She was already familiar enough with this land, with this horse farm. After all, she had spent so many unforgettable days and nights here in the past.
She had ridden Insight around the farm and the estate countless times. She knew the feeling of the wind blowing at her from the front and sides as she bounced in the saddle. That near-flying sensation had given her an unforgettable sense of freedom. There was beauty in that freedom, but fear as well. Yet as long as she remained on horseback, the danger behind her could not catch up. It was as if she would live forever unrestrained, happy and fierce.
The more beautiful those illusion-like thoughts were, the more indescribable her sense of loss became the moment she dismounted and touched the ground. But what of it? Who in this world was not trapped on the earth? At least she had once possessed the wind on horseback...
But now, Chloe was surprised to find that whenever she was with the people living on the farm—whether chatting with Lu Qi Zhen and Jahadorei, or working alongside farm guests she had only met a few times—the urgency of being chased and the frustration of being trapped seemed to vanish for a while.
There were simply too many things she could not figure out. She did not understand why Tie Xi lived alone beside the horse farm, why Eucali, clearly Hesta's guest, was always doing the servants' work at the stable, or why Hazel, the electrician, often seemed to be with the farm's "important people," like Lairin.
The wiring and plumbing in Chloe's own home had broken several times too, and workers seemed to have been hired to repair them. But Chloe had never seen those people. Her mother always seemed to arrange for