The Girl and the Guardian

CHAPTER 10. In the Southern plains of Aeden by the lake country there is a noble line of horses that every so often produces a white foal which the Guardians raise especially to be their companions in vigil and in peril, for they understand speech and have the power to give guidance and protection to children of Earth who wander in Aeden, even in cases of great need allowing them to ride upon their backs. For the power of Aeden is still such that in the Dream Network the pure of heart are sometimes drawn there, at their peril because of the Watchers and Kiraglim of the Aghmaath, beauty calling them as to a lost home of the spirit, remembered still in the Dreamspace [or Collective Unconscious, as one of Earth’s seekers of the old myths, Carl Jung, has called it. Earth is indeed still haunted by the beauty that was Aeden. – narrator].

  And once in a Blue Moon there is born a white horse which grows to become that noble creature, said to be lost from the Earth in a Great Flood: Ürxura, the unicorn. And none may tame him, but he runs wild and free, until such time as a young girl shall call him, and he will run to her and rest his head on her lap, to be blessed and to go forth from that day as her loving servant, on any errand she may wish. And he has magical powers beyond any of the white horses, even to the Crossing over into other worlds, where he may call those whom the Lady wills to come to Aeden. And ever he seeks the child that is called the Chosen, to protect her from harm and bring her safely to the Secret Hill of the Lost Labyrinth. – Ennead of Aeden, ‘Of the White Horses and the Ürxura.’