Transformation: Day 3

Word Count: 18,066

Summary of Events:

Ian checked on a pregnant mare who was due in about a month to see how she and the foal were when the woman arrived again and followed Ian around no matter what he did, which annoyed him significantly — especially when he learned that she'd recently left her husband, whom she had no positive words about whatsoever. Elianne went for a ride on her mare, Enya, after school and ended up thinking about her mom a bit, but it upset her too much, so she decided to find something else to think about . . .

Excerpt of the Day:

Elianne’s mind turned to Dad. She wondered if he was back from the eye doctor yet or not.

He’d decided to get an appointment because of the fact that he couldn’t seem to find anything anymore and was having a hard time reading, and because he was driving quite erratically as far as Elianne and her sisters were concerned.

In fact, Gram had driven Dad to the appointment because Kendall and Finley had given her rather exaggerated reports of Dad’s degraded driving ability, telling Gram he’d swerved into oncoming traffic multiple times, nearly hit pedestrians, and all kinds of stuff, when really Dad had just been weaving a lot more than anyone she’d ever ridden with, and hadn’t seemed to know where he was going or how fast he was doing so.

As much as Kendall and Finley’s reports had been exaggerated, Elianne had to admit that she was glad that Gram had driven Dad in, considering that he probably wouldn’t have been able to find the place himself if he’d gone alone.

Elianne knew that vision failed as people got older, but usually it didn’t fail that fast, and it wasn’t like Gram or Gramp was blind; in fact, Elianne didn’t know that there was any family history of blindness on Dad’s side at all.

It was possible that he’d had an eye injury somewhere in the past that was now coming back to haunt him, Elianne didn’t know if that could be a thing, though, but she felt like it might be, she thought she’d heard of someone who’d gotten an eye injury and was now partially blind or had a blind spot somewhere as a result, but she couldn’t remember who it was.

Coming to a place where the trees opened up overhead, giving Elianne a good view of the sky, she saw that a cloud overhead had a rather golden-orange cast to it, telling her that the sun was at the horizon.

She turned Enya to the trail she knew would head home by a different route than the one she’d taken to get to that point and was struck by a thought: Dad’s races this season had been poor showings, especially as the season had worn on, ending with a string of dead-last finishes before he’d come home, was it possible that his vision was so bad he’d have to quit racing? What would happen then?

Elianne felt a chill. If Dad was having trouble seeing and would have to retire as a result it was almost guaranteed that they weren’t going to be able to stay on the farm, next door to Uncle Wade and Aunt Kyla — who lived on the original property Gram and Gramp had lived on until they’d retired, and Gramp’s parents had lived before that — and would probably end up moving into town.