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Feeling rather refreshed with a bounce in his step, Ezekiel walked up behind Leda with Kristen sortly behind him. He listened to the rundown on the chariots and grinned, looking at the Pegasus who would pull them where they needed to get to. He tossed his bag into of the chariots, claiming it as his own and stepped up inside. He looked at his companions and Marygold who finally came strolling up the way. Honestly, urgency was not a thing with her was it? Still, they were present and accounted for now.
”So four kids to get with who knows how many monsters. I figure we each take one kid each, make our target once we have eyes on them and go from there. Of course dispatching of the monsters first is ideal but the kids are priority I would say.”
Being a leader wasn’t exactly Ezekiel’s wheelhouse but he had something to prove and there were multiple people looking to him and watching him.

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Leda normally would have rolled her eyes at anyone who proclaimed a ride to be pretty quick - but in this case, it was probably true. The pegasi pulling the chariots reminded her of her godly mother for a moment, and she glanced up towards the sky, wondering where Iris was at that moment. She could have been running off to deliver a message - in fact, that seemed to be a good portion of what her mother did. It was part of this reason why Leda and some of her siblings were able to move at extraordinary speeds. Combine that with the rainbow powers, and they turned into a more modern day version of the Flash. "I swear, you would make an excellent turtle," Leda teased her friend, sticking her tongue out slightly.

She then crossed her arms a bit as Zeke went over his proposal for the plan. It wasn't bad, but she doubted the demigods they were about to get would believe them. People had a way of rationalizing away strange things, of avoiding a painful and shocking truth. She couldn't blame them for that. Normal people didn't just believe that their life was a lie and one of their parents was a god all too easily. "Sounds like a fine plan. Though if we're voting for leader, I vote for not Zeke. Just to clarify, this isn't me voting for everyone else - this is me adding a negative vote to you." She smirked slightly at him.

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@Jasonhero The car was parked in the parking lot, as he hate with his daughter it was pretty quiet so far and they hadn't really encountered to many monsters at all which was a good thing. Once he was finished eating his lunch Jade's father looked towards his daughter. "Alright then lets get back on the road." He said, as they started to turn and drive down the road again, as they were driving then there was a sound of sirens going off. He took a moment and stopped the car and pulled over looking over his shoulder as he could see the cop car wth it's lights going off, he then stopped the car just along the side of the road. "Well this should be fun." He said to himself, as he waited until there was a knock on the door there were two officers standing on either side of the door.

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Kristin smiled as soon as Marygold finally caught up with them. "Glad that your finally here." She said towards her friend, and quickly climbed up onto her chariot. Taking a moment she noticed the little computer that was on there and assumed that it was some kind of GPS on it and looked towards Lauryn. "So, yeah you got GPS very accurate and will get you there." She said as well and gestured towards some cup holders in there as well. "And in case you all go for fast food or whatever theres cup holders in there as well." Lauryn said smiling towards them. Kristin gave Lauryn a friendly smile and nodded towards her as she set her backpack down in the corner of the chariot, she was ready to go.

"Sounds like a good plan to me then." Kristin said towards Zeke and looked at the others whenever they got onto their own chariot, Kristin then started the GPS. And as soon as the location of where they were going was on, Kristin grabbed onto the reins of the chariot and looked at the others. "Last one who gets there gets to do the tour of the new campers!" Kristin said, and started to hold onto the chariot as it suddenly shot up and headed south and out of the camp grounds.

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Kiera thought for a moment looking over towards Desdemona for a moment, they were the oldest here along with Hedge Arthur and Athaisa were the youngest here. "How well are you with tying, might need your help." Kiera said towards her, as she went over and grabbed the rope that was there. And started to tie it all together securing it to one of the baskets full of basket balls, and then started to take them out and replacing them with the barbell weights that were inside. Hedge looked towards Arthur for a moment when he asked about another exit and gestured towards a nearby window. "Cyclopes are dumb and slow, so once the trap is set up you two get out and run i'll be behind ya."

"He wont turn you into stew don't worry." Kiera said towards her friend and smiled slightly as she climbed up the ladder and started to slowly pull the basket up full of weights and thought a bit more. "You two spread the balls out, hopefully they will trip on them all." Kiera said, as she was having a little bit of trouble getting the basket up it was pretty heavy for her right now as well and she was having a hard time. They could hear Roman's voice in the distance they are still searching for them right now.

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Athanasia fidgeted with the strap of her backpack, wishing she had a parasol to twirl in her agitation. Dark eyes narrowed at Arthur though she hesitated before answering. In truth, Athanasia was scared. Could she run fast enough? Even if she was fast enough there was one of her and three of them. That was bad odds to start with. "We won't know til we try, besides I am the smallest and can easily bait that idiot Roman." Rolling her eyes Athanasia began helping the older girls and hedge by spreading the basket balls and whatever else she could find that might trip the cyclops up across the floor.

Glancing at Kiera, Athanasia gave a weak smile. Trying not to let it shake. "Oh la, just make sure to make it through the window. I dont want those bullies to hurt you!" Athansia looked at the window and frowned. She hoped help would come and soon. That, or they could just loose Roman and Eye 1 & 2. Opening the window, Athanasia was quick to crawl out scanning the ground for potential ammo.

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Mona almost laughed out loud, which would have been against her usual demeanor. "Good at lying? You are looking at someone who has never done anything in gym due to relatives dying, feeling sick and starting my period at least 5 times. Granted, might have been useful now that mystical creatures are trying to kill us, but you play with fire you get burned." She looked at Kiera, who seemed to be setting a trap of sorts. "Damn, I really wanted to punch him in the face."

She knew the plan. They would set a trap, get these assholes, the kids will run and she and Kiera would hold them off for long before they made their escape. She still held the weights in her hand. Just in case. "All right, let me know what you want me to do. I'm eager to hurt these freaks."

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Arthur nodded at Kiera, and started to help spread out the balls. As he walked along the shed, he couldn't help but feel a bit of fear. His arms felt heavy, his heartbeat was quickening, and he could start to feel himself breaking out into a cold sweat. He felt like he could throw up at any moment, but he couldn't afford that right now. Time was a resource more precious than anything right now, and he knew there was a very good chance that something like that could cost everybody their lives. Breathing deep, he focused on the task at hand, knowing that the best way to keep himself calm, was to hyper focus on that.

The thing he was scared most about though, was Athanasia. He considered her a friend, and her putting herself in danger was something he necessarily felt uneasy about. He knew she was small, quick, and had run away from things before. There was no way somebody could pull as many pranks as her and not be an exceptional runner. There were literal monsters though, and they would almost certainly kill her if they caught her. He'd never experienced any kind of stress like this before, and all he could do was look at his friend, smile, and say "Don't get yourself killed, I'm not ready to become president of Hell Raising Committee." He wasn't a very huggy person, and that was good, as he was quite certain they didn't have time for anything like that.

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Jade was a little confused whenever their car suddenly came to a stop so soon after getting back on the road again. Pulling out her headphones, she heard the siren of the police car behind them as the car came to a stop and her father made a small comment. "What did you do, dad?" She asked, a little confused as her father was usually quite a good driver. She figured she would find out soon enough as the police were likely already approaching the car. She kept the earphones out, admiteddtly more than a little curious as to what her father had done to get in trouble with the law. She just wanted to get this over with, as she was growing ever more curious about this camp that her father was taking her towards. Yet her thoughts were soon interrupted by the voice of one of her friends.



Jumping from the sudden shout of a young boy who called himself Jake, she took a few moments to catch herself as her father looked towards the girl sitting next to him. "DADDY! MONSTERS, DRIVE!" She shouted in a panic, grabbing for his arm to make sure her father knew it was urgent that they get out of there. After only a mere moment, but understanding his daughter's abilities and the world they lived in... her father stepped firmly on the gas pedal. The tires squealed as they spun against the asphalt, throwing up a small cloud of smoke before the car took off like a shot down the road. The car accelerated rather quickly, managing to escape the two policemen before they had much of a time to react. Her dad shot off down the road and immdiately turned towards an exit as he hoped to take some of the side streets in order to lose their pursers, and wondering what would come of this new threat.

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Ezekiel’s smiling shifted into something near predatorial as he leaned forward and looked at Leda.
”I work better in the negatives, if you haven’t noticed. How are your shins by the way? Trip lately?” He turned and grabbed the reins and slapped them once for the animals to get the meaning that he was ready. He pressed the GPS to start tracking and he took off after Kristen. This mission was definitely going to be more interesting. At least with the last one he was on, they were rescuing someone who had been taken, gone missing. Someone who knew and understand this world. This would be far different and there would probably be more bystanders as well. At least it would be eventful. As they road he narrowed into focus, settling into a mindstate that was used to training and high adrenaline situations.

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"You are so nice Leda!" Mary said with a laugh, shaking her head at Leda. Of course, she knew that she was just joking around, but it always was entertaining to hear some of the ways that her friend tended to tease her. She knew that sometimes she could be slow, but still, that didn't mean she could just sit there and compare her to a turtle! Though it could have been worse she supposed, could have been compared to a snail which were slower than turtles. At least she was pretty sure that was the case.

She nodded in agreement with Ezekiel's plan, it was a sound one and made some sense in her mind. Though hearing Kirsten's words about a race of sorts to get there, she couldn't help but grin. "Oh you are so on!" she said, getting on a chariot and starting up the GPS as she grabbed the reigns. Eventually, she glance back at Leda slightly with a smirk, almost making a comment about who was the slow one now as she took off into the air after the other two.

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"I am nice!" Leda protested, giggling at Mary. "I could have said that you were an ugly sloth - now that would be rude. At least turtles are cute," she pointed out to her, unknowingly almost echoing Mary's own train of thought, with the exception of the snails. She then had to hold back the urge to make a comment as they were told that the GPS was very accurate - but she couldn't help it. "You know, usually if you have to say something is very accurate, there's something wrong with it - it's like putting a sign in a restaurant that says Good Food!" Her feet were twitching a bit, seemingly moving rapidly enough that the image would blur if someone didn't look at them too closely. She was already getting bored of all of this talking and just wanted to get on with it more or less.

Taking the reins of her own chariot, Leda flipped Zeke off with her other hand. "I guess that makes sense. You are a huge negative, after all," she said, baiting him back a little bit. She fiddled for a moment before pressing the GPS tracking and taking off into the air. This was a race and she couldn't help but be a bit competitive. "Hey Mom - if you can hear me, you should slow these losers down," Leda muttered to herself, debating whether or not it would be considered counter productive to ram her chariot against the others and knock them out of the sky.

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@Jasonhero Jade's father wasn't really sure what she had heard, but he continued to drive down the road and started to drive down a backroad that he had never really been down before. He also could have sworn when getting a glimpse of the monster he felt something was off as well. As he continued to drive down the road, he spotted a school nearby which was probably a good idea to hide in the parking lot of it now. The cop car was a good ways off, but they couldn't see their car right now at the moment as things seemed to calm down he looked towards Jade. "Are you okay?" He asked her.

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Kristin looked among the group and smiled a little bit as they all seemed to be joking around with one another as soon as they were up in the air. She looked down at the ground they were now hundreds of feet up in the sky now, seeing the roads and small cars driving along the roads as they flew overhead. She did start to wonder what the people would have seen with the Mist it could be pretty much anything that humans could comprehend much easier. "Sloths are pretty cute though, Zeke is totally a snail though." Kristin said looking over at him and smirked a little bit. So far things were pretty normal right now as Kristin couldn't see anything flying in the skies around them which was a good thing right now.

Kristin then looked at some of the other buttons that were there, aside from the GPS and wondered what the big button was for as well then she remembered that they also had jets added onto them to get to the location much quicker. "You all are talking to much, so see you slowpokes there!" Kristin yelled out as soon as she pressed the button, things moved really quickly. And then the GPS said that they were now at the location and she could see the school in the distance as well which was a good thing now as Kristin moved her chariot towards the parking lot now.

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"Oh i'm sure you will be able to give the one eyed freak Roman a huge ass black eye and permanently blind him." Kiera said towards Mona as she got the weights read, and started to tie the ropes around one of the grips to the basket. She looked around for a moment and managed to find a pair of scissors as well which made her smile a bit they would be useful. "Alright the moment they come in i'll cut the rope, and then we can try and make a run for it, or you can hit Roman once you see him." She said going over the plan that she quickly had came up with. There was very loud shouting from just outside of the shed, one was clearly Roman's voice as he was scolding the other two idiot friends of his.

By Cyclopes standards Roman was fairly smart, and then the doors to the shed were easily busted open and Kiera looked towards Mona, and started to cut the rope. "Time to make some ste-" The one Cyclopes said just as the rope was cut sending the basket of weights down crushing the Cyclopes' head rather easily as his body crumbled down in a heap on the floor bursting into dust covering Arthur in it. Hedge smirked and at the handy work and quickly grabbed Arthur and got him out of the window that Ash had climbed through. And a few seconds later Roman and the other cyclopes came through they both suddenly tripped over on their own feet and crashed into each other.

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All Athanasia found were sticks on the ground beneath the window. Though upon hearing a giant crash within the gym shed, she peeked through the window before giving a wild giggle at seeing one of Roman's goons- cyclops- taking the basket of weights upon the top of his head. Though the sense of victory was mixed with confusion as the monster vanished into a cloud of dust. Why did he do that? Was it some monster trick? There wasn't enough time to worry about it however as Roman and his cohort tripped over the balls and their own feet. It seemed their plan was working well enough.

"Arthur, you aren't going to be getting rid of me so easily! I know you so want the Hell Raising Committee all to yourself." Giving the older boy a wink as she dusted some of the gold monster debris from his shoulder, Athanasia cast a worried look past Hedge and her comrade. "Kiera, Desde! Oh, do come on!" Worry straining her voice for the Kiera especially as she gripped Arthur's hand and pulled him away from the building. While the two were tangled did buy them time, she wasn't going to be stupid enough to remain with just a window between them. Roman was stubborn and she doubted a mere window would halt him. There were plenty of things in the gym shed he could use to break the window. "Oh, I wish that stupid brute would just go back to where he came from! I am not a stew! There's not enough of me for a stew!" Athanasia muttered vehemently as her eyes sparked with temper and worry. "If we are Half-Bloods or whatever and have these powers or what not- then why don't we have powers?!" Athanasia wanted to put as much distance between herself and the one eyed menaces as she could! It was worse than those scary nights at home because now there were other people involved, and they were her Committee! Like heck she was going to leave them to become Cyclops Chow.

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Mona nodded as Kiera set up her trap. Soon the doors burst open and the ugly bitches stormed in, but the trap was sprung. Thankfully, the others were safely out. She gripped the weights in her hand tighter as the knuckleheads fell to the ground in a heap. She charged at Roman. "Always knew you were a creep." She reared back her fist, but Roman dodged her hit. Didn't matter. She had two after all, and the second punch clocked him across the face. It felt so good.

Satisfied, she turned and tailed it to the window, climbing up. She glanced back at Kiera. "Come on!" She would wait for the girl, aiding her in her escape if needed, but they needed to get away now. Find the next place to go. Find out who the fuck their parents were and why the fuck they were part gods.

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The girl held on tightly to her seatbelt as the car suddenly sped off. Not being used to going this fast, as her father usually drove pretty safely around the city. She tried to suppress the slight amount of panic coursing through her veins after their encounter and the sudden speed. She didn't let go of her death grip on the seatbelt until the car seemed to stop moving, something which somehow scared the young girl even more than speeding down the highway at reckless speeds. She wasn't sure how she was going to do anything in this situation. If there were monsters, does that mean they were after her? Would they threaten her father? Jade felt a shock of fear and unease race down her spine as she came to realization that her father might get hurt because of her. Should she leave? Run away from the car so they would at least get her and not her father? Deep seeded fear set into Jade's mind as she thought through the idea of just running away from her father.

"D-daddy? They're after me, right? S-should I jus-" The girl started before being cut off by the man in the seat next to her. "Don't even finish that sentence Jade. I'm not letting them hurt you." The man said firmly, before looking at the nearby school. Sitting out in the open parking lot still left them pretty exposed, and he was debating leading the two into the school. Letting out a sigh, he looked towards his daughter quietly for a few seconds. "Lets head towards the school nearby, Jade. If we can hide in there then we should be a bit safer from the monsters. More places to hide, and if we need we can run back out here. Don't let go of my hand the whole time, okay hun?" He said softly, before the two got out of the car and he took his daughter's hand to start leading her towards the building.

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As he was hoisted out the Window, Arthur briefly considered protesting, but opted not to. The sooner he was away from these monsters, the better, and he honestly didn't believe he had a good chance of being useful in this fight. Landing on the ground outside the shed, he looked above him, waiting for them to join him. Getting separated now wouldn't help them, but he felt anxious standing around and waiting with the Cyclopes around. He leaned against the back of the shed, keeping the path clear for the next person who'd come down.

Once Athanasia grabbed his hand, he looked nervously behind then, before nodding. "Let's go." He said. They had to assume the rest would make it out fine, and get away from the monsters while they could. She brought a good point, and said ,"Maybe they just haven't awakened yet? I don't know..." He trailed off. Hedge had mentioned that their godly parents had to claim them, maybe they wouldn't have anything special about them until they did. "Let's just get away, and worry about that later." He said quietly.

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"How about less talking and more flying! And also, he can be a snail too, perfectly fine with calling him that," Mary said with a laugh, hearing what everyone else was saying. Comparing someone else to a snail or something was better than herself being compared to that, especially considering she'd been the last one to the chariots in the first place. Though she knew about the sort of strained relation of sorts between Leda and Ezekiel, so she was more of on the side of picking on him somewhat. Not to mention he was currently the only guy in the group.

She saw Kirsten start shooting off suddenly at a much higher speed, and she was wondering how the hell she had done that. Glancing down at the buttons, she started messing around with the different buttons, eventually hitting the large one that activated the jets on the chariot, the ones that she had forgotten were even there, and shot off, following along after Kirsten. Mary did not want to be the last one there at all, and kind of hoped to have Ezekiel be last. Since that would be kind of funny too. She followed after Kirsten down towards the parking lot, not sure where else to really go.

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"You are so on!" Leda called out at Kristin, before hitting the very same button on her own ride. Given her status as a rainbow speedster, she couldn't help but want with every portion of her being to beat the others there - or at least Zeke. She didn't know if she could live it down if the son of Apollo beat her to their destination. If Mary beat her, she'd be able to just brush it off and say that she had given Mary a head start and just tease the daughter of Demeter some. That is how Leda communicated to Mary that they were friends - she teased her relentlessly. And of the others she was traveling with, sure she had quested with Kristin and Zeke before but she didn't particularly enjoy the company of either of them. "Okay, I think the snail might be last after all!" Leda called out, not going to admit that she felt some relief there.

Glancing down at the parking lot, Leda felt a bit strange being at a mortal school. The rapid distance they had covered didn't bother her all too much. She was used to moving quickly. However, seeing the parking lot and the school buildings and all... it was like looking at a life that they could have had, if it wasn't for the fact that their parents were gods and goddesses. She didn't regret it - she wasn't dissatisfied with who she was and the life she led. It just gave her something to think about for a moment, as she began to direct her chariot to touch down at the parking lot. Who knew, maybe one of these kids would turn out to be a half-sibling of hers.

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All the bickering and name calling, mostly in Ezekiel’s direction much to his annoyance, did nothing to deter the son of Apollo. If anything, it was only pushing him to do better. It didn’t help that he was the only guy in a group of very strong, overly opinionated woman. He should have rethought his team. Gods damned feminism. Still, even with coming in last Ezekiel was in high spirits and still full of the over compensating nature he tried to hard to uphold.
”Well they do say to save the best for last. And have you ever tried escargot? Damn delicious,” he said, smacking his lips. He hopped off his chariot and peered at the school in the distance. ”Leda, care to run ahead? Do a little recon?” He didn’t mind if they kept up the name calling but Ezekiel wasn’t much of a multi-tasker. Once he was in the zone, he was there.
”Let’s try and get this done within the hour ya? I’ll buy everyone ice cream,” he said, hoping a little incentive would make them go a little faster but despite the high estrogen, Ezekiel had faith in his team. Apollo help him if any of them found that bit out.

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Kristin looked towards Zeke seeing that he was the last person to land and couldn't help but smirk slightly towards him. "Well looks like the snail has to show the newbies around." She said with a slight laugh as she jumped off of her chariot and gently patted the Pegasus that was helping move them along. Kristin took a moment to look around the area and sighed slightly to herself she really wished she could have gone to a normal school at some point. Her attention turned towards the car that was driving through and eventually it stopped in an empty parking spot.

She wasn't really sure what to think of it and she could hear some police sirens in the distance as well, she looked towards Leda if she was willing to do a little bit of recon. "Shouldn't the Protector be like meeting up with?" Kristin asked, as she adjusted her shirt a little bit, as she took off her bracelet and turned it into her usual spear. As Kristin watched the car that came in and the door opening she saw that it was a man and what looked like a girl their age.

As Jade looked around he stopped and noticed the chariots as well as the pegasi as well that were leading them, he eyed the group of kids, and took a moment to look at the orange shirts. They just so happen to be from the camp that he mentioned and looked towards his daughter. "I think they are from the camp I was taking you to." He said towards her.

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Kiera watched as Mona jumped down as she missed the first hit, only to hit him the second time with the weight hearing the fucking creeper Roman howl in pain. They were struggling to get up, as the dumb one decided to also smack Roman as well and the two started to argue against each other. "I'm coming!" Kiera yelled out as she climbed back down and went to climb through the window as well and started to run with the others. She would occasionally look back, and then there was a rather loud crashing sound as Roman and the other cyclopes came busting through the side of the shed.

"You will find out once you all get to the camp, now hurry up you cupcakes!" Hedge yelled as he started to run ahead of them and the others just to make sure that the area ahead of them was safe. They all could see the parking lot coming up now as well, as well as one of the chariots as well. "Right there!" He yelled.

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Athanasia gave a happy grin as Kiera and Desdemona slid out from the gym shed's window, happy that her friend was alright. "Come faster! Coach sees something exciting." With a solid brick wall between the cyclops and her friends it eased the dire situation. Enough that Athanasia felt comfortable to release Arthur's hand, grinning at the slightly older boy though it disappeared quickly as the trio of cyclops came bursting through the wall. Her mouth falling open in shock.

It was a brick wall, after all! Turning about she seized Arthur's hand and pulled him along desperately. The pale girl did notice the flying chariot however, her black eyes going wide. "It's flying!" She squealed in adoration. Forgetting about the cyclops behind them. "Kiera! Kiera, look! It's a flying horse!" It was incredibly childish of her but Athanasia was ten and it was a flying horse which wasn't a common sight. Her hands clapping as she joined Hedge in jumping up and down in glee.