'What the hell was that?' He thought about raising his wrist to his face to look at it but was stopped short when he heard a splash of water and the clippity-clop of tiny hooves drawing nearer. He froze, turning his head around at an awkward angle to try to look out through the only hole in his crate that let him see the outside world, a tiny beam of dying sunlight spilling into the crate as he saw what was approaching him.