Fɪʀsᴛ Eɴᴄᴏᴜɴᴛᴇʀ
What was I doing here? The thought repeated through Conner's head as he nipped on his lip, he knew it had been a bad idea to sign up for this. Well, originally he had thought it was a great dare, a challenge which Danny had given him. Now as he watched the Icelandic tolters running circles around the pen he was left to take in a deep breath while waiting for his number to be called. 'Two thousand and forty one, In pen Six!' The announcers voice came along the line. It was now or never. With another stablehand from Tilting Tolter Ranch, Conner made his way over, spotting the mare who had wild, frightened eyes. With the man telling them to hurry up Conner leaned up just enough to get the wide lasso around the mares head, the others around them clearing the space. "You ready?" Rebekah asked, getting a single nod from Conner before she released the hatch. Surprisingly, for a horse in the mares feral state, she didn't barge out or buck, rather more like side stepped, shying from the loud sound of the announcer. Maybe this won't be so hard afterall...
The thought had no sooner crossed through Conner's head than when the mare let out a loud whinny, charging forward and all but dragging Conner after her at the unexpected movement, only thanks to the help of Mud, their mudi dog and his experience with herding were they even able to get her out into the more quiet area. Even with looking around at others struggling to trailer the horses it made Conner nervous for this, taking a deep breath. "Alright Bec's. You want to handle this one?" He joked, running a nervous hand through his hair, looking from the trailer to the frightened mare. "She's all yours Conner, You thought of a name for this baby yet?" Only shaking his head in reply Conner moved to stand by the door of the trailer. "Needa hand?" Danny asked from the front, the other boys big goofy grin on his lips, clearly finding Conner's situation amusing already, "Just wait till you have to get on her." The other continued, definitely not helping. "Yeah... Why did we even bring you." Conner grumbled, handing one of the ropes to Danny while Rebekah kept ahold of the other one.
While Rebekah and Danny pulled at the rope Conner used a series of whistles for Mud, the dog barking and dodging the occasional kick which the horse give. After what was only five minutes, but seemed oh so much longer the mare was finally contained within the trailer, whether she was happy about it or not. "This is going to be a nightmare." Conner complained, burying his head in his hands as Mud licked his face with a bark, the dog clearly excited over all the adventure today. "Told you you would back out." Danny said in a sing song voice, grinning from ear to ear at his friend already being defeated. Rebekah, on the other hand, wasn't quite so over the moon by Conner's words, even reaching forward to slap the back of his head, "She's a good mare, look at those lot, they are still struggling to get the horses in, she went in easy and didn't give us that much bother. Just think of her running across the field, listening to ev-" Being cut of my Danny's laughter the girl shot a glare at the other man, "Yeah Becca, you know this isn't a fairytale, right? The fairy ain't going to come magically tame the horse." He said in amusement, steering the vehicle around the others and back onto the road, "If the Vikings could tame the icelandics, then so can we." Rebekah said defiantly, Conner just looking between the two, "I think I know what I am going to call her now..." Glancing out the back window in thought he smiled a little at the other two in the cars raised eyebrows, "Vikings Fae. Because your right, the Fairy's aren't going to help us and the Vikings, well we should take a sheet from their book." Conner finished with a light shrug, "That, is a terri-" It was Rebekah's turn to roughly elbow Danny in the ribs, "Perfect name for a soon to be, perfect horse." The girl finished with a smile, reaching forward to turn the radio on before Danny could say anything else.