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 Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 2:45 pm
"I didn't say any of those things!" Tsani protested, settling back to his hooves again. "You--"
He heaved a breath, and any further shouting caught in his throat. Was she crying?
"It's obvious you aren't weak, or a filly." he said at last, much more quietly, much more contritely, blinking at her. "A little silly to kick a stranger for no good reason, but it isn't silly to agree to disagree otherwise."
He didn't think there was any way to twist his stomach tighter. He was wrong. "Everyone.... .....everyone needs protection sometime, one way or another. That isn't weak."
He snorted, attempted a smile. "You would've kicked your own father?"
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Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:03 pm
"It was in the way you acted...like it was your right to protect whether protection was needed or wanted or anything. Got under my skin..." She tried to hide a sniff with a snort, managing to hold further tears back. "Was raised with a colt like that, he's still like that, and I still don't like him. He's a p***k."
She swung her head around a little to look at him, mane half-hiding her face. "Maybe but...they don't need to be smothered with it. Some things you can't stop." Then she laughed. "Yes I would have if he'd acted like that!"
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Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:12 pm
Tsani blinked, then smiled a bit more confidently. "I'll be sure to remember to ask first."
He could practically feel his insides relax. Damned if he knew what to say next, though. Maybe he should take back to the air, but....he was the one who caused the tears. He had to make sure they were dried, at least in a way that wouldn't win him another hoofprint in the ribs.
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Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:54 pm
"You'd better," Akila replied, but the edge in her tone was halfhearted at best. Why was she so incensed by a stallion she'd barely even met? She couldn't remember having a temper like this as a foal, and nobody else she had met had riled it. Amaroq maybe, but he was a herdmate, like a cousin. And while her parents respected her freedom...she wasn't about to bring this story home anytime soon. They'd beat an apology out of her if she didn't beat them to the punch. "I'm sorry I kicked like that...you're okay right? And..." Her eyes widened. "Oh! Oh, we don't even know each other's names!" She drew a deep breath, as if preparing for a real bout of tears.
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Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:24 pm
Was she about to cry again? What had he said this time? Nothing!
The bewildered stallion feared her tears a great deal more than anything else she could throw at him, even if she'd been shoed. He tucked his wings tight and shook his head so vigorously his mane resembled a milkweed puff caught in the sun. "I'm fine!"
At least it gave him a topic of conversation.
"My name is Tsani. And it takes a lot more than that to hurt me."
That would have been a far more imposing statement had his mane not been fluffed out like the down of a chick.
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:34 pm
Through long tresses of dark hair Akila could see the bewilderment on the stallion's face. The sight made her feel both guilty and, oddly enough, amused.
This amusement increased exponentially when he shook his head, puffing his mane out in a way that made her first giggle, and then laugh freely. "I'm Akila...and..." She was trying to say that his mane was floofy, but the tall young mare was giggling too hard.
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:32 am
Tsani heaved a sigh, blowing long strands from his eyes. At least she wasn't crying anymore....that was a touch of balm to his otherwise thoroughly bruised ego.
"And I'm amusing?" he finished with smile that belied the tightness in his voice.
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:52 pm
"Yes," Akila managed to get out through her giggles, azure eyes dancing with mischief. Hmmm, should she make him suffer now for his earlier patronization? Then again, perhaps he'd already been through enough for that...but that didn't mean she couldn't have fun. "Almost as amusing as your hair is fluffy, that is..." she said, trailing off into more giggles with a flick of her dark tail. Really, all it lacked was length and it would be a match for that mare she'd met once...who was it...Lovey Dovey, that was the name.
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:39 am
Tsani snorted the offending locks from his eyes with as much dignity as he could manage. Filly, he harrumphed inwardly, though he dared not say it out loud. Still...a faint, sly smile crept across his muzzle.
"Manes and tails get that way in a strong wind. Here, see?"
With that, he beat his wings full-force toward the mare, with a blast of warm summer air.
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:30 pm
"But there's no...AACK!" Akila tossed and ducked her head, but to no avail. It seemed like the more she flailed her head around, the worse her mane got tangled about her face, and the more flustered she got. Finally she simply stood, tail lashing. Her dark mane was horribly frazzled-looking and tangled, but now and again a glimpse of an azure eye could be seen giving the golden stallion a baleful look.
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:40 pm
He couldn't help it. He grinned, and that burst into a more genuine laugh than he had enjoyed ifor a long time. He could see now why she couldn't stop herself before. He smiled sheepishly but brightly, dark eyes crinkled in his merriment as they met her narrowed and murderous glare, hidden under wind-tossed hair.
"It looks better on you." he admitted with a chuckle.
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:55 pm
Akila kept glaring at him for a long moment, before a soft laugh broke her silence. "It does, does it...how do you keep it from doing this all the time when you're flying? You don't look like you crash into the trees from blindness, so there must be a way to avoid it somehow." She tossed her head yet again, finally managing to get a portion of the mass away from her face. "Well?"
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:04 pm
He fluffed his wings and stretched them to their full length, feeling his old confidence returning. "I keep facing the wind, of course. Always looking ahead!" A toss of his own rumpled mane and it left his eyes, giving him a far better look at the filly....no, mare.
Definitely mare.
Her mane looked just as good back in place.
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:28 pm
Akila quirked a brow. "Flying against the wind all the time? Sounds tiring...and what if it's too strong?" She smirked a little as she added the last phrase, taunting him a little. "And what if where you want to go means you can't fly against the wind? Hmmm?"
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:50 pm
He snorted. His confidence was back, indeed, and it felt like it was there to stay. "Then I make it turn my way! I haven't gotten this far by turning aside!"
And that was not just more bluster, he had come far. Very far....
....though sometimes it felt more like running away from what was left behind.
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