the horses were missing.
Why were the horses stolen? Why, because in the original play, I couldn't exactly put the actors on horses. So the first bit of dialogue was as follows, in which they complain about how they got their horses stolen, to explain why the two of them are *walking* through the forest when they should clearly be riding. I suppose I could have changed that in the novel, but taking away their means of transportation meant they'd be trapped when ... oh, well you should probably just keep reading.
