Walk Down the Centaur of the Path
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 57026
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Lord Fred - or rather, Fred the Centaur - ruled out the path to his left
as being too narrow for his new bulk and turned instead to trot down the
path of darkness on the right. Walking was becoming as easy and natural
as riding his horse, and as such he found the rhythm of his clip-clop
-ing hooves soothing. As he swayed with the natural flow of his walk,
Fred felt as though he was simply riding his trusty steed, though without
any saddle-sores. Again he finds himself thinking that, of all the
possible ways he could have gotten into trouble with careless use of
magic, becoming a centaur was probably the best bad thing that could have
happened to him.
Fred absently lights another torch from his pack as he continues along the relatively smooth rock corridor. So far, the worst thing about the tunnel has been the simple fact that no natural light penetrated this deep under the earth. Well, that and the realization that horse hooves aren't the best for walking on exposed rock. As his feet begin to get sore, Fred resolves to get himself shod as soon as he can. Lord (was it right to continue to think of himself as lord?) Fred decides to pause a moment to rest his feet. Forgetting himself, he tries to dismount his horse, and very nearly falls as he trips over his own equine legs. Ah, well. He leans against the rock wall only to discover...
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Symkyn
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