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Qingling turns and runs out of the barn. Anza grabs a
three-legged stool, steps on it, mounts the horse and rides
out as Qingling watches in amazement. The Raven flies out
and follows Anza.
* * * * * * *
We return our sights to the Stellar Monitor. On Planet
Theia, Xandr and Yellow Flower watch the glowing pages
of the Chronicle of Unchangeable Changes turn and stop at
a picture of the statue of 'Runs like the Wind' ... the image
on the page changes, the horse becomes alive with Anza
riding him away from the barn.
Yellowflower exclaims, "Whoa. What's happening?"
Xandr counters with, "That's my horse. How'd he get in
there?"
"Where's there, and who's that riding him?"
They look at each other with blank stares.
* * * * * * *
In the Stellar Monitor, we look back to Earth...
Phir is waiting near the old barn with a grandfather's authoritarian
hands-on-the-hips stance as Anza rides up on
'Runs like the Wind'.
"I did it, I made him real," Anza shouts as he reins in creating
a dust vortex.
"Put him in the barn."
"But ---"
"No buts. Be sure he's a statue."
"How?"
"You knew how to make him real. Do the opposite and
then come into the house."