I am far from home.
I am injured.
And I will not reach safety unless I seek the regal centaur’s aid.
He is a monster in some ways. But he is also a man.
There are rumors about centaurs, though, rumors that they expect payment in kind in exchange for a debt…
The one moon month of my life he demands does not seem so high a price.
But then I ask him what he would expect of me during that time.
“Anything,” he says. “Anything I desire.”
