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Adib [the rest of the herd]
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Date Posted: 09:20:54 04/21/02 Sun
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Adib wanders around the territory. Of course, he has heard that Stovati left. Perhaps if the herd had been more polite, she would have stayed! Too rude, this herd is, he decides. Time to fix it.
He starts with Bayda. "Hello, Bayda," he says to the mare.
Telepathically as always, she replies .hello.
Adib frowns. You know, it is very rude when you do that," he informs her.
.Why?. Bayda wants to know.
"It just is," Adib says firmly, looking stern.
Bayda gives him an annoyed frown, and suddenly Adib's head is pounding. She leaves while he is distracted by the pain.
A headache is no excuse to stop, he tells himself, and goes on to Nazeem.
"Manners are very important," he begins. Nazeem ignores him, but suddenly the wind seems to be doing all it can to harry Adib.
"If this herd was just a little bit more polite," he says to Dirayat. She glances at Adib's shadow, and suddenly a voice whispers to Adib, "It's impolite to constantly correct people, you know." He ignores it. If a little bit of rudeness shapes this herd up, it's worth it. Dirayat is gone in an instant.
He goes to Batal. He gets no further than "Manners" and his shadow starts to make disapproving noises. As he is distracted, Batal slips around behind Adib and pokes the stallion in the rear. Adib turns to glare at him and prepares to give a speech on the rudeness of poking someone in that particular area, but finds the stallion serenely dining upon the grass.
Farhan skips over and says, "Hullo hullo!"
Adib frowns at him. "You would do well to mind your manners." The disapproving noises made by his shadow increase. Adib ignores him, and continues to frown at Farhan as if he hadn't heard.
"It's impolite to ignore someone when they're talking to you," the shadow whispers.
Farhan grins at Adib. "Come on, Adib! Loosen up. Manners aren't everything you know. Isn't it a wonderful day? The sun is shining, the sky is blue - even if it's a bit hard to see in this place - and the air has just a tad bit of crispness to it! Today is a very wonderful day? Don't youy think? Just a gorgeous day--"
"Maybe Stovati wouldn't have left if this herd had been a little bit more polite to her!" Adib snaps, his patience worn thin. Farhan really doesn't think so, but shuts up anyway.
"Don't snap," his shadow says disapprovingly to him. "And it's impolite to interrupt!"
Adib can't stand it anymore. His head is pounding, he can't see a thing because a ray of light is following his around, directly in his eyes, his shadow's correcting him, his rump still hurts from where Batal poked him, and he's being TALKED AT by the most DISGUSTINGLY CHEERFUL member of the herd!
"As you say, SHADOW, it is impolite to constantly correct people!" His shadow doesn't reply, for which Adib is relieved. He closes his eyes, and opens them to a lack of bright light which he finds to take a little getting used to. He lies down to take a nap and when hewakes up, the headache is gone and so is the pain in his rump. Sighing relievedly, he gets up and starts to graze.
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