She leads him out of the bar and down the hallway to her quarters-- not out by the lake, nor to the stables, not for this, she thinks. Not any place where someone else might come.

Susan opens the door to let them both in, then gently tugs at his hand again, drawing Cuthbert across the room to the small sofa and to sit by her side.

She's not avoiding the bar, not precisely. It's only that there's that which needs doing in the stables, and with the stock-- and so Susan Delgado is out in the training ring, working Corella on a lunge rope.

And thinking a little, mayhap.

Following their ride, Elaine and Susan return to the stables. Soon afterward, Elaine heads back to the bar, while Susan remains behind to tend to tack and grooming.

She finishes unsaddling Kiseki and carries the tack back into the stable.

She comes back to her room from the bar, but she's not yet tired enough-- nor is her mind quiet enough, say true-- to sleep.

Susan feeds a few peanuts to Joanie, and then watches in amusement as the tinyphant returns to playing with her plastic dinosaurs. She sits down at her desk, then, and begins to make note of the day's records in the stable

(Entries for the year 2005, Milliways reckoning.)

(Milliways bar date: May 8th.)* BOUKEPHALOS, a stallion, black; true-bred, threaded stock, full-grown. Battle-trained and fully besides. Belonging to Kassandra, a princess, brought/gifted of Crowley ( Read more... )

There's more to managing horses than simply caring for them, and well Susan knows it. And so, having obtained a leather-bound ledger and a set of quill-pens from the bar--

(sunlight in the air and dust lying on the desk in Pat Delgado's office)

--she sets about making a stockline record-book for the Milliways stables ( Read more... )

[OOC: After this.]

It is dark, but she does not care, say true. Susan is sitting on the grass near the stable, knees drawn up and arms resting on them. Her face is buried in her arms, and her unbraided hair spills about her in a golden fall, hiding her from the world.

She is very still, and absolutely quiet.

As the first light of dawn filters across the sky, Susan is already out and riding, heading away from the bar. At her urging, Kiseki races past the lake and across a field beyond-- and then the two of them veer onto an unknown forest path, although at a more reasonable pace, say true ( Read more... )

She leaves the bar, because it is all that she can do without screaming or crying again, and she's wept enough tears for one evening, say true. She goes back to her room, there to sit by the window and stare out into the darkness.

(my first thought was he lied in every word)

He had lied to her, oh aye, and she had known it at the time. Are thee ( Read more... )

As her tears start to fall, Cuthbert gently leads Susan out of the main bar and down the staff hallway to her room. Once there, he sits beside her and simply holds her close, one hand running aimlessly up and down her back in wordless comfort ( Read more... )