I thought of a merry-go-round, little dappled horses.

Startled, the men spun to see a golden-haired warrior leading a dappled grey horse through the trees.

Almost as dazzling was the green of the nearby meadow grass, now cropped peacefully by their stolen, dappled horse.

Beside him a dappled brown horse was hooked to the plow, deep in mud itself.

He saddled the dappled horse and helped Inya mount.

In the distance, the dappled horse let out a nervous nicker.

The Companion was larger than the dappled horse, and wider; Inya's hips stretched painfully across the saddle.

He could make her out, now, on a dappled horse be- hind two bays.

That night I watched Jared Brown, the blacksmith, gently shoe a beautiful dappled grey horse.

She rode a dark dappled horse; roan, I thought, blue, though in the darkness it was hard to tell.