As Abstract made her approach she noticed the little grulla turning her face around to watch her. She seemed startled, the gray taking notice to the tautness that quickly wrought the dun’s muscles tighter and tighter the closer Abby got. This only made Abby’s ears flatten further. It angered her that others more often than not avoided her like some wretched monster of the undergrowth. It was a rather ironic feeling however, considering that for the past few seasons the graying bay sabino had done her best to avoid others. Still, she could not understand what it was about her that made others stray away. Was it her stone cold face? The fierce blue eyes which undoubtedly burned a pure form of fury? Were her shoulders more squared and aggressive than she set them out to be? Why did they stare at her like something forbidden?
When at long last the gray mare had come up beside the grulla, her head tossed against the breeze in the summer heat, the tufts of color around her barrel stained a darker hue by sweat, she was surprised by the dun’s quick turn-around; almost startled by it actually.
Abstract snorted, her large smoky nostrils hollowing out to expose the rosy red of their depths. Her ears twitched, undecided as to whether they should lift or not. She bobbed her chin momentarily, the burning bright eyes scanning the little mare who now addressed her with a sanguine humor. Abby took notice of the rough patches splotched across the grulla, how she too had pieces of a heavier coat still stuck to her frame. Along with her uneven pelt, Abstract notice the scratches on the dun’s shoulder, which appeared relatively fresh. Abby wondered if this mare had fought her way to the peak, perhaps had a scrap with a cougar, or another horse who might’ve not been so keen on the idea of the grulla’s migration.
Abstract spent a great deal of time studying the little mare before she gave in to a response. Her head still held high above her angled withers, ears beginning to lift from the mess of black tresses. Her face however still seemed pinched by a degree of discomfort and though she brazened it well, “Abstract...” she gave her name in full, no one had called her Abby in a long time.
Lowering her head along a collected crest line, Abby backed up a step to allow a more comfortable space between them before continuing, “I arrived here no more than a month ago, but it appears very much a ghost town,” the small talk did not come as naturally as her company’s, but Abby tried. She was slowly beginning to relax her muscles and keep herself on a steady train of thought. Though mentioning that the Peak felt much like a ghost-town was a solid truth even the gray did not want to hear. She had come here hoping to find something, very much anything really, and in her stay Mouse was only the second horse she’d come across in all of the Islands. Even her original greeter, Vashti, had only been here but a season or two. Abstract wasn’t sure whether this place, despite its harsh walls and gorgeous scenery, was somewhere she wanted to stay. She was use to being alone, better off for it as she constantly told herself, but she was a horse, a social creature which deep down yearned like no other for a form of trustworthy company. This empty ink cartridge pained her.
GRAYING [AA Ee nSb Gg] : MARE : 15.1HH : FOUR YEARS : MUTT
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