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Elija Kalev Hazari [Eli or Kalev] / 21 / Male / Ranch Hand / Ruka

Elija scoffed at the comment about only one of them being able to ride. "Very funny." He muttered. "And how would you know rather or not he is into ladies? Did you ask him out or something?" He teased. He tipped his head with a sigh. "What did the poor dog do this time?" He asked with a smirk.

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⎚⎚ Ruka Talias| Female| Ranch Hand| 22 years old | Heading to the ranch| Tags; Eli ⎚⎚

Ruka threw the saddle onto the pinto's back and started doing up the straps, "I know, I'm so fun." Ruka smiled until Eli asked if she had asked him out or not, Ruka snorted. "No, I didn't. You know what I mean though. Viking wouldn't date a married woman, that would be just... weird to say the least." Ruka finished doing up the straps and looked over the horse's back at Eli and raised an eyebrow, "Poor dog? No, this time it was poor dad. Dad went on the horse to get a calf that was left behind during a cattle drive and while he was tying up the calf, the dog, no joke, jumped on the horse and took off with it. Rode all the way back to the farm by himself." She smirked and shook her head, just thinking about when the dog came riding up on the horse with his tail wagging and looking just so happy to be alive.

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Elija Kalev Hazari [Eli or Kalev] / 21 / Male / Ranch Hand / Ruka

Elija laughed, hearing about the dogg. "At least he didn't take the horse and run away." He smirked at her being quick to Viking's defense. "If I didn't know any better Ruka. I'd say you had a thing for Viking." A teasing grin made it' home acros his lips as he looked to her.

Viking Jakobs / 28 / Male / Ranch Hand / Ruka, Elija

Once he had things set up Viking swung himself back up onto his horse and road up to where Ruka and Kalev were chatting. "If you two have time to chat then you have time to work." He said a bit irritably. He always got a bit cross when outsiders were at the ranch. Well, those that he considered outsiders. "May as well help with the sawing and branding if you hae nothing better to do. Jace is going to be tied up for a while with these folks."

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⎚⎚ Ruka Talias| Female| Ranch Hand| 22 years old | Heading to the ranch| Tags; Eli Viking ⎚⎚

Ruka wrinkled her nose and whispered quickly as she saw Viking approach, "I'll have you know I would rather date dirt before I dated or even started to like Viking in that kind of a way." Ruka looked at Viking and pulled herself into the saddle, grabbed the lead rope that tied the horse to the fence and pulled it free. Ruka quickly looped the end of the rope into the horse's halter before turning the horse about, "We were going to come, Eli was just being a chatter box." Ruka said as she stuck her tongue out at Eli.

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Elija Kalev Hazari [Eli or Kalev] / 21 / Male / Ranch Hand / Ruka, Viking

Elija scowled at Ruka for blaming him. "Vikailo, get down." The dog jumped down. He barked at Viking. He knew when the older man was being cross to his master. Though this only earned him a growl from the collie. Elija swung himself onto his horse and started towards the cattle pens with the shepherd trailing behind him.

Viking Jakobs / 28 / Male / Ranch Hand / Ruka, Elija

Viking had heard the comment Ruka had made as she mounted her horse. He didn't really care. To him, she was a kid and that was all there was to it. "Dog." He called the collie back when he went to go after the shepherd for growling. With that he started back to the empty coral. "Just rope and drag out one calf at a time. I'll take care of the rest."

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⎚⎚ Ruka Talias| Female| Ranch Hand| 22 years old | Heading to the ranch| Tags; Eli Viking ⎚⎚

Ruka took a breath before spurring the horse after Viking and Eli. The pinto may have been old but he was still willing to work hard and pull his own weight. Ruka grabbed the rope that hung off of Jasper's saddle as she rode by it, the grey colt calling out to her as she rode by. Ruka undid the rope and gave it a couple twirls over her head as she rode towards the cattle corrals and through the gate, "Alright, your the boss here Viking." Ruka shrugged in response as she pulled the horse to a walk and slowly twirled the rope, picking out her target among all the yearlings.

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Elija Kalev Hazari [Eli or Kalev] / 21 / Male / Ranch Hand / Ruka, Viking

Elija muttered to himself as he went into the coral and twirled the rope. He topped it low into the herd and snared one of the young bulls by its back legs and drug the bugger out. Of cores it kicked and called out but to no avail. He stopped pulling the young steer when it was near Viking.

Viking Jakobs / 28 / Male / Ranch Hand / Ruka, Elija

Viking waited with a pair of snips in hand. When the first calf was draged out he set a hang to the animal's side and went to work of clipping him and topping the parts into a bucket by the fire. He would then pull the branding iron from the flames and press it into the animal's hide until it was a deep enough mark.

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⎚⎚ Ruka Talias| Female| Ranch Hand| 22 years old | Branding and roping cattle| Tags; Eli Viking ⎚⎚

Ruka tossed the rope and caught a heifer by one front leg and one back leg. She whistled to the pinto and he started towards were Viking was branding the first yearling. Ruka pulled the horse to a stop a ways behind Eli's horse and waited for Viking to be finished before urging the horse closer to Viking and the yearling closer..

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Elija Kalev Hazari [Eli or Kalev] / 21 / Male / Ranch Hand / Ruka, Viking
Viking Jakobs / 28 / Male / Ranch Hand / Ruka, Elija

Once Viking finished with the yearling Elija pulled it away and turned it loose in a separate coral so it didn't end up getting roped again. He went back and got another one while Viking set to work on the calf that Ruka brought out. He did what was needed, branded the calf and waited for the next one. This was easily an all day task even with the three of them working at it.

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⎚⎚ Ruka Talias| Female| Ranch Hand| 22 years old | Branding and roping cattle| Tags; Eli Viking ⎚⎚

Ruka reined the horse around and aimed for the closest calf, one that was from the jersey bull cross. Ruka tossed the rope and caught the yearling bull. As she stared at the bull though, she realized just how much the calf looked like his father, 'I hope he ins't like his father personality wise.' The jersey bull cross out in the fields was not one to be messed with, which was why he was by himself most of the time. He was aggressive and charged anything that moved, aside from the cows that were put in with him. Ruka spurred the horse back towards the branding area.