The towering beast of a horse didn't seem to take his welcoming committee very well. Lace found himself torn between amusement and regret as he watched the foreign stallion from his hiding place in a nearby thicket, fighting a certain mischievous desire to jump out and shout "BOO!" and see how high he might jump. It wasn't really the way to go if you wished to recruit someone, however. Not that this was why he had dragged himself all across Helovia from the southern desert; he wasn't even properly a part of the herd. Yet if he could, if this unknown entity so desired, he wouldn't mind guiding him down through the autumn-clad regions to strengthen the numbers of the so sadly weakened herd. He felt it as a sort of obligation, seeing as he himself was taking up space without pledging allegiance...
Deciding against practical jokes - though not without a certain amount of regret - the slender grullo cleared his voice to give some small measure of warning to the tense equine before he began to disentangle himself from branches, trunks, leaves and twigs and emerge out into plain view. "Easy, stranger" he tried to soothe, the low voice soft and deep and possessing a kind of lazy smile that gleamed within amber eyes yet didn't quite make it across the face, "stressing too much is bad for your health." Keeping a respectful distance from eventual displays of temper, the much smaller and leaner stallion tilted the gently dished profile and studied the other openly, taking in the massive hooves, the sturdy legs and eyed his towering height with no small amount of jealousy. Noticing the chains that hung from sooty tassels Lace raised a silent brow but didn't question them - many different kinds of horses passed through this gateway, and most carried luggage with them.
"You're a big one, aren't you... Welcome to Helovia, land of sunshine, rainbows and rose-strewn paths. May I take your coat?" A smile twitched by a corner of his mouth, more ironic than this newcomer were likely to realize.
He felt in such a strange mood this day, halfway between laughter and doomsday - he did hope this person knew how to take a joke, or Lace would have to start running.
@[Chisel]
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