"Horses!" Empathy says with an excited jingle in her voice. Walking up to one of the horses, she looks directly at it in the eye. Suddenly the horse becomes quite agitated and bucks a few times, surprising many around it.
"It does not speak with us," Empathy chimes curiously, cocking her head to the side slightly.
[sblock=Nature check on horse]I figure she's unfamiliar with this type of natural creature so she'd make a nature check first off.
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14! No idea what that means but I'll take it as a good sign.[/sblock]
Empathy walks around the beast several times, looking at it from all sides. The horse quiets down after a moment, and goes back to waiting passively. She turns and observes others mounting their horses, using the saddles and quickly jumping up on their backs. The entire idea seems completely strange to her. She looks back at the horse, looks at the others, and then attempts to mount up.
The next few minutes are best described as comic hilarity, as a 6-foot crystalline creature attempts and fails no less than three times to get into the saddle, and often ending up on the ground for her efforts. Refusing assistance, her body begins to glow a slightly deeper red with each try. Finally, on the fourth attempt, she manages to get onto the beast's back, albeit with some difficulty and no small discomfort to the horse. It nearly throws her immediately, but she somehow manages to stay on it - probably due to her weight alone - but is clearly not happy with the situation, and neither is the horse. After finally getting it to calm down again, she turns to the others and in low, spiteful tone says,
"Horses."
