Jay and the horse were in sync, a pairing between man and animal unlike anything he had experienced before, and yet feeling wholly natural. More than natural. It felt right. He had never ridden a horse before, not during what he now thought of as his “other” life. But here, now, he felt whole, the horse and he a jigsaw that moved through the land as one beast, a two-headed centaur. The stallion’s red mane wisped and flew in the breeze as they galloped down a slope into a white valley. Jay laughed out loud, lifting himself up with his hands and feeling the hot-blooded thump of the horse’s
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