Ronald & Tony

The seventh horse

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The seventh horse

Valli steps onto the gangway clutching the horse. Its trailing packaging catches on a handrail. The loosely held horse tips out of his arms towards the narrow gap between the boat and quay. Sofia: The horse!

The horse lands on a floating wooden service platform below the quay edge. Its rectangular base stays dry, but the platform rocks and begins drifting along the moored boat. No person jumps into the water. :

Tony flies above the drifting platform. Harly and Ronald stand safely on the public path beside a stocky woman canal attendant in forest-green overalls, with short grey hair and no helmet. Ordinary canal-front houses, no arch. Tony: It’s underneath the blue canopy!

The forest-green-overalls attendant kneels safely behind the quay guardrail and extends a long-handled net underneath the horse and its entire base on the floating platform. Harly stands upright behind the rail, pointing. Harly: A little further. Under the whole base.

The attendant has placed the loaded net flat on the dry quay, well away from its edge. Sofia kneels safely to inspect the horse in it. Bell gives a small ding. No Enzo or courier here. Sofia: Got him.

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Valli steps onto the gangway clutching the horse. Its trailing packaging catches on a handrail. The loosely held horse tips out of his arms towards the narrow gap between the boat and quay.
Sofia: The horse!

The horse lands on a floating wooden service platform below the quay edge. Its rectangular base stays dry, but the platform rocks and begins drifting along the moored boat. No person jumps into the water.

Tony flies above the drifting platform. Harly and Ronald stand safely on the public path beside a stocky woman canal attendant in forest-green overalls, with short grey hair and no helmet. Ordinary canal-front houses, no arch.
Tony: It’s underneath the blue canopy!

The forest-green-overalls attendant kneels safely behind the quay guardrail and extends a long-handled net underneath the horse and its entire base on the floating platform. Harly stands upright behind the rail, pointing.
Harly: A little further. Under the whole base.

The attendant has placed the loaded net flat on the dry quay, well away from its edge. Sofia kneels safely to inspect the horse in it. Bell gives a small ding. No Enzo or courier here.
Sofia: Got him.