Writing prompt: medieval AU
Thank you Burgie for sending this in!! A day in the life of Resse
Resse’s day started like any other. He had woken up at the crack of dawn tooversee that the manor’s horses were fed. Everything seemed fine until about mid-morning when all hell had brokenloose. At first Resse had been calledupon when a pregnant mare had started to foal. The mare easily gave birth to a healthy filly. Resse kept watch to make sure that the foalwas able to stand, he heard a commotion coming from the main barn. He looked out and saw a number of horses comestreaming out of the barn. Resse couldnot see any signs of smoke or fire coming from the building. Resse left one of the stable hands to lookafter the mare and foal as he rushed outside. He was met with a handful of horses rushing around the courtyard andstable hands running after them.
It took them about an hour to get almost all of the loose horses back into theirstalls. The only one left was Dancer, ausually unbothersome warmblood gelding. Thedapple gray horse had been playing a “game” with the stable hands by acting asthough he would allow them to catch him then run away when they got close. Nearly half an hour after the others had beencaught Dancer was still running wild, so Resse called the closest stable boy tohim.
“Jacob fetch Esmeralda! She should be in theknights’ training yard!”
Theboy ran as fast as he could in the direction of the training yard. He quickly returned with Resse’s daughterEsmeralda. She was wearing the lighttraining armor and was still carrying a dulled sword. Even at a light jog her long legs had outpacedthe stable boy who ran to keep up. When shereached him, she immediately asked her father what had happened.
“Yourblasted horse got out and let some of the other horses out of their stalls aswell, and now he will not let anyone catch him,” Resse stated.
Esmeraldalet out a small sigh before taking a breath.
“Dancer,”she said in a loud and sharp tone.
Her voice cracked through the air like a whip. Everyone stopped in their tracks at the sound. Dancer spun around and faced the directionthat Esmeralda was in and pranced towards her. She waited with arms crossed over her chest as her horse approached her. When Dancer reached her she scolded him severely.
“Take him back to his stall and make sure that it is securely closed,” Resse said tohis daughter.
She nodded and he watched as she turned on her heal and started walking towards themain barn with Dancer following, his head hung low. Resse quickly went to check on the mare andfoal before gathering all of the available stable hands together, anger clearlyseated on his face.
“Which one of you blasted sons of dogs left that horse’s stall unlocked!” Ressebellowed.
All of the boys shied away from his anger. He continued yelling at them until one of the boys owned up to hismistake. Resse dismissed all of theother boys before severely chastising the lone stable hand.
After everything had settled downResse went about his day training the young horses of the stable and overseeingthat everything went smoothly. The restof his day was uneventful.
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