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“Yes, I think so,” he said

“Why don’t you call him and see if he’ll come?” she said

The boy whistled the loud, piercing call Very soon the two horses, thestallion, appeared from behind so toward them They stopped at the enclosure fence and watched the hu Whinney snorted and Racer whickered at them Ayla answered with the distinctive whinny that was the sound she had originally nahed back

“She does kno to make a sound like a horse,” Mardena said

“I told you she could, mother,” Lanidar said

Wolf raced ahead, easily slipping under the fence He sat in front of the esture of greeting Then Wolf approached the young stallion, dropped down on his chest and forepaith his hindquarters up in the air in a playful pose, and yipped at Racer The stallion nickered back, then they touched noses Ayla sed the mare around the neck, then turned and stroked the stallion, as crowding in looking for attention, too

“I hope you like this surround better than having to wear halters and ropes all the time I wish I could let you run free, but I don’t think it’s safe when so ht some visitors today, and it’s ientle I want the boy histles to check on you for me, and his mother is protective of hie she had invented when she lived alone in the valley

It coestures from the Clan, some of the nonsense sounds she and her son had made to each other when he was a baby and they were alone, and certain onoun tohorse snorts and whickers Only she knehat she e when she talked to the horses She doubted if they fully understood, though certain sounds and gestures had nals and directions, but they kneas her way of addressing the attention

“What’s she doing?” Mardena said to Folara

“She’s talking to the horses,” Folara said “She often talks to them like that”

“What is she saying to them?” Mardena asked

“You’ll have to ask her,” Folara said

“Do they knohat she’s saying? It doesn’t make any sense to me,” Denoda said

“I don’t know, but they seem to listen,” Folara said

Lanidar had crowded up close to the fence and atching her closely She really did treat theht, and they treated her the same way But he wondered where the enclosure came from It hadn’t been there the day before