She pulled the reins gently, but Mathilde was already slowing. Perhaps the mare knew where to stop. Perhaps she understood Elana’s shift in the saddle.
The horse tensed under her thighs.
“I know you want to gallop,” Elana patted Mathilde’s sable neck. “We’ll just stop here a minute.”
Mathilde snorted, then lowered her head to nibble on a cluster of dandelions by the gatepost.
“It’s been too long,” Elana whispered. To herself. To the plaque the ancestor she was named after had placed at the property’s threshold. A crest. A warning. A gateway.
Elana reached and Mathilde pranced sideways, bringing them flush with the square of gray granite. “Thank you, Em,” Elana breathed.
Her fingers traced the carvings and rested on the wheel of time.
The air around them shimmered. Bent. Restored.
The pasture rippled in the sun and she heard a clash of swords. Laughter.
“Let’s go visit Great-Grandam!”
For Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge
Na'ama Yehuda 
Lovely take
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Thank you, Sadje! That plaque had a story to tell … 🙂
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You’re welcome! Yes it has.
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🙂
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👍🏼
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😀
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Oh how you blow me away each and every time. What a lovely take on Crispina’s image!
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Yay! I mean, I’m glad that I blow you away but I don’t REALLY want to blow you away, away, because … I rather like your company so … 😉
Hope you are feeling a LOT better by now and that the ickies have been blown AWAY AWAY to Pluto, never to return.
Amen.
XOXO
Na’ama
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Haha! No worries… I’m too heavy to be blown too far 😉
The ickies are mostly gone; the energy levels picking up but not yet up to par.
XOXO
Dale
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Those energies take time to be replenished, if those I know who’d had ‘the visit’ are to be asked. But, back they come, and the ickies will be gone! Them no welcome no more in your home! xoxo
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I can see that! Jeez louise…
No, them is no more welcome! (Never were but they snuck in the back door…)
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Them rascals! Send the kitties to snarl at them viruses!
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They are! I tried to get Omelette and Kat to do something but they are pacifists… except with each other!
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Oh well, I guess there are inter-species-codes-of-ethics we will never understand … 😉
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This must be true…
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yeah
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Na’ama, I’m breathless. You got the wheel of time, I’m so pleased someone got it! It’s Celtic symbolism, and ok to call it the sun wheel, or annual wheel, but they weren’t seeing it as a spiral the way we do, 2002, 2003, 2004, they saw it as an ever-turning circle from which you could leap off at any time… thus what we would call time travel
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Ah! I didn’t really know it, but my soul probably recognized it and knew to tell me where to go. 🙂 I’m so pleased! 🙂
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Yet it’s now been pointed out to me that it’s Pegasus, the 7 dots beneath his belly are the Pleiades. Totally missed that.
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But there’s a wheel above him … and I still think that’s the wheel of time. 😉
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Oh most definitely yes. Although others might say it’s the sun. But the sun isn’t divided. Those rays are the sun’s seasonal stations
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Also, who said that the sun isn’t the wheel of time, eh? 😉
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But it is. It’s our earliest calendar; far older than the moon
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Eezatly.!
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🙂
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