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Between the trees of the old forest that stretched into the Artali herd's range, sun dappled a gold and gray painting upon the leaf littered ground. Everywhere seemed damp from melting snow, which still clung helplessly to the earth in little patches here and there. A small breeze carried the fresh scent of spring and rustled the trees above, giving sound to its otherwise silent presence.

The same breeze ruffled the storm gray and granite peach fur of the currently lone cow as she meandered around slowly, nose at the ground as she tore fresh greens from the earth. With every movement she made, the silver bells that adorned her neck jingled lightly, announcing her presence to the world. ...But that didn't matter. The cow was unaffraid of wolves or other dangerous lera. That, and none of them would normally dare to come near her due to the freakishly large head of antlers she wore, which glinted every so often when their almost golden surface flicked into the sun.

Upon feeling another's presence, the cow instinctively began to go on "ignore" in thinking that it was probably Dasher or her brother, Donner, coming to complain again, but after hearing the new voice, she allowed herself to spare a glance upwards.

The one who stood before her was definitely not Dasher or Donner, not even her younger brother.

Blinking, the female outrider swallowed the grass in her mouth and bowed her head in some sort of greeting. "Good afternoon, Glosoli," She hadn't ever really spoken to the ivory bull much, despite them both being outriders. ...She wasn't the most social butterfly out there.

"I'm fine. You?"

She gave a small amused smirk, the normal facial expression as of late. "I haven't either...Which is probably good for Donner. He's been acting up about the Lera again lately..." A husky chuckle escaped her, which actually felt rather awkward since she didn't normall laugh much in this type of scene.

She wasn't.

Snorting, she then let another chuckle mix with her words and replied, "true true. I guess he always does seem to be acting up about them. Nervous nelly..." she gave a bark-laugh.

Golden eyes flicked up at the ivory outrider. The comment she was going to say about Donner and Anlach was tossed aside as his latest words pulled at using more attention.

Yeah. She had to have known the question would come.

Rising her head a little, Blitzen replied, "noo...I have not," and then to save the poor guy from going much further with the topic, she added, "...and I'm not sure I will. ...Join a harem, that is. It's not my personal time to be thinking about mates and calves and...yeah." She ended lamely, and glanced down at the soggy ground.

Well, at least he acted more mature than Dasher had!

Looking up, she returned the apologetic smile with one her own, which was rare...veeerrry rare, and shook her head lightly. "Not this time, I'm affraid," she then went on, "I'm sorry, Glosoli. It's just that we havn't been here long, and everything's still so new. Until the herd is firmly situated, my mind doesn't let me think of having a family of my own. There's just too much other stuff to worry about right now."

Blitzen tossed her head in a nod. "I hope so as well... Perhaps then Donner'll stop fussing over the Lera and I can finally stop worrying that we're all going to die from rabbit bites." She laughed, trying to ease any awkwardness or ill feelings towards her earlier descission... though she wasn't getting the vibe of any, which was a nice change.

(( x__x omg I'm so sorry! I totally got into an RP rut and the sidetracked. ))

"If only so," she chuckled again in her husky voice.

Golden eyes glanced around the forest, its trees still dark from the damp air and melting snow. "Have you seen any one else around?" she questioned, and gave a side glance back towards him. "I havn't all day."