[OTA] Hi-ho, Silver! (Watch out for the small dog)

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This is not the sight she expected to greet her when she headed to Town with Sirona to settle her back in at the repaired Town stables, and somehow she hadn't been surprised to see her cousin (or last bastion of testosterone, as he liked to refer to himself) sitting on a fence post and laughing and snapping pictures. Probably she should have told him to get Collin out of the ring and stop harassing poor Christabel, who's supposed to be living a quiet retired life.

She decides instead to whack him lightly on the back of the head and take Sirona out on the trails, riding between the Castles and out towards the new oceanic addition before finally heading back into Town.

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"I heard," Victor said, his head still tipped to the side as he watched Dillon. If he didn't know better, he'd suspect the Heart of spying on them. But he didn't linger on the thought before turning to look down at Zoe curiously. "It was bound to happen eventually," he said in such a casual, natural manner that it hardly seemed surprising to him.

"Though, perhaps, Her Majesty would be displeased with it- considering the manner in which he slank off to begin with." He paused a moment, giving the horse in padlock a sidelong glance as it stood staring at the two of them. At times, he supposed, there was a certain uncanny resemblances in personality between owner and horse.

"I suspect there won't be much...fuss over his majesties return."

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Dillon managed to turn his head while Victor was still looking his way and while, for an instant, the expression was the wary, startled kind an animal might have when faced with a hunter...it cooled quickly. It cooled into something that managed to combine the wariness with a distinct bit of dislike and disapproval.

Then he whistled, a little more shrilly than was necessary, and hopped off the fence as Collin rushed him, moving to take Christabel back to her stall.

"She hasn't said as much," Zoe said, and she either missed or was ignoring the byplay as she glanced at Victor's very silent and still gelding before looking back at Victor again. "Of course, I doubt she would." Not to Zoe, at least. They weren't so close. "I think..." She added, a little hesitantly, "that Chives might be upset about it."

Though he hadn't said as much, either.

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"I'll have to find the time to look in on him," though he suspected there would be meetings with Katya to be had. It was the nature of such developments as it were. "In the mean time, you should see to your lady and then perhaps we might consider...what else we can do with the evening."

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She wouldn't be that surprised, really, if she barely saw Victor for the next few days. The Deck had the air of too much happening again, even if Zoe didn't know what most of it was.

She looked over at Sirona, though, murmuring a stern word in Greek when the horse looked like she was about to toss her head and work herself loose from the post. Her hand curled in the bridle, and she glanced back at Victor, a glittering, sly look in her eyes.

"A shower sounds like a nice way to start," she said. "I'll be back out as soon as she's settled."

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"I'll be waiting," he said, reaching out to run a hand over Sionnach's nose gently as the geld finally made his way to the fence where Victor stood. Though he was rewarded for his attention by the horse firmly trying shove at his shoulder in a silent demand for treats.

But when Zoe came back, they would walk together back to the castle and his geld would have to settle for treats that stable hands would sneak him before eventually getting him back into a stall- or set him out to field.