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 Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:45 pm
Xavier sighed and shook his head. "Wow," he muttered. "Just wow." He cursed in Spanish under his breath for a second or two before returning his attention to Chris.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:46 pm
"Cusing doesn't help anything," Chris said. "And yeah we're pretty close."
Summer walked into the barn and looked back to see if Nanina was following her.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:53 pm
Esmeralda grinned. "Works for me," she said. "See you then." She trotted down to the post office, checking her pockets for quarters on the way.
"Well, I don't actually know," said Roman, taking the stallion's saddle off. "I mean, I assume it's in here somewhere, but as far as I know it could be in another barn, or maybe he could just live outside." He touched the horse's coat and frowned. Phoenix was really wet, and seemed warm still. "He's going to need a cooler." He undid the girth and carefully leaned the saddle against the wall so it wouldn't get hurt.
As Phoenix let out a big breath, Roman started walking down the aisle with the horse in tow, reading nameplates. "Ah. Here he is," he announced, mostly to Kahlilia but also partially to himself. "Must be the good life for him. All the horses around him are mares, I think, from the nameplates." He was only guessing of course, but the names sounded pretty feminine.
Realizing he was wandering off-topic, he shook his head. "Cooler. Right." There was a thin cotton blanket there - not a fly-sheet. Apparently Phoenix didn't have one of those. Shrugging to himself, Roman exchanged Phoenix's bridle for a halter and then put the cooler on before letting the horse into his stall, where the animal went straight for his water bucket.
Chuckling, Roman turned back to Kahlilia. "I think he doesn't get worked much," he said by way of explanation.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:59 pm
Nanina entered teh barn and was instanty met by Cali, the mother calico cat. Hey precious, hows your kittens? Nanina bentto scratch her behind the ears.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:05 pm
"She is so cute and you say she has kittens can i see them?" Summer asked.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:12 pm
They are only a few weeks old, but yes. Come up here. Nanina walked voer to a ladder and began climbin gup it into the hayloft.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:14 pm
Summer followed then started climbing up the ladder behind Nanina.
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:01 pm
"Oh, sorry about that." Xavier muttered. "Habit."
He shifted a little bit and then straightened. After a slight hesitation, he said, "Yeah, you two seem really close. Which is a good thing." A light smile, maybe even a tad bit sheepish. He was thinking about Blaire, who was also in a summer camp - she was staying in the campus of a college and learning about the benefits and stuff like that. Xavier remembered she had always talked about it, and now he was blanking out. He wondered for a moment how she was doing.
"Oh, poor Phoenix." Kahlilia said gently. "I hope he'll be okay." She remembered the weather in the fields had been pretty fair, with a breeze every now and then. Well, it was from running around so much. Roman was right, Phoenix probably didn't get worked very often. She remembered how the tall stallion had jumped over the pond in an effortless way, which had startled all of them, maybe even Benvolio. She wondered what he did with the boundless energy, that seemed to come randomly, when he was alone. The question was if she wanted to find out.
She couldn't help but laugh when Roman mentioned that Phoenix's stable was next to the stables of many of the mares. "He must love it," She remarked. She lowered her voice a little and said, "Think hes a stud?" She felt a case of the giggles bubbling up inside of her, and couldn't help but giggle as she talked. She had a very girly voice, not particulary high-pitched, but sweet sounding, almost like a child's voice. She doublechecked the food and water in Benvolio's stable - it was at a good level, even to the point of being full. The stallion himself was laying down, probably sleeping. Again.
After doublechecking on Benvolio, she walked over to Roman and Phoenix, watching him. "That was amazing, what he did earlier. Jumping over the pond like that." She said quietly.
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:07 pm
Walking carefully on the hay loft, she squatted next to the box that held Cali's kittens, and she smiled down at them.
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:21 pm
Summer sat down on her knees and looked at the kittens, "There so small and beautiful."
Chris asked, "So are you and your sister close?" He noticed Xavier was zoneing out into his own mind but didn't say anything about it.
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:52 pm
Roman smiled a little, stepping out of Phoenix's stall. "Don't be too sorry. It's good for him to get some real exercise every now and then, I guess. Helps him keep in shape." As he replayed the ride, he nodded a little. The horse hadn't seemed to be fighting the work too hard, but he'd been putting in a lot of effort - more than Roman thought was usual. He probably wasn't ridden unless there was absolutely no other choice.
"Oh, I have no doubt that he's a stud," he replied to Kahlilia's question, grinning. "Why else would they keep him around if he never gets worked?" He stroked Phoenix's nose when the horse stuck it inquisitively out over his stall door. "I'd lay a bet that at least half the pregnant mares here are having his foals. I'd probably lose, but you never know."
He looked at the horse for a few minutes in silence. "Yeah. That was amazing, the jump," he said quietly, remembering how it had felt. "He could be a really great jumper someday, I think, if anyone had the time to train him for that."
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:38 pm
Kahlilia smiled a little, reassured. Deep down, she knew Phoenix was going to be wanting to go running around again soon, but she always felt the need to double check things. In fact, there was a twinge of guilt, in fact, for being scared of him at first. Was Shannon scared of him, too? Maybe that was why he so rarely got exercise.
Kahlilia laughed again. "I wouldn't doubt it." She remembered Kelly again, and the other pregnant mares. She couldn't wait for one of them to give birth, if such a thing didn't make her sound conceited - in her view, at least. Just a few days ago, she remembered thinking Kelly was already past her due date, along with another in the stall next to Phoenix's. It would be so cool, she thought, to get to help a mother horse have a baby. She wondered if Shannon would let them.
"Hey," She said quietly, her tone lifting. "Maybe we could do that - train Phoenix. It might be really fun." She grinned, eyes glittering.
"Yeah," Xavier said, voice lowering. "We are." He was very much aware of the fact that he was 'drifting', and yet did not try to stop it for a second. It was wierd, how there were days when the fog doesn't even come near you at all, and others where it won't leave you alone for anything - or anyone - in the world. He was losing at his own game, and he knew it. He looked up at Chris, looking slightly confused. "So," He said quietly. He blanked out, words were unusable, it was like every single word had been used up and was just beyond his reach. "... Do you have any other siblings, or just Summer?" He smiled apologetically again.
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:31 pm
I know they are lovely. Nanina agreed, a soft smile touching her lips.
((Writers block.)) stare
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:34 pm
MiserysStoryBookEnding I know they are lovely. Nanina agreed, a soft smile touching her lips. ((Writers block.)) stare (That sucks >< sorry to hear that. Silly writer's-block bug. Stop biting people.)
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:13 pm
Phoenix snorted lazily at the two of them, which made Roman smile. He scratched behind the horse's ears, pleased despite himself. It looked like once the horse had let him through, Phoenix was a real sweetheart. "I thought it would be much harder than this - getting him to tolerate me, I mean," he admitted.
Watching the horse start nosing around, looking for hay, he said, "Do you think any of his foals are due to be born soon? I'd like to know how they turn out. After all, we're here all summer." Really, he wanted to know if they would look like the horse he was now watching, or more like their mothers. If they would act more like this horse than like their mothers.
When Kahlilia made her suggestion, Roman blinked. "Train him? Like as a jumper? Us?" He thought about it, then looked in at Phoenix again. He frowned a little. What good would a jumper - no matter how fantastic - be on a ranch?
But then again - how could it hurt?
He smiled slowly. "That would be fun," he stated simply. "When Shannon gets back, let's talk to her about it - unless you want to surprise her."
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