Cool Runnings

*Obsidian* · 04-28-2014, 03:38 PM

Obsidian

Obsidian had left Rikku in Odette and Erani?s care and now she trotted quickly through the unclaimed lands. Her heart was almost hammering with nerves and excitement. The stallion?s scent was fresh, the tracks left behind by his big hooves clear as the moon in a cloudless sky. She was getting close. Her pace slowed, hooves falling carefully onto soft patches of grass, as she came closer. That Ryuk seemed to hang around in the west was pleasing to the mare. It meant little travel to reach him. She?d just come away from Erani?s meeting, and so much Erani had told them all. Heavens? A cougar as an ally? She would have to get used to this. She wasn?t fond of felines, not after her first cougar encounter after becoming a free horse. The big cat in the siege had made her like them even less. But if Erani was willing to entrust this Laila with her pack?s safety, Obsidian supposed she could try to learn to like the cat.

Ryuk?s heady male scent brought her mind away from uncomfortable thoughts to the present, and she shifted to ultra sneak horse mode, hooves falling lightly as she approached. Ah, she?d recognize that big horse rump anywhere, with it?s unusual looking brand and scars. The white feathered socks and white tail on a black base was a dead give away too. She stifled a grin, reached her neck out to its full extent, and nipped him lightly just above the tail. Sometimes, she just could not hold her playful side back. She backed quickly out of kicking range; after all, he was a war horse, and could easily go to war mode at an unexpected nip to the rump; unless of course, he might have heard her coming, and feigned oblivion.

She knew without a doubt that she was quite taken with the stallion. And she had been able to tell the last she?d seen him, that he likely felt quite the same way. So when she felt she was beyond the range of his hooves, she circled around, coming up beside the great horse, head dropping for a quick sip of water. ?Hello, General Ryuk.? There was a smile to her words. ?Fancy meeting a handsome stallion in these parts.? She peered up at him through one eye, a veil of forelock and mane falling over the deep liquid blue pool.

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