Sabine DeLunet
Azure Vampire
The Literature Professor
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Post by Sabine DeLunet on May 27, 2013 15:47:41 GMT -5
Sabine DeLunet was always an even tempered woman. Now, anyway. Back in her teenage years that had been far from the case but she was also far from her teenage years, now. Now, she had a handle on her affinity without drinking to subdue it, she had a good life on her hands that she was more than happy about, and she had a profession that she enjoyed over all others. What was so wrong with that? Absolutely nothing. The woman was content with all aspects of her life and that made her quite at ease, to be honest.
She had a good man, too. She smiled softly in thinking about him. Lark was the steady sort, one whose emotions did not get the better of him and that was good for her, the even tempered style with which he led himself. Did she enjoy getting more of a reaction out of him and making him lighten up? Well she most certainly did of course. But she also liked that she didn’t have to worry too much about the emotions in the room getting too much for her when she was with him. She could just be herself and that was lovely.
She wasn’t with him today, though. Today she was on her own, but for Shadow. Her faithful Egyptian Mau was forever at her side as she travelled, keeping close to her legs and purring whenever he enjoyed where they were going. But other than that, she was on her own. She also happened to not be at the Academy, for once. For once she was off the grounds and walking about. She did that from time to time as well, she thought with a chuckle. She wasn’t always confined to the school as some of her students may think.
It was the weekend, and she was looking to entertain herself. Most people did that at clubs or bars, but that was not the scene for her. It hadn’t been since she had learned that she had inherited her father’s alcoholism. Which was something she had yet to mention to Lark, to be honest. But it wasn’t something she often spoke of to other people and being that Lark didn’t seem the sort for a casual drink, it simply had not come up yet. She just politely refused all drinks offered to her and as of yet no one had asked her about it.
Her wandering feet had brought her to the stables. She leaned against the gates to one of the paddocks when she got there, rather than going into the stalls and going to saddle up one of the horses that she often took out to the trails when she was in need of some relaxation and a bit of a getaway. Instead she went to the paddock to watch them run, with a wistful sigh. It was just as relaxing as riding, really. To watch a creature roam so free, it was hard not to feel wistful even when she herself was free.
Not many could claim that luxury anymore, in this day and in this world. It was a bit of a sad fact but a true one.
Not many people realized that Sabine could ride because she tended to keep it to herself, but she was an older woman. In her childhood it was the primary way to get around and she had grown up in a more rural area. She hadn’t even been rich enough to learn how to ride sidesaddle so she rode like a boy, or what the people of her generation would have called riding like a boy. So she didn’t have to look silly like other ladies who refused to get with the times, she had before she had known she was.
Though she wasn’t riding today, she thought about it, absently, as she watched them run. The brown mare that came close, that was the one she usually rode. She didn’t have a horse of her own that she boarded here, not on a professors salary of course, but some of the horses here anyone could take out as long as they were a good enough rider that the owner of the stables would let them.
Instead it was a wistful look that she gave the horses, happily watching them take their free runs as she leaned against the fence, her cat pressed against her leg as she did. She just wanted to get lost in thought and get off the Academy grounds today, it was the weekend after all. There was nothing wrong with getting away for a little while, in her opinion. In anyone’s opinion really as far as she could tell.
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Post by Isadora Mariah Diardo on May 28, 2013 17:19:56 GMT -5
Izzy was having a fantastic day today, Comanche was working wonderfully for her and she urged the dun stallion into a canter along the trail. Earlier that day she'd gone out on the trail, putting up a few low jumps to work the thoroughbred over. She was working on getting him fit for a few of the shows this summer, Izzy had been so busy with the stable for the past few years she hadn't been able to but she'd recently had gotten into contact with her uncle, the only other vampire in her family, and he'd helped her out financially with a promise to come and see what she'd created. So now she wasn't worried about that, which was a great relief, and she had some more money to put up more permanent fencing on the south pasture. So she'd decided to go for a ride on the stallion she'd bought two years ago as a yearling, the now three year old was a bit of a handful, but she loved him.
She was leaning over his back as he flew over another jump, grinning brightly while murmuring words of gentle encouragement, her hands steady on the reigns. She slowed him down as the trail opened up to show the stables and her house settled in a clearing, woods on three sides of it. She was proud of her stable, there were seventeen horses currently on the farm, though the stables could hold twenty, and each pasture could hold ten. The barn itself was sort of split in two, a row of ten stalls lay on the right hand, a large indoor arena lay in the middle and on the other side was another ten stalls. She had four of her own horses in the stalls, two out in pasture, the nine other horses were boarded, four of those were out in pasture, the five remaining all held spots in stalls.
Which meant she still had lots of space for more horses. However, she understood that the economic state wasn't exactly good for buying and keeping horses. She also didn't take people to shows, which she wasn't exactly a show barn, but if she started to take Comanche, she'd have room to take other horses and riders. That would help the influx of horses and riders who wanted a place for their show horse, and a mostly free ride to the shows. She was getting excited about it all, which was transferring to the stallion beneath her and she had to take a deep breath and let it out. She slowed the large horse to a slow walk, leaning back in the saddle to watch a few of the horses she had out in the paddocks, most of them were hers, though one or two boarder horses who got along with hers where out there.
And so was a familiar figure who leaned against one of the gates, Sabine DeLunet, a professor at the Academy who came by the stable every so often and rode the pretty brown mare Izzy had picked up a few years ago. She urged Comanche in that direction, perhaps she could convince Sabine to go out on the trail with her. Izzy was spending the day stretching her horses legs, a grey gelding was just starting to get back up on his feet after dealing with some colic. Izzy thought he'd benefit from an easy ride, and it'd be that much better if she had someone to go along with her. Once she got close enough she slide from the saddle, keeping a firm grip on Comanche's reigns in case the stallion thought he could be feisty today.
"Sabine! Have you come to ride? Nya's been moping around, waiting for you I'm sure" Izzy was careful to keep Comanche back from the fence, he was a stallion after all, and with Nya so close to the fence Izzy didn't want him trying to get all worked up. Words: 667 Tag: Sabine Notes: she luffs her ponies |
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Sabine DeLunet
Azure Vampire
The Literature Professor
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Post by Sabine DeLunet on May 29, 2013 19:44:33 GMT -5
Sabine just had to get away from the Academy for a little while, though it wasn’t like it was too much for her, it was more like…you couldn’t’ spend too much time in one place for too long without feeling like you were going to burst with the need to move. She spent most of her time at the Academy. She was either teaching, helping in the library, tutoring students, helping chaperone from time to time, grading papers and tests…it was a lot of time at the Acedemy and even she, who loved to be there, could admit that easily.
And when it got to be too much, she often came here, to the Stables. She had learned to ride as a child and had never lost the habit. She enjoyed it, enjoyed the calm that came with horses too much for anything else. Horses were sweet animals, their emotions were easy to deal with and Sabine, with her peculiar affinity, had always found that entirely comforting. It was probably why she went riding to relax more than anything else, except for reading being that reading was her first go to calm down activity.
Though she wasn’t riding today, today she was just watching them run. There was such a sense of freedom even from just watching them that she happily smiled as she watched. They were wonderful animals, really. She reached down to brush her fingers against Shadow’s fur as he jumped up to stand on the fence she was leaning on.
And then she smiled as she saw Izzy riding over on that stallion of hers. She smiled warmly because she did so enjoy the company of the woman who owned the stables at which she frequented quite often. She was a sweet tempered woman, and that was easy on Sabine with her affinity, being that she looked out for people like that. As always when the other woman got close enough though, Sabby could feel something else underneath. A darker emotion that didn’t seem to fit in with the others that she could feel coming off of Izzy, it didn’t fit the happiness, or the excitement. It was too dark, too dangerous. And as always that comfused the heck out of her. She had never felt it outwardly, and she had never suspected the woman of having such dark emotions but there they were, as always.
She knew it wasn’t her affinity fritzing, because it didn’t do that around anyone else. So she just waited and watched and kept it hidden in the back of her mind, figuring that maybe one day she would figure it out but until then she would just keep it in the back of her mind. There was just no use worrying about anything like that when nothing had come to pass over it. She thought maybe one of these days, it would simply reveal itself as long as she was patient. And she was, much more so then she had been as a teenager.
”Hello Izzy!” she called, smiling as she leaned against the fence, still with half an eye on the horses because she just plain couldn’t help it! Though the stallion with Izzy was quite the beauty as well, so there was always that to catch her attention. She laughed softly at the suggestion that Nya had been moping around and waiting for her, shaking her head as she did. She absently pulled her hair up into a bun to keep the brunette strands from continually getting in her face. That would be nice if that happened for once.
She reached out to pat the mare in question, who had come closer to the fence, no doubt looking for some sort of treat that she suspected Sabine of hiding on her person and she would be right, but Sabine wasn’t going to spoil her just yet. She adored the brown mare, she was such a sweetheart and Sabine enjoyed riding her from the moment she had started. She shook her head. ”I had only come to watch today, but if this beauty’s been moping than I suppose a ride wouldn’t hurt, would it?” she answered, with another laugh. Sabine was a light hearted woman. If she was any other way, her own affinity would have eaten her up inside by now.
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Post by Isadora Mariah Diardo on May 30, 2013 14:39:29 GMT -5
The woman neatly dismounted from the dun stallion, leading him closer to the other woman. Sabine, who Izzy very much enjoyed talking to, and occasionally, riding with when the woman had the time. Izzy liked riding with most of the people that either boarded horses there or just came to ride. Izzy couldn't think of anything else she'd rather be doing than taking care of the horses, helping others learn how to do that and how to ride. She was very much excited about taking Comanche to a few of the shows in the summer, he'd been doing so very well over the jumps as of late and he was taking to dressage wonderfully. Though he tended to get a bit impatient with her. He was young yet, and Izzy'd found a good way to deal with his impatience. They made a good team and the woman had been glad she'd found the horse when she did.
She curled her fingers around the worn leather of the reigns to keep Comanche firmly in place beside her, though he wanted to stretch his nose across the space between Izzy and Sabine to Nya. However, Izzy was very much that letting Comanche near the other horse, especially with the few other mares and geldings in the pasture, was not a good idea. She smiled lightly at the other woman, before informing her that the brown mare had been moping around with the teacher's absence. She laughed lightly at Sabine's words, delighted to have a riding partner. Izzy didn't mind riding by herself and sometimes it was better, if she was trying to work on a specific problem with a horse, or if she was practicing with Comanche, but she most certainly enjoyed riding with others. And she just needed to get the grey gelding out for a little bit. Get him over the colic and back into the habit of being rode every day.
Izzy had people employed to help out with that, cleaning stalls in the morning and bringing out horses that stayed in the stalls at night, bringing in horses that needed to be in stalls for the day, excercising some of the horses that wouldn't be ridden for lessons or just for a ride that day. But she liked to do most of it herself. "Well I'm glad, I was hoping for a riding partner today" She smiled lightly at the other woman. "Let me go get Comanche untacked and tucked away and I'll be right back" She smiled lightly before tugging Comanche's reigns, her and the horse stepping forward towards the barn. Izzy might not have known it, but Isadora was fuming. She didn't much like watching Izzy ride around on the horses, and she was wanting out, very much. This was missed by the oblivious Izzy, of course, and she merely took the stallion to the barn, untacked him, and put him in a paddock just outside the barn, where he wouldn't be able to get into trouble.
She grabbed two lead ropes on her way back to the pasture, still beaming at Sabine. "Here. The grey, Malcolm, just got over some colic, he's been on pasture rest for the past few days, but it's about time I got him out and excersicing." She unhooked the gate to the pasture after offering Sabine one of the lead ropes, slipping into the pasture as a few of the horses' started heading over. "I might need to hire a few more riders" She liked riding by herself, she liked riding in general, but it was always nicer with someone else. She hadn't had the chance to ride with anyone in a while, she'd been busy fixing things up with the new influx of money from her Uncle, putting in new fences and taking out old ones. Izzy liked to do things herself, it gave her a sense of accomplishment that everything around her was hers, that she made it happens. She might not have built the barn by herself, but she had helped.
Izzy quickly found the grey gelding, clipping the lead rope to his halter and lightly smacking one of the other greys that tried to go with her through the gate. "I'm thinking of having a trail ride one of these days, invite everyone down. I think it'd be fun, have a whole group go riding for the day?" Words: 740 Tag: Sabine Notes: she likes le ponies! xD |
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Sabine DeLunet
Azure Vampire
The Literature Professor
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Post by Sabine DeLunet on May 31, 2013 16:13:11 GMT -5
Sabine was happy for the relaxations that being at the stables gave her. Horses, her cat, away from her work, which she usually loved. It was all just relaxing and she adored it in that way. She had just planned on watching the horses but in a way, when she saw Izzy riding up she knew that was bound not to happen. She laughed softly. She always enjoyed seeing Izzy though, she had such a sweet personality, good emotions to be around despite the odd undertone that she could never seen to understand every time she came across it.
”Well, you have one” she replied with a little laugh when Izzy said that she had been hoping for a riding partner. Sabine might not have come here for the sake of actually riding but she would not turn it down. Especially not with a riding partner such as Izzy, Izzy was such a sweetheart. So easy to be around. It would keep up her need to be in a calm and relaxing environment. Her affinity meant that she generally, when she wanted to relax, had to think about that on top of everything else such as environment and what she was going to do.
She said she had to get Comanche untacked and Sabine nodded with a little smile and watched her lead the horse back to the stable while she stayed where she was for the moment, stroking Nya’s neck gently as she thought. Midnight would likely stay in the stables and be totally content and that was fine, she didn’t worry about the cat. He could handle himself and dide more often than she could handle herself! She laughed softly when she thought about that. It was sadly true, now wasn’t it. Oh well, what could you do?
Instead she focused on the fact that she was going to go riding and perhaps that would take her mind back on being relaxed and away from work. She wasn’t sure what had got her so worked up lately! Probably the fact that she was pregnant but she didn’t know that yet! She would later though, but for right now she just felt more emotional and couldn’t put her finger down on why exactly that was.
She looked up when Izzy returned with a different horse, a gray colt. She smiled over at her, and knew she should get Nya tacked up so that way they could go about their business riding. She took the lead rope offered by Izzy and beamed at the woman, listening to what she had to say. She nodded along. And was a tad bit distracted by the amount of anger she felt under the surface but it still felt like it didn’t belong to Izzy, which was weird for her. She wasn’t sure what was going on! But she tried to focus on Izzy’s words and what they were doing, rather than the emotions on the background.
She nodded, slipping into the pasture with her. ”Ah, than this may be an interesting ride if he hasn’t been out in a while?” she spoke with a bit of a laugh, clipping the lead rope onto Nya’s halter and following along with Izzy, affectionately patting the sweet girl. Sabine adored riding the mare, she was such an even tempered sort and that helped Sabine more than the mare could ever possibly know!
”There are some great riders at the school, some in my class who write about it, I could send one or two your way if you like?” she offered with a little raise of the brow, when Isadora spoke of possibly needing more riders. She knew a few of her students would adore being able to ride professionately and she knew they might be good for the stables and she’d happily send them her way if she thought that Isadora needed them.
She spoke about a group ride and Sabine grinned, nodding. She liked the riders that she had seen here from time to time and would have loved to go on a group ride. ”Sign me up if you decide to do that, I would love to go for a group ride. It could be serious fun. Have a picnic out in one of the clearings or something, make a day of it” she said, enthusiastic and perhaps showing the slight romantic in her wanting some sort of book scene.
She led Nya out of the pasture, after Izzy and took her to get saddled up so that way they could get on with this ride.
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Post by Isadora Mariah Diardo on Jul 14, 2013 12:03:49 GMT -5
Isadora might not have liked the whole country bumpkin, as were her words, feel that Izzy had, not at all. And while she liked to express that every time she was out and about, mostly when Josiah came around to shove her back into Izzy's mind, there was a part of her that grudgingly admitted that Izzy had quite the patience and dedication. Many times the stable had wavered, financial situations putting stress upon Izzy, in which forced Isadora into a rotten mood, but she'd struggled through, somehow keeping Isadora back and pulling the stable out of it's debt. Slowly building up it's reputation, slowly gaining more boarders, slowly becoming what Izzy dreamed it to be. Pride was something that was in the forefront of her mind whenever she thought of the stables, when she'd woken from the plane crash she hadn't been sure what she'd do, where she'd go.
But the stable had been a saving grace of sorts. It gave her a purpose, it gave her a way to live and a way to survive. Isadora might have detested her unknowing captor, but she could not deny the woman's inner strength and determination to do what she loved. And that was about the extent of any sort of positive feelings the darker version had of the woman. Izzy remained utterly unknowing of her other half, had she known that there was another being locked in her body, one that was filled with all the hate and rage and thirst of a crimson, she'd have been simply terrified of letting that loose, of being around others. But she didn't, and Isadora would rather have it that way, lest the resourceful woman find a way to permanently entrap her within her mind prison.
Izzy was grateful she'd have another rider while she was taking out the grey colt for the first time in a while. He was young, younger than Comanche, and while Malcolm was rather sweet and easy going, she'd rather have someone with her in case the rest had caused a build up of energy. "Oh yes, but I'm sure he will be very happy to stretch his legs a bit." Izzy wasn't completely worried about taking Malcolm out, if there was one thing she knew, it was horses, and she could handle herself. But that didn't mean a partner wouldn't be appreciated in case Malcolm got uncharacteristically out of hand. Sabine's offer of sending a few of her students out to help ride was met with a brilliant smile and an eager nod. "That would be wonderful! Help would be very much appreciated"
Izzy led Malcolm towards the barn, to where a row of saddling stalls were, simple spaces that had panels separating spaces in which a horse could stand to be groomed and saddled. She backed Malcolm up into it and clipped the cross ties to his halter. "I think perhaps the best time might be next month, and I'll definitely let you know. You could bring Lark you know" Izzy cast Sabine a sly smile, she'd seen the two come out and ride a few times, and she honestly thought they were just adorable. Then again, Izzy very much liked Sabine, she wanted the other woman to be happy. And it seemed, at least in the few times she'd seen them together, that he made her happy. Izzy's actions were rather swift, moving from brushing the grey colt off to saddling him up.
She stood ready in just a few minutes, gently patting the colt's neck as he showed a bit of impatience to get going. "Ready to go?" Words: 612 Tag: Sabine Notes: WHOOOT! |
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Sabine DeLunet
Azure Vampire
The Literature Professor
played by reesa [/size][/i][/center]
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Post by Sabine DeLunet on Jul 14, 2013 14:58:28 GMT -5
Sabine didn’t yet realize what it was that had her so restless today, off at the stables looking to relax on her day off. Oh, she would. Sooner rather than later she would. It would be hard to miss being pregnant with twins for too long, after all. But as for right now, she was unaware of the fact that she was carrying extra cargo, and would go on this way for another week or so, at the very least. Which meant for right this momsnt she was just restless without not any sort of idea as to why.
She had been looking at the horses down at the stables in an effort to relax. Horses were so easy, they made her life easy. They were always relatively calm in terms of emotion and helped to settle her own. Plus, in order to ride well most people had to have settled emotions so she saw the people around her generally as calm, that made it easier too. She hadn’t originally had any intentions of riding that day, but that was changed soon enough with the appearance of the good tempered, sweet owner of these stables.
Sabine enjoyed the presence of Izzy, she was a sweetheart and a good person for someone with Sabine’s affinity to be around. She did have some sort of hidden darkness deep down that the other woman didn’t seem to be aware of so Sabine didn’t bring it up, but that was something else, something Sabine couldn’t put her finger on so she left it alone. Better to just enjoy her company and leave the mysteries for when they decided to unwravel themselves, wasn’t it?
She laughed softly and nodded, as she walked with Izzy and Nya. ”I’m sure that he will be, I don’t doubt it” she agreed with an easy nod. She was always just a little bit more relaxed when she was here, how could she not be? The air in this place, the aura about it, just made it easier for Sabine to be here with her empathy, which often was in the back of her mind when she chose where she was going or what she was doing. She walked along with the other woman, nodding and listening to what she had to say. Which led to her suggesting that she could tell some of her students to come down and help out.
In a lot of ways, vampires were more suited to the monarchy—though she didn’t support it she could admit this—they did things like ride horseback often, they had fencing classes, there were a lot more of the classical arts around then before the war. She supposed that made them a bit snobbish but it also meant there was a lot more interest in these things, so Sabine could pick out those that would be happy to help out Isadora here by what it was that they liked to write. She nodded happily. ”I would be more than happy to do it. I’ll bring it up on Monday” she said, happily.
Sabine knew it would be perfect to bring it up then too, she was giving back some of the creative papers and there were a few on horseback riding, perfect segway into it. She adored when things worked out that way, it didn’t always. But life of a teacher and all that, it couldn’t always be smooth when it came to the lesson plans she worked out. Though she wished it would, her students were often laid back enough in the atmosphere she set up in her classroom that it was never much of an issue anyway.
Sabine followed Izzy and started to get ready to saddle Nya up so that way they could get to actually riding the pair of horses, which Sabine found just as relaxing as watching the horses. She smiled and started to work on Nya as she listened to Izzy speak. And her words then turned Sabine’s cheeks slightly red. Oh the thought of Lark…Her thoughts drifted off for a moment with a little sigh. She did adore that man, very much so. She had found it hard to get him off her mind since they had met and he was so good for her, so steady and..
She brought herself back into the present with a shy smile towards Izzy. ”I’d be happy to go and, ah, I’m sure that Lark would be happy to as well” she said, uncharacteristically shy for that moment. It just made her feel like a little school girl sometimes, thinking about Lark. But was there anything wrong with that? She smiled and shook her head, saddling up the mare. ”I’m ready to go whenever you are” she answered Izzy with a little laugh and a pat for Nya, and a nod. She was going to let Izzy lead the way, it was her stables after all!
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