Her heart climbed into her throat with the anticipation of wondering if she had made the wrong move. His features were unreadable but was that... amusement? She swallowed but held his gaze. Straining to bolt when he lifted his silence.
His low masculine voice wove through his words with truth. A statement of his wonder, not a question, not a command or compliment. She swung her face to see him from her right side, objectively to see him clearer. Letting her tropical blue eye peruse his storm gray thunderous features.
He made a third comment about the land and insinuated she was definitely an object worth studying. She clenched her jaw, unsure of how she felt about it.
She was driven by survival, and she was weighing the prospect of her first season arriving sooner than she wished.
"I can't be like most mares. Asa certainly isn't." She had to show strength here so as not to be chased off or made to mysteriously disappear. "I like to be useful." She huffed to make a point and decidedly relaxed as she took out her anxiety out on the grasses and munched it. She knew she was pretty, and she knew her delicate features would only get her so far.
