Velvet Blossom
His name was Jiro. Blossom's ears perked quietly as she tried to commit the name to memory. She wondered quietly what Jiro meant, if it meant anything. Maybe it just suited him. His voice broke her out of her thoughts, however, and the mare blushed once more at the compliment. Any more and she might stay permenantly red, she thought.
But his question put her ever so slightly on edge.though she hid it well, she couldn't help the nervous flick of her ears. One thing she'd learnt in her short time in the wild, other than how things worked, was that wild horses didn't like to consort with tame ones. Sure, Jiro didn't look very aggressive right now, but she didn't look quite as tame as she used to. Better to hide it from him for now. "No, I don't have a herd. I left just a while ago." She said vaguely. Young mares often left their herds at two, so it kind of made sense. Blossom was not too used to hiding the truth, though, so her eyes stared quietly at the ground. His flirting made her grin, however, and her smile became a shy, abashed one.
Suddenly, Jiro seemed to focus on something. Blossom looked up as well, before hearing two other voices that would belong to the male gender. Looking around a little nervously, she took a step closer to Jiro, preferring to stay nearer a potential threat she knew then one she didn't. She could smell him then, though, but his scent was one of a mixed scent, with his own, and traces of a heat scent. As the wind blew her way, she recognised it to be heat scent from the mare watching the both of them. Blossom looked up at that mare for a second. That mare's pelt was of fine ebony, mysterious and beautiful, nothing like her bright red, which made her look down. Did she stand out too much here? She envied that mare a little.
"Is that mare a part of your herd?" She asked curiously, a little bit more of the fear abated, getting replaced with her feelings of intriugue.












