Meadow

I DON'T WORRY,
WORRYING DON'T AGREE
THINGS THAT BOTHER YOU, NEVER BOTHER ME!

“That was absolutely mental, dude!”

Talya’s ears flicked and her head turned, blue eyes immediately falling on the red mare that’d approached. It never took Talya much time to befriend any horse who’s path she crossed, but there was something immediately between them that made her smile just that much more friendly and happy. Talya, without realizing it, liked Sleia’s energy.

She noticed as the mare talked more that the white specks all over her coat was not snow as she’d previously assumed. For a minute that distracted Talya as she rather openly let her gaze move from white freckled dot to white freckled dot, grinning a little more and more as she did.

Finally she made eye-contact with the mare again. “I like your spots!”

Then, her brain caught up with what her ears, which had been pointed at the mare, had heard her ask. “Oh-” it was rather cold, wasn’t it? Talya shivered and looked down at her legs, wet hair slick against her pink skin underneath. “Uh-oh, I didn’t think that through.” It’d take them even longer to dry out here in the open, where an occasional breeze might sneak in and brush across them.

“Um- I was. Yeah.” Talya nodded as her eyes finally lifted from her still-wet legs. “She was my friend, a very pretty black mare with hair on her feet. She said she was Nobody. Have you seen her? It’s…” She blinked. “It’s been a long time since she was here, so maybe not…” But still, it would be neat if the cool spotted mare had just seen Nobody nearby.