The new hay-bringer was a handsome one. Calm posture. Wild mane. Warm eyes.
The others hung back as Bella stepped forward to inspect. Molly, heavy with foal, nickered a soft warning, and Bella swished her tail in understanding. Yes, she, too, was expecting, but she was not afraid.
She advanced to within a hoof-kick-space. He stayed put, unperturbed.
He carried no fear smell. No twitchy legs. No mouth yells.
Bella lowered her head some, and he held out his hand for a sniff. Sweat. Musk. Iron. Grass. Faint carrot smell.
She shook her mane, and he laughed and reached into an opening in his leg coverings to reveal an orange section of the vegetable. Offered it on an open palm.
Bella nosed it, lipped, chewed. Good.
She approved.
She tapped her hoof and felt the air shift behind her from tension to curiosity.
He’ll do.
Perhaps he even has apples.
For Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge
Na'ama Yehuda 
lol, the new hay-bringer obviously understood her kind. great POV.
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Yes, I think the hay-bringer has been around horses before and is comfortable with them … usually that makes it a reciprocated situation… 🙂
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I like what you’ve done with this.
The photo doesn’t allow for many interpretations. But you’ve done it good and different, and with feeling
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Yay! So glad! I do adore horses, so this was fun to do – because there’s certainly challenge (but no malice that I can detect) in this horse’s expression. 🙂
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Noticed that. That piebald started to inch forward… very cautious though
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I took some literary license here … for sure … 😉
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We all do…
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🙂
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Adorable!!!
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Thank you! xoxo
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I love this, Na’ama! Wonderful choice of words… hay-bringer with a wild mane of his own and kind eyes… LOVE.
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So glad you liked this! 🙂 Was wondering what we might look like to horse, from their POV … and I guess some of us (especially inspired by Lockdown locks …) have mane of our own … 😉
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I did and yes, we do!!
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🙂 I can even put my hair in a ponytail (of about a quarter of a pinky thick, considering my baby-fine hair …) 😉
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Haha! Mine has gotten rather long! And no baby hair here ..
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I have the same baby-fine hair I had when I was a toddler … It is easy to take care of, never tangles, and has zero volume in ponytails (not that anything stays in this hair without slipping out …) 😉
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My eldest has hair like that (like his dad’s). The younger has my hair and LOTS of it!
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Comes to show, hair distribution is never fair in this world … 😀
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This is true. And were rarely happy with what we have! (I am, though)
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I am, too, actually! 🙂 It is the easiest-to-care-for-hair ever! 🙂
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Ta dah!
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😀 pretty much!
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