her long golden mane hung down her neck, her snow white hair was shiny, and most beautiful was her horn, a long iridescent twisted horn that swirled all the colors of the rainbow around it. Unicorns were simply stunning. Suddenly, I remembered what Jacob had told me. I pulled myself up on Clouds back and rode towards the castle.
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