Matt kinked his black and shaggy head to give a look at Shanna; he sniffing the air made his yellow square eyes grow wide.
"What do you have there my dear?" Matt speaking, his voice filled with a note of excitement.
Munch, munch, "Mushier Chocolate," Shanna mushed out the words, her mouth filled with a gooey slime of some candy.
"Are...you...eating...something...made...of...Chocolate...Hershey...chocolate...?"
Matt ever so slowly, and with stealth and caution asked of Shanna.
Shanna swallowed the lump of candy, licked her lips, and then responded, "Yup, its some pieces of Halloween candy my parents were giving out this year, why?"
Matt shook his shaggy head, "Chocolate, and Hershey's at that, what luck, what damn frick'in luck; how many more of those have you been hold out?" Matt asked, his voice sound somewhat irritated by what Shanna was eating.
"Behold, my dear girl, you hold in your pocket the one talisman that can give protection to someone spelled into being an animal; or cursed to live as one the rest of their natural life. I say Chocolate, and Hershey makes the very best for what ales someone such as we here.
How many do you have in your pockets?" Matt asked Shanna, the urgency in his voice told of just how important this revelation might become.
Shanna began to search her fall jacket, it having several pockets stitched in different places.
"1...4...6...10...eleven, eleven in total, but now what, can these be of some good to you?" Shanna asked Matt, she looking wide eyed and willing to help, if she could!
Matt gave a sigh, then lifting his head to give a check on the orgy and Sabbath going on just below the knoll.
"Please, dear girl, can you unwrap the chocolates separately, giving one each to everyone tied to the tether line?" Matt asked of Shanna, his voice then calm, but showing some urgency.
"Yes, sure, but what good are my treats for these here?" Shanna asked, she beginning to sit up and peer out at Tina and Ernie in the midst of their second round of fun and frolic.
"Chocolate, I have learned works as a talisman on those spellbound, be they anything, but in our situation as animals. If you give a spellbound animal a piece of chocolate, and the best of them is Hershey, the spell is broken. But, what is better than best, they cannot ever or never be bound by such a spell again. It is a REDEMPTION, from our bestial existence!" Matt spoke of his plan as being excited his goaty voice carried some, alerting those as horses of something to stop their insane, spellbound, situations.
"Oh, wait," Matt said, he turning and with setting his fore hoofs on the crest of the knoll, he began to verbally count.
"Ernie is one, Tina is two, the sisters makes four, Richard five, Kevin six, Joey seven, Martin eight, Stan nine, Beverly ten, Frank eleven, and me...Matt is number twelve; and we have eleven reprieving chocolates!" Matt counted, taking a tally of all there and knowing at the end count that someone must be left as they are, beastly, and living on as a tortured human-animal.
Matt let his hind legs slip in the dusty dirt until he was seated on his flat butt.
"Eleven candies..., and...twelve needy souls!" He sighed, looking down along the tether line, wondering who should be saved from a life of bestial existence.
"I'm sorry I ate the other two, never could have thought they would...!" Shanna said, her voice picking up the sadness of the moment.
"Matt?" said Joey, "I will stay behind, let the other take one, my balls are gone, what life could I enjoy there? I am disgraced, sterile, and it has been what...four years since I became a Pinto pony; why everything I knew or had is near worthless, now!"
"That's settled, I'll give everybody else a piece of chocolate..." Shanna nearly exploding her voice out for all there to hear, and hear it well.
"No, my life was gone a long time ago. I was made into this sex machine animal some thirty two years ago; everything I had and knew is gone! My dear, give everyone on the tether line a piece of the chocolate, Ernie and I will remain here." Matt speaking let his forelegs slip down too, lying down, he looked very sad, but was resolute to stay a sex toy for Bella.