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288were put out as fodder for the masses.The only films she discovered a growing interest in were documentaries about history, biology, and topping all of them%u2014David Attenborough%u2019s films about the creatures that lived in the world. She watched in fascination as on animal predated another, or fought off a rival male simply to win the prize of fucking a female. It began to seem to her that all living forms were created with but a single design programmed into them; unavoidable code that drove them into practicing all that they did to merely satisfy their desire to feel bliss as a reward; the only free one that nature bestowed on living forms for copulating to bring new life forth.She finished her last glass of wine. She turned off her smart TV, stood up, removed her clothes. She placed them carefully on the settee and walked out into the night.It was warm, humid. She heard crickets in the grass and was pleased. It had been many years since she had heard them and thought privately, they were becoming extinct. There was a huge moon which lit up the farm like a searchlight in the sky. And the air smelt of nightblossom. Moths flitted close to a light on the outside of her house. She stood still for a moment and pondered. Most people will be in bed now, she thought, but out there in the sky and on the land, all manner of creatures were coming out to hunt, find mates in this rich, night-scented, countryside. She was at one with them as she took a step towards the stables where Henry, she knew, was waiting for her. He was as eager as her to play and lay together as one, two entities being divided by the organic material thet were cast into at conception. She opened the stable door, crept in, and closed it behind her. Already, she could hear his breathing. She waited by the door for her eyes to become accustomed to the darkness. There was a light hanging from above, but she did not want artificial man-made things to intrude on her primitive moment she was about to share with Henry. So, she never switched it on. What she desired, was something which people would never understand. They had lost all semblance to their primitive beginnings and the animal nature of their beings, just as she was rediscovering them.The Equestrian