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Sengdroma had been told to find a place in deep wood to bed down, to listen to nature, to learn it’s song, to listen as it spoke. Maion had often talked about listening to the night’s song, but this seemed a bit ridiculous to her. She had come to Sofiel to learn to fight and defend, to learn how to protect her herd…to protect the family that she hoped to have one day. She had agreed to stay with Sofiel, to prove to Maion that she was worthy. She might not be an angeni, but she was just as good as any other Soquili. She would prove it to him…if she ever saw him again.

Moving quickly, her eyes searched for a place suitable to stay hours. She needed a small clearing, or an area that was just thick enough in underbrush that she could hide her colored coat. Her stomach growled….she needed food first. Seng had spent her adult life close to her lake, she was not use to the vegetation here in the deep forests. She followed her nose, tracing a sweet scent in the air, berries. She had found herself eating more since she had been in this area, the food here just didn’t seem as filling as that which she was use to. She couldn’t wait to go back home, but she had many months left here with Sofiel. They had yet to start combat, and that, that would he a long road.

Seng slowed her pace to a slow and steady gait, closing her eyes for moments at a time, she lifted her nose to better follow the scent of food. Taking only a few steps at a time, she was close. Finally! Her eyes caught sight of brightly red colored berries on a prickle bush. Breakfast.

Seng’s head shot up at the sound of the female’s voice. She hadn’t expected anyone else out in the forest today. Her eyes settled on the pale mare with flaming mane and elegant horn. “Oh!” she turned away from the berries, her stomach grumbled again. “No, No I’m not. But thank you for the advice.” She nodded her head in greetings. She was afraid Sofiel would not be appreciative of her returning in a drunken state at nightfall. She peered once again at the berries and the leaves of the bush, putting them to memory so that she would not make that mistake in the future. “They just smelled so sweet,” she offered a half a smile as her stomach once again rumbled.

At this point, Seng would likely settle to eat bark off of a tree if it meant filling her belly and keeping the hunger pains from the lack of breakfast before being sent on her daily task.

"Mugworts?" her ears perked, she had never heard of such thing. Sofiel had taught her some of the plants, but apparently not enough or near all of them. Her head tilted as the mare announced herself. "Embri..." The name rolled off of her tongue nicely, "It's pretty. I'm Sengdroma,"

Her voice was soft, as always. She took a few steps towards the mare's direction. "Do you mind if I join you?" her ears flickered, she hoped Embri wouldn't mind. Seng definately didn't want to get ahold of anything bad. Her stomach had not been feeling well as it was.

She trotted up to join the mare, "Thank you." she offered more of a smile than she had before. "I'm in training," she stopped before saying more. She wasn't sure if it would be proper of her to go into much detail. Seng was not use to having mares, outside of her family, for company.

Her ears flickered again as Embri talked. She seemed quite knowledge-able of the surrounding areas, Seng was intrigued. "She must be from around here," she thought to herself. "Could you teach me a bit more?" her eyes locked onto the mare, she was quite interested to see what she could learn about these different plants that Sofiel had not told her.

If it wouldn't have embarassed her, Seng would have squeaked at the mare accepting her request of teaching her as they walked along. She moved up closer to the mare, peering down at the plant she spoke about. Once Embri was done, she put her nose down towards the applemint, sniffing it gently. After her small sniff, she gently took a piece in her mouth and mawed it around for a moment, a curious look on her face. It was slightly sweet, not overbearing. Like a palette cleanser almost.

Once her mouth was clear, she looked back up to Embri, now more curious about her as well. "What services?" her questions was short and to the point, much like her other conversations. She didn't understand why Soquili would find this boring, but then, she loved learning anything new.

"That sounds lovely!" Sengdroma loved foals, she had neices and nephews and the like. "I hope to one day ha...." she stopped mid-sentence. She didn't want to think of Maion...Not today, not right now. "Nevermind."

She took to a trot following in behind Embri. She was quite intrigued as to what these Mugworts were. It was another type of vegetation that Sofiel had failed to tell her about. How did he expect her to find food with so many types of plants being off limits here? Perhaps he wanted her to learn on her own?

She watched closely to the flowing orange and gold tail in front of her, making sure that she didn't run into her traveling companion for the day if she should decide to make an abrupt stop.

Seng's eyes looked over the clearing in awe, this is just the type of little space she needed to study. She would have to remember how they arrived here, she would come back.

Slowly she moved over towards the mugwort, following the lead of her new teacher. "Seers use this?" she inquired? She had always figured that those with the vision just..had them. Her head tilted slightly as she studied the plant, again smelling it before taking a small bit in her mouth. It had a rather, unique, flavor to it. She wasn't sure if she enjoyed it just yet or not.

"How long have you studied plants, Embri?" she knew with much time came vast knowledge and this mare, she had it.