（ same could be said for nero, truthfully. animals ain't complicated. they like you or they don't. he's only a people person when the curtains are up, but he grew up wrangling. kept cats to kill the mice in the grain. this one gets a goodly scratch under the chin if he'll allow it. ）
Oh, Christ alive, don't start. He's got enough of an ego already.
（ skokash was a regular horse once upon a time, just like nero was almost a regular man. smart as a whip even then, and a hundred and forty years of being beholden to akromika and those smarts surely ain't suffered. nero ain't got a clue how much he really understands — his name, basic commands and all the rest — but he's smart about people. nero ain't never trusted a man that weren't trusted by dogs and horses.
cats he figures ain't quite so discerning about their company. ）
He weren't ever the fastest horse around, but he turns on a damn dime and he can keep pace twice as long as an other I've ever seen. Never saw nothing else like him for endurance. Back when he was just a mustang, anyhow.
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Oh, Christ alive, don't start. He's got enough of an ego already.
（ skokash was a regular horse once upon a time, just like nero was almost a regular man. smart as a whip even then, and a hundred and forty years of being beholden to akromika and those smarts surely ain't suffered. nero ain't got a clue how much he really understands — his name, basic commands and all the rest — but he's smart about people. nero ain't never trusted a man that weren't trusted by dogs and horses.
cats he figures ain't quite so discerning about their company. ）
He weren't ever the fastest horse around, but he turns on a damn dime and he can keep pace twice as long as an other I've ever seen. Never saw nothing else like him for endurance. Back when he was just a mustang, anyhow.