Ana and Koyi

[KoyiTar]

"Alright um do you have an area somewhere that I could do any blacksmith work?" He asked following after her. He had wondered what the odd look was about when he had told her about him knowing how to black smith. Of course most people that heard it thought it odd that a prince knew how to make his own weapons much less how to shoe a horse or even fight halfway decent with a sword compared to his own father. Of course he never expected his skills with a sword to ever have to come to use it was nice to know and it kept him in shape.

[_AnaTolia_]

"Yes. My father does some blacksmithing. Only the basic stuff, though." Emma led him inside the barn. In the farther end of the barn was an anvil and a forge and all the tools needed. She then stopped in her tracks. "I need to get back out there and take measurements for the horse shoe, okay?" Emma then dashed outside, and gently lifted up one of Stormrunner's feet.

[KoyiTar]

Alex simply nodded getting everything that he would need to fix the horse shoes ready. After a few minutes of makeing sure everything was hot enough he took one of the old shoes that was lying around down and put it into the fire to start getting hot. As he did this he wiped the sweat off his brow and took his shirt off. He always found smithing to be more comfortable shirtless despite what the smithy back at court had said about it being dangerous. He didn't care he had only been burned once and the scaring hadn't been that bad. "Hmm that should be hot enough to at least get started a bit on it without the mesurements." He said to himself useing the tongs to take the red hot shoe out of the fire and placed it on the anvel and begining to hammer away at it.

[_AnaTolia_]

Emma then went back in the barn and stopped in her steps when she saw Alex's lean body hunched over the fire. She felt color rising to her cheeks and dropped the measurements that she had wrote on the paper. 'He....he's...' Emma's memories twisted to a similar person like him. She then shook her head and approached him, slowly, though.

[KoyiTar]

Alex thought he had heard Emma come back in and stopped his hammering to turn around to look at her. She was approaching him cautiously it seemed like. "Is something wrong?" He asked putting the hammer down looking at her curiously. He wasn't sure what to make of the look on her face other than she was seemingly flustered over him being shirtless.

[_AnaTolia_]

Emma cleared her throat and said, "No, nothing's wrong." She tried to keep her voice calm. She saw that Alex didn't need measurements and placed the paper on a nearby table. "Don't you know it's more dangerous to smith without a shirt? You might get burns." Emma's voice and attitude were back to normal, although her eyes kept drifting to his shirtless body.

[KoyiTar]

"So I have heard from the smithy back home. He made it a point to drill it into my head after a burned my chest one time see." He said pointing out the scar that was across his chest. The smithy had been particularly pissed at him that day because he had been yelled at by Alex's mother for allowing him to be burned. Alex hadn't cared about it much he felt it gave him more character considering he wasn't flawless unlike many other princes or even dukes and such. "I don't really care much I prefer comfort over sweating profusely not that being shirtless keeps me from it much it's somewhat more comfortable." He said noticing Emma had changed moods rather quickly. He decided to leave it though. If she didn't want to talk about something he wouldn't push it so he picked the hammer up and got back to work after taking a quick glance at the measurements to make sure they would be correct when he got finished.

[_AnaTolia_]

Emma looked over the scar and exhaled. "Well, whatever suits you, then." She started to back out of the barn, partially wanting to leave him alone and wanting to be alone. "I'll go look over Stormrunner for a while, okay?" She gave him one of her genuine smiles and went over to the horse, who was looking at her clean stable with interest.

[KoyiTar]

Alex watched the girl leave wondering what had caused her to change moods so suddenly. "Surely my lack of a shirt didn't affect her that much did it? He thought wondering if somehow him being shirtless had somehow offended the girl. He wasn't sure why he was so worried over offending her though other than she was so different from all the other girls he dealt with. He finished with the one shoe he had been working on and started on another.

About thirty minutes after he had started he was finished. He put his shirt back on and took the shoes with him to Emma who was still taking care of Stormrunner as he walked up. "Well I did what I could to get them to the correct measurements. It's been about a year since I have worked on horseshoes so they might be off a bit." He said admitting that he could have made an error. He thought about apologizing for his shirtlessness but wouldn't unless he found out for certain that it had caused her to be uncomfortable.

[_AnaTolia_]

Emma looked over at Alex and inwardly smiled. He was wearing a shirt. She then gratefully took the horseshoes and thanked him. She then knelt down and gently hammered the shoe on Stormrunner's foot. The horse was beginning to get fidgety so she fed him apples and carrots every once in a while as she worked.

[KoyiTar]

Alex watched her shoe the horse. He wasn't sure but her mood had seemed to improve more when she had seen he had his shirt back on. He decided that he would in fact have to ask her about it latter but now wasn't the time. "So um what else can I do to help around here?" He asked rubbing the back of his head he really didn't feel like sitting around when he was a guest it made him feel lazy. Even if he was royalty he was always finding something to do even at the castle much to his mothers displeasure.

[_AnaTolia_]

"Well, we are done in taking care of Stormrunner and all of the chores are done. So, I guess we have some time to ourselves." Emma answered, getting up and dusting her hands on her skirt. "What do you like to do whenever you're bored?" She asked.

[KoyiTar]

"Well I ummm That's a good question." He said considering he had never really been bored before. There was always something to do even if it was redundant stuff and was boring in and of itself. Palace life rarely left him with time to actually be bored and have to find something to occupy himself with. " I guess the question now is what is it you do when your bored?" He asked hoping he didn't sound as much of a fool as he felt for actually making the statement but it was to late to take back his words now.

[_AnaTolia_]

"Well, I guess, since you asked, I like to walk along the countryside and take my horse out for a ride." Emma answered, guessing that palace life was that exciting. She then placed on the saddle of her favorite horse, BlueLily, and asked, "Are you coming?"

[KoyiTar]

“Well I suppose so.” He said putting a saddle on Stormrunner and got ready to follow the girl. He was glad his question hadn’t upset her any. He was also glad that she was willing to have him along. He didn't know why he felt that way but it was a nice feeling to say the least.