Author's note: this concludes phase 1. Sorry it took a while, I got stuck on Saturday morning. Phase 2 is plotted and sketched in, with some material written. Phase 3, which concludes the story, is roughed out, with a couple of scenes sketched in. The series ending is written. I just have to get there.
Monday, I started putting in applications at farms and riding stables in the area, looking for a position as a stable hand. I would have to wear pants at the very least, and could not be bridled or harnessed while working, but the humans around me would expect me to smell like sweat and barn, and would not mind.
After work, I went to the home supply store, and bought two bales of straw, a small silicone water trough, a food bowl, and on impulse a small bag of sweet feed to snack on. The person next to me on the bus noticed what I was eating. They shook their head, but did not say anything.
At home, I stripped off, then went through the kitchen and revised my diet and eating habits. The water trough I filled and put on the floor by the washing machine. The fridge and freezer got cleaned out of anything that couldn't be spread out, cut up, or otherwise easily reduced to bite size bits. I cleared out the human dishes and utensils I wouldn't need any more and put them in a box to freecycle. My evening feed went into the food bowl, and I ate it down on the floor on all fours.
Afterward, I broke down my cheap Swedish bed. The mattress went directly on the floor. I used the frame to build a low box around it. One bale of straw filled the box nearly to the top when loose, but I knew it would pack down.
I slept better that night.
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Tuesday, I interviewed very briefly at a riding stable. The owner, a big, muscular woman with buzz-cut hair, looked me over, and shook her head.
"Most of my customers are cougars with stablehand fantasies," she told me. "I'm not sayin' I'm hirin' more for servicin' them than cleanin' th' stables, but the pay ain't great and you'd be livin' mostly on th' tips, if ya follow me?"
I understood. She needed a stallion, not a gelding.
Wednesday, the stable owner looked me in the eye, then slowly reached out and took hold of my nose ring. I said nothing, but the change in my posture when he took hold of my lead ring spoke volumes.
He let go, nodded. "Not my scene," he told me, "I'm bear identified. The pay ain't great, but there's as many hours as you can stand. If you sleep here once in a while after a long night, that's okay, but don't go makin' a habit of it."
He paused. "What you wear," he said finally, "is up to the stable manager. We're a boarding stable, so there ain't no customers back here, just horses and staff."
The stable manager, a big, bearded, muscular man with a plaid flannel fetish, likewise looked me over, and shrugged. "Keep your pants on," he told me. "Your Sir send you here?"
"No, sir," I told him. "I don't have a proper owner yet."
He laughed. "Don't go gettin' your hopes up here. 'Bout two thirds of the staff are straight, and the rest ain't inta twinks."
That was fine with me.
I quit my polo shirt job that afternoon. I think they were glad of it. I know I was.
Thursday, I started at the boarding stable. I wore boots and jeans and no shirt. Being the new hand, I was started with the worst end of the mucking out. A few of the men looked me over, but they wanted stallions too.
I had hard, sweaty work to do that kept me moving all day, and went home exhausted. It felt good.
My straw smelled like barn the next morning.
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It is Friday. I stand quietly, naked, on the sidewalk, holding my keys. Someone takes pictures. I snort and lean back when they try to reach for my nose ring. They go away.
The truck arrives. My owner lets down the ramp. I walk up, and into the trailer, feeling loose straw and recent wetness under my feet. I sniff and inhale wet metal, little trace of any other animal. I am happy that my owner has washed the trailer out between animals. Maybe he is not so sad any more.
He harnesses me quickly, efficiently, not hurrying but not wasting time. He is sure handed with the straps and not rough. I like it when men are rough with me but this is good.
My bridle is put on me, strapped, adjusted. I feel the comfort of the bit in my mouth, the surety that I will be worked as I am meant to be.
"Down," my owner tells me. I am confused. With my bit in, I cannot suck his cock.
He takes my upper arm, raises it, slides his hand down to mine. He wraps my fingers around his cock. I understand. I sit back on my haunches, raise my other hand, and stroke his shaft with my fingertips. His cock twitches, and I take firmer hold of it.
I stroke him slowly to start, and go faster a little at a time. While one hand encircles his shaft and pumps it, I run my other fingers down the top of his dick. When I reach the end, I slide my thumb underneath, and caress the fragile bit underneath where his glans connects. He groans, and leans into the stroking.
I loosen my grip, being careful as I have no lube. Faster, and putting pressure on the underside with my thumb on the out stroke, pulling his cum toward me. I encircle the head of his cock with thumb and forefinger, and fuck my hand with his cock.
Again he groans. He bucks his hips, and the first jet of cum splatters across my face. I time my strokes to his surges now. Another thick, heavy jet splashes across the side of my face and down onto my shoulder. A third, and a fourth, hit me directly in the mouth, for all the good that does. My bit and bridle are soaked. I try to work my tongue forward to lick his semen from my lips but I cannot get it past the bit.
He is done. I run my thumb up his shaft once more, wringing the last drops. They fall onto my chest, and drip down onto my thighs.
Cum drips down my face. A heavy drop slides off my shoulder and down toward my nipple. I hope it gets there. I am marked as his.
He zips up. He pats my head.
"Good boy," he says.