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Amaya finished her plate... she would have liked to eat more of the delicious food, but vaulting was nothing to be done on a full stomach... she put the leftovers away and stacked the plates in the sink for later.

I better get the tack on Toto before Solice arrives... if he does come at all...

Quickly, but no less diligent, she brushed the large stallion down, cleaned the hooves, put bandages on his cannons and fixed the bareback pad on him, then led him to the hippodrome by the longe, the excess rope coiled and tucked under her arm, long whip in the other hand.

-Meanwhile-

Sunlight bathed over Solice's body as he hobbled to the stables. The arena had kept the light from coming in, and he had not noticed that it was morning until he came out of it. He looked around, making sure he hadn't been followed before letting himself into the barn. He hobbled over a ladder, pulling himself up to the top of the steeple. He lay there for a few mintues, waiting for one of the carrier pidgeons to get near before he grabbed ahold of it. He tied a note unto it's small leg, and in whispered for it to go to his brethern. He set it free, and it took off, leaving him up on the steeple to lay there.

Yuriko smiled and nodded.

"Yes ma'am, would you like for me to mount him or do you want him free back?"

She smiled to Toto rubbing his cheek and over his neck and mane she whispered something to the horse and smiled.

"Just longe me, if you please... I'm gonna do the monkey drill, so please keep him on a steady pace. Thank you!" She waited for Toto to start galloping, then ran alongside him and mounted in one fluid motion. After doing the mill, the scissors, the flag and other simple maneuvers, she pushed herself up on her hands and shoulders in the bookstand, then came down riding sidesaddle.
Toto was galloping beautifully with the measured beat of a clockwork. Feeling frisky, she attempted the cossack.
While dangling upside down from her mount, suspended only by one foot stuck in the vaulting gird, she caught a glimpse of a dark figure on the roof of the barn next to the hippodrome. Frowning, she pulled herself up and waited for Toto to carry her around again, to take a closer look.
And indeed, there was a dark figure on the roof that had not been there before...
Amaya scooted back in a kneeling position, then stood up on Totos croup. She waited for several more paces, then swung her arms for momentum and did a backwards flip off the horse. As soon as she found her balance again, she turned and started running towards the barn, calling out to Yuriko over her shoulder:
"Sorry Yuriko, I think I saw something... be right back!"
She flanked over the gate and dashed towards the stables. Damn, I hope my eyes deceived me.. if there's really someone up there, I do not want to know the reason. Just to be safe, she retrieved a pitchfork from the dungpile as she passed it by and scaled the ladder to the steeple... where she promptly dropped it, mouth agape, as she saw who was lying there, spread-eagled, as if he had just fallen from the sky:
"Sweet Baldur! Solice! What happened to you?"

Yuriko heard her name being called, she made a few click sounds and pulled Toto with her in a hurried pace. She made it to the stable roof and looked up sheilding her eyes from the sun with one hand, holding Toto's reigns with the other.

"Amaya-sama? Is everything alright? You sound very paniced."

Yuriko nodded catching the rope and tying it to Toto, she patted the horse's cheek and slowly started to pull him in the direction pointed.

"C'mon boy."

Yuriko blinked several times now slowly pulling Toto back one hoof at a time looking up from Amaya then down to Toto's hoofs, up and down up and down up and down.