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Post by Kristy Learing on Oct 20, 2009 20:04:17 GMT -5
Kristy was leading one of her cases out into the round pen. She had just gotten this horse, he was a seventeen hand high horse. Thoroughbred breeding three-day eventer was six years old and could already jump gran-prix levels. But he was starting to make a fuss about going into trailers. She was going to join-up with him and hopefully make that connection. She had learned this from a person her riding instructor had learned this technique from. Monty Roberts, he was highly famous in the Equestrian world and Kristy respected his works. She let the horse out and flicked her lead rope to his hind end. Usually she would use her own talking communication but she found Join-Up to be most useful in these kinds of cases. As he ran around Kristy heard a car pull up but didnt look away or she could lose the connection she was already starting to gain.
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Post by Maggie Russell on Oct 20, 2009 20:11:44 GMT -5
After the whole episode in the pet store Maggie had gone home, deposited her stuff, said hello to her mother who was working in her office with the door partially closed, grabbed a snack and then called, "Mom I'm ready!"
Mrs. Russell appeared with the keys in one hand. "I'll be glad when you can drive yourself places without the need of a licensed driver" she said with a semi-amused and semi-irritated laugh before handing the keys over.
Maggie was out the door in a shot and had the car running before her mother was even in the driveway. They reached the stables and Maggie reminded her mother that she would need a ride home in a few hours. Mrs. Russell had agreed and backed the BMW out of the long, narrow driveway. Maggie had then jumped the fence gracefully and leaned against it from the other side, watching Kristy and the horse.
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Post by Kristy Learing on Oct 20, 2009 20:15:59 GMT -5
Kristy smiled slightly when the horses ear flickered into the inside. She flicked the rope again sending him on still. The horse gave a little snort but moved on suddenly he made a motion and it looked as if he was chewing at the air. Kristy had him go on for a few more circuts of the pen and then dropped the rope and her gaze and and stood there with her back turned slightly. Thats when the horse walked up to her and bumped his nose on her shoulder, she walked forward and the horse walked after her. After a few trips around the pen she stopped and pat the horse.
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Post by Maggie Russell on Oct 20, 2009 20:21:01 GMT -5
Maggie watched for another few minutes and then made her way over to Kristy. "Hey" she called up to her. "I can stay for a few hours but then I have to get home and do some homework. I am so far behind." She didn't mention that she was so far behind because she had been spending the last few days basically baby-sitting an angry ghost that wanted its cousin murdered.
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Post by Kristy Learing on Oct 21, 2009 16:00:04 GMT -5
Kristy smiled as she walked over to Maggie, "awesome...I just have to put this guy back. I think the join-up is enough for one day" she says as the horse follows her out of the pen with no lead or anything. She walked back up to the stables and put him back in his stall, "If you want I have a few other horses that are ready to go home, but were allowed to ride them. We can go on a trail ride if you like...I do have one horse who just got over his fear of trails and I have been meaning to take him out with another horse" she says walking over to the horse she was talking about. He was a small gray appaloosa around fifteen hands high.
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Post by Maggie Russell on Oct 21, 2009 16:03:31 GMT -5
"Sure, I love horses" she exclaimed. "Which one do I get to ride?" She scanned the multiple stalls of horses in front of her and Kristy. They all looked really cute, but really bored. "How much exercise do they get normally" she wanted to know with a concerned frown.
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Post by Kristy Learing on Oct 21, 2009 16:07:26 GMT -5
Kristy looked around and walked to a stall, "this is Lillie she is one of the school horses here that are used when kids come in to ride." she says smiling and then looked at Maggie, "Me and the other girl who work here try to ride each horse at least five times a week which is pretty normal...When I am not at school or training a horse I am usually riding the horses that are in the lesson program" she smiles as she headed over to the tack room to get Lillie's tack.
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Post by Maggie Russell on Oct 21, 2009 16:16:54 GMT -5
Maggie waited for Kristy to come back with Lillie's tack. While she waited, she looked around the barn. "I wish I had more time to do stuff like this" she muttered, mostly to herself, but she wasn't surprised when she recieved an answer:
"You have plenty of time to do whatever you want, kiddo." Scott had materialized at her side and was leaning against the stall door casually.
The horses started pawing the ground and whining nervously. Animals tend to not like ghosts that much. Maggie shook her head with a frustrated sigh. "Oh right, because I definitely have time to ride horses and be normal when I've got ghosts hunting me down all the time for help or when I have to stop the other ones from getting revenge." She held up her left hand. It was bandaged. "I'm in the hospital more times than I'm at school." Ok that was an exageration. "So I most definitely do not have time for...hey Kristy! I was just talking to the horses...they seem anxious..."
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Post by Kristy Learing on Oct 21, 2009 16:23:21 GMT -5
Kristy was getting Lillie's saddle and bridle and decided to get Olivers as well. He was the horse she was talking about earlier.
"Ghost!" Silver squealed.
Kristy looked over her shoulder out into the isle, Silver, was her own horse and he had always had a good sense of things. She didnt know what he was talking about so she shook it off. Until she heard the thoughts of the other horses saying the same thing. She rushed into the isle and saw that the horses seemed aggitated. As she put the tack down by Lillie's stall she walked over to the nearest panicked horse and pat his head.
"There is something here Kristy, a Ghost of sort" it was Gambler who said this, an old ex-racehorse.
"Its ok Gammy, everything is fine just calm down" she says softly. She could feel the horses frantic air calm as she talked.
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Post by Maggie Russell on Oct 21, 2009 16:43:04 GMT -5
"Get. Out. Of. Here" Maggie hissed through her clenched teeth in the direction of her uncle without looking his way. She didn't have to turn to see if he listened or not, she could sense that he had shimmered and dissapeared when the horses began to calm down. "Wow, that was weird..." Maggie's panicked breaths began to calm as well. "I guess these horses are like super sensitive to weather changes huh?"
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Post by Kristy Learing on Oct 21, 2009 18:03:57 GMT -5
Kristy looked at Maggie and smiled unsure of somethings but she didnt say anything, "I guess so...Anyway do you know how to tack? Or would you like me to throw on Lillie's tack real quick?" she asks.
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Post by Maggie Russell on Oct 21, 2009 18:11:21 GMT -5
Maggie sank against the nearest stall door and let out a breath of relief when Kristy didn't press the issue. "Um, yeah...I know how...here, I got it." She took the tack from Kristy and once her legs were steady beneath her again she began tacking Lillie up. Then she put one foot in the stirrups and swung the other leg up and over her back, mounting gracefully. She took the reins in one hand. "Ready."
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Post by Kristy Learing on Oct 22, 2009 11:43:23 GMT -5
Kristy was already on Oliver and nodded, "yeah...Lets go" she says as she walks off towards the large field that would eventually end in the woods where the trails were.
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Post by Maggie Russell on Oct 22, 2009 11:50:50 GMT -5
Maggie brought Lillie up even with Oliver so she could talk with Kristy. Though she wasn't quite sure what to talk about once she opened her mouth. "So...you like horses" she said lamely. And then, "Sorry that was a stupid question. Clearly you like horses. And you're really good with them too."
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Post by Kristy Learing on Oct 22, 2009 11:55:31 GMT -5
Kristy smiled at Maggie and nodded then laughed, "Yeah I love horses, I always have. Its like me and them connect" she says, "its why I am able to train them" she explains.
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