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ellis ginsberg. ([personal profile] heorte) wrote2019-09-10 03:02 pm
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[personal profile] cozen 2021-04-27 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
A few. I have accidentally acquired one.

[ There is a horse snort, not far from the crystal, to emphasize this point. ]

And I was going to hand him over to the stables and let Riftwatch sort him out, but he has so many spots, and he bit me, and I think I love him.
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[personal profile] cozen 2021-04-27 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I would appreciate it very much, if you have time.

But if I've interrupted something, it is no rush. I'll just, ah. Be here staring at him without blinking in case he is secretly sick and about to die.

[ That's a joke. Kind of. He has something to read in the meantime, at least. ]
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[personal profile] cozen 2021-04-28 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh! That was fast."

His hands are both occupied at the moment by oats and horse lips, but as soon as they're empty of food he wipes them on a nearby blanket and takes the book. Meanwhile the horse snuffles at his shoulder and back in search of something else edible. Additional biting is possible. But Bastien lets him do it.

"And you can keep the other one," he says, "or pass it along, or put it in the library. I'm not attached to it."
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animal cruelty mention cw

[personal profile] cozen 2021-04-28 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Bastien flips through the book. It's too quick to be checking for damage. More of a fond welcome back to the pages. Then he sighs. It doesn't actually sound exasperated, and the glance he turns back toward the horse is already very fond.

"Antiva."

His pause briefly threatens to make that the whole explanation.

"They are not all good at cards. This man owed more than he could pay to me and to another fellow—he was trying to make the money he owed someone else off of me, you know how it goes. He said I could have the horse instead. And I said," with a self-effacing deepening of his accent, "I don't want ze horse! I barely want ze money. And the other fellow, Clifford Hayden, he said he wanted the horse. But I know him, and I have seen him kick a dog minding its own business in the street. So I wanted the horse after all."

The horse bites him. Bastien doesn't flinch, but he does aim a second look over his shoulder, this time stern.
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[personal profile] cozen 2021-05-21 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
"If charming and food source are the same thing."

He takes a step away. Not to evade further snuffling and biting, just to find a better view for satisfying his curiosity about what Ellis is doing. The horse's nose follows him for a few inches before he settles back and shifts his hooves.

He's fine, for the record. The horse. Four or five years old, a gelding, and decently cared for before now, albeit without any signs of particular pampering.

"I don't know about a name. Do they learn their names? The Antivan didn't say he had one, but..."