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Brainem — [ Side Story // pt. 3 ] First Encouters
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For the first 30 minutes of their journey, Lillian and Sheila were quiet. After the trouble with the trailer and all the problems at the stable, both of them were happy that it was peaceful for once.
Towards the end of those first 30 minutes, the song “Borrow” by Noah Neiman was playing
“So much truth in that song isn’t it?” Sheila asked and sighed.
“That he sings ‘I want to share my borrowed time with you tonight’? Nah, that’s not really true for me…” Lillian answered, trying to sound serious, but she failed. The blonde woman started to laugh.
“You know what I mean” Sheila chuckled.
“I know you mean that ‘we’re all on borrowed time’ line in the song. Couldn’t resist. It’s inspirational at least. Kind of nostalgic too. Maybe we should put on some music that doesn’t make one think so much” Lillian said and checked the various storage spaces in the car for any CDs and the USB keychain.
Sheila watched her friend with furrowed brows as Lillian didn’t seem to be able to find anything.
“Cora was here” Lillian snorted and crossed her arms.
“Huh? You mean we only have Emma’s ‘right in the feels’ CD with us?” Sheila asked. She didn’t even need an answer.
“Basically. Unless you want to listen to my… interesting phone playlist” Her blonde friend replied while rolling her eyes.
“Interesting you say, Lia?”
“Well, the stuff is pretty explicit, offensive and part distasteful. I’ve got to admit that this playlist exists since Cora and I don’t get along anymore. Kinda pushes down my aggression level. Or adds to it. I don't know. Judge for yourself, I’ll just play it” Lillian answered with a smirk and got her phone.
Sheila had to gulp at the context of some songs in that playlist, explicit was the understatement of the year for the language in a few of them. She had to admit that some of the songs were rather catchy and not as bad as the rest though.
“Do you know why Cora hates music so much?” Sheila broke the silence that had spread once again after the music started playing.
“Dunno. Once you get started on the topic she shuts down and gets mad at you. Damian told me once that it is due to her past. You know where she grew up and what happened to her mum Shay?”
“Yes, you told me silly.”
“Oh well, I’m getting old. Haha. Back to the topic. As I said, I only know what Damian told me. Cora grew up without music. When there were festivities in her village she heard some traditional music, but except for that she never got in touch with it. She labels everything as mainstream now and never listens to us when we want to show her how diverse music is. Cora is too stubborn to listen to anything but classical type stuff. I think she is too stubborn to use common sense.” Lillian got duller the more she talked.
“Let’s not talk about her then. I don’t want you to be in a bad mood again.” Sheila said and smiled at Lillian.
“That’s fine with me.” Lillian replied and sank back into the seat.
When they were halfway there, Lillian asked for a break to check on Roxana and grab something to eat.
The mare was calm and a bit sleepy when Lillian entered the trailer to check how she was doing. The blonde woman stroked the mare’s nose and fed her a bit of hay before getting out of the trailer again.
Then she noticed Sheila was nowhere to be seen.
“Shay!” Lillian called and looked around the car, but no one was there. The driver’s door was open, so Lillian walked over there, to see Sheila’s purse. Lillian grabbed it. Everything was there, except for her passport, identity card and driver’s license.
Lillian looked over her shoulder and spotted Sheila talking to somebody, using Lillian’s phone.
With a stern look in her eyes the blonde stared at Sheila as she was coming back.
“Look I…” Sheila started, but Lillian cut her off.
“YOU SERIOUSLY FORGOT TO BRING YOUR PAPERS WITH YOU?!” Lillian yelled at Sheila and she was almost certain that everyone in close proximity could hear her.
“Listen Lillian, I never have them with me, old habit you know, and usually Cora…” Sheila started once more, but Lillian cut in again.
“What if you would have been caught without the driver’s license? Whom did you call” The blonde’s voice was calmer now, but she was still furious.
“Gale. I asked him to bring my stuff and he agreed to do it. Lillian I’m sorry…” Sheila answered, lowering her head.
“Ugh, stop apologizing. He’ll need at least an hour to get here, given he manages to avoid the traffic. Do what you want, I’ll grab something to eat now and unload Roxy then. I don’t want her to get bored in there.” Lillian snarled and entered the motorway restaurant.
A whopping two and a half hours later they were on the road again, Lillian driving this time. She hadn’t said a single word since the incident two hours ago. Sheila was too scared to say something.
Lillian was boiling. Sheila hadn’t told her that Gale had been exercising one of his horses at the time she had called him, meaning that he finished caring for the horse first before even bringing Sheila’s stuff to them. She regretted agreeing to come with Sheila.
No more incidents got in the way of the trio and eventually they arrived at the Zdarloch facilities.
“Wow, it is beautiful here” Sheila said while looking around.
Lillian remained silent, trying to find someone to tell they had arrived.
“Well done Shay. They probably went back to their daily routine, because we are two hours late. Why don’t you go and find someone?” Lillian was ready to explode by now.
Sheila walked off; if she had a tail it would be very tucked by now. Lillian rarely got THIS angry, but she probably was in the process of releasing the build up tension.
Lillian decided to unload Roxana. After doing so she removed the blanket and the leg protection. She sighed as the mare nuzzled the blonde woman’s shoulder. Roxy usually wasn’t this affectionate. Something was straining the mare too and Lillian hoped that she would be able to relax at Zdarloch.
When Sheila still wasn’t back 20 minutes later, Lillian decided to take Roxy and walk around the stable to look for someone.
“Lillian, over here!” She suddenly heard the voice and turned her head. Sheila was standing at the fence of a riding arena, watching someone during their training session.
Lillian identified the chestnut as Hilas. The mare was showing off her impressive jumping skills. No wonder that Sheila was so excited.
“See Roxy, you’ve got some tough competition here” Lillian chuckled.
Roxana whinnied quietly and nudged Lillian. The blonde woman led Roxy over to Sheila and waved to Hilas’ rider. The name of her wouldn’t come to Lillian’s mind as hard as she thought.
Eventually the pair finished their training session and came over to the fence. The young woman had a warm smile on her face and greeted them with a chuckle.
“Hey, seems like we got some spectators here.”
“Hello. Sorry, we didn’t want to interrupt. This four-legged lass is Roxana, or Roxy for short, my blonde companion here is Lillian and I am Sheila, very pleased to meet you.” Sheila said with a smirk on her face. She stretched out her arm to shake hands with her counterpart.
“Welcome to you three then. This is Hilas and I am Phuong. Nice to meet you too” Phuong replied shaking hands with both of the visitors.
Meanwhile Hilas and Roxana greeted each other as well. Roxy was a completely different horse outside of her own territory. At home she was the boss; at other stables she was rather curious and cautious too. Hilas seemed friendly enough so the mares’ noses touched each other without any squeaking and kicking.
Lillian still wasn’t very relaxed, but she tried to play nice so no one would think badly of her.
The five ladies walked around a bit, Phuong letting Hilas cool down from the training session while explaining the visitors where everything was.
“It is rather quiet around here. Is everyone out today? We’re sorry for the late arrival, we had to face some difficulties while driving here” Sheila asked and apologized, also to soothe Lillian.
“Oh, don’t worry. Annie and Andy aren’t here today… Connor isn’t either, but I figure you two know what happened? Kaisa is around here somewhere, I think she is spending some quality time with Zdrasti and for Azaria; well she is probably around too” Phuong replied, worry signing off on her face before returning to her smile.
“We heard from our stables’ owner, yes, and we send all good wishes to them” Lillian replied now, pushing her elbow into Sheila’s ribs to tell her to stop talking about it.
“I’m sure they appreciate it. We can only hope that things will get better.”
Lillian and Sheila nodded.
While walking around they talked about minor things, hobbies, Phuong asked some questions about the Letay Crown Equestrian Center and Sheila asked more questions about Zdarloch which both of them tried to answer appropriately. Lillian and Roxana tagged along.
Eventually they had seen the most important facilities of Zdarloch and both Lillian and Sheila, were very impressed. The last facility on the list was the stable. Phuong freed Hilas of the tack and rewarded her for the good work.
As Phuong had guessed, Kaisa was found in Zdrasti’s stall. The introduction was rather short and Kaisa disappeared as quickly as she had appeared.
“Kaisa, wait a moment, please” Phuong called after her.
“Yes?”
“Do you know where Azaria is? I think she was supposed to prepare a stall for our guest mare here.”
“No, haven’t seen her.”
“Alright, see you around.”
Kaisa nodded and left.
“Don’t take it personally, Kaisa isn’t much of a chatterbox” Phuong explained to Lillian and Sheila while leading Hilas into her stall.
“No offense taken. We are all different after all” Sheila said right away.
When Phuong came back out of Hilas’s stall, Azaria entered the stables. For a moment she seemed absent-minded, but snapped back to reality and greeted the visitors.
“You can put that girl in the stall over there, hope she’s fine with it”, Azaria said, pointed at the stall, grabbed some stuff and left again.
“Ehh, okay. May I leave you three alone for a bit? You are welcome to put your tack into our tack room and make yourself familiar with the stable. I’ll check which room you two can stay in."
“I guess we’ll find our way around, thank you” Lillian nodded.
Eventually they were alone in the stable. Lillian led Roxana into her temporary stall and took off the halter.
“Still mad at me Lia?”
“No, I guess I overreacted.”
“Don’t you think that was pretty strange just now? They seemed rather surprised about our visit.”
“Shay, don’t guess so much. We were late; they don’t spend their day waiting for visitors to arrive. Phuong just finished a training sessions, maybe she needed some time to cool down too. Besides, she was really nice to us, despite all the hardships Zdarloch has to overcome at the moment.”
Sheila didn’t really have an answer to that, so the two of them unloaded the car and put Roxy’s tack on a free rack in the tack room. They parked their baggage at the stable entrance while they were waiting for Phuong to come back.
Another thing they did while waiting was to visit the Zdarloch horses. Zdrasti eyed the strangers suspiciously and made sure they kept their distance. Lillian and Sheila noticed that one of her legs was bandaged, so they guessed she was on box rest and not happy about it. Sagadir seemed more inclined to greet the strangers in a friendly way.
“Sagadir would totally be your type of horse Lia. He’s such a stunner”, Sheila said and let him sniff her hand.
“As if. Besides, I’m no match for his skill level. I train young horses, get them used to a rider and start them in their career, but…”
“You and Arkady have gotten quite far already.”
“Arkady is a completely different horse Shay. I wasted a lot of his talent in the beginning and made some mistakes I had to correct later.”
“Pfff, if you think so. I won’t burst your bubble” Sheila said and shook her head, before dragging Lillian to the next horse.
Kvante was one of the horses they weren’t familiar with. The young mare was a cheeky one, nibbling at the two women’s clothing and obviously wanting their attention.
The last horse, or rather foal they visited, was a colt named Karn Evil.
“Oh my gosh, look how cute he is. We’ll need to bribe Cora to get a foal again” Sheila squealed quietly while caressing Karn’s head.
“Don’t squeal in that poor boy’s ears like that. But I have to agree, he’s really precious.”
Several minutes later Phuong came back and led Lillian and Sheila to their room.
“I hope you will have a nice stay here” She said and waved goodbye.
Sheila and Lillian waved after her, before entering the room and settling in. They divided the double bed into two single beds and decided who would sleep where.
“Should we go outside again?” Sheila asked.
“Nah, let’s stay here for a while and rest a bit. We can go later.”
Yaaay, they finally arrived. c: I'm sorry for the random background. The original got eaten by my mean computer and I had no inspiration to redraw it. Let's pretend they are checking out a pasture, okay? xD I hope including Karn was okay Zoub. I wasn't really sure how old he is right now, so I could easily edit that out. ^^
Arkady, Roxana, Damian, Cora, Gale, Emma, Lillian and Sheila © - Brainem
Zdarloch, Zdrasti Adrenaline, Hilas Spinosa, Sagadir, Kvantespring, Karn Evil, Andy, Annie, Azaria, Connor, Kaisa, Phuong © - Zoubstance
Zlesdin © - Zoubstance
© Reference for the human belongs to - same as horse references
Reference - © Reference for the horse (Roxana) belongs to - AskebodaStock
Reference - © Reference for the horse (Hilas) belongs to - LuDa-Stock
© Background belongs to - Brainem
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Comments: 6
AAAAHHH!!!
*more excited screaming*
WHAT A PERFECT WAY TO END MY DAY BY FINDING THIS GEMMM IN MY INBOX! ;U;
jdfgjkb oh my, I don't even know where to begin; this is simply too awesome to really fathom jkdfgjndf
...But whoah, this turned out so beautiful! Such a lovely little scene with all the laaadies - they all look absolutely wonderful <3
Hggnnn, Roxy is just such a magnificent stunner; I really like her pose here.. not to mention the expression! And your giiirls are rocking it too; Lillian and Sheila are seriously so awesome.. the shading on those clothes is really nice, btw, just thought I should mention that detail too ^^ And Hilaaaas, hngnn, you've drawn her so perfectly here! ;U; Even down to the shape of her star she's perfect, and such a beautiful pose too! Phuong looks too adorably cute for words; jhdfgjhd, that's exactly like I picture her. Hngnn, I'm so honoured to see my girls in your style; they look simply wonderful!
...onwards to the story! Oh myyyy, the poor girls continue on their bad luck streak during the road trip, aww :'D ...poor ladies. I'm glad it all got settled (Gale saves the daaay!)
Nuuuu, I'm sorry they got such a confusing welcome to the Zdarloch residence; hopefully it didn't scare them away (I promise we'll make up for it ^^ )! this time PHUONG saves the day, haha (bless phuong! You wrote her character perfectly xD) ...All of them really - AAAHH it was such a joy to read, your writing style really draws you in!
Oh, and the Zdarloch horsies were totally in character as well (how cute that Roxy and Hilas bumped noses; maybe they'll be friends? xD )
As for Karn Evil! I was happy to see/hear him featured; I squealed my way through that part >v< I bet he's about 1 year old now, so yep, he's still just a big foal, heh xD
Oh oh oh! Next storyline part is on meee, deal? 
jhfjh all in all THANK YOUUU for this wonderful feature ;U; It absolutely made my day 
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WHAT A PERFECT COMMENT TO START MY DAY
Lemme say that you comments ALWAYS make me smile while reading them. <3
I'm SO happy that you like it. Drawing the ladies was immensely fun and very relaxing to do. Story art is just so nice, because there aren't no deadlines to meet or other people pressuring one to finish stuff. ^^ Thanks on the shading too. <3
Fun Fact: Hilas was the first one completely finished. Chestnuts are love and chestnuts are fun. (Which totally makes me think that I NEED to draw Hilas and Cataractra together some time. Gaawwwd stop the ideas xD ) Naaahh, I should be the one feeling honoured that you like them. <3 That means so much
The story happened. The end xD Gosh, I started and couldn't stop. Thank you so much <3 I think my girls need some trouble to be happy ^^ But as long as it ain't serious I guess that's fine. (Although Sheila really managed to tick off Lillian this time. xD )
Don't beeee sorrryyyy. c: Imagine your poor charries all confused by the recent events. Lillian is the understanding one this time and Sheila is just scared that she made a bad impression (Poor thing needs to stop thinking so much). I thought it would be more realistic than everyone being all happy and carefree. (Andy wasn't there to chat them up after all xD (don't kill him, kay zoub? *puppy eyes*)) Ohhh the horsies. Hilas and Roxy totally could turn out to be friends. xD I would have loved to write some more about the four-legged stars, but I wanted to avoid making the story even longer, so I'll include all of them in another story. I HAD to include Karn. Yaay for a big foal. c:
Suurreee. <3 Have fun. And don't worry about the storyline. Just do what you're inspired to do.
THANK YOU TOOOO. SO much for this awesome, making me smile, absolutely inspiring comment and everything else
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Nuuu, I am so happy to hear this! ;U; Although I am honestly the one saying thank you here jhsbdfjhsd
You are SO welcome! You did a great job with my ladies here; they look simply fabulous! I'm glad they were cooperating (I sometimes think Phuong is a li'l difficult to draw for some reason xD).
Oh, I can totally relate to that; shading chestnuts of one of my guilty pleasures as well 
Ah, I really love it when stories flow so nicely they basically seem to be writing themselves. It... rarely ever happens to me, though, haha 
My poor kids might be a bit shaken and stirred, yep - but at least it's the resilient ones who have to deal with it, haha. They wear their troubles WITH GRACE lol well, they try to, anyway... xD
(Naww, I can assure you Sheila didn't make a bad impression <3 Both of your girls are lovely!). You did a great job with thissss. Andy not being there might be the girls' luck; he'd have talked their poor ears off, haha
I am SO onboard for a horsie friendship between Roxy and Hilas, aww! Kinda like the BRO-ship between Arkady and Sagir :'>
Eheheee, I am well under way! I might have it done either today or tomorrow; it depends a bit on my efficiency xD
jhbsdfjh thank YOU 
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Me is happy that you are happy xD
Your ladies were cooperating very nicely. <3 (Nahh, Phuong was really fun to do. I see where you're coming from though. Know that feeling when you draw a character perfectly, like how you imagine them in your head, and then can never draw them like that again? xD Happens all the time in my traditional stuff ;-; ) Yeesss copper horses unite. <3
To be honest, that was like the second or third time a story wrote itself for me. xD Usually it takes me ages to write something good enough for me to be confident enough to post it. (Shhh, Zoub, our characters really shouldn't hear us talking about that. I'm sure they aren't as... understanding of our many [evil] plans. We aren't terrible, we just like to challenge our boys and girls... wait... maybe we are terrible mothers xD )
Awww, I'm sure they do their best. GRACEFUL AS A SWAN. bloodstained swans, maybe? ;-; (Sheila is glad you said that. <3 ) Haha, I'm sure Sheila wouldn't have had a problem with that. She tends to babble ALL the time at home. xD Maybe both of them would have been deaf at the end of the day.
Yaaas dark and light chestnut friends. c: (Hehe, as soon as the next show at Zdarloch comes around, be sure to see some extra pictures with old friends seeing each other again )
Do not get me so HYPED UP Zoub. I can't wait to see it. (The last snippet on skype got cut off with my overjoyed half mile long ahhh screaming. xD The mysteries of skype strike again xD ) I'll try to practice patience while I'm waiting for it.
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Naww, I'm happy to hear that, heh
Copper horses ftwww
Oh indeed? That is awesome; I hope that vibe will continue for you!
Haha, now there's a concept. Maybe they would both lose their voices and peace would have ensured :'D
(oohh, that sounds awesome! I'm actually plotting my next shows already ~)
<3
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