Chapter 53: God’s eyes.
The next month, apart from the physical training or sleeping, Lee spent most of his time with Zeus and Hera. The two beautiful, white steeds were Orpen's wedding gift to Victoria and Edward, and Prides had the honor of training them. Surprisingly he delegated the task to Lee, under his strict supervision, of course.
From the very beginning Lee was the one actually doing the training and feeding, he even named them. Never in his lives he imagined that raising horses could be so much fun both for him and the animals.
It was hard to believe, but even though the two were recently caught in the wild, they were saddled and ridden already before the New Year's celebration. While Lee had mixed feelings about the fact, Prides took all the credit for it without batting an eye.
As if sensing the inevitable separation, with each day both horses were more and more reluctant to let Lee go, especially Zeus – the first of the two he met. Lee couldn't explain the strange relationship, but it wasn't really a friendship – more like pure happiness being around each other.
At first he actually thought it was all due Prides teachings, but with time noticed that the more he focused on the blue mist in his abdomen while being around the horses, or even while riding them, the more they got closer to him.
And the sensation of the animals talking to him also turned out to not be an illusion, although it was hard to explain how exactly that worked.
Lee's best guess was that the blue mist, clearly the pure water element, was somehow sensed by the two animals. It seemed like it functioned as a medium and allowed the strange communication of thoughts, although he didn't think it could work with humans.
Since Prides had a similar ability, on one occasion Lee asked whether he had a spark within, to which Prides laughed and said that no animal would be willing to be around a person who had clearly slaughtered one of their kin, and carried a proof within. To own a spark was impossible for a stablehand like him – everything he did was due to the natural talents.
Lee wasn't the one to question a guy with almost fifty year experience on taming and training horses, but clearly there was more to it. But he wasn't going to argue – he had all the time in the world to explore the superhuman abilities that the sparks provided.