We first encounter The Walker in Chestnut Gold. Jinny is already disgruntled. Her friend Sue arrives for a long awaited summer visit after her trip to Greece and Jinny finds that Sue has changed and has become obsessed with makeup. To make matters worse, Jinny’s perfect sister Petra has failed her music exam and decides she wants to join the 2 day trek that Miss Tuke organised for her nephew to film a tv show about horses.

Jinny has nightmares after reading a scary story in a book in Miss Tuke’s attic room, after that she keeps seeing the same dark figure, which freaks her out.

Eventually, after Jinny getting freaked out and running away from the strange man on few occasions, he finally gets to the opportunity to reveal his purpose, he needs her to witness the ‘dance of the golden horses’.

There is a hidden celtic cave where images of golden horses are painted and the light hits them in a certain way at certain times of year that makes them dance.

After the cave is destroyed, thanks to Miss Tuke’s nephew being nosy, The Walker commands Jinny to sketch the golden horses and ride to the Wilton collection museum in Inverberg to paint them on the wall there, using the paints that Keziah gave her.

The next time The Walker appears is the final book, Running Wild. The Wilton collection is due to be demolished due to a new road being built through Inverberg. Jinny tries to protest against the demolition but she is far too late as planning has already been approved and she is still terrified of the Walker so she keeps running away from his attempts to talk to her. All he wants is for Jinny to be there when the museum was destroyed so the Golden Horses could run free. She eventually complies and the Walker hands her a parcel that contains the Epona and Horse God statues.

I think Jinny was right to be scared of the Walker in Chestnut Gold as it was the first time she met him, however once she verified that he meant no harm, after she verified his identity with Jo Wilton, I don’t understand why she was still scared of him when she encountered him again in Running Wild, I thought she was being a bit ridiculous there.