Arriving in Australia

for AUSe-Olympics

Olympic Journal

The Horse:: MM BadaBing 2014
The Rider:: Lìadàin Raines
Entry # :: 024

THE STORY -------------------------------------
    Lee thrummed her fingers on her lap, humming nervously along with the music she was listening to. Her stomach did wild flip-flop butterflies as she watched the scenery around them change and then her stomach dropped. The plane was landing. it didn't ask permission to land, it didn't ask her if she'd be okay, it just started swooping down. Frantically she gripped the arm rests and closed her eyes trying to keep her stomach from rising up in her body and spilling the acids- because she'd refused to eat or drink.
    Amused Azzie watched her charge with a broad smile, not that she was a better flier- normally she was doing what Lee was doing- she just got the distinct advantage of being able to watch what it looked like when she did that now and it was... well it really was rather amusing. I'll have to remember not to yell at Sini next time she laughs at me. She told herself firmly before patting the girls arm as they leveled out, bumped twice and coasted to a stop. "go get her, I'll get us registered. That stupid storm delayed us quite a bit more than I expected it to." Lee nodded, slung the belt off her body and raced out of the plane before the stewardess could stop her. "It's alright ma'am, she's an equestrian. A jump between here and the ground won't stop her." Azzie told the woman as seriously as she could manage. The uniformed woman gave her a skeptical look before walking on, letting Azzie break out in a fit of giggles.

    "You didn't like that much either, did you girl?" Lee gave BB a fond scratch on the neck as she untied her and led her out of the stall the plane had provided. Next to her, barely poking his head over his stall, was the pony Azzie had bullied into registering for the show. He was big for a pony, but not big enough. Or maybe BB just dwarfed him. She dwarfed Azzie and Lee, anyway. The blond threw her hair back, vowing to dye it back to red before the show so she could match her sister ( not that the blue eyes she had matched Ray's green but... well whatever. ) She grinned and let Seville out of his stall to follow along behind them, his lead loose in her grip as he looked for Azzie. As soon as they stepped off the ramp to the ground he bolted after the familiar blond woman and her bobbing braid with a high, shrill whinny. 
    "Good riddance. Let her register with that beside her. I bet they disqualify him on sight." Lee said with a suddenly sour look on her face. She hadn't liked the idea of competing against Azzie, whose skills she knew almost as well as she knew herself. She didn't think she was the same level as the older woman and it intimidated. Hell, being here intimidated her. She led BB away from the plane and the small landing strip to the stables, scratching her neck comfortingly. The mares gray coat was dark with nervous sweat, drying quickly, and her eyes and ears were alert for sounds and sights and her nostrils flared wildly at all the scents. Someone whinnied in the distance and instantly the quiet mare belted out a shrill, ear splitting neigh of her own right in Lees ear...