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Baringa was pacing the confines of his relatively large paddock, in most terms it would have been called small, but out here, in the woods, with the Humans Cabin attatched to one side, it was larger than most would be in the dense trees, although there was the odd couple of treestumps, remnants of the trees that were cut to build the paddock and the cabin.

Baringa's ears twitched constantly, this woodland was far farr distant from where he'd been born, and every sound was new and exciting, the birds sang differently, even down the the lowly sparrows chirping on the roof of the human dwelling. Suddenly he focussed his ears on one spot *was that hoofbeats i heard?!* he thought. On the spur of the moment, he decided to neigh out, loud and clear "I'M HERE! HELLO?!"

Baringa snorted in surprise as the voice of a mare rang out, sweet music to his ears, he turned as the voice had come from behind him, there in front of him was a most beautiful chestnut brown mare, her blaze, white as pure snow, her stockings delicate yet strong "are you the princess of the forest?" he asked her "for you must surely be the loveliest creature i've ever laid eyes on!"

He stared and forgot for a breif minute she'd asked him a question. "OH.. the men caught me as a mostly grown colt, i'd ventured away from my herd, as all young stallions will" he stated matter of factly "i was brought here, me and the man here, we travelled for so long before settling down here a short time ago" he said, as if this explained everything. All the while he'd been talking, he had been moving forwards to the gaps in the fencing, his nose working hard, inhaling her scent, enjoying the sight of her.

Baringa nodded, his nose flaring, she smelled so sweet, much better than the stale sweaty human he normally spent his time with. "Yes Ma'am captured but never broken, the man .. he's my friend we...understnd each other's needs i guess" he said, looking over at the cabin when the mare did and sighing a little.

His skin twitched as the mare came closer, his tail lashed to keep the few flies off, his ears worked between focussing on the mare, and the cabin. The very prescence of her made him feel like his blood was on fire, in a good way, he closed hsi eyes briefly and took a deep breath. "you're just so beautiful ma'am, i cant help BUT look at you" He smiled a stunnign smile as she perched her chin on the top rail of the fencing. "I'm Baringa Ma'am, and what might your name be?" he asked "i'm sure it will be as sweet as your fair self*

Baringa smiled "there, i said that your name was as pretty as you are, and i was right... Lottie...Lottie.... why the name just rolls off the tongue so sweetly" he said flirtingly. His ears flicked backwards slightly at the clanging and the noise from the cabin, but his focus was taken by the mare on the other side of the fence.

"Freedom?" he asked "i guess...well i haven't really thought about it much lately i suppose, the Man gives me food, water, shelter, keeps predators away just with his stench ... now THAT is impressive, i've only ever seen those little black and white creatures with the large flat tails do that trick before" he said to her question. He followed Lottie along the fenceline, towards the cabin, suddenly he had a sickening feeling as he realised what the sounds from the cabin were. "Lottie, you have to get out of here.... NOW... before he comes outside, trust me, GO!" he said urgently, knwoing that the sounds the Man was making inside were the things he did before going out on a hunt....for other horses.. Usually the Man used a different horse to ride to go capture others, but here...there was just Baringa.. and he did NOT want to be the one to have to chase Lottie down, or others for that matter

Baringa backed nervously "Lottie my dear, please" he said, ears twitching all over the place as he struggled with conflicting thoughts. He closed his eyes and thought for a brief second.

Meanwhile the Man was gathering his traps, as well as hsi ropes and hobbles. He planned to take the stallion out into the woods and do some fur trapping, the only reason he came really. He was a lasy man and trapped in the summer, rather than the winter, he knew the hides would be worth less per crature, but also that there would be more creatures about at this time of year. He happened to clance out of the window and caught a flash of brown and got excited *a horse out here? no wonder the stallion was riled up* he thought, slowly exiting the Cabin from the rear entrance. He swirled his lasso quietly and moved around intending to capture the slinet creeping horse.

Baringa snapped out of his thoughts as the soudns in the cabin stopped "Lottie RUN!" he yelled, spinning around to see the Man coming up around the paddock, trying to sneak behind Lottie who was ever curious about the cabin. What Baringa did next surprised himself, as well as the Man, he ran and charged at the fence, intending to just frighten the man and make him drop his lasso, however, his hooves slipped on the slick grass beside the fence and he went crashing through rotten wood, the man not haveing repaired the existing fencing. Baringa was startled, and stared down ad the man underneath him, he tried to get up as gently as he could, sniffing the unconcious figure he moved to walk off, wincing as his leg gave way. "must have strained something" he mumbled, shying away from the fence and the man, backwards back into the paddock.

Baringa shied further away from the unconcious man "i...i dont know, i couldn't let the man catch you, and ....i .. i slipped, the fence was rotten ... i didn't mean to" he said, moving further away, limping.

He couldn't think straight right know, adrenealine and fear taking over his brain a little, he nearly ignored the circling mare "i..i think i'm alright, just twisted hy hock a little" he said following her reassuring gaze. He closed his eyes breifly and took a deep breath, when he opened them again she'd stopped, and was glancing between him and the Human.

On the ground the human moaned and stirred a little, it was obvious he was hurt, but maybe not too badly.

"What do you say we get out of here?" Baringa said to Lottie, now that he knew the Man would likely be alright he recovered himself a little "what an idea, a Stallion running away with a Mare" he joked.

baringa followed behind Lottie carefully, still nervous of the fence and the Man, his skin twitched when she nosed at the Man, even he'd never done that, they'd had a healthy respect for each other, but were never really affectionate. He hoped that the Man didn't try and find him again.

He stepped lightly over the fence "wait, your father?! er...Lottie... thats rushing it a bit isn't it?!" he joked after a while, he was glad they were out of sight of the cabin. "Lottie is this herd far?" he asked "i mean, we dont want the Man coming to your herd looking for me" he worried.