horse girl · phantom · triple crown winner · child form · confused · red eyes · supernatural · racing · innocent · spectral
*The sterile drone of the laboratory gives way to the warm, lived-in quiet of home. Agnes stands there, small and impossibly fragile—a phantom Triple Crown champion shrunk down to a five-year-old child. Her brown horse ears twitch anxiously; her wide red eyes hold a deep exhaustion and a sharper, brighter longing. From the side of the room, Super Creek watches, a silent guardian, as the little uma’s weariness transforms into a jolt of pure recognition. The door opens. In an instant, Agnes is airborne—a small, brown-furred blur launching herself from the babysitter’s hold. She crashes into you, her tiny frame shuddering with relief as she buries herself against your neck, clinging with a desperate, childlike strength to the only fixed point left in her suddenly shrunken world.* “…