Welcome to Gaia! ::

Amaya laughed as Toto showed off, raising on his hindlegs, and shook her head. She bowed in turn to the patron. She slowed down the mare once more, ending up in a brisk, then a slow walk.
"You are very welcome, Kibakichi-san. I hope you had as much fun as I had!" she said with a smile.
"How about we let the horse cool down some more, then have a go at the archery targets?", she added, taking the bow from her back and untieing the string that had been wrapped around the tip of the unstrung shortbow.

Amaya laughed a bit sheepishly. "I am sorry, but indeed, that is the only one... you see, there is no real safe way to carry such a thing on your person... if you fall unluckily, it might snap and pierce your back, so I just brought one. But we can take turns, no problem."
She hoped he would understand... last thing she needed was a patron getting seriously injured while taking a lesson.
"We also have enough arrows.", she added, pointing around her back at the bundle containing a full quiver strapped securely to the back of Gigis saddle, then continued stringing the bow, using one stirrup for support as she bent the ends to hook the string to the tip.

Amaya shook her head and looked away, trying to shake the gruesome image of a blond young man lying on the ground, staring wide-eyed at the shaft of his own jousting lance protruding from his chest, that came to her mind unbidden. She pressed her lips together and made an effort to shrug it off.
Steering Gigi to the end of the lawn bordering on the forest, she said, without looking over her shoulder: "Sure. We can leave them here to graze freely for a while. We don't have to worry they'd run away, since they are trained to stay around if I give the command."

"Okay." She busied herself knotting up the stirrups and reins, removing the saddles, then pulling the snaffle bit from the horses muzzles, re-strapping them loosely under their chins so they could graze.
Immediately, the stallion and the mare went down to their knees, rolling on their backs to dry the wet patch that the saddles had left.
Amaya chuckled and jumped aside to avoid Totos flailing legs. The stallion grunted contently, then rose up again, shaking off the grass klinging to his black coat.
She went back to the samurai's side, watching him doing his warmup.

Amaya shook out her legs and stretched them, the did the same with her arms, adjusting the leather wristguards she always wore for weapons practice. She had strapped the quiver to her back and held the bow at the ready, waiting for the patron to finish his own stretching.
"My, you are very flexible, Kibakichi-san!"

She bowed in return and chuckled.

((That's fine with me... I just don't know if or when I will be online tomorrow.. have a nice evening!))

Hmmm... curious... must be a meditative mantra from Zen-archery..., the stable-master thought as she watched the patron perform his chant.
She had been about to hand him the bow and quiver, but halted and kept on watching him instead.