TRIPLE THURSDAY
Username: BadgerBuddies
Writing/Art: BBR Love and Thunder, named after the next highly anticipated adventure of the Marvel character and god of thunder, Thor. Her barn name, Jane, was a much better reflection of her personality and demeanor. She was a shy little girl who liked soft voices and even gentler pats. It’s not that she was afraid of the world, it was just that she preferred her environment to be more on the peaceful side.
Her behavior was deemed somewhat unusual, however, since she did not really enjoy or participate in the herd dynamic at Badger Buddies Ranch. Although she was housed with other horses and got along fine with them, she would often distance herself from the others and keep to herself. Not knowing that this is what she really wanted, the humans who worked at the farm decided an intervention was needed for Jane’s health and welfare. They felt that she needed to be paired with a more outgoing horse to “show her the ropes”, but Jane already knew the ropes, she just didn’t care for them.
The cream painted filly was brought with many of Badger Buddies Ranch’s other horses to the Tofratre event, as it was coordinated for Jane to spend some time with Queen, a very social and outgoing filly from a neighboring barn. When the trailer arrived, she was placed in an empty paddock, which she loved. Jane happily grazed in the sunshine, and even took a moment to roll in the lush green grass. It was clear that she was very content being on her own.
Jane pulled her head up from grazing as another trailer passed by. She snorted and returned to her grass, as the wheels went tumbling away towards the barn area. Not long afterwards, her head shoots up again, but stays up. Her ears perk forward as she sees another young paint filly like herself being walked along her fenceline. Jane could see the multicolored filly prancing and letting out shrill little whinnies, as if calling over to her. The soft cream fillies eyes went wide, and she began making her way to the back corner of the paddock, hoping that this stranger would be heading elsewhere. She heard the chains rattle against the metal gate, followed by the thundering of hooves racing closer behind her. Jane immediately took off in an attempt to get out of the way of this new horse’s way.
The other horse, named Queen, thought that Jane was trying to play a game, and continued to chase after her. Now mind you, Jane is a very calm and docile horse, but she had never dealt with another horse as intrusive as Queen. Queen playfully went to nip at Jane, and Jane, feeling threatened, kicked out, her hooves nearly missing Queen. The cream colored mare let out a panicked cry as she did so.
Queen swerved away from Jane after avoiding her swift kick. She continued to trot for a few steps before ultimately stopping. Jane continued to gallop through the field until she realized Queen was no longer after her. She snorted, and walked over the the corner of the fenceline to be alone and recollect her thoughts. Queen, now feeling sorry for scaring her perceived new pal, slowly walked over towards Jane.
“Hey!” Queen called over to Jane from afar as to not set her off running again.
“I didn’t mean to scare you, I just wanted to play! None of the other older horses at home ever wanna play games with me, I thought you’d wanna run and play with me” she pouted. Jane apologized back to Queen.
“I’m sorry too. I just prefer my own space and you startled me at first. All the other horses I live with are adults too, so they just sit around and don’t do much, and that’s what I’m used to.”“Listen, I may not be the type to romp around like crazy, but that doesn’t mean I mind company. If you want to hang out and just graze and nap together, that’s fine by me” Jane told Queen. The two were able to come together and graze side by side without any more mishaps, and they even took turns napping and standing guard over one another. While the two may be very different from each other, they were able to make the best of the situation, and came out of it as unlikely friends.
Tolter/ERRP: My
Jane and
Exotica's Queen