Glossary/Author's Note

**stallion** - adult male horse or kentaur **tarin** - (pronounced tare-in) an individual tarous of any age or gender. **tarous** - (pronounced tare-oh-s) a peaceful plains-dwelling race that resembles an anthropomorphic bovine in appearance.

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Chapter Two

Built in the grassy plains of splithoof valley, the tarous village was composed of a series of huts of varying size. the walls of the huts were made with the tanned and stretched skins of kordox; the large, lumbering beasts of burden used by the tarous.

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Chapter Three

The sound chilled the waiting tarous to the bone, momentarily freezing them in place.

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Mourning The Sun

The tarous are a peaceful and gentle race who unfortunately share their land with some not so gentle or peaceful neighbors. a clear and beautiful day is interrupted when a tarous village is a attacked, and a young calf gets her first glimpse of death.

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Learning To Fly (Without Wings)

This knowledge was soon passed to all of the tarous tribes, but the knowledge was almost lost after the great war.

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Chapter Five (Now Complete)

She would need a lot of provisions for such a journey, more than she could acquire in such a small trader camp, but it would also take her far from tarous lands. which was exactly where she wanted to be.

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Chapter Seven

"tarous." taiyra corrected offhandedly. "and i asked how you did that." the agwa gave her a perplexed look. "pardon?" "tarous." the druid repeated. "you meant to say you didn't know there were any_tarous_ out here. a tarin is an individual.

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Chapter Six

A handful of tarous still tended the fires while the other members of the caravan plucked their breakfast from the mats and settled nearby to eat and gossip.

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Chapter 4

Curious, the doe steered the horse in the direction of the waving image, but as she came closer she realized that it was another tarous village.

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Chapter Eight

She turned away from the spotter and darted off but other tarous were already showing up, attempting to block her path.

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Chapter Nine

A few feet away sat two tarous does, a dwarf, and a pale hyolf curled at the feet of one of the does. a small campfire burned in front of them.

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Chapter One

Rakthon prided himself on knowing the name of every tarous for miles around, but he had never laid eyes on anyone that resembled the blood-bay doe addressing him. "no sir, i am not." she replied.

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