They noted the high-stepping action required, whether the pony be at a walk, trot, canter or gallop. It was something they too would have to learn. Mo...eover, they would have to learn fast and to perfection. For the slightest fault was punished by the trainers. The air was repeatedly filled with the sound of leather biting into female flesh as sweat-drenched bodies were driven towards the verge of exhaustion as the ponies ran, singly or in pairs, around the circular wooden track which was gently. Suddenly, I heard a shot ring out very close. Gun-fire was a norm when breaching a city as many of the citizens tried to protect their lives and property. But this shot was close, very close. I peeked out through the barn door, and there stood in front of me the most beautiful creature I had ever seen in my life, holding a shotgun aimed right at my head. She was a lean but petite woman, wearing tethered clothing, with blonde hair and small breast. She looked to be around twenty-five, and other. I sat up straight as she welded the scissors and comb about until there was a big pile of clipping on the floor."Tell you what," I said with out moving my head, "from now on you're always going to cut my hair like this." Oh yeah," she said with a giggle, "in your dreams." No, I'm serious," I said.A few weeks later she offered to cut my hair again and I agreed but only if she took her top and bra off first; after a few giggles she did. After that she would take her top off with out being told. ”“I was unsuccessful obtaining the Narth. He died in the attempt. No other Narth was near to receive and save the Hughavh.”“This is unfortunate, yet significant. Narth can be killed.”“I was the only non Narth ever to dwell among them. Their reputation is far exaggerated. All that lives can die. Is that not the very essence of the Master, he being one with The Antiforce of life?”The shadowy apparition did not answer Larthop’s question but asked one instead.”Have the Kermac successfully retrieved.