by Michael Kyber on February 8th, 2017, 12:30 pm
“You must be Ser Mortmer's new charge then?”
"Yes Ser, that's me." Michael replied, shaking Samuel's offered hand. Ser Longwell had a strong grip befitting of his size, and looked every inch the image of a hardened knight with his short hair and scars. If he were charging at you with a war cry Michael could easily see the man being very intimidating, but the smile on his face negated that effect and gave him more of a grizzled-but-nice kind of vibe.
Michael listened intently as Samuel introduced him to the horse that he'd be riding today; Billy. Despite his reservations about riding Michael found that he quite liked the look of Billy: he seemed more sturdy that fast, and had a kind of placid calm about himself that matched Samuel's assurance that he was well behaved. Compared to the breed standing behind Samuel that looked like a mountain of muscle Billy looked like he'd be a walk in the park to ride.
At Samuel's beckoning Michael approached Billy, taking care to go slowly and approaching directly from the front in light of Ser Longwell's warning. Billy didn't seem to have a problem with his presence, and so once he was close enough Michael lightly patted his mane as people seemed to do around horses in his experience. He had the feeling he should also say something to the horse, maybe a hello or other greeting, as he'd seen other people do, but the idea of speaking to a horse in a language it couldn't understand just seemed... weird really.
Ser Longwell's next instructions were to take a nearby brush and use it to give Billy a clean. Michael hadn't really expected to have to do that, he'd thought that riding lessons would just involve actually riding the horse without looking after it, but Samuel's explanation as to why made sense. It was easy to see how a horse would be more receptive to the commands of someone who'd taken the time to look after it. Picking up the brush Michael did as instructed and began methodically brushing down Billy, his strokes long but pretty light out of worry of hurting the horse. "Like this?" he asked Samuel, looking away from Billy for a second. |
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Michael Kyber on February 14th, 2017, 1:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Michael speaking in: Common | Fratava | Nader-Canoch
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