Chapter 7
Dealing With Restlessness
When I woke up it was still dark outside I could tell, but due to my not knowing what time it was I looked over to see that it was around 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. I was so restless, I had to get up and train, for I hadn't trained in about two to three days and my restlessness was about to drive me crazy.
When I reached the training area outside I felt the cold night air which I knew was probably not that cold it being summer and all but that it was probably the fever speaking.
Then all of a sudden I heard a loud commotion coming from the direction of the stables. Then before I knew what had hit me I felt a shocking pain as I was knocked to the ground .
Then almost as if on a whim I rolled to the right of where I had once been only to see a pair of hooves come down where my head had once been. Then suddenly I felt a sharp pain hit me on the back located just behind my left shoulder.
So then before I could get hurt anymore I backed up against the fence using it to stand up, which caused me to sweat because I guess what everyone said was true about me still being sick. Then I felt darkness overwhelm me , as a wave of unconsciousness overcame me.
When I woke up I saw that I still had time to get back to the Shiba house if I hurried and if I didn't make any noise which would be kind of hard considering that Ji woke up at even the slightest of noises and was probably already almost awake.
As I approached my room I accidentally hit my foot on the leg of the small table outside of my door. I immediately bit my lip so as to avoid the act of yelling out in pain.
After this I immediately entered my room and climbed into bed falling asleep even before my head hit my pillow, forgetting to change out of my training clothes altogether.
The next morning I woke up only to feel sore all over my upper left area of my back from where the horse had hit me in the back. The way that I knew this is that when I looked in the mirror to see if there was a bruise from last nights " events" there was a huge bruise in the shape of a horseshoe on the upper part of my left shoulder.
Later when I approached the breakfast table mentor Ji approached me and asked if I was feeling up to it for me to go along with Emily and double check to make sure that all of the horses were all in the barn because he thought that he had heard them last night, I didn't say anything about last night for all that it would get me would be a lecture.
Later as me and Emily walked out towards the barn I heard a loud shrill sound then the next thing I knew I was swinging up on the back of a midnight black horse after pushing Emily out of the way as if merely on impulse.
As soon as I was up there though I realized that both me and the horse wanted the same exact thing, for me to get off, but for some reason I instead of getting off which would have been the sensible thing I for some reason clung on even tighter to the stallions mane.