Ellie nodded silently with a quiet, "Mhm..." Once she finished off cool hosing her horses legs and turned them out with rugs, she walked back into the barn and leaned against Nero's stall wall. "You look very content there," She noted to Sam with a smile.

"well, im content whenever i'm with horses." Sam said softly, shutting Nero's stable door, holding his water bucket. He hosed off the bucket, getting rid of any dirt or dust on the inside of it, then refilled it with water before dragging it unelegantly back into Nero's stable.

"I can see that," She said with a soft smile. She watched him as he got the water, and resisted the urge to chuckle at his messiness. She opened the stabled door for him to make life a little easier, but locked it behind him. "There, no you can be happy with Nero all night," She said teasingly.

"i love him, but not that much." Sam chuckled, reaching ovee the stable door and unbloting the metal lock, slipping out of the stable and locking it again behind him, smirkingjokingly at Ellie.

She watched as the stallion lifted his head as his owner left, of what only made Ellie put on a pout, "Aw, look, you made him sad!" She exclaimed jokingly, trying to reach over the door to stroke his muzzle, but he was just a bit too far away.

"aww, sorry boy." He said oversympathetically to Nero, reaching over with his arms, which were a little longer than Ellies," And tickling him behind his velvety ears. "i eckon e need about 300 more dollars. shouldnt be that hard to get." He said, thinking rapidly of other things to sell.

"We will get it in no time, I promise. We'll be back to normal soon." She huffed, shaking her head a little. "I've put my suits up for online auction... I should get at least 200 for them all together, so we will be a whole lot closer." She said with a small smile as she tried to lean into the stable to touch the horse, but it didn't seem to work very well, as she only just manned to touch the end of his ear.

"i hope so.." Sam said quietly, and observed Ellie desperately trying to reach his horse. He gave a strong, sharp whistle and Nero stuck his head over the door so Ellie could stroke him. "better?" Sam smirked, softly patting his horses velvety uzzle.

Ellie jumped a little at his whistle but gave him a sheepish smile before turning to run her finger along Neros soft muzzle. "Much, much better," She said with a soft chuckle.

Once they had both done stroking Nero, Sam asked Ellie. "how are the suits doing?" He said, reffering to the onces she had put up for onlne auction. He went into they hay barn to fill Nero's haynet. Sam stuffed a chunk of hay into the net before slipping on the smooth wood floor and falling headfirst ino a ple of hay with a thump. Getting up, he walked out of the barn, not registeing that his hair was a mess of tangles and hay.