At a farm, a young boy, Alexios, was tending to his horses. He had his one mare, a blue roan Thoroughbred, in a circular corral, on a lunge line.

"Alexios! When will you sell those horses and actually be a good son?" His eldest sister, Jade, scoffed. "I mean, they must be worth some decent cash."

"Forget it, Jade. I'm not selling none of them. They're mine, and I pay for everything, so, legally, you can't sell them either." Alexios huffed.

Dakota walked into her house and sighed with exhaustion. She grabbed her riding sweatshirt and walked back out to her truck before driving to Rose Stables. She had boarded her mare, Splash, there for years and worked off the price with mucking stalls, scrubbing buckets, and exercising the horses who's owners were too busy or rich to take care them. She sighed again, knowing how much work she needed to get done before trailering her mare to a rodeo an hour and a half away in the city of Houston. She completed her tasks, earning a week of boarding, before grabbing her barrel racing tack and a cooler blanket and plopping them in the tack section of the 2-horse trailer. She walked back, now excited for tomorrow's competition, as the moon showed itself and the stars followed. Dakota had always loved the night and had frequently snuck out during her childhood and stayed up late in the woods near her house. Her mother and father had both gone off to the marines at a young age, hoping she'd follow in their footsteps. It had been Dakota's plan for a long while until she heard her parents had died in a battle out of the country, her brother now her only family. She had never gotten along with her brother, and he constantly told her how terrible she was and how he wished she had gone and followed mother and father so she would end up like them. Eventually, he had shoved some money at her and left without talking one night. She had bought Splash from her trainer's friend with that money and now made a living of barrel racing. Dakota snapped back to reality as she opened Splash's stall and the mare nickered to her. "Hey sweetheart" She murmured softly, clipping the leadrope to the mare's halter. She led her beloved heart horse to the trailer and loaded her with a few pats and a treat

Alexios looked up, seeing Dakota arrive. "Hey, Dakota." He greeted, putting his blue roan Thoroughbred mare, Ocean Baroness, into her stall. "How's school?"

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We gonna keep RPing?

Yeah, we are. I posted a response last night, but it doesn't show.

Alexios brought out his Friesian stallion, Shade Shock, and put him on a lunge line. "Hey, Dakota. I got a question." He stated.

Dakota spun, hearing her name. "Oh, hey. Schools good. Tiring. Yeah, what's up?" She asked, surprised

I was thinking of putting my horses up for breeding stallions/broodmares." He stated. "What do you think of that? I mean, they've all won over 100,000 dollars in competitions."

"I think you'd make a living just off of that. Would the broods go to the stud's place during pregnancy or....?" She asked, eaning on her truck

"No." He responded, "But I would provide the transportation. It's not to make a living, just to earn some cash. My sister, Jade, done did some sketchy stuff, and got herself in deep debt." Alexios explained. "Drained all of our parents money, and we need money for the bills."