{"id":3027,"date":"2010-08-21T11:17:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T15:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2015-07-22T16:02:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:02:16","slug":"eclipsed-by-shadow-20000-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2010\/08\/eclipsed-by-shadow-20000-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"#30- 20,000 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Meagan simply <strong>had <\/strong>to find Promise and put things back&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, but I need to go.\u201d Meagan swallowed, seeing the girl\u2019s lips moving in odd contortions as if mocking her. \u201cI will find my horse before everyone wakes up. Thank you for not attacking me.\u201d She stood and took a step toward the edge.<\/p>\n<p>Without taking her eyes from Meagan, the girl laid a dark scrap on the rock between them.<\/p>\n<p>It was a careful moment. Meagan picked up the strip with the ends of her fingers and held it out. \u201cBurned horse meat &#8230; why, thank you.\u201d She wanted to hurl the meat off the ledge, but politeness and precaution made her keep it instead. \u201cI hope this won\u2019t come in handy,\u201d she said with forced cheerfulness.<\/p>\n<p>Stepping to the edge, Meagan let herself over. She slid down and dropped to the top of the next boulder. Above her, the mute girl crawled up to the edge, preparing to follow. Meagan climbed down faster. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be rude,\u201d she called over her shoulder, \u201cbut I\u2019m trying to get away from you. It\u2019s nice, but please don\u2019t follow me.\u201d She made the last feet in a jump. The girl landed a few moments later. \u201cThank you so much for cooperating,\u201d Meagan said tightly. \u201cLook, I am sure you are very nice, but you don\u2019t have a shirt and, well, you are wearing blood. I will find Promise and then this can all go away. I really am sorry. It\u2019s all my fault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A movement attracted Meagan\u2019s eye and she looked past the girl. Several of the glutted clan of horse-killers were watching with unfocussed eyes. Meagan backed away and turned to the open field. She looked back only once. The girl was still staring.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Excerpted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/\"><em><strong>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, the award-winning 1st volume of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/\"><strong>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong>&#8221; trilogy. <\/a> (Hrdbk pg. 92)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Book II: The Golden Spark<\/strong><\/em> will be published Fall 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/chap1.html\">the 1st Chapter<\/a> online!<\/h4>\n<p><small>Copyright \u00a9 2008 John Royce<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am sure you are very nice,&#8221; Meagan said tightly, &#8220;but you don\u2019t have a shirt and, well, you are wearing blood. I will find Promise and then this can all go away. I really am sorry. It\u2019s all my fault.&#8221; &#8211; <em>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/em> (excerpt)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161],"tags":[118,238,70,165,191,185,162,184,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}