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The weeks came and went and soon turned into months and Kei sat on a bench outside one of the stables at Rosendal with her back leaning against the stable wall while she looked blindly ahead. She did not know how long she had been sitting like this, but it probably would have been a good while when someone came up and interrupted her chore.
"What are you doing?"
Kei looked up bewildered for not have noticed that someone had arrived and now stood talking to her.
"Oh, Josephine ... Hello." Kei smiled weakly up at her friend who was covered in horse hair from head to toe. "Who is the culprit?" She asked, pointing at Josephine's clothes.
"Who? You mean Who’s?" Josephine laughed and demonstrated with her hands while she brushed off the hair quickly. "We are inside and cleaning the brushes in the tack room ... so ... I think that every horse is guilty for how I and Danny looks like." She laughed.
Kei smiled while Josephine told her the story and for a moment she forgot to be a bit gloomy and soon she smiled fully while Josephine explained in detail the event, which took place inside the stable.
"Why do you not join us?" Josephine looked at Kei with a warm smile. "It would be so fun!"

After an hour of brushing and cleaning of the brushes the three friends meet and watched their work with pride.
"God have mercy on those who dirty them again!" Josephine laughed even though she knew they would be stuffed with hair again in the near future.
"We are at it again in a week!" Danny rolled his eyes somewhat when he went out of the stable to go to the arena to check out while his brother Damien finished a workout with his horse Citron. The two girls went up to the office and checked the schedule to see if there were more chores for the day, or at least something they could entertain themselves with while waiting for another job to pop up. But nothing had been booked and so they sat down and had coffee instead and waited for the time to pass by.

Kei actually laughed when she was with Josephine. It was so easy to forget the troubles with her around. They talked about everything ... horses, events, other stables, movies and entertainment.
"That movie is so sad ..." whined Josephine when they discussed a previously released film they decided they would see at some point together. While they were talking Madelynn came in and she cried when she saw the two girls.
"What a pleasure to see you here!" She looked from Josephine to Kei in a hurry and sat down to join them at the table.

The conversation went well until Madelynn said that Kei had been a little distracted at the latest and may not be entirely her full true self. This got Kei to relapse again and dark thoughts fell back on her.
"I just think it's funny that you smile and socialize!" Exclaimed Madelynn to save the situation when she and Josephine saw Kei's little mood change.
"It's okay ..." said Kei now smiling but the smile did not reach over her ears, but remained pale and not entirely honest. "I have to go by the way ... I have to go down and see ... Verveine." She struggled to get the last word out, which was the name of Cher Ami's foals that had been orphaned when the friesian mare mysteriously died. Kei had not really understood it all and still almost thought that everything had been just a very bad nightmare. But that was not the case and she knew it.

Kei sauntered out on the green area and headed out to one of the pastures where Vervein was positioned to herself. No mare had taken the little black filly, so Kei had taken on the role as mother and give her food so the little one would survive but it was with pain that she visited the little foal every time she did so, it reminded her of C.L's last moment with her before he had gone away again without telling about when he would return ... if he even would return.
When Vervein saw Kei she whinnied shrilly and trotted up to the fence to visit her mistress. Kei climbed between the joists in the fence and came thus into the paddock to meet the little one. Vervein arrived quickly and sniffed Kei's hands, eager to see if Kei had brought the bottle that would offer her the nutrition she needed, but she became a little disappointed as soon as she noticed that Kei had not brought her bottle.

Kei patted Vervein along her back with silky strokes while she looked out into the distance, looking for a goal that she knew would not be visible to her human vision. She hugged Vervein carefully and leaned her head against hers. Vervein stood still and closed her baby eyes but peered cautiously very now and then up to watch the horizon.
"I've seen how you stand and watch the horizon when I'm not here ..." Kei stroke the foals cheek gently as she continued. "What are you looking at?" That was a stupid question but Kei asked it anyway, no matter how stupid it was. Although Vervein had not known her mother nor C.L for so long in her young life but she had still resorted to them and saw C.L as her master apparently, and she longed to see her mother and him again ... and so did Kei. But Kei knew Vervein would never see her mother and that she would be alone until C.L returned ... if he did.
Kei hated to think so ... but what was her alternative?
"We'll manage, Vervein ... we'll get along ... in one way or another," and so Kei kissed the foal's forehead while she wrapped C.L's necklace between her fingers and said a silent pray for his return to them.

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