Restless legs {Open}

[Ex Kritchen]

Ex enjoyed the stables and the Pegasi. She couldn’t understand them, and she didn’t have a lot of love for riding living things, but it was always quiet here in the stables. A chestnut gelding whistled and stamped, trying to get her attention. She smiled and walked over to him, offering a hand for him to sniff. The gelding bumped his nose against her hand and sniffed happily, a fairly friendly horse. Ex scratched his cheek gently. Personally she had no feelings, good or bad, for horses. They were nicer than cows, but they had hooves, so she couldn’t say she was too fond of them.

She wasn’t wearing her contacts right now and her glasses were smutched and she couldn’t read very well through them. Still scratching the chestnuts cheek she used her free hand to carefully read the name plate on the stall. She smiled softly.

“So your name is Skippy? I wonder who gave you that silly name?” Her voice was barely audible over the sounds of Pegasi shifting and talking with one another and getting edgy as they wanted to run and fly. The horse gave a happy sounding squeak and stamped one hoof, blowing softly at her. She giggled and pet him, wondering if she would be allowed to ride or not. In general she’d learned that hoofed animals (deer and cows especially) liked to chase her from the bottom of Tartarus all the way to the top of Olympus if given half a chance, and so she was wary about horses but these horses could fly, so they couldn’t be TOO bad to her, could they? She started to open the stall door.

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Word Count: 279
Character: Ex Kritchen
Outfit: ripped jeans, Korn teeshirt, leather jacket, coke-bottle glasses, black leather steel-toed boots with 2 inch platform heels and a pink flower design on the heel and back

[Serenity Grace Derion]

The stables were quiet, just like Serenity. She went their often to visit the horses. At times she wished that she was a child of Poseidon so that she could actually have someone to talk to without using sign language, but she knew that was too good to be true. Even if he was her father, he would never claim her. Nobody wanted to claim the mute girl. She was about as useless as a tone deaf siren... and that was terrible.

Serenity took the back way to the stables in attempt to avoid the two Ares siblings arguing over a Demeter girl (and she knew that could get rather messy). When she reached the doorway, she heard a noise from inside. It actually surprised her for a moment, but she glanced around the corner, her blonde hair falling over her shoulder. She didn't say a word (as if she had a choice) as she watched another girl talking to one of the pegasi. It was a familiar face, though she knew the girl wouldn't have any idea who she was. One of the Zeus Cabin children. They were hard to forget when their father was the king of Olympus, but this one never seemed to talk much, despite her ostentatious appearance.

Serenity was about to step out of the stable when a piece of straw fell from the hay bale. As the straw brushed her nose, she gave out a small sneeze.

[Ex Kritchen]

Ex jumped when she heard someone sneeze and looked around. She spotted a younger girl, or at least, she thought the girl was younger. It was hard to tell sometimes, especially when they were larger than she was. Something about her face made Ex think she was younger though. She could ignore that for now. Suddenly she felt wood collide with her body. She grunted softly in pain as she was thrown sideways and back by Skippy shoving the door open and pushing past her. She landed with a soft wuff of air on her tailbone, bruising it. The chestnut gelding went careening toward the girl. Ex whistled sharply, calling help to the stable.

With a shriek a small bird shot into the stables and flapped at the birds face, screeching. The gelding stopped and squealed, rearing up and trying to box the falcon away from his face. Stryker flapped away and then landed on a stall door, shuffling his wings and cawing at them. The horse whose stall he had landed on flicked its ears in annoyance and then shoved him off with its nose. Ex had regained her feet in the meantime and she dashed over, grabbing Skippy’s halter and pulling to try and make it go into the stall. After a good back-and-forth battle she finally got him back in the stall. She dusted her hands off and looked at the girl, smiling a little shyly.

”Hi… My name’s Ex, don’t think I’ve seen you around before.” She would be surprised if the girl could hear her over the fuss Skippy was making and Strykers wings flapping as he flew up to land on her shoulder. The peregrine falcon gave a short, almost chirping, screech and ran its beak through her hair, preening her. She reached a hand up and stroked the black-specked silver feathers on his chest, telling him silently that she was proud of him.

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Word Count: 320
Character: Ex Kritchen
Outfit: ripped jeans, Korn teeshirt, leather jacket, coke-bottle glasses, black leather steel-toed boots with 2 inch platform heels and a pink flower design on the heel and back

[Serenity Grace Derion]

Serenity was surprised when the Pegasus came bolting towards her. She didn't know if the horse was happy to see her, or what, but his charge still worried her. Thankfully, the horse didn't get anywhere close to her before he was urged back by a strict looking bird. It seemed to take a moment for the other girl to get the horse back in, but when she did, Serenity gave her a smile and stepped forward to pat the horses' nose. The Pegasus glared at the bird for a moment, but the bird seemed to be caught up in playing with the Zeus child's hair and didn't notice.

Ex? What an interesting name. She had never met anyone named Ex, and wondered if it was just a nickname that the girl had received. Not that Serenity had any means of asking, of course. It was hard enough to try and give out her name.Do you know any sign language? she asked using her hands. Her hand went to her throat and she tapped it, but she doubted that she was going to get positive feedback. She rarely did.

Her eyes darted around to find something she could use to write with, but all she found was the hay that had caused her to startle the horse in the first place. A stick would have worked better, but hay would have to suffice.

Grabbing a handful, Serenity knelt down and placed the straws so that it spelled the word "SERENITY."