Kaylee
Kaylee was here to ask a question. she needed to board her mare, Oracle, but she didn't know where. so she had been cruising along, sitting to her mare's smooth canter, looking for a barn. and soon, she had found one. but instead of checking it out, Kaylee knew that she should go to the house to ask.
so the woman dismounted from her mare, wrapping her reins around a nearby fence. she patted her neck. "I'll be right back, girl." Kaylee walked calmly toward the house. animals didn't scare her, no matter how vicious they looked. Kaylee was a vet. she had been in many dangerous situations. she had nearly been bitten by rabid animals much more than once. she had been attacked by a crocodile. she had been assaulted by a enormous, hungry Kodiak bear. the dangerous things from her job were countless. and Kaylee wasn't about to let a few large, barking dogs scare her off.
the woman trotted up to the front door and hesitantly knocked. she hoped that she could keep Oracle here. it was clear that this was one of he very few places that had a barn, so Kaylee had her fingers crossed.
Martha
The woman came to the door, looking almost flustered at first, but her expression was at least a kind one. "Hello, m'am." she greeted, "Can I help you with something?"
A man passed by on the background, carrying a bundle of clothes with him. A boarder collie followed about him closely, only pausing once to give the stranger at the door a side-glance. They were packing for a short vacation, but there were friends coming to look after the horses and others while they were gone.
A ragged-looking collie came up beside Martha, staring intently at Kaylee. Being a collie, Abigale had the tendancy to be aloof and distrusting of strangers. But also, she had a keen sense of character about humans, able to pick out which ones had better attitudes than others. Right off, Abigale thought of this stranger as possibly a good one, but she just wasn't in the mood to be too friendly at the moment. She knew her masters were leaving somewhere, and she was anxious.
Kaylee
Kaylee hoped that coming here wasn't a bad idea, especially when she saw a rather-flustered looking woman arrive at the door. oh, well. she seemed nice enough. "um... yes, I think so. I have a horse - that chestnut mare back there - and I don't have anywhere to keep her. so I was wondering if I could board her at your barn?" this last sentence was a question more than a casual saying.
Dakota
The small akbash x wolf hybrid was listening secretly to a conversation between some wolves at Pike's Lake. It was bad. Very bad. Dakota, having been living around humans for a long time before, had loved protecting the two-leggers when they went out in the wild. She didn't like what the wolves were talking about, about attacking the ranch and killing all of the livestock. She was overly-determined to warn the humans that they were going to come, but she didn't know when. She only knew they were going to come someday or time.
Dakota, eyeing the humans, she quickly sped up and stopped hopping and barking her head off. She knew the humans couldn't understand her, but she had to do something before it was too late. Maybe tell the dogs? She didn't know, but she had to give somebody a warning about it. She stopped and sat silently, near Martha, wagging her tail and then walking in a circle, trying to tell her that something was going to happen, though they didn't know each other.
Dakota
After the hybrid was done trying to get it across, she dashed off to find a dog.