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When the ball was kicked it flew rather well, holding together rather nicely as it almost went airborn. Gingy, for a moment, thoight he was imagining things and went to slide in front of the ball. He used his front legs as a buffer for it to bounce off of, and than started to chase after it once it rolled away toward Xiang. starting to make his own announcing " It was regained by Gingy! He swerves to the left, than swerves to the right. Can he get it past the the other player?" As he cantered with his head down, pushing it along with his nose, It finally dawned on him as Xiang's scent came to him, that he really wasn't alone. (Other player?) he thought as he lost his footing and fell, sliding on his belly to a stop in-front of Xiang, The ball rolling to a stop. He blinked those white eyes up at this stallion like he had seen a ghost, his ears were pinned back as if startled.

"It's a magnificent play by Gingy, good recovery!" Xiang flipped his mane out of his face and picked up the pace. His long tail provided a welcome balance as he lunged back in for the ball. When the other stallion tripped, he reared up to avoid stepping on him, his mouth giving a startled whinny. When he had recovered well enough to set his hooves down, he looked down at the pale-eyed starborn at his hooves. "Whoops. Didn't mean to startle you. You looked like you were having fun, and I wanted to join you. Sorry about that." He took several steps backward to allow the other star room to get up, his tail tucked around his legs. He lifted one hoof delicately. "My name is Xiang. And this one--" he pointed to the butterfly hovering over his head--"is Blithe. Your name's Gingy, then?"

A flash of brilliant pink from the corner of his vision jerked Xiang's head around as what appeared to be a flower in equine shape stepped out of the woods. He made no attempt to hide his gawk--she was beautiful, and he couldn't for the life of him recognize her breed. He'd thought he could recognize them all--arctova, arctyra, algiara--but he'd never before seen a mare with vines for tail and leaves for mane. Blithe, on the other hand, wasted no time staring. She alighted from her star's horns and flew over to the mare in insect ecstasy. She lighted on the mare's face and gazed into her glowing eyes. Xiang accepted the flower with his mouth and tucked it into his mane. "I, ah...

"Yes!" He turned towards Gingy. "Do you need any help? Are you alright?" He belatedly realized that the stallion could have been injured in the tumble. Legs were so delicate!

Well, this was all fine and dandy, seemed she made friends with one stallion and shunned off another. Ears falling back into her leafy mane, her head tilted to one side, frowning slightly. But her attention was soon averted as something landed on her muzzle. Going a little cross-eyed, Floridian stared at the butterfly that sat there. What a lovely thing, she had always loved butterflies. All spring they would cling to her mane and tail as she walked. But it was now reaching summer and they left her alone. Well, that and something else liked to chase them through the trees.

"I'm Floridian, or Flor, which ever is easiest for you." the mare announced calmly, shaking her head a little. She hated to disturb the butterfly, but it was starting to tickle her face. "Were you fellas playing a game?"

She was quite naive about the matter. She had only seen them running around chasing something. Looking towards Gingy who rooted around for something in the grass. Watching his movements, from the rooting, to looking around the area. Now he sat in the strangest of ways, Floridian didn't know how she felt about this strange brown stallion. He was a strange one indeed.

Brown button eyes watched things from the safety of the trees. That and he had been told to stay there, but something went sailing through the air before landing. He had the urge to chase, whatever the round object had been, the young canine wanted it! But no, he had to stay, she had told him to before going out into the open. The canine didn't understand why she went out there. And without him! Scratching at his side with a hindpaw, Shadow slipped from the trees and padded over towards the rest. One his approach, he came from behind Gingy. stopping a moment to nose in the brown stallions tail, like he was hunting for something..

Xiang blinked, the tiniest frown crossing his brow. The sudden change in demeanor in the other stallion was an unwelcome one. They'd been having fun, he'd been acting friendly and all, he hadn't complained about Xiang joining in his game, and suddenly, he was acting all distant? Was he seriously embarrassed about falling down? Or was it that he was playing? By his own admission, he didn't expect others to play, but when another star joined in, he had shown no shame. So why the sudden change in attitude?

It was the mare, wasn't it. There were some stars--stallions, to be specific--whose entire moods changed when a female of the species was present. It was almost always, in Xiang's experience, a very bad sign. A sign of a star who thought that there was something so fundamentally different between mares and stallions that they had to be treated differently. Xiang gave a tiny shake of his head. Maybe he was wrong. Maybe Gingy was just startled. Maybe Gingy had merely been enjoying a brief moment of playfulness in an otherwise serious and mature life. The way he scanned the trees seemed to support this theory. Xiang lifted his own nose into the breeze and scented it. Nope. No other stars in the area that he could detect. The only predator in the region was a wolf, of that type of canine that had been domesticated by stars many years ago. A "dog," if he recalled the terminology correctly. He doubted such a thing could be a threat. But good call, on Gingy's part, to remember to check for danger. Definitely a mature adult.

...Or not. When he looked back at the other stallion, he was sitting on the ground like a predator in a position that was surely uncomfortable for him. Oooooookaaaaaaay. A bit of a weirdo, then. "I'm always interested in a game," Xiang said, as if stars sat on their hind legs all the time. "No matter what age I am I will always be ready and willing to have fun with another star."

He watched Blithe continue to flit around the mare's head. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Floridian. And yes, we were playing quite a fun game of chasing and kicking a ball. Would you like to join us?" He looked down at the black canine. "What's his name?"

Floridian smiled at the the stallion who was friends with a butterfly. Shaking her head a little to rustle the leaves of her mane, she seemed to settle them back into place. And clear a spot for the butterfly to land if wanted to. There was a commotion behind her as the ginger stallion seemed to be speaking to someone. To this Floridian turned around to glance at the black canine that was standing there watching the stallion with brown eyes.

"Shadow, I thought I had told you to stay put." Flor frowned a little as she watched the dog. "Come here you silly thing."

As if on Que, Shadow yipped and trotted over towards Floridian and wove himself between her legs and looked up at the white and green stallion. His tail wagged behind him. He was ready for a game, if it meant taking whatever they were playing with and running with it making them chase him.

"This is Shadow. A little ruffian at times, but he means well." Floridian smiled as Shadow left her again to sniff Xiang, then back over to Gingy to sniff him over a little.

"Kicking a ball? I don't think I know what you mean. What is a ball?" Her head tilting to one side, those magenta eyes watching Xiang closely as if he had all the answers.

Gingy tilted his head, he had indeed met one and Xaing's widened eyes seemed he make him nervous slightly.
"yes, she was... she had a great tree growing from her back. She was kind and.." he paused, reflecting back to her question." When I introduced myself I said my name and the usual "At your service" thing. she presented me with "is that what you really want?" I was... I was baffled. I'm just a cookie, How could I possibly be useful to a sign?" He didn't realize how hard he sounded on himself. How little he game himself credit. He was a good inventor and and he was sweet, smart and playful. He may be thought of as wimpy by most because he hated to fight but he was good hearted. By the way he speaks of himself, He really does see himself as "just a cookie".
He looked at The Mare and than back at The stallion, even down to the dog as if expecting they would not believe him. It would only be logical anyway, they don't know him and it would seem to be a tall story to most. He wouldn't blame them if they didn't.
"I didnt know what to say to her, and she was magnificent! She was brown like me! only better! she wasn't a cookie. Her mane and tail were lush and she could shake leaves from her mane! She walked with grace and.. I was just wowed." He started to get less nervous and slightly more excited, standing with his hooves rising and falling at different times.