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Not found on any map, Endrykas is a large migrating tent city wherein the horseclans of Cyphrus gather to trade and exchange information. [Lore]

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The Best Plans

Postby Naiya on November 28th, 2014, 7:07 pm

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70th Day of Fall, 514 AV

Rue stirred the cook pot, the grains had soaked up most of the liquid already, so she fetched a cloth to remove the pot from the fire. It was large, heavy with the weight of breakfast for her whole family, her arms strained to hold it both up and out away from her body. She carried it just far enough away from the fire that it would stay warm but not scorch as if finished cooking.

She found herself a bowl, adding a pinch of salt and a hand full of fireweed to it before checking the oatmeal once more. The fireweed was spicy, and said to help speed healing or help one maintain good health. Regardless it added a nice spiced flavor. She added a spoon full of the meal to her bowl, stirring the salt in and letting the herb sit before eating.

When her food was gone she rinsed her bowl, chasing away the film and stray grains stuck to the side. She added a scant bit of soap, a flake she shaved from a large bar, and cleaned the bowl more thoroughly. She stowed it away, escaping the pavilion quickly to tend to the horses and Zibri.

She raced to the supply wagon, scattering goats with a laugh. It wasn't perhaps the best use of breath as she ran, but she couldn't help it, her heart was light and happy and it was all she could do to contain her energy. Her feet pounded through the grass as she beelined to the wagon, seeking the grooming kit.

She pulled the kit, heavy and laden with bags of wool. She would perhaps get to the zibri later, and if she did, she'd shove the loose hair in with the rest to be sold later. Her first goal was the horses.

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The Best Plans

Postby Naiya on June 25th, 2016, 3:54 am

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She moved more slowly out into the herd, not wanting to spook them as she had the goats. Some of them spooked anyway, the more skittish, but a good number were content to ignore her, and Wildfire moved forward to greet her.

He was clear in his intentions, wanting to be first, blocking her path and whuffing against the top of her head. She grinned, happy to deal first with her favorite companion. She reached up a gentle hand to push him head away, making space so that she could see through the fall of cream and white mane.

Greetings he seemed to say, and she shaped the word in return, smoothing her hand down his neck as she set the grooming tools down. She found the curry stone, a more luxurious tool despite the smell. She went to work, making circles with the stone in his hair, letting the work soothe her merely through her proximity to him.

She brushed loose dirt from his coat with the second brush, chasing clouds of dust and hair into the sky. Wildfire grazed lazily, not bothering to reach out for grass in the distance, instead remaining carefully close to the woman grooming him.

When his coat shone, she patted his cheek, lingering only long enough to scrape the dirt from his hooves. Bent closely to his feet she found a tick, small still, latched just above the hoof. She pinched him tightly, pulling him off. Still the head stuck, her fingers grasping to high on the body. She had to kneel in the dirt to see the tiny dot, pulling it out too.

She patted him again, sliding her hand along his smooth coat as she moved around his body, seeking things on his lower legs that she may have missed the first time. Wildfire let her circle only once before stepping away, chasing off her lingering worry with his clear decision to be done.

Go on he would have said, more work do. She dithered between a withering look and a longing one, to part from her partner was always difficult, more so when he was the one to choose so.

She moved away with no real decision on the matter, choosing instead to trust in her stallions orders. The zibri lingered, grazing as Wildfire did, but they were another matter to groom. They needed combs, and patience. Extra care not to startle or spook them, milking was necessary too. Extra work, these creatures, and more than enough to keep her busy until she could seek Shahar.
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