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 Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:40 pm
"There's a little bit of risk in everything 'fun', isn't there?" He laughed as he took another step, not quite trusting the ice much as he didn't quite trust many things. "Only ghosts glide across water, Fortune... And I have yet to see one in these woods."
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:43 pm
"Aren't Ghosts just...tales?" She asked as she took a few steps onto the ice and promptly started sliding out of control from the lack of friction on the smooth ice. She hadn't quite fallen yet but she looked like she could any moment.
"Ahhh! Oh, man! Eric! You GOTTA try this!" Fortune laughed gleefully as she tried to gain control her slipping and sliding legs. She certainly looked a sight, though.
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:58 pm
"No, there are ghosts... Most around here call them 'spirits', but they exist." He nodded slowly, bracing himself as she began to slide around. "Careful... Wouldn't want you to hurt yourself, Fortune." As she 'played' he kept his eyes on the ice, making sure that all was well beneath her.
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:06 pm
"I won't hurt myself! Come play with me!" Hopefully her attitude was infectious. Of course, the moment she said she wouldn't hurt herself she finally lost control and fell on her rear, sliding a few more inches before she halted right in front of him.
Looking up at him sheepishly, Fortune cocked her head to the side, "Spoke to soon."
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:09 pm
He leaned down, touching his nose to hers for a brief moment as he would have done to a foal in his herd. "Come. I'll run with you through the snow but I have little trust for ground that seems so eager to be out from beneath me."
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:15 pm
The mare smiled as his nose touched hers and scooted her way to the snowbank before pulling herself up with just a bit of trouble. Once more, snow was clinging to her coat and she looked like a foal that had gotten into something she shouldn't have.
"All right. Bet I could beat you to that tree over there!"
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:22 pm
His tail swished against his haunches as he eyed the tree in question. "I bet I could beat you to the tree just beyond that." He laughed, taking off without so much as saying 'Go'.
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:25 pm
Hey! He had done what SHE planned on doing! That was no fair! Fortune let out a glee filled shriek and ran after him. She wasn't a very fast mare - actually, she was likely a bit below average in speed, but she did give her very best and tried to put in an extra bit of effort.
No good rotten cheater! Nevermind the fact she was going to do the same thing...
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:31 pm
He slowed down after a moment, letting her catch up before simply running alongside her... Then, as he would have done with the foals, he let her break ahead, laughing as he followed after her. "To the next tree!"
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:35 pm
"Hey! No letting me win! Fair and square, buddy!" She snorted and dropped back until they were one on one and THEN took off, flicking her tail as she did. She'd beat him fair and square or she wouldn't beat him at all!
...Though that would totally suck.
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:41 am
He laughed as she pulled ahead, throwing himself into the race to run alongside her once more. She was a quick mare... A silly mare. Perhaps that was why he had come across her. From time to time silly was needed in life.
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:06 pm
Fortune felt alive as she ran, the wind wooshing past her and disrupting her sea-green hair though, at least, it was blowing it away from her eyes. Knowing the mare she'd end up running into the tree if she couldn't see it.
The little burst of speed she had given, however, waned and she went back to her normal speed. There was only so much the mare could do with speed that she didn't usually have.
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:51 pm
He too had begun to slow down... Not to let the mare win, as he had done initially, but because, while running, he had started to think of the last time he had felt so free. He stopped, closing his eyes in an attempt to hold back the barrage of memories. What on earth was he doing here?
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:54 pm
Fortune didn't notice and made it to the tree, rounding around it and doing a victory dance before she realized that Eric was not there. She stopped and turned to look back at him.
Something wasn't right and she had a feeling her playful nature wouldn't be welcome. Putting on her rarely seen serious mask she went back to him and nosed at him lightly.
"You okay, Draven?"
The mare's voice was soft, concerned.
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:02 pm
He took a deep breath, releasing it slowly as he pushed everything back. No was neither the time nor the place to take apart everything that had passed. He opened his eyes, looking up to the mare, nodding after a moment. "Yes, I am okay."
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