Esabow was walking along with no worries at all, at least that's what she kept telling herself. She was alone, witch isn't wise for a young mare. 'I should find a tree or something soon.' Esabow sighs from boredom, 'I wish there was a rabbit or something to play with.' She stops and whinnies, 'what am I thinking? This is almost barren!' Esabow snorts to herself almost as if she was mad at something before beginning to walk forward again. 'Could there at least be a breeze to cool me off?' She snorted again before coming to a trot. 'Well, at least this helps!' She said as she began slowing down towards a stream. 'I'm a little thirsty... I'll just take a sip.' Esabow said to herself as she lowered her head towards the small stream for a drink.

Salty water surrounded Nightheart as she swam through a small cove near the claiming grounds. My old bones can't take this.... She heaved herself out the water. "My ole bones and my ole soul," she muttered as she "transmoggified" into her horse form.

Her gray scales didn't shine in the light of the sun. Her eyes didn't gleam with the hope of finding a friend. She walked slowly through the grounds and looked out across the vast exspanse of the Grounds (at least as far as her eyes could still see). She saw a young mare not far away and muttered to herself, "Hooligan!" as she approached her.

"Don't hooligans know that they should be with their herd at this time a day, hooligan?!" She said and looked at the mare.

Esabow jumped in surprise from the sudden yell and turned around. "I-I don't want to fight but I will if I have to!" She pawed at te ground and tossed her head to try and keep the mare from wanting to fight.She snorted before asking, "what do you want with me anyways?!" 'I don't care if shes hungry, thirsty, whatever, I will protect myself!'

Lee was stalking through the social grounds again. His fur was still standing on end from the firestorm of a few days before. A few patches of grass still looked singed. He was hungry... sooo hungry. Spotting a rabbit , he crouched, prepared to dine, when a hippocampus splashed out of the river Fuming, he stood up. "Kartoffelnphklat! Durn horses, scarin' off all the food! Watch where you're goin' ya big galoot!" The wolf's fur stood on end, glowing with static.

Nightheart looked down at the mare. "I want you to learn to respect your elders! Ya hooligan! Ya don't know no respect! Hooligan!" She didn't exactly scream the words, just fuss at the mare.

And right when she thought she could move on, she heard a yell behind her. She turned around quickly, and cursed herself for doing so. "Hooligans! Ya all are just tryin' to see me to my end! Ya all are trying to get me to kick the bucket!" Then she saw the horse that had yelled. She snorted. "And who might you be, hooligan?"

Esabow snorted at the mare, "and who are you to be my elder? You are of Gradors, and I am of the Aves! And why do you always call younger creatures hooligans? They have done nothing to you, including me!" Esabow snorted once more before walking to the side of the mare, "why yell at this wolf? You scared his food off!" Esabow whinnied for some odd reason before speaking, "wolf isn't that so?" She grinned a bit before turning back to the mare, "and who may you be, hooligan?"

Lee looked from one horse to the other. He hadn't noticed the younger one, but he liked her. "Tha's alright. Ah can find somethin'. My name's Lee, by the bye." He sat down and slowed his breathing, trying to calm down his fur, which was still crackling with electricity. Ah 'aven't seen either of you around before. What're y'all's names?"

Nightheart snorted at the younger horse. "I'm one a the oldest horses in this danged ole land!" She paused for a minute. "And I ain't answering to any yellin', bawlin', disrespectin' hooligans! Ya hooligan!"

She turned to Lee then. "And you... you're a hooligan too!" She affected horror in her eyes and body language. Her hooves stepped a pace back and her eyes were as wide as she could still make them. "They're surrounding me! Hit the floor!" She groaned to herself as her muscles and bones ached again.

She laughed a menaical sounding laugh and snorted again. "I ain't scared a either of ya!" She smiled to herself. "I'm Nightheart. And ya'll are hooligans! It's almost like we've met before!"

She snorted at the mare looking back at Lee, "I'm pleased to meet you Lee. And you may call me Esabow, that was my great great great great grandmother's name." She smiled before turning her gaze back at Nightheart snorting again, "do you like being called a hooligan yourself?" Esabow whinned as she turned back to Lee, "don't worry, shes just a big grotch!" She whinned again before walking back towards the water again, taking a drink. 'Gah-lee, shes such a sour puss!'

"Pleased ta meet cha, Esabow." He turned and glared at the older mare. "Ah don't give a rat's tail about your hooliganness, fishy."he growled. "You may be old, but you're hard put ta give me a scare." He stepped forward to drink from the stream, waving his charged tail mockingly towards Nightheart. He licked his chops as he started to drink from the cool water.

Esabow lifted her head and grinned, 'if this doesn't work nothing will.' She turned her head towards Nightheart, "you know what? I'm tired of you pushing everyone around! And you know what else?! Your the hooligan everywhere! You make other actual hooligans look nice!" She snorted, 'that'll tell her.' Esabow turned her gaze back to Lee, "you on the other hoof, or paw in your case, are much nicer. And there for not a hooligan."

Nightheart let another smile creep across her face. "Didn't I already tell ya'll to respect your elders? Hooligans! Always thinkin' they know better than ya! 'With age come wisdom!' I've seen more moons than the both a ya combined!"

She took a pace forward and leveled her head to Esabow's level. "And this little hooligan needs a nap before her attitude gets her sent to timeout. Don't ya, wittle hooligan?" Her voice rasped as she spoke, making her swallow as she finished. She gave a small cough and swigged a drink from the stream.

Esabow snorted, agitated and annoyed of the mare. "And didn't I already tell you that your not my elder?" She snorted again before walking towards Lee once again. She thought out loud, "if only she wasn't so mean, I bet she would be quite nice." Once she noticed she had said that she started galloping away stopping almost a mile away. She sighed, 'I just had to think out loud, didn't I?' She sighed again before lowering her head. 'I should learn to keep my mouth shut when I'm thinking those things. After all, she will probably never change.'

Though he didn't see Nightheart coming near for a drink, Lee felt her presence. Three...Two...One! He though before sending a slight current into the water toward her. The mare deserved a shock in the chops. He waited to see how the pus would react. He tensed, ready to jump away should the horse turn and aim her hooves at him.

Esabow sighed again with her head down before speaking again, "I wonder if all older mares are like this... If so then I don't ever want to become elderly." She sighed again before starting to graze on the dew covered grass. 'Atleast theres SOMEONE friendly around here...' She sighed after swallowing a bite of grass. She raised her head looking back over to Lee and Nightheart. She snorted as soon as she saw Nightheart, "pweh, I don't wouldnt care about that mare, not in a million years!" But when she glanced back at Lee she smiled, 'hes so nice, I don't feel afraid at all when I'm around him... Even though hes a wolf.'

"Ah'm no young 'un either." Lee stated. Like it or not, the sea hag is hardly the only one of age here. Nightheart may have been one of the early ones, but this one definitely ain't the first." He turned toward Esabow. "Esabow. Another old name. A beautiful one too. Poetry, of a sort." He turned away, having caught the scent of that rabbit again. "If you'll pardon me, ma'am, dinner calls." He nodded to her, and shot a wicked glare at Nightheart before moving away.

She saw him nodd to her from the long distance, "off he goes chasing that rabbit again, nothing wrong with that I'm just bored." She sighed and took another bite of grass.

Nightheart snorted at the water as a shock of electricity fizzled through her body. Her bones ached more than before and her muscles flexed. She could feel it as it fizzled out at her back hooves, into the ground again. Her muscles relaxed again.

Silently she lifted her head away from the water and licked her mouth, as if the water had been a sugar cube. "Water tastes a little funny out here," she mumbled, just loud enough so that they could hear. Silently she began plotting revenge. Lee... she made a mental note of the name. I'll see him again soon.

Slowly she began walking towards the ocean water again. "Fine now, ya hooligans!" she called behind her, sarcasm bubbling through her voice. "Ya've done gone and bested me. Reckon I'll see ya later then." She slid out into the water, transmoggified, groaned at her bones, and began to gallop under the water heading towards the Claiming Grounds.

Esabow was bored, and lonely again. So she ran back over to where Lee is. "I wonder what her problem is..." She shook the thought out as she walked over to the stream for a drink. She lowered her head and began drinking the water.