Welcome to Gaia! ::

She carefully extracted the braid from his nips, still grinning, but more so in a playful manner now. "I've heard so much of this Rahu character. Is he really -that- bad?" She knew of Soquili that were a little tempermental, but none that were so bad as to warrant being afraid of or just completely avoiding.

"Ilianna nearly talked me ear off about him, so I was warned," she said in a less light-hearted tone as she shifted her legs into a more comfortable position. "I guess I'll run into him at some point, but I like to think I'm made of slightly stronger stuff than my half-sister. She seems easily intimidated as much as she likes to not show it." Olathe shrugged nonchalantly at that; she hadn't been with her half-sister long but it wasn't hard to see that Ilianna was delicate in certain situations.

"Perhaps Rahu is afraid that no mare or stallion will find him worthwhile, so the best thing to do is to scare them away? So he can't be hurt?"

She chuckled, casting him a calm, almost serene smile.
"I'm sure he'd resist your attempts with all his being if he's as bad as everyone says. No reason for you to waste your time. I'm sure you'd have better things to do." The mare paused though, flicking her ear as she caught the noise of a crackle in the distance (probably a squirrrel or something running in the leaves), then smirked.

"You could take him though, I'm sure, if he did try to bully you around. It'd be harder for a mare, I would wager, but I won't stand for his nonsense if he tries to mess with me. I've no time for stallions who throw bigger fits than foals I know."

She nipped at some of the offending mane that draped over his eyes, lightly flicking it back to uncover his face.

"And now you know why I have braids," she commented drolly, caring little that that was a rather abrupt topic change.

She giggled and shook her head at his words, finding them to be silly, but endearingly so. Stallions WERE rather touchy about their mane...more so than most mares she'd met.

"I suppose it does make a nice blanket," she agreed, looking at the silky strands that draped over her own black and white mane and the blue hide of her neck for a moment. "You could hide in there....like a foal in a bush hideaway!" Olathe pulled her head back some so the mane slid further up her head, giving her a clocked appearance. She looked silly, but she was trying to prove her point. She, for all accounts, appeared to be in a cave of sorts.

"Oh, I don't know," she said pensively, pulling her head back out so she didn't look so hidden now, and rolled her ears back in thought. "Really, I'm free for the rest of the day..."

"...really?"

Olathe had been curious about the structure, as she had yet to really explore the teepee of the two-leg that Lia kept talking about. She just knew that the two-leg was around.

"Well, if you don't mind, I would like to look. I can't help but be a little curious. I blame you."

She chuckled merrily at that and carefully extracted herself from the stallion's lengthy tresses before getting up, which was tricky in the confined space.

"For making me curious and encouraging me to satisfy it," she said with a laugh, stepping around their shelter carefully and heading for the looming shape of the teepee.