The Stabbing in the Stables

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“A horse?” Carole Seddon echoed with distaste. “You’re planning to heal a horse?”

“Well, to have a go,” said Jude.

“But I don’t see how it can possibly work. Horses don’t have human understanding. A horse won’t know it’s being healed, so how can it be healed?”

Jude chuckled, and her bird’s nest of blond hair rippled before resettling around her plump face. “What you’re saying, Carole, is that because a horse doesn’t know it’s being healed, it’s not going to fall for the idea that it is being healed, as a human being might. You’re saying horses aren’t that gullible.”

“Well…”

“Yes, you are.”

“Maybe.”

“I know you don’t believe in healing…”

Carole tried to find some form of denial, but all she could come up with was, “Let’s say I don’t understand it.”

“I don’t understand it either. I just know that it sometimes works.”

“Yes, but not with animals.”

“There are many authenticated reports of animals’ ailments having been cured by healing.”

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