“Alphabet Soup didn’t have to be a star. If you’d have asked him, and he’d been able to answer, maybe he didn’t even want to be a star. There was no particular destiny attached to his lineage, no heightened expectations based on purchase price.
Given a choice, he might have been content at any number of jobs. It seemed for him, being simply a domesticated member of the sub-species Equus ferus caballus was its own reward.”
