better to fight and fall,
then to live without hope.
She pauses... swivels her head to stare at him over her shoulder with a smirk playing on her lips.
Oh really? she retorts. Panic begins to creep up. Hardly EVER, has he spoke to a girl that wasn't his sister! And this one is cute! His sisters are always annoying and picking on him. This girl seemed nice AND pretty AND AND...
"Y-y-yes really! I didn't meant to," he swallows nervously as his head jerks up and down. He honestly wasn't that sneaky. He was always the first to be found in games like hide and seek, or the first to be tagged. He hated it! He wanted to be sneaky and fast... but apparently he didn't get any of those skills.
He notices how his inquiring of who was trying to bring her back strikes a sore note and her demeanor quickly changes.
...ask me something else. She says with a stomp and a pin of her ears into dark crimson locks. Anything else.. anything else. The words play over and over as he tries to think under her intense amber gaze. A nervous chuckle rumbles from his throat as the distance between them narrows until there is just a few feet separating them.
They stare openly at each other. Her eyes sweep across his skin just as his swept across hers. He admires the scarlet and silver mixed hue of her skin beneath the sun's golden rays. Her dark crimson locks that cascade down her shoulders and sweep across her chest. His heart hammers wildly against his ribs with a quickened thrum. Could she hear his heart? Could she feel its pulsing?
"Why don't you come walk through the woods with me? I really have no clue where I'm going but you look like you'd make good company." She says as a smirk plays on her whiskered lips once more.
"Maybe you can tell me what you're doing out here sneaking up on unsuspecting girls."
Walk alone... in the woods with her? He draws a quick breath through flaring nostrils.
Breath Sih. "I-I could do that. After all, I AM an expert when it comes to the Crossing." he admits with a nod of his crown. Well, it was sort of true - he did - live NOT far from here.
"And, I only sneak up on the prettiest unsuspecting girls," he admits with a lopsided grin spreading across his whiskered lips.
"NOW, follow me."
Without further hesitation, his hooves find the path that would lead them through the woods, and if he remembered right... to the Falls.
MUTT - stallion - Grullo Snowflake - FIFTEEN HANDS
of the Lagoon
