Lyden stood facing away from the herd with his ears resting flat against his apogee listening to the sounds of everyone eating, moving around with snorts of disgust because vegetation in the forest was scarce. It of course is getting better because spring is just around the corner Lyden still understood their frustration as he listened quietly. His stomach growled but he ignored it and instead just stood completely content with listening. Sometimes watching and listening is the only way to get to know someone without words and in his younger years it was the only way he got to know anyone

Closing his eyes to doze or try too is when he heard the snort of someone come from behind him. Tensing only slightly and turning his neck so it arched his pale forelock move in front of his right eye but Gandy’s smell engulfed his nostrils as she slide her head onto his back and into his main. A slight smile crept on the corners of his lips and for a little while Lyden just allowed the buckskin mare who seemed to have him wrapped around her like a father would his young child daughter. This mare is so mysterious yet gentle beneath her rough exterior and her eyes so blue and alluring much like his own made her – his perfect match

”I’ve noticed you making a huge effort to get to know the mares in the herd” his voice is quiet and full of compassion for her. ”you make me insane with emotions with everything you do. I’ve never met anyone who could do what you can or who’s made an actual effort to get to know the woman of the herd” Lyden paused allowing himself to bask in her warmth that surrounded him from her neck down to her chest that was pressed against his stomach.
”gandy, you are what makes a leader by the things you have done and continue to do. You’re an amazing addition to my herd, you’ll be a fantastic mother and someday, perhaps you’ll be the lead that I’ve been looking all along” of course he must get to know the other girls to really make a decision but Lyden knew that now was thee time to tell her. Gandy could literally consider Lyden to be only hers in so many ways – however he prayed she didn’t want him to vocalize it because then he’d become a stammering fool