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Post by BECKiEE :) on Sept 16, 2007 10:53:20 GMT -5
The morning air was crisp and fresh, and the sky was a peachy hue. The trees on one side
of the trail were alive with the sound of birds singing. On the other, there was a gentle
sweeping slope of grass, and deer were grazing peacefully on the lush grass. A thudding
noise made the stag in the group look up, his hazel eyes scanning the line of trees, and
slowly a shape came into sight, but he went back to grazing, it was only another one of
those horses.
The stallions neck was sinewy with sweat and he snorted with each movement he made, a
slight foam collecting on his lips and bit. Kai, continued asking the stallion to stay on the
bit as they moved at a collected canter along the trail path, and the mans blue eyes looked
over at the deer for a moment before he slowed Caspian to a walk, and allowed him to
stretch his neck. Kai patted the horses wet neck and sat back in the black leather English
saddle. He loved mornings like this, when it was quiet and without all the noise of a town
or city. He rode on a little further, but he snapped back to reality as he though he heard a
sound of either a horse or a person on the path behind him, and looked back over his
shoulder.
[ooc - cruddy post -_-, sorry guys ]
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Post by X.Sadistic_~_Samurai.X on Sept 16, 2007 11:13:44 GMT -5
Droplets of flower tears dot their cheeks, the things we call dew.
The stillnesss of the morning was all well and need after a long night of yelling and screams. Sandy closed her eyes and took a deep breath of the clean air. So much better than city air, she tought, and looked around. Her blonde hair was tied back to keep it out of her face and a cap made sure that no stray pieces fell out while she was riding. A slight wind blew, making her shiver, but she clucked to Donner to keep moving. He snorted and tossed his head angerily but kept along. They were slowly getting to know eachother, him being a untrusting horse and Sand being shy.
Donner perked his ears and listened, still going at a easy walk, as the sound of hoofbeats came closer. Sandy stood up in her stirrups, peering down the trail, and shrugged, guiding Donner off trail and into the tall grass. A coyote started and streaked off as Donner reared a little, feeling playful. Waiting until he was on the ground, Sandy smacked his shoulder, scolding softly but letting him have some fun as he pawwed at the grass. [/size] |
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Post by BECKiEE :) on Sept 16, 2007 11:36:01 GMT -5
The young man was sure he had heard someone on the trail behind him, maybe more deer
were coming to join the ones already on the sloping glade. Kai shook his head, maybe
someone was out walking their dog or something. He suddenly realized that they had
stopped moving and tuned back to see Caspian’s ears perked and his nostrils flared, he
stood poised like a figurine in the clear morning air, and kept staring. Kai gave a little tug
on the reins, but the stallion didn’t respond. The chestnut stud snorted loudly and then
started walking at a nudge from Kai, but kept his neck held stiffly in the direction he had
seen something or heard something, Kai couldn’t decide which.
A few moments later, the pair stopped again, and Kai let out an exasperated sigh and was
about to give the stallion a tap with the whip to get him listening, when he saw what had
him so interested. There was another horse out in the long grass, a blonde girl riding him.
Caspian bobbed his head a few times then let out a very loud whinny in the direction of
the other horse, making Kai jump as he did so.
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Post by X.Sadistic_~_Samurai.X on Sept 16, 2007 11:43:02 GMT -5
Donner saw the other horse and snorted, prancing and tossing his dapple head. He picked up his feet and moved into a trot but Sandy pulled him back into a walk. With a snort, he obliged but moved into a power walk, plowing through the grass. Sandy felt that she should pull him back in but decided not to. After all, plowing through the grass would help strengthen his legs and he needed powerful legs to ride in a cattle chase. The rig snorted and gave a slight whinny to the other horse, ears perked.
After awhile, Donner hopped sideways, getting onto the shorter grass, and hurried over, stopping to sniff at the other horse. Sandy scolded her horse, having almost fallen off when he did his hop and looked at the other rider.Ah, hello, she said, fiddling with ehr reins. [/size] |
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Post by BECKiEE :) on Sept 18, 2007 1:55:53 GMT -5
Kai watched as the other horse was allowed to come through the grass towards him and
Caspian, and the stallion began fidgeting beneath his rider. Kai allowed him too for a few
moments, and then asked the stallion to stand, and he did, but he kept pulling on the bit.
Caspian snorted softly as the other horse came over, his ears pricked and arched his neck,
taking in the scent of the other horse, his nostrils flaring. Kai sat ready to pull the
chestnut stud away if he decided that he wasn’t going to be friendly. He then realized that
the other rider had spoken, so he responded, allowing his reins to slacken a little.''Oh,
hey'' he said, a little blunt he decided, and searched almost desperately for something
else he could say, then inspiration hit him and he spoke up ''Nice horse you've got
there'' he said, nodding towards her mount approvingly.
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Post by X.Sadistic_~_Samurai.X on Sept 19, 2007 19:09:04 GMT -5
Sandy gazed at Donner, stroking his slightly damp neck.Thankyou. I am exercising him for my boss. His name is Donner, she said softly as the rig flipped his head, snorting. Show off. Her reins tightened, a subtle command to behave, and he settled down, blinking sleepily.Donner's a quarter horse rig. What kind is your's? Rig, it always sounded wierd to her. But she had learned that with Donner, only one ball dropped and the other stayed up. So they snipped the one and tried to sell him as a gelding. That was when one of her boss's agent's stepped in and took him. It would have been dangerous to sell him to somewho who tought he was a gelding. [/b][/size] |
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Post by BECKiEE :) on Sept 20, 2007 14:45:03 GMT -5
''Oh, this here is Caspian-'' he said, loosening his reins a little more as the stallion
nibbled at some leaves on a low hanging branch, Kai paused to check that they tree
wasn’t a poisonous kind, before continuing.''He’s a Hanoverian stallion, only stud we
have at Pine Brook at the moment'' he said, referring to the stable he had come to
acquire. Kai had been fixing the place up over the past few months, renovating the house
and the stables. He finally got the arenas finished as well.''You say your exercising
him for your boss? What stable do you work at?'' he asked in a soft tone, distracted as
Caspian jumped as a frightened pheasant crashed out of the nearby branches, no exactly
being the most graceful of birds and landed with a thud amongst the tall grass. The
chestnut stallion snorted at where it disappeared and shook his neck, his recently trimmed
mane becoming ruffled.
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Post by X.Sadistic_~_Samurai.X on Sept 20, 2007 20:37:47 GMT -5
Donner watched calmly as the pheasent flew by. He had spent two week sin a shooting range then another two in a horse back pheasent hunt with his owner. Sandy watched the pheasent too, then turned to Kai.Oh, I work at Green Creek Ranch. Sam's the owner there and the area's vetriarian. That and she raises quite a bit of cattle, she said, playing with Donner's mane. She loved to braid it and then the after affect of the braid. But Sam didn't like it much because the burrs tended to settle in it.
Pine Brook huh? I heard about it, I think, in one of the New Hope horse magazines. You guys focus on English, right? The wind sighed through the long grasses, ruffling the horses' and riders' hair.It carried a sweet scent of lilacs. [/size] |
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Post by BECKiEE :) on Oct 3, 2007 10:43:37 GMT -5
Kai nodded as the girl spoke, he knew a bit about the vet, Sam. He hadn’t seen her, but as
soon as his stable was getting more horses, he probably would. Cross Country wasn’t
without its thrills, or its falls. He also might be needing a bit of assistance from a vet
when one of his mares foaled. He had had the scans back, she was expecting twins. As
great as that was, Kai seemed to be the only one to think one foal was more than likely
going to die. He had a positive out look, but it still niggled at the back of his mind.
He was baffled, his stables had got mentioned in a magazine, well it wasn’t a world wide
news broadcast, but at least it meant a few more people might start turning up.''Yeah,
mostly English. I haven’t really tried Western all that much, I did when I was younger
though..'' he said, and realized he was 'waffling' on a bit.''Oh, and i'm Kai, Kai
Winters..'' he said, having not actually introduced himself yet.
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