Dynaviir sighed. This conversation was going nowhere, and he felt he intimidated her slightly. But he looked at her and smiled anyway. He was trying his best to be polite. But then he saw through one of the windows the tail of a horse being taken into the stables, and he remembered about Doienwei.
"Do you have a pony, or a horse?" he said. "I need to go and see to Doienwei, my pony. Every night since she first came to me I have stayed with her to talk. I'll need to go to her before it becomes too dark, she can become unsettled easily."
He knew he had to go, but he didn't want it to look like an excuse to leave from Ninial's view. "You can come, if you like, but she can be easily startled. She wouldn't mind visitors, though." He smiled again and stood up.
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