Your ears perk up in interest at her crass proposal, to your shame, but with a bit of effort you are able to attain a nonchalant façade, without acknowledging the unbearable heat under your tail.
“Or maybe not… I wanted to reward you properly for transforming the thief and surrendering to the horse instincts but the more I see your behavior the more I an uncertain. It was a fluke wasn’t it?”
Her hand dart on your head and start to mess with your ears “You probably didn’t even know what you did to him… Disappointing, but much more plausible I guess. For a moment I hoped you accepted completely your new lot in life and you were ready to join the broodmares in a nice farm.”
‘Fat chance of that happening’
“I like challenges, you know? Every horse in this stable was human at some point, in every instance they complain and threatens about rights until they can’t talk anymore, then one by one fill our stalls and still demand respect. Their new lot in life doesn’t seem to register, the previous life now is like a distant dream for these beasts of burden, but some of them are stubborn and willful. Our job” Here she pokes your nose with a finger “Is first to change the person, then make our new animals submissive and docile for farms and enclosures, help them to accept their new selves. I will admit, I overheard one other attendant once laugh about my apparent sadism with the changed, he was not so amused the morning after when he awoke inside one of our stalls as one of our new stallions and started conditioning with one of the more demanding trainers. “
She laughs lightly at his misfortune “We will see each other tomorrow morning princess, I have a certain thief to punish now, this is the third time this month someone stole our horses and we only caught him so far, so I have a bit of frustration to vent. His punishment will be exemplary”
‘Crazy bitch’ Your head hung limply in a bout of depression ‘But she is my crazy bitch, the girl literally has my life in her hands, after all what can a horse possibly do? Escape and travel to the police for a useless statement made of snorts and whinnies, at the end of the breakout I will be shipped without doubt again in this stall at the ‘gentle’ mercy of an enraged attendant. What do I do now? The girl told me the changes are permanent…’ The tail twitch as globs of sticky fluid slip out after an arousing wink ‘If only I was not distracted by those unavoidable urges!’
‘I could wait for a better chance of escape after they sell me to a farm or I could try to communicate with one of the visitors…’