05-22-2015, 07:42 PM
fiasko
She can immediately tell she’s interrupted something. Crap.Jason is open and friendly, but the black mare looks like she’s ready to spit daggers. The look the mare gives her, followed by the harsh tone in her words, makes Fiasko want to shrink into herself and disappear. She stands strong instead, focusing on something her father had said to her long ago. “I love you exactly how you are and if they don’t, then they aren’t worthy of being in your presence.”
She shoots back a polite “I only wanted to welcome you”, but the mare is already gone, dashing back into the icy cold of the lake. Her single eye turns to look at Jason, questioning. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt anything.”
Her eye travels back to follow the mare’s path through the lake, watching as the black head bobs through the water. She briefly entertains the idea of following the mare, but quashes that thought. She doesn’t even know the mare, and following her would likely seem another intrusion at this point. She watches as the mare gets out on a distant bank, stopping in the muck. She stands there for a moment, before …
“Oh … I … I think she’s stuck!” The bank is faster to reach by swimming, so she plunges in, gasping in shock when the cold hits her. She focuses her mind on the far bank, trying to shut out the chill. It takes her a while (she hasn’t done much swimming), but after some time she reaches place where the black mare has become stuck. She gingerly steps out of the lake, testing the ground before her to make sure she doesn’t sink and become stuck too. Finally, she fixes the mare with her single orange eye. “Do you need help?” Of course, she’s not exactly sure how she’ll be able to help. But she’ll try.
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