fandomtownies | The Park, Friday Morning

The Neuhof investigation did not leave Henry with a great deal of time to waste, as pleasant as last night had been (and how horrid the hangover currently torturing Henry was). His best lead was Reeky from Ledetchko, a small hamlet not far from Rattay, so come morning, with his head aching like someone had hit him over the head repeatedly, Henry saddled Pebbles and rode out through Rattay's lower gate.

Down the path, past the bathhouse (was Hans still there? He had said he'd happily stay there for days) and across the river, past the grasslands, and...

The change wasn't instant enough for Henry to notice immediately. It was the noise that alerted him to the new reality: the oddest of bird noises, a sort of... honking. He brought Pebbles to an immediate stop, and glanced down, realizing that the path had been replaced by something rather more unnatural, and around him...

"Well," Henry muttered, as he stood there, head thrumming, still seated on his dappled grey mare, who seemed utterly unaffected by the change around her. "Can't say I saw that one coming..."

Kurva. Would God allow him to return home in time? And was he doomed to keep skipping like a stone between these two places?

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