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[Sheika]

The fish told me...

The stallion seems to overthink her question. ”Hmm..A creek will maybe also do...Though I like the ponds better..” she thinks out loud. She could try going for the creek, before heading over to the meadow. She catches the gaze of the other when he asks her a question. She blinks, looking suspiciously at his face. Did something change just now or had his eyes been blue the whole time? Shaking her head, thinking she probably imagined it, she focuses on the question again.

”Well, that’s because I’m looking for calamus. You know, this morning- wait, yesterday morning, I forgot I slept here.” She turns her gaze to a point somewhere in the sky, a bit to the right of the stallions head, as she recollects the previous events that lead her to this exact place. ”Okay, so yesterday morning, I was walking along the river. Then I got a bit of a toothache.” She shortly flashes him her teeth to support her story, as if he would be able to see the toothache, which was, ofcourse, not the case. ”And the fish, they have told me that for good health, one should eat some calamus. Now I’m not sure whether it also works for my toothache, I mean the fish said it would, however..I’m actually not sure whether fish teeth are similar enough to ours...” she confesses, then halts her rambling for a moment as she tries to remember what the actual question was that she was trying to answer with this story. ”So yes, the calamus, it likes to grow in places where the water doesn’t run too fast, you see? It likes to have its feet in the mud! And ponds are all about calm and muddy. And thus, I have been searching for ponds ever since yesterday morning.”, she finally concludes her somewhat lengthy explanation, confident that this would be a very relatable situation for the other horse in front of her.

Sheika

Image by Jon Sailer

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