We wait quietly sitting on hay-nets. “What did you see?”  I ask her as the salty sea wind beat against the hay barn. Before she even says anything i know what she’s going to say and i was right. She claims to of seen the Equinemander.

Not even 10 minutes  later we are venturing in the darkness, retracing Autumns steps. I know. I should be inside the stables doing haynets and getting the horses ready for turnout. All i can say is Autumn is the most bossiest and persuasive person i have met. The wild wind blows me and Autumn  so we are getting dragged sideways like a paperclip in the wind.

The clouds start to cry as we pass The Premier Inn hotel, Bob and Billy’s fish and chip shop, Ivy’s ice cream parlour and Kats Cafè. All of them are getting beaten by buckets of rain and hail. Only a few cars flash by in a hurry to return to home.

Autumn yanks me towards the peir. The very end of it and then i see it so clearly. So recognisable. You could see its infamous horse hind legs like a centaur, its hundred if not thousand eyes. We edge towards it without thinking, our breath on pause.

A low neighing noise stirs in its throat, it sounds almost like a struggling grumble deeply engraved into its oesophagus

Are we scared? Most definitely. And at this point i’m asking myself. Is it really there?

Silently Autumn shuffles towards it. I lift my hand up to grab her back but i don’t have the courage to do it. I shake and tremble, not just from the cold. Even the shivers in my spine were scared away. I don’t think Autumn noticed it as she crept blankly past it. I can notice its weight shifting to its hind end, prepared to leap. “S-” i open my mouth to yell but the stench of rot and decay fills my nostrils. Suddenly,  Like a raging horse. It goes in for its prey.

Swirling mad hail  fills the sky, cancelling out the rain. Autumn freezes in shock as it decides to bolt past her swiftly diving back into the cover of the raging waves. It excuses itself with a disappointed and starved whinny.