Ride With Me

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Title: Ride with Me

Author: Ailieve

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She blew out a candle and then closed her eyes and dreamed the dream that she'd had before, of a Knight on a stallion who came like a ghost from a twilight shore.

He cantered across her dream like a sonnet.

The wind, it played in his hair like a song.

It was the color of his golden horse's mane, and just as wild, but not so long.

Ride.

Through her dream he did ride.

And oh, how she longed to be by his side.

As through her dream he did ride.

Even before the first rays of golden light,

Has come to herald the dawn,

She rose to her window,

As faintly a shadow Streaked across the land,

and then he was gone.

And just as the first rays of green, red, and golden light gave way to a pink sunrise,

the shadow emerged at the crest of a mountain;

a horse and a rider silhouetted against the sky.

Ride.

She saw him ride. It was not a dream.

Her eyes had not lied.

She did see him ride.

Even before the first rays of golden light had brought forth another dawn there was no woman who rose to her window.

Her bed was bare.

And her horse was gone.

And just as the first rays of green, red and golden light gave way to a new sunrise,

two shadows emerged at the crest of the mountain;

upon their horses against the sky.

Ride.

Behind him she'll ride,

until when at last,

she comes up by his side;

Together they'll ride.

Together they'll ride

Through the hills, far and wide.

Dedicated to Ren the Conjurer: Ride with me, my love.