Aging Takes Some Time

[Dusty's Girl]

Upon the white fields, white stockinged legs set down their delicate hooves. The legs belonged to a leggy golden palomino filly, around a year and a half old. Her body was was filled out and her blue eyes were bright with life and sparkle. The white blaze down her face made her look almost downright angelic. Her white mane and tail were just starting to lengthen out, giving her a somewhat akward appearance, but that lovely white forelock looked mystical dangling into those blue eyes. Her nostrils fluttered as she released a call into the air. Her ears flicked as if listening for a sound, maybe to find that adoptive momma she once had.

A few yards behind the golden mare, a rustic looking cow pony trotted up. His chestnut hide still held a gleam to it, something strange for such an older gelding. His white stripe and his stockings were still white, if a bit dingy in places. His mane and tail were worse for wear, bearing some tangles and burrs. But he was alive. He had made it back to the place where he had called home for a short period of time. Thoughts of his human still lingered in his old mind, but they were tempered now and he was just hunkering to find a place to settle down and call himself home. His little filly was just about ready to join a herd herself and then he could find himself a place to settle down. Rowdy had done good by Golden Delight, raising her to be a good mare and to be a good member of any herd. Now it was high time for them to find a place to settle down and maybe find that there adoptive mare that Delight had taken so strongly to.

[Black Magic]

Aging Takes Some Time

Misty Dawn
The silver coloured mare stood some distance away. A somewhat familiar whinny caught her ears. Turning head swiftly in the direction she let a whisper escape her delicate nostrils. Moving forward a couple of steps she stopped and looked at the now young mare.

She then turned to look further behind the filly to Rowdy's figure. now shifting uncertainly she didn't make another move to wards them. She was unsure what to do now. They had left so suddenly and now she had moved on; now she had joined Cermak's herd.

[Dusty's Girl]

That there old cowpony stopped in his tracks, his eyes on the lone equine a few yards in front of him. Age had not taken his sight, no, it left him with that. But his hearing was starting to go somewhat. Just aging of course. That mare that Delight had taken a liking to must have gone off and joined a herd, but it was alright, he guessed. He was fond of her himself, but he was just a gelding. What did he have that a stallion didn't? He wasn't anything special, in fact he was just an old cowpony that wanted to find someone to settle down with since his little filly would be joining a herd soon. But of course, he could always follow his little filly to a herd and maybe just join that one...

Delight's ears perked up mighty high and her nostrils quivered as she gathered a scent. Was that Dawn, her adoptive momma? After all this time, she could finally say thank you for the life giving milk and time spent with her. She had grown into a fine little filly and hoped that she would be proud. She let a small whinny fly through the air to the mare.

[Black Magic]

Aging Takes Some Time

Misty Dawn
The mare snorted and stood completely still. uncertain feelings flew about inside her. she suddenly felt dizzy and sick. She snorted again loudly this probably the most noise she made voluntarily for a long time. Placing one foot in front of another she approached them cafe fully.

"Welcome back" she whispered as she came within Delights presence. She moved her head sideways nervously looking about her for any sign of the handsome appaloosa stallion who had recently claimed her as his own. "My how you have grown, dear little one" she said stretching out her nose to the filly who still had so far to go.

The young mare had grown little in her last year of growth; but she held a mysterious atmosphere about her as always and where ever she could she practiced her certain air and made sure she left no trace of being there. Though she had slipped up on more than one occasion when in the presence of her stallion and the lead mare.

[Dusty's Girl]

Delight welcomed Misty Dawn's touch, a smile coming over her muzzle. "Thank you." She let her nose dip down slightly before raising it back up once more. "But why are you looking around like that? Are you nervous about something?" Leave it to a filly to have questions. She moved a bit, settling once more after shifting her weight. Her snowy tail flicked over her body, her mane rippling slightly as she shuddered her skin at an insect.

Rowdy hung back, watching the mare and the filly. This was their time. He had disappeared and he did not expect Misty Dawn to accept them anymore. Especially since he had left with no warning at all. His head hung somewhat, his ears slightly back. He was in another stallion's terra and he was nervous himself, but then again he was just a gelding. His tail swished slightly, waiting for Delight to have her time with Misty Dawn, whom she had needed to see so badly. He did not mind at all and would gladly explain that to the stallion of this terra indeed.

[Black Magic]

Aging Takes Some Time

Misty Dawn
The mare snorted in small response. "I am now apart of Cermak's herd and I do not wish to disturb him more than i already have" she looked at the filly wondering if she would understand.

"Have you traveled much?" she asked changing the subject swiftly. She now relaxed a little the worst was over; but she still kept one ear alert for any sound of another. "and how is your dear step father?" she asked finally falling into her relaxed silence, she had always been the quiet mysterious one.

[Dusty's Girl]

Delight nickered softly, "Yes, we have been traveling and I met a perfect stallion. He is young though and father seems to think that he is not ready for a herd, but I think that he is perfect and will protect me and run the herd perfectly. Father does miss you awfully much though. He says that he loves you." A snort rippled her delicate muzzle, interrupting her ramble. She was not too keen on Rowdy loving anyone but her, but she could not stop the old gelding from love, that was for sure. Her white forelock dangled into her eyes slowly, her mane rippling slightly as she shook her head.

"Do you really enjoy it here? Do you even feel the love of the stallion here? You said that you wanted to find someone that you could love, not someone where you could just join a herd. At least that is what I think that you said all those months ago." Delight was rambling again, a trait that she must have picked up from her long dead mother since Rowdy never talked that much in the first place.

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Aging Takes Some Time

Misty Dawn
Snorting softly she bobbed her head. "That is great, if your father agrees then you should go for it" She flicked her eyes from Delight to Rowdy. "I do indeed feel a love to my stallion; not the same as i did with your father, but it still is a love and i can have foals here" She touched her nose to the young mare tossing her head and sending it rippling down her shoulder.

"as much as i do miss your father, my home is here now and i cannot leave my new herd." She dropped her head slightly. "I'm sorry"

[Dusty's Girl]

"Yes, I guess that foals are good for you. I am sorry that my father is not a full stallion, but he is a good protector to me. And I am going to join that stallion, maybe father will fit in and find another mare soon. At least someone he can run with for a time. I wish you luck and I will come visit soon, I promise." She let out a neigh, pure and wild. Her head rose up into the wind and for one moment, you would never have known that this filly had ever known the touch of man.

Rowdy nodded his old head, that was his filly. Wild and strong, unlike any mare back at the ranch, even her mother. He gave a deep sigh, trying to let Misty Dawn free from his mind. He had to move on, and this move with this young stallion might help him, especially since he could protect his filly still.

[Black Magic]

Aging Takes Some Time

Misty Dawn
The mare was silenced or a moment; her brain ticking over slowly. She lifted her head at the noise the filly made, that would not help her stallion any; she would attract many stallions and cause problems, she only hoped he knew what he was getting himself into.

She snorted and replied after some thought. "Of course; and i shall visit you some day." She said touching her nose to the filly. "May I speak to your father a little before you leave?"

[Dusty's Girl]

Delight nodded her head, nuzzling Misty Dawn once more, "Sure, I will go get him for you." She turned and trotted over to her father, whispering in his ear to go see Misty Dawn. With that, she lowered her head to the grasses and grazed for a moment, her ears twitching and her tail swishing behind her.

Rowdy raised his old head and walked slowly over to Misty Dawn, "You wished to see me, Ma'am?" He bobbed his head in respect, his tail slowly sliding over his body as his dark eyes looked at her. Sure, he was older. But his body was hardly betraying of his age. Only his muzzle was slightly grayer, his body moving a bit more slowly. But these years in the wild had improved him, taking away the pain in his joints from the constant movement and the years on his mind from thinking about nothing than protecting himself and his young daughter and finding food.

[Black Magic]

Aging Takes Some Time

Misty Dawn
The mare watched the filly move away and Rowdy make his way to her. She closed her eyes slightly then looked at him eye to eye. "I'm Sorry" She said softly. "I Hope you understand, but i had to move on. I didn't know where you'd gone, or when you would return if you would even." She said starting to ramble. [/i]"Please forgive me, but i will understand if you cant."[/i]

She tossed her head gently ridding her eyes of her hair. "Cermak is a good stallion, and i am happy here. I hope you and Delight are happy with this new stallion, i am sorry once again. but that is all i can say" She said finally lowering her head slightly in a sort of submissive gesture.

[Dusty's Girl]

He snorted softly, his ears slowly splaying to either side. This was not the first time that he had lost a mare, nor would it be the last, "Misty Dawn, I know that you had to move on. It was wrong of me to just vanish like that and I am truly sorry. At least this way you can have the foals that you wanted to have since I would have been unable to provide you with that. I hope that you are truly happy with Cermak. But know this, know that I will take you back if you ever need it, be it for anything including just protection." He snorted once more, his eyes watching as Delight cantered off towards Storm's terra.

He nodded his head once more, the older gelding turning slightly, "Have a nice time here, and I hope that you will come and visit with Delight. She truly does love you and does miss you as her adoptive mother since she does not have one." He took his leave then, making his way to Passion Forest and his life. His movements were slow as he left and he hoped that Misty Dawn would be truly happy with her decision to move on with this other stallion.