This is Part 3 of my "The Man With No Name" series. If you haven't read the prologue or parts one and two, you can find them here:
Last time, The Man With No Name, aka Blondie, found that his prized pistol was missing from the cave where he lived. As he tried to escape the cave, he was shot from a distance by someone lurking in the darkness. Blondie created a diversion and managed to haul himself on his trusty steed, The Horse With No Name, and sliped off into the night.
The Horse With No Name
The Horse With No Name couldn’t tell what all the ruckus was about. Before all the noise, he and his master had enjoyed a quiet day out. There hadn’t been any loud “bangs” today which was nice for his ears. What does master call them? Oh, yeah, he calls them "gunshots."
It had been a good day, all things considered. There was nothing he liked better than to spend all day with his master... well, other than a nice cube of sugar! Sugar is so good!
After they had gotten home and he got a nice brushing, he had just been eating tasty grass when his master had come sneaking out of his hole. Humans are such strange creatures. Just stay outside and have some grass! What is so great about that rock with a hole in it?
Then there had been a little light out of the darkness and a “bang.” But it had been a different “bang” than the one from his master's detachable hand; it had been from someone else. Maybe that’s why master was acting weird.
Master calls his detachable hands something... guns! They're called guns. He's acting like other humans do when master has gunshotted at them. Maybe the “bangs” can hurt people. Humans don't tend to move much after getting gunshotted.
Horse cared about his master, so he was worried, but he didn’t know what to do. Master had given no instructions; he just lay on Horse's back, clinging to his neck. Then, Horse remembered the man at the monastery. Master's friend would know what to do. And after all, he did have sugar!
Horse couldn’t see much, but the darkness that prevented him from spotting his master’s assailant was the same darkness that gave Master and him cover to escape. With the darkness wrapped around them like a blanket, Horse set out… to find sugar cubes.
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