Vita Nova's ego deflated as the grey stallion became explosive. She was taken back by his bellowing tone, the coldness in his eyes and his hardened facial features, so much so that she actually retreated from him a few steps. The muscles that lined her thin frame were tense all over and her petite head shot up high above her withers. She didn't dare speak for some time, fearing what kind of physical retribution that could come from this stallion, whom was clearly on edge. Whatever confidence she had when she was first approached by this stallion had been stolen away from here -- completely consumed by the grey brute's aggression.
Vita Nova had no reason to fear the opposite sex. Her father, Valentine, was kind hearted and giving. Whatever she wanted from him, she got. Nephilim, despite their emotional ups and downs, too had been nothing for caring. Orhan was generous. Even Koray, who Nova probably disliked the most out of all the stallion's she'd ever met in her short lifetime, had never made her feel threatened. Not at this point, anyway. The ashen-colored mare had learned how to manipulate stallions from the best -- her mother. Even if she didn't really know what she was doing as she was doing it. She was still so young, emotionally immature and naive in so many ways. So the fact that her gruff demands were met with such hostility shocked her, and the fact that this stallion could pose a very real threat to her well being shook her to her core.
When he rushed by her in a huff, the mare moved quickly but clumsily to get out of his way, emitting a high-pitched squeal out of fear as their bodies collided. With Fallo in her rear view, her nostrils flared as she gasped for air, her head cocked back as she watched him go, bewildered and stunned. "You're right!" She called after him through her gasps, hoping her shaky voice was loud enough to reach him before he disappeared into the brush in the distance. "I'm sorry for treating you that way."
Nova didn't move. She didn't want to go after him. But something he said earlier about her mother still made her heart beat faster in her chest. "I'm just afraid something terrible has happened to her. And the stallion I live with doesn't give a damn." Nova swallowed and took a trembling step forward. "If you really do know where she is, can you show me? Please?"
4 | Mare | Evaline x Valentine | Smoky Back Splash | 15 hh | © Vinyl |
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