So we Meet Again.

[Ginchoeri]

Gin just nodded with a smiled, "I guess not."

She continued to walk on, passing horse after horse. "You know, you do not have to hold back on your oppinions of me. I know I snapped before, but I also know I should not have. If you hold back, then I will hold back, and I find that to be a very difficult and untrusting friendship yes?"

She never once looked over at him when she said this, it was as if she was focused on what was before her. Well she was. She was looking at horses, trying to see if there might be one Sam would like. But she did not exactly know what he was looking for. She sighed on the inside, she would ask him.

"So.. what exactly are you looking for in your horses? It would make the search a little bit easier." She smiled at him. She was so not good at communication, she had to work on that a bit more..

[Sama'el Sunsinger]

"Holding back?" he asked, a mite confused although pleased that she considered him a friend after only meeting him twice. But she quickly moved onto another subject and he made a humming noise as he thought about it. "It's difficult to say, really. I'll know it when I see it, but that's not helpful for you. My herd isn't very big right now. Within my pavilion are three Strider stallions, three Strider mares, two young Seme, my Windrunner stallion, and a mountain pony. I suppose I'm just looking for the best Windrunner mare I can find to mate with Horse, but it isn't pressing, and so I can be patient and wait for a truly striking mare. He's saved my life so many times, he deserves the best." He smiled, speaking of the Windrunner as if he were a human friend and not an equine companion.

[Ginchoeri]

"Ha, yes, that is not very helpful to me... that is quite small though.. Hmmm. But. that is really nice. That you want to do that for Horse I mean" she looked at Sam, giving him one of her glowing smiles. "It may be true that he has done much for you. But haven't you done just as much? Heck you might be doing more for him then you think you are."

She continued to walk, "Horse has stayed with you because you treat him well, and care for him as if he were your brother. He loves you, and you clearly love him back." she nods. "I'm glad to see that. It hurts to see horses and riders not get along.."

"I wish.. I had something like that. I'm still searching. But, as things are, I don't know." She sighed, looked at a speckled grey and black horse. "The seach has been long, and I feel that i have been alone for a long long time." She looked down at the ground and shuffled her feet.

"Someday though, I feel it will happen, I just have to wait for the right time." She nodded and looked forward again.

[Sama'el Sunsinger]

"Yes, well. I love the greedy bastard," he said of Horse, who would crowd the others from a particularly delectable clump of tender greens, except for Dohaina who was the dominant mare of their little herd. But if Ginchoeri liked to see men and horses living and working in harmony, then she had come to the right place. The best riders and horsemen in the known world were the Drykas. "I'm sure you will find it someday," he agreed. "Things always come in their own time, and all we can do is make ourselves ready for them."

[Ginchoeri]

She smiled as he talked of his horse. It made her happy inside, even through all the bad things she was going through. She nodded when he finished talking. "Yes. In due time.."

She came to a stop in front of a over bearing and strong looking dun stallion. She patted his neck it was good to see these horses so strong, healthy, ready to be paired with someone who she knew would love them and care for them.

"Sam... What do you think about the way I act with other horses. Do I look like I feel more at home with them than with humans? Do I act like that? It hits me sometimes, that I spend to much time with other peoples horses, that they might not like me near their horses. Because they don't want them to get to used to me. But.. I guess.. " She turned and looked at him, "I can't help myself. Do you understand?"

[Sama'el Sunsinger]

Sama'el continued walking along with Ginchoeri until she stopped at the next stallion to catch her eye, this one a strong-willed dun. He wondered if the sudden aggression in the animal, nothing violent, of course, was because he could smell the horse on Ginchoeri, both from her handling of previous horses and because a part of her nature was equine -- just a different part from that of a Drykas. At her question, he looked thoughtful. He hoped she wasn't setting him up for another yell. "You certainly look comfortable with them," he said, "but I haven't really seen you with people, other than myself. We seem to get along all right, when I'm not mistaking your meaning for things. Horses like these that are out to be sold are fine to touch. You aren't going to undo any of their training in a few minutes. But I wouldn't suggest wandering into a pavilion's herd to chat with their horses. Then you're, well, sort of invading another herd. You'd want permission first. And I wouldn't recommend getting overly friendly with a bonded Strider without permission. There's a particular bond there, you know. It's magical, soul-deep."

[Ginchoeri]

She smiled a bit, as she listened to what he said. She should have expected such an answer such as his. They haven't known eachother long. But they did seem to have hit it off well. She kind of giggled at his statement about going into a pavillions herd. "The only way I'd be in a pavillion's herd is if I was part of it." She smiled sadly.

"I wouldn't do it though, not for the life of me. Because... I just couldn't do it. Stay horse all the time... I know there are Drykas here that would just LOVE to have my form.. but.." She just shakes her head and closes her eyes for a moment.

"I'm sorry" She looked up and smiled at him. "Thank you for your honesty." She just stands there, she doesn't move. It's like she's expecting something to happen.

[Sama'el Sunsinger]

"Well, if you remain among the Drykas long enough, I'm sure you'll make more friends, and some of them close enough to consider you family," he said. Unsure with whom she had been spending time since the last (and first) time he saw her, but he knew that she would find some pavilion eventually. He didn't know her well enough to invite her into his own, of course; that was a sacred thing. But perhaps his would be the lucky one, eventually. "I should get back to my own herd," he said, his herd being both equine and human. He smiled. "It was good to see you again, and hopefully it won't be another year before I see you next. Find me if you need help, yes?"