Thorn walks the streets...

[Delta]

A white stallion trotted along the streets happily, thinking about last night. Okay, so he had been with better mares, but she seemed to know what she was doing alright. Thorn wasn't worried at all about whether she would think that they were a couple now; she should have gotten the idea when he ditched her.

[Dark Crescent]

[[Ya don't mind if I butt in do ya? ]]

Shadow Star had been working late into the night with his studies before the squirrel finally had managed to get him to bed. He wasn't sure what time it was as he woke up, but he decided to go out for a walk in any case. He felt his head a little stuffed, and he wanted to feel more refreshed when he would go to meet Winterberry in the afternoon.

Again, he wasn't really looking where he was going as he trotted along the street, humming to himself a melody he imagined one of the ballads he was studying was supposed to be sung to.

This time, however, he managed to see the stallion before he bumped into him, and skidded to a halt so abruptly that he in fact lost balance and stumbled to the ground. Streaks let out a frightened little squeak and jumped off his back, landing on Thorn's neck instead.

[LazyDelta]

"Hey!" Thorn muttered when he felt the squirrel attach to his neck. Then he grinned when he realised what happened. He walked over to where Shadow Star had ended up.

"I think you lost someone."

[spookster]

Lilatov prowled the streets, trying to find the source of the commotion. It had to be close-by. She wasn't sure what she'd do when she got there, but once again she was driven to seek out the source of her annoyance.

She slinked around a corner and then she saw...him. The one that was always surrounded by loud things that were doing...stuff. With a large rodent thing. Well, that explained it. She was so irritated that even her thoughts were practically incoherent.

The back of her neck prickled with acid annoyance, and she glared at him for one long moment before slipping back around the building and taking off. Well, maybe she could find a quiet glade near the woods.

[Dark Crescent]

Shadow Star rose from the ground a little shakily, shook his head and then looked up at the other stallion with a little shy smile.

"Oh, forgive me," he said as he stumbled on his feet. The squirrel made a series of rather annoyed sounds. Shad sighed and looked at her. "Come now, Streaks, you know perfectly well that I did not mean to throw you from my back." Then he turned to Thorn again, a pleasant smile on his lips. "Eh, I do apologise. Sometimes I don't seem to know where my feet are taking me."

[[d*mn, you know, Lilatov is really creeping me out *shudders, then grins* But that's what makes me like her! ;D]]

[LazyDelta]

"That's Ok." Thorn said happily, as nothing could bring him down today. "I'm Thorn." He held out a hoof.

[Dark Crescent]

Shadow Star smiled and took Thorn's hoof, shaking it briskly.

"Shadow Star," he introduced himself, and then waved a hoof towards the squirrel. "That's Streaks. Well, I call her that, anyway. I really have not had the pleasure of hearing her true name, but she seems to be fine with the name I gave her." He drew up the other corner of his mouth. "She seems to like you."

Streaks was still sitting on Thorn, cuddled up into his hair.

[Delta]

Thorn looked back at Streaks, grinning. "Why hello there. It's perfectly normal to be infatuated with my hair. Most females are." He said jokingly, then shook his silky hair out of his eyes, laughing.

[Dark Crescent]

Shadow Star smiled and gave a laugh.

"Be careful," he said lightly. "If you encourage her, she may choose to stick with you."

He had already clean forgotten where it was that he had been going before he met Thorn.

[LazehDelta]

Thorn chuckled. In all those years he had been away from Xanadia he had forgotten how friendly the people were.

He lifted a hoof and picked a leaf out of his hair. "Sorry about that. I slept in the wilderness last night. It seemed like a suiting place though, since last night itself was pretty wild." He flashed a grin.

[Angel624]

((Hope no one minds if Red Velvet butts in! ;D))

The red mare trotted along the streets, when she saw a small group of ponies ahead of her, and she noticed that one of them was Thorn. She smiled warmly as she trotted over to the group.

"Why, hello there!" She said in a cheery mood. She flashed them a smile and tossed her purple mane.

[Dark Crescent]

Shadow Star was a little uncomfortable at the sudden appearance of the beautiful mare who seemed to look at Thorn strangely warmly. He stepped back a little.

"Ahh... perhaps I should... continue on my way."

Streaks made some noises and remained with Thorn.

[Angel624]

Red looked at Shadow Star. She wondered why he wanted to leave all of a sudden. Red Velvet then realized that it may be because he wanted to leave Red Velvet alone with Thorn....

She then noticed the squirrel didn't want to leave. Red Velvet giggled at the squirrel. "Now go on with your owner, little one!" She said to Streaks.

[Dark Crescent]

[[I'll exit Shad off now in order to meet with his appointment with Winterberry]]

Shadow Star was quite annoyed with the little squirrel now. He stomped a hoof.

"Come along then," he said with a more commanding tone. "We did have an appointment, you know."

The squirrel made some more noises. Shadow Star's nostrils flared.

"Now, really!" he said with a shocked tone. "There's no need to be rude!" He picked up his muzzle. "Fine, you stay if you will. I for one won't keep a lady waiting."

And so he started walking up the street gracefully. The squirrel hesitated for a while. Finally it let out a submissive noise. She nuzzled Thorn's mane briefly, and then hopped down and scurried after Shadow Star. She hopped on his leg, climbed up and finally rolled into a bundle on his back.

[[Exit Shad and Streaks... cont. in Winterberry's place or wherever it was again he was supposed to meet her.]]

[Angel624]

((Ya, at her apartment, the thread that's already there is fine. )