Nodding , the Morgan horse muttered to Rally "This is going to be my new human no doubt" Ransom sniffed the new human then suddenly whe all stuff snd looked straight at Merci, the German supers dog that followed the human around apparently. He backed away but stood his ground in a corner of his stall. Ransom disliked dogs especially big dogs , ones that could attack at any moment. He didn't want another incident . Did the ranch even tell this new human and her mutt that he had a dear almost of dogs. It was cowardly of him but he couldn't stop this fear even if it was just one or maybe two canine creatures that attacked him that evening. Ransom knew he was a weird horse but he didn't think he would be this....well pathetic. I mean here he was his bay flank was rising and falling rapidly and his eyes were wide . His coat was spéciales with sweet. It was the dog but he didn't know why it happens. He straightened up because he wanted to look like a slightly defiant horse instead of a sweating coward who was afraid of a dog . A singular smaller being who he could crunch in a instant but then again the dog could bite his leg off .

The pale buckskin mare paced around her stall. Tossing her head, her ears pinned back against her head, indicating she was anxious. And she ought to be, I mean...new riders were coming in, possibly with no experience! Who would be assigned to her? Would they like her? Would she like them? What were they going to do over their time together?! Aurora was static. She hated being like this, but she couldn't control it.

The mare gave what sounded like a shriek, pushing her back legs out from behind her, and ended up hitting the stall next to her. Aurora breathed heavily, wha-what had happened? She turned to see a piece of her stall's hay falling to the ground, wow..."Aurora, chill. It was a small piece of hay. It touched your leg, you're fine. Calm down." The blue-eyed mare said to herself, trying to calm down.

She needed to calm down, or yes, her rider would probably not feel safe around her! Chill! Aurora slowly paced around her stall, stopping when coming up to the window, looking out to the pasture. Taking a deep breath she closed her eyes and softly gave a nicker.

After a few minutes, Aurora was back to herself, letting out little neighs of "hello's" to the other horses. When the humans started to come in though...the buckskin mare couldn't help but get jittery again.

Looking out her stable stall doors Aurora's nose flared, her ears still flat against her head. She looked at the ground, not wanting to meet anyone's gaze. To be honest, Aurora had always been like this, just the thought of her messing up with a new student, or the other way around scared her. She wanted to be perfect for her rider...

After accidentally falling asleep, Seb awoke and he unpacked and tried to give the other person as much space as possible. He smiled at the little forest themed bed but liked the plainness of the wall. It was like a blank canvas, a new start just like this volunteering opportunity. He breathed in the smell of fresh paint as he assumed the walls had been freshened up by white paint. He opened the bedside drawer that was on the left, the drawers that the roommates could put their personal belongings in were in the middle between the the two beds,freshly folded and tainted with the smell of fresh laundry. He opened the drawers and surveyed them, they were a decent size and there were 4 draws. Seb put his notebooks and his books in the second draw, he put his clothes bag under the bed he would be sleeping on for the next few months. After lying a photo of his old now dead dog, Whiskey. A smooth collie that isn't even a sable color that looks slightly like whiskey, no Whiskey was a blue Merle smooth collie with a quirky personality and was a Velcro dog. He went everyone with Seb and if Whiskey wasn't allowed Seb usually didn't go there. He died s few years ago and it was like loosing a human. Seb bites him lip and he puts Whiskey's collar and lead in the first draw and lies his fluffy white blanket on the bed, feeling gratitude that the colors didn't clash.
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Seb looked out the window and smiled he realised they had a view of the barn where the horses were kept. He wondered where the horse he would be riding these months and also caring for the stallion. The horse's name was Limerence and as Seb pulled out the photo of the horse, on observance of the photo, he wondered if it was like a paint horse or soemthing and he grinned as he read that he was correct. He yawned though it wasn't time to sleep, not even close. "Wake up Sebastian" he said to himself. He got up from the bed and left the room, forgetting to put the realistic fake human skull away as it fell out of his backpack as he emptied his belongings in the drawers. He had put the back back away but had forgotten about the skull, and it was just lying on his bed. Just chilling. Looking like a real human skull. Seb closed the door and walked through the corridor,down the stairs and out the male dormitory door walking bouncing a little as he did humming.Suddenly Seb just stopped. He closed his eyes and lifted his chin to the sky smiling as he hears the local birds chittering and chattering to each other and to the humans who walked below the, trying to tell them how wonderful the day was, most definitely. Seb realised how much of an idiot he may look like as he stood there listening to the birds for a few minutes so he turned and walked towards the barn.

"Hey Mr. Ransom. Its just me. I'm the one who's goimg to be taking care of you." Sidero greeted him, pulling a peppermint out of her pocket. She always kept some in there even though she knew it was a bad habit. She laid it on the palm of her hand and stretched her hand out toward him. She had barely seen the scare on his face but instantly her mind flashed to some sort of trauma caused but humans. She kept her eyes down, trying to seem unthreatening and watched Merci instead.

The dog had sat down beside her, realizing they would be here awhile. When the mare reached over to sniff her Merci gave her a confused look but stretched out her neck and returned the puff of air, her wet nose brushing the soft one. After a moment, Merci flicked out her tongue and licked the mares chin.

"Merci don't bother her. She might not be like the horses back home and she probably wont let you ride her." Sidero warned keeping her voice gentle and soft to avoid intimidating the gelding. Merci huffed but lay down, keeping her eyes on the mare that had seemed to like her. On a whim, Sidero pulled out another peppermint and offered it to the mare.

Sniffing the air he smelt peppermint, creeping forwards as silently as he could he advanced towards the treat. Trying to making as little noise as possible towards the treat..Towards the canine...Towards your death...Towards that mutt there who could chomp your leg off with his sharp merciless fangs His mind fired thoughts around his head until he nearly screamed out load Stop...You need to calm yourselves. Just try that dog seems like a coward right? He edged forwards a little and tried to not shake, he admitted her was a little shaky but he was trying to act brave even though he didn't think he was. Rally crept forwards again, this time his white whiskers touched the human's hand,then his darkened snout gently took the treat, I mean how could he resist a peppermint. It was his second favorite treat after all after sugar cubes. He rolled the mint around his mouth happily forgetting about the dog that was by his human,Sidero he believed their name was. He knew then he,Ransom would have to be kinder towards this human and also just maybe tolerate the dog as long as it brought more treats. He looked over at Rally and after he had crunched down the peppermind, he half closed his eyes and tilted his head slightly with his head slightly raised, he was happy but curious on when Rally's human would arrive. He speaks to Rally quietly almost like the human could understand which he knew they could not "Rally when is your human coming?". He asked then he took a sip of the water in the small water trough they all had in their stalls, the water was clear and it drips across his snout and then decided to roll in the dust of the soft bedding in his stall as he wasnt dusty, and he just loved the smell of dust.. it smelt nice and natural, kind of like Rally, Ransom thought. Ransom blinked in confusion as the human pulled out yet another peppermint but he got up from rolling in the dust and thought about taking it but he nudged the human (Sidero)'s hand towards Rally's stall. He then stepped back and continued to watch how this would all play out.

"Limerence, Limerence, Limerence..such a mouthful but I like it" Seb mumbled to himself as he walked closer and closer to the barn door. Seeing one of the other volunteer's already at their horse's stall. Seb pushed back his wavy dark brown hair as it threatened to go in his eye, readjusted his silver round glasses and checked his pink moon earrings, he sighs as he realises he hadn't lost them as they were in his ears the whole time. He didn't exactly know why he was doing this but for some reason he felt anxious. Maybe it was just the new person he hadn't met but he had to push himself so he tried to walk past casually with a simple "Hi there" to the person (Sidero) Like nothing ever bothered him but inside he was stressing and he could feel the semester threatening to break out on his brow. See wuickly just wiped his brow just in case but no, no sweat. While he was doing that, he looked up and saw that a bird had nested in the wooden planks overhead. He smiled and looked at it closely and smiled even more when he saw it was a mama sparrow feeding her young. He had seen many sparrows but for some reason this one was special. Somehow. He realised that he might look strange just stopping so suddenly to look up towards the beams that were overhead in the barn so he just prized his eyes away from the beautiful sight and continued walking to find Limerence's stall, he got out the piece of paper just to be sure that he got the right horse with the right spelling of course. She hoped the horse wasn't too fancy but beautiful in personality. It is said that many believe horses have different personalities because of their breeds but Seb believes that every horse has a personality just some breeds are known to be more mellow and some breeds of horse are known for their feistiness like the beautiful mustangs here, their stall names being Rally and Bloom. Rally seemed to be a palimino while Bloom seemed to be a grey or white mustang whatever people wanted to call the color. Such pretty horses , I can't wait to meet mine and also the other volunteers too.