#rivervale_lodge

Dagmar sees that two of the three are out of the fight... but another is making a break to steal Stormwake. Who is under some kind of horse stealing dictum!

"Star, let me ride you."

Bareback is not her favorite - but Flyswatter has a very convenient hook on its head. She bets she can dehorse the thief... if they can catch up!

Stormwake is ahead of them ,while the woman rides.

She stills so that Dagmar can mount, and barely gives her a chance to settle and wrap her hands into the silky mane (due largely in part to Dagmar's ministrations!) before she leaps to the chase!

It is MUCH harder to do this bareback - but she's had practice, using knees and good balance to keep her seat, not hands... she needs to be able to wield her weapon!

Edeweiss is a fae hound, and smart enough to know she cannot catch Stormwake so she instead stands watch over the two downed others.

Once she feels the troll knight settle into her stride,she opens up from the trot, to a canter, and then lowers her head into a streamlined, all-out run.

Stormwake is fast, but Star is a meteor cutting across the sky of field to close!

Dagmar is grateful for her lessons and time on horse back! Saddleless or no! The speed here is exhilerating... if the risk wasn't to Stormwake!

She whinnies again as she closes in, opening her stride to try to bridge the gap. If she can get close enough, she will bite that woman's leg - but Flywatter is even longer than a graceful neck can reach!

"HEY BITCH!"

THe woman turns, and a chimerical gun in her hand she is..startled because NO Way could anyone gain that fast "What the ..."

She aims to ensnare the thief with the halberd's hook, but will settle for using brute force to knock her off the stallion.

Star is silent now, saving her breath for the steam that spouts from her nostrils, looking almost demonic in the cold.

And suddenly that hood the woman is wearing works against her, as Dagmar hooks it, and then lifts her off Stormwake!

The woman fires, the sound cracks past Star's head... any ordinary horse would panic!

Dagmar slams her to the ground, and soon the polearm head is pressed against her throat.

Star balks at the sound, but with the steady weight of the girl she knows on her back, she startles and does not buck. Star presses forward, ready to trample the woman at the slightest indication from Dagmar that this would be a welcome act...

And the woman gasps "Quarter" She begs from the flat of her back.

Stormwake, free of the rope's power, turns FURIOUS, and raises a hoof ready to crush this woman's head like an eggshell

"QUARTER" The woman begs, meaning the horse too. Hopeing Dagmar calls the two angry equines off

Dagmar carefully dismounts. "You won't be harmed."

She rests a booted foot on the woman's chest as she slightly relaxes the press of the weapon. "You won't be leaving, either. Who are you?"

Star steps back as Dagmar slips off, not willing to let hooves fly now that the troll is on the ground. Her head lowers though, and teeth are ready to snap if she makes a wrong move.

Oh the Stallion IS PISSED but doesn't seem willing to push Dagmar aside for blood

"Jane" She lies

"Liar. Try again."

Her eyes fall on the falcon "Shit." then "Dathmira... I am a horse thief. I steal only the best" She's an Eshu

And all true

"Do you work for anyone?"

"We sell the horses to fine bidders who ask no questions, but we bend knees to no noble"

Grunt.

"These our our horses. You will not steal from us."

"Not today it seems" She says, eshu are reckless

"Hmph. Stormwake, come here."

Stormwake obeys, but looks ready to do a mexican hat dance on this woman at the slightest provocation

She keeps her boot on the eshu, but retrieves the rope from Stormwake.

A treasure of control, perhaps it only works on horses... but Stormwake is glad to be rid of it. He bares teeth at it

Treasure or not, it IS a rope. She rolls the eshu over onto her belly before beginning to tie her up.

And Jonas comes into view "Dagmar? Is there some new tribulation befuddling the lodge?"

"Horse thieves. I'm taking them to the chief. Go check on the other two."

"Right away" he says and obeys

She tosses the tied-up eshu over Stormwake's back, like an ungainly sack of flour. "Sorry boy.."

Stormwake 'bounces' a little enjoying a petty vengeance.

Dagmar rides Star back to the hold, Stormwake following.

Jonas, with Edelweiss' help, escorts the other two.. "If you like, I can turn them into gold fish and hold them in a large bowl"

A snort. "That might do. Chief might not be in, so we have to hold them somehow...."

The three look freaked out. Jonas acts impassive.

"Shall I call in Thane Tiffany?" Jonas says "She might be happy to help watch as well"