The Stables - Saturday Afternoon

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Jocelyn had started to come down to the stables once in a while to curl up on a bale of hay (prickly but it smelled like home) and study or read or just try to follow orders and get out of her room a little for things that didn't involve training.

Today she had a book, but she was distracted by the horses and wishing that her horses weren't all back in Idris on the family estate. One brown horse in particular had demanded her attention as he stuck his head out over the half door and whickered demandingly, hoping for a treat.

She laughed, moving to his stall and reaching out to let him snuffle at her hand. "I don't know, your owner might have you on a diet," she pointed out, smiling at the touch of his velvety muzzle. The horse gave her a Look of disgust. "Hey, don't blame me. But maybe I have a mint or something in my pocket."

Of course she did. No matter what she said about the importance of following horses' diets, she never came down to the stables without an apple or two or a pocketful of mints.

[OOC: Baru modded w/permission and open stables for sure.]

The Salle; Saturday Afternoon [ 09/17 ].

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Words could not express how grateful Rosella felt that her mother had not caught wind of that ridiculous Three Minute Date event going on at the local tavern. Although Rosella was certain that Valanice wouldn't likely find many of the young men on the island date-worthy for a princess, she could hear her mother commenting on how the socialization would be good for her. But Rosella could think of fifty gazillion other things she'd rather be doing that didn't include dating.

One of those things was sword practice. She'd been lazy about keeping up with her exercises and she realized quickly that sword practice was much more fun when she didn't have her fencing master criticizing her every move. She'd spent a good deal of time working with various different practice swords, leaving a few dummies quite beaten and poked in her wake, and then she decided to really have some fun.

Hey, if the shovel hadn't been there to begin with, she wouldn't have thought to use it. But it was just as effective as a weapon as a sword.

No.

The shovel was better.


[[ open salle is open, of course! ]]