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[wolffyluna]

I went on a trail ride today and it was Surprisingly Exciting.

You see, I was the only client booked on the ride, so it was just me, the leader, and the back rider.

I was put on E, the lovable old man, because he was known to be my favourite.

But the leader took the opportunity to ride a horse who wasn’t that experienced to increase his Trail Ride XP. This is pretty normal, the lead horse is often one that is in training because the trail leader is literally a professional so they’re a good person to give the horse the experience.

Except this horse was Literally Four.

For context, horses only get saddles and riders put on them at 3, and people are shirty about making them work hard until 4 or 5.

Anyway, we’re riding along, so far so chill–

Until there’s a jogger coming straight towards us.

The lead horse stops. Starts dancing in place, turning around to block the jogger.

The leader is trying to get their horse to go on.

The jogger is still coming. The lead horse spins around, and runs into me and E. I am just sitting so still, because that’s probably the right answer?

The lead horse is not-quite-rearing and running for their life from the jogger. The back rider is trying to catch him. THE JOGGER IS STILL COMING.

At this point I can’t see what’s happening, because it’s all behind me and I don’t want to turn in the saddle too much lest E Sense Fear.

Anyway, the jogger ends up past us, the lead horse gets coaxed back to where he should be and we continue the trail ride.

Apparently that was the first time he had ever seen a jogger. In his defense, as things to be scared of, ‘a human running towards you’ is frankly almost sensible? The jogger could have, actually, been coming to eat him.