She rolls her eyes, hitting him in the back of his head.

He rolled his eyes and stalked off, glaring at Ash as he swept by. Ash watched him leave without comment, his expression strangely dead.

Turning away, Ash stumbled over to the tatter-colt, which bent its forelegs and knelt for him so that he could pull himself onto its back with a barely noticeable grimace.

"Sorry about him..." she mutters, watching him get on.

Ash was just silent. The tatter-colt, which tossed its head and swished its ragged tail, thankfully didnt lunge or bite. It didnt kneel for her, however.

She rolled her eyes, hoping on behind him. "Guess Im getting the silent treatment." She mutters.

Well...he did just try to kill her against his will. A harsh cry sounded above. A huge raven swooped overhead. It perched on a branch and looked back at them, eyes glowing green in the darkness, before barking another caw and flapping away into the trees. Ash gave a quiet word to follow, and the tatter-colt started after it, slipping into the woods as silently as a ghost.

She stays quiet, looking around as they pass.

They rode for a couple hours while the sky above them turned from pitch black to navy blue to the faintest tinge of pink. Puck kept well ahead of them, flitting from branch to branch until they caught up, then swooping away again. He led them deep into the swamps, through bogs where the tatter-colt sloshed through waist-deep pools of murky water, past huge, moss-covered trees dripping with vines. Ash said nothing as they traveled, but his head hung lower and lower the farther they went. Finally, as the last of the stars faded from the sky, the tatter-colt pushed its way through a cluster of vine-covered trees to find the raven perched atop a rustic-looking shack in the middle of the swamp.

She gets off, looking up at Puck silently.

Before the tatter-colt stopped moving, Ash was sliding off its back, crumpling to the misty ground. As soon as he was off, the tatter-colt began tossing its head and bucking. Snorting, the colt trotted into the bushes with its head held high and disappeared.