The stone white steed trembled with exhaustion as if each gallop was its last. Each hoof pounding the ground like thunder slamming harder than the one proceeding it to the point that nerve endings were numbed from the pain. It's shaggy coat glistened from sweat drenched hair saturating it's fur yet never reaching the ground from slinging off its legs quick and rapid movements furiously stretching with each stride. It's rider the once beautiful meak princess gone savagely rogue fixated deep into the far horizon with a focused scowl. Never wavering, her deathgripped callous hands clenched the reigns of the tired equine pushing it harder now more than ever in its miserable existence. Frothing and salivating the animal ran on. It's hot breath steaming from is flared sun cracked nostrils could be felt on her damp skin with every blast. They moved with such force and ferocity that anything near could feel the earth shudder when they screamed by in a blur. Racing through dried brush scraping the skin and tangling in hair they powered up gallows cliff. There was no slowing down, no wavering, no succumbing, their two hearts oscillated as one pounding harder as the ascend steepend. Struggling never occurred, they only went faster and harder utilizing the momentum to take them in the direction they needed to go. The climb went on, more so than not it seemed it would last forever. They were racing time itself. Just as the sun sank behind the edged they lunged over onto another plateau. The horse let out a horrid sound echoing off the rocky walls to their left. The right dropped down to certain death into the shadowy timber below from which they came. The flat was just wide enough that two horses could ride side by side without slip. Hammering her heels in to its sides she growled and the horse took off sprinting even harder. No time for rest the child was just ahead around the bend. As they ran on the timbers below ended into the rivery mouth leading to the great lake just beyond the curve. Approaching slightly curving around the rocky wall the sky expanded and only water could be seen reflecting the Suns orange glow about to set. Then there it was. The tip of the...