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caballero ∞ until one day it did ([personal profile] caballero) wrote in [community profile] multiversallogs2012-01-03 02:15 pm

there's no map, and a compass won't help at all

Who: Bruce Tom and Ilde, eventually Seoraj.
What: PONIES.
Where: The southern farmlands.
When: S..OMETIME.. probably before the log with Wolfgang, we kept saying we were going to do this log (IT STARTED BEFORE WE MOVED TO DW), so it's happening whenever is convenient for our timelines.
Notes: BATMAN AND A FAERIE ARE GOING TO SEE PONIES, DEAL WITH IT.
Warnings: None it's ponies.

Based on what he knows of her from the network, Bruce isn't entirely sure why Ilde is here with him - hanging out. Hell, he's not sure why he's here, but it seems like she's got more of a reason to not want to spend time with some human guy, easily trumping his desire to shun all socialization on principle. Maybe she's just curious, or maybe the opportunity to do this with someone who knows what he's doing overrides whatever else - maybe Bruce should stop trying to analyze everyone else all the fucking time, and think about himself for two minutes. (Never.)

It's dark on the edges of Stoneshell, rural, lacking in light pollution or even courtesy lamps, but the moon is good enough illumination for him. This won't be the first time he's wondered about the gravity and cosmic location of Baedal; the moon doesn't look quite like Earth's Luna, or even Cruithne. His boots crunch in the grass, noises soft but deliberate - he could be silent, as he moves, but it would be strange, seeing as he isn't alone.
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (i'm not snow white but i'm lost ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2012-01-07 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Making a face at the mention of polo is completely reflexive and something for which she can't be blamed; it is a sport designed to leave no sense of dignity unpunished. Water polo (which doesn't involve horses, at least) isn't much better.

Swinging her leg over a moment later, she settles on top of the fence, balanced well enough with her heels resting against the side below. "Riding club at school was good," she said, detangling part of the horse's mane in front of her to occupy her hands. "Some of the other girls were on the equestrian team as well, but I'm more of a hobbyist."

There's a large gap between the stories she tells offhand; things that took place in Baedal, things that took place during boarding school. But Bruce and his tendency to creep the network presumably already knows why.
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (has such small hands ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2012-01-10 08:11 am (UTC)(link)
Just enough social interaction to stay above noticeably antisocial was, at times, a genuinely calculated effort; Ilde finds it's easier to be background when somebody else is right there to be the foreground, when you're consistently background noise and nobody's looking at your absence. It's how she used to avoid being asked questions, just convincing people that there was nothing to ask. That they already knew everything worth knowing. Adolescent-level manipulation, the kind that's easiest when you are an adolescent and most people don't feel the need to look that hard in the first place. There are narratives into which you can fit--

"You're good with them." It's been a while since she was this near a horse, she thinks.
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[personal profile] rhinemaid 2012-01-10 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
"I've done it a few times," she says, a little cautiously; she can, but it's not something she has as much practise at and she's not going to get too cocky about it. It's been a while since she went on a horse bareback. (Or at all.) "It's been years, though."
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (and it never ends ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2012-01-11 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes," she says, promptly; she didn't even have to think about that, look how good she is at good ideas. Or really bad ideas that sound like a lot of fun - she's got a knack for those ones, always has. It's hereditary, she's pretty sure. A lot of things tend to make sense in context of 'Emery'.