These mares, or perhaps it was all mares, were very forthright with their thoughts and their troubles. It through Jaydan aback some, and made him shuffle his hooves with discomfort. He was never a good type for empathy or lending a shoulder to cry on. Was this how Cysaro felt when he blathered all his heartaches to him? Probably. The thought made Jaydan smile, which is a rare sight these days, and likely odd considering his current position and conversation.

Ears tilted back in uncertainty, wings shifting in another anxious gesture - they wanted to fly and get out of this situation he'd found himself landed in. "Fledgling?" Jaydan asked, his voice cautiously curious, even hopeful. Young was always a good sign in his mind, but this was perhaps because he did not know the word she used, 'raped'. He thought better than asking for an explanation, perhaps a different time or from a different mouth. It was not often he found words in the high speech he hadn't heard before, but this one didn't crop up in conversation often. She seemed upset though, which bothered him. Was the foal painful? He always thought they would be and that maybe that was why mares were always as liable to grumpy as they were happy.

The other mare, Sunchaser, regarded him then with a welcoming smile but confusing words. She intended to leave? What would possess her to break away from their group when they all had the same destination? If she needed to hurry that was fine with the jay, he'd hoped they'd already be walking by now. "Wait!" he called to her, wings flaring suddenly in his haste to get her attention. He did not truly know the way, and was marginally terrified of being left along with the sobbing mare in foal who was raped and whom he doubted he could console.

"All go?" Jaydan suggested, head bobbing enthusiastically.

[I figure we can end this here or wrap it up and start a thread in the Foothills? Also for future reference, it usually makes more sense timeline wise to not have things change in the middle of a thread. For instance Sunchaser was accepted into the Foothills, true, but her acceptance was in another thread, so a different time than the one this thread occurred in. So it's very strange to have Sunchaser suddenly be accepted, or know information she couldn't know in this thread and this time, because of that. You're more than welcome to have multiple threads at once, but especially with joining/accepting threads it's good to take it slow until you know what's fully happening :P]