Another character, and Blanco certainly is one. You managed to give him a real personality in quite a short space, are we seeing her next horse? If he's there to improve bloodlines it seems unlikely but maybe... Can't say I know much about horses so I'll assume all the description were desirable properties in a horse.
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I briefly wondered which tasks she referred to
Most of them? Other than Skingrad and possibly Leyawin they're all covering someone's incompetance.
Now I suspect things are about to go badly for a certain rouge mage...
A nit?
Carahil looked up from her studying at my arrival. - a small thing but seeing as it's the first sentence 'study' might be smoother as the noun here, unless it's a dialect thing.
Look behind you and see an ever decreasing number of ghosts. Currently about 15.