#rivervale_lodge

Jaymes smiles down at the boy "mm"

He beams back up at Jaymes, his tail giving a wag, ears perking. It's as though the smile is enough to flip a switch to light up the entire boy.

Raised brow, but yes, the smile is still there, "I need to see my wife. You two want some snacks brought out here while you watch the horse?"

"Oooo, snacks..."

"As long as your ennnnnnz and your emmmmmz are sorted out, I DO like Snnnnnnnacks. I am less fond of smacks. Unless they are Sugar Smacks Cereal but Miss Kerri says that I bounce off the ceiling if I eat that. But that was just ONE TIME and Gerd helped me clean the footprints off..." Slightly abashed.

"Oh, no M&Ms, they're bad for you, right? No chocolate."

"No M's at all, but it's okay. Most of the stuff I eat here makes me make my own. Kerri's food is filled with "Mmmm."

"OKay... okay.. I know she'll have something" Jaymes nods and heads off

"Oh, Tove's food has ALL the Mmmmms."

"Kerri's food is almost as good, though." She concedes.

His eyes light up. "I haven't had THOSE M's." Hangdog look, she recognizes those begging eyes from a certain Brown Dog...

"Dad'll get it."

Tove rushes out with an odd expression, "Here kids here you go, peanut butter cookies, carrot sticks and twizzlers I threw in... you eat out here with the horse for a few minutes? ..ten, at least ten... make it 15.." She races back

Grown ups are WEIRD

She seemed kind of flushed

as well as rushed

"Um... sure?"

"Oh, do you think King Jaymes is in trouble? Should we go help?"

"If he was in trouble, Tove would say so..."

"I didn't even know that horses LIKED Twizzlers." He climbs up on the fence rails of the paddock, holding out a carrot stick, and calls, "Haallooooooo Mister Horse, Sir, would you like a smack?"

Stormwake walks over, and glances down at the tiny stompable boy

He offers the carrot out on an open-palmed hand, and gives a tentative tail wag.

Crunch..chew... slight approving look

At least he's faster to win over than Jaymes

"Oh, Good Horse." She pats Stormwake's neck.

The horse seems smaller, perhaps he's size changed again so not to scare the pooka too much

"Isn't he handsome?"

Well, of course he is.

He reaches out to scratch the horse behind an ear - guessing that the same places get itchy on both Pups and Stallions?

The stallion is cautious but then looks at Dagmar and if she says this kid won't try anything funny...

A little nod.

And the horse leands into it and gets scratched. Silly horse doesn't know he's supposed to thump his leg, but other than that , he likes it

"And see, he's smart, too. Knows a good person."

He beams at Dagmar. "Well, he seems to like you too. Okay, I gotta go now." Filling his pockets with exactly one third of the cookies. "I have a date with some skurls who are getting too tubby on nuts and need to run around more. Thanks for letting me pet your ears, Stormy!" And, he scrambles off.

THe horse watches him go, then gives Dagmar a look (Sweet kid, odd though) he SEEMS to say

"Bye Connor..."

"So. Stormwake. Carrot?"

Oh yes please

Dagmar happily gives the stallion all the carrots.

And she sees someone? Is that bancroft? stumble into the lodge

Inside the Lodge, Kerri is setting out freshly beaten area rugs after having swept the floor. "Bancroft? I didn't know you were here."

"Long story... " he says, dim as daylight in a thick forest

"What...? Here, sit." She pulls him to a chair and gets him a mug of coffee, crumbling a piece of dross into it before serving it to him. "Drink this."

He drinks it, slowly "Thank you"

Emmit DID tell Kerri what the chief told her to.

But still

Bancroft says "Siv is NOT in a coma at all, is she?"

((Ugh, right, sorry. Kerri was on a BIT more high alert, but hard to edit that much now.))

"Don't question me inside my Lodge, Thane," Kerri snaps back at him.

OOC: Okay. But he didn't snap when he asked.