The lippy bachelor who thought he could usher Valve away from the Dunes remained as such. As he babbled with angst in her direction, she paid him only the mind of a single ear, tracking his movements. Truthfully, it was amusing to see how angry he was that he couldn’t have what he wanted. Had her visit to the Lagoon today been for any other purpose, Valve would have toyed with him until he bled out—her claws were quite sharp after all, and a slow death was always befitting of the malevolent.

She could feel Gabbar on her left, watching and ready to mirror any move she made. Their formation was practiced, deliberate and effective. “Seninki,” Valve whispered to Gabbar as she subtly pointed her nose toward the painted stallion, indicating to him as privately as possible that she intended for the Arabian to strike at him first. When the buckskin emerged, full of bravado empty threats, Valve moved her nose toward him and whispered, “Mayın.”

With each bachelor so fixated on one of them and paying little mind to the other, Valve surmised that they would be very unlikely to expect an attack originated from the other. But for now, she was only aiming the shotgun barrel, her finger lightly on the trigger, waiting for the precise moment to squeeze.

When Evaline came forth, it only took a split second for Valve to realize the amount of hell the mare had been through. One of her ears was half ripped apart and her belly hung low with the impending life of a child within it. When the golden mare burst into tears, the black mare could no longer stand idle.

Valve burst forth like a cannon, her ears pinned to her skull and her eyes fixated on Kasabian. She galloped to his far side in two long strides, away from Psychedelic, trusting Gabbar would make good on her instructions and take care of him. On Valve’s third stride, she flung her slender but powerful hindquarters in he air, taking advantage of their similar heights and aiming for Kasabian’s head—a killing blow if her aim was true.

When her hooves returned to the sandy earth beneath, Valve moved quickly toward Evaline, placing herself between her and the bachelors, watching them both carefully. She would not let any more harm befall her.

VALVE
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