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Aaaaannnndddd.... crest the hill. Stop. Strike a pose and shake the dust off. Vasu'Raj was having his own inner dialouge as he moved, mapping out his movements well in advance of the actual action. And indeed, he did crest the hill like some grand Stallion and stood there like he was surveying what would be his entire kingdom. Which was only ruined by the puff of dust coming off his coat when he shook. He had indeed been out rolling in the dirt, simply on impulse. And a bad itch on his back. Which means I need to bathe. To the river!

And so off he went, trotting down the hill side into the river basin. He was trotting in time to the random music he was making too. He was in an excellent mood right now. Nothing to do, nothing to worry about, and that dirt patch had been excellent. One just had to get dirty some times.

Though it wasn't like he behaved like this all the time. He stopped bouncing along to his own tunes as he approached the river and stepped up to the water line and paused for a moment as he pressed his hooves into the soft sand and gravel at the edge. He took a good look around once a cloud had exposed the moon again, to see what he could on guess was a mare standing not two feet away from him. The dark coat had made it almost impossible to see her.

He blinked, then looked away, and then turned his blues back to the mare to make sure she was still there and not some illusion generated by some spirit. He opened his mouth to say something and then closed it again and frowned. She hadn't even moved, she was just staring at the water. He moved closer to the mare and then looked down at the water, then back at her. He leaned in closer, so much that his nose was almost touching the water's surface and stayed there for a minute. He didn't get it. Finally, he looked up at her, "What are we looking at?"

Vasu jumped and bounced back into the river water when Keahi had jerked. He hadn't expected her to react with such a jolt. And he considered briefly running away, that perhaps this was some sort of trick out to get him. But such thoughts were qwelled rapidly when the mare didn't make any further motions and seemed to calm down. He regained his composure a second later and then tilted his head at the explination of her actions, his ears cocking in the same direction, "That's weird."

"Of course water does not live." He stomped around in the water, splashing it everywhere upon himself and the mare as if to prove his point. His response was matter of fact, even though he didn't back it up with any sort of reasoning. Water was water and there was no reason to think otherwise, "I would think, maybe, there is life IN the water. But water itself cannot live. That's just wierd." He made a face then, "And if it lived, it'd sure make drinking it a much more... " He stopped to ponder upon his words, and then openned his mouth to speak again, but could not think on how to end his sentence, "Oh well, you get my point." Again, he said it matter of fact, and there was no room for arguement.

"It's a nice night though, why you would spend it just looking at water is a little odd. You could... be... looking at other.... things?" He gave the suggestion like he wasn't sure if it would offend her or not, and his facial expression was rather comical. Or what could be seen of it in the moonlight.

"Oh... well... I'm Vasu'Raj." He flashed Keahi a dashing smile and lifted his head higher. He was showing off. "Keahi is a pretty name, I like it." He liked Keahi over all. She was weird, just from first impressions, but that was just fine, "And you're pretty." He was simply stating what he saw, and Keahi was indeed very nice to look at. The red markings were far more visible in the moonlight, and in his opinion, the white light seemed to make them glow in an intriguing way.

He had to stop and think for a moment. Why did he just tell this mare she was pretty? He hadn't reacted in such a way before. He gave his head a little shake and pondered why he had said such a thing, kicking at the water. He still needed to clean of the rest of the dust, but that wasn't so much a pressing matter right now.

Whatever shyness or embarrassment had overtaken Vasu quickly vanished with the compliment to his name. "Why thank you. I think I'm very dashing myself." That comment came with a small laugh and that smile which had faded previously was right back where it should be. Smiling suited Vasu really well. "So how long were you standing there anyway? I doubt you could have gotten much from staring at water in the dark." He walked out of the water and back onto the river banks, shaking off the water.

Quite honestly, he couldn't stop looking at her. She was very attractive to him. And those red eyes were the most interesting part. He had never seen red eyes before. But he didn't voice those thoughts and decided that it'd be better to at least know her more. He was still young, and as such, this was pretty much the first time he had noticed more about a mare than just the space she took up in the universe so to speak. Would it be like this for every mare he came across now? Perhaps. Though he wouldn't mind too much if every mare he meet were beautiful...

He kind of wanted to hit his head against a rock now to stop that train of thought. But no such luck. No large rocks around, so he just kept on smiling.

"So would you care to walk with me? Staying still like that so long must have left you sore." He turned his back to the river and looked back at the mare with a questioning look, as if to say, "are you coming?" He could walk away with or without her with him. Though he could use the company. He followed up quickly with more conversation though to keep her interest, "So, are you always staring at rivers or do your interests cover other things?"

"I myself tend to enjoy a good evening romp." That would explain why he was out so late to begin with. If one looked close enough, you could still see that his coat was dusty as well. It wasn't too hard to guess what he was doing.