Child finds horse chained in the desert, but it was not a common horse. Diego Ramirez was walking in the morning in search of dry branches when he heard a faint sound coming from distant stones. The 12-year-old stopped by drying his sweat from his forehead with the back of the dirty ground hand. His family needed the firewood to cook lunch, but that groan under it left it curious. As he approached the rocks scattered across the arid terrain, Diego felt his heart squeeze in the chest. A horse too skinny was lying between the stones with a heavy chain attached to the neck. The animal had its eyes open, one blue like the sky and another coffee like dry earth and a strange mark on the forehead that looked like a drawing made with hot iron. “My God,” Diego whispered slowly, slowly squeezing the animal. The horse turned his head toward the boy and made a low sound, as if he were asking for help. Diego saw that the ribs of the animal were noticeable under the dark fur and that his legs had red marks where the chain had hurt him. Who did this to you? asked Diego extending his small hand to the horse’s snout. The animal smelled his fingers and leaned the snout on the palm of the child’s hand. Diego felt that those different eyes were begging for help and his childly heart could not ignore that silent request. Diego tried to pull the chain, but it was too heavy for his small hands. The link holding the animal was welded to an iron ring nailed to a large stone.