[drabble] A day at the races!

[eskil_douglas]

A young man trying his luck at the races - it wouldn’t even be noteworthy if it wasn’t for the fact that the man in question is a Count! And, even if he’s a foreigner, he is still a respectable enough seeming character, so the odds are against him.

The bookmakers is having a field day with this new participant. The first race he loses and comes in third - because he is new. The second race he comes second place because he’s too chivalrous to the Turkish Girl. But the third... it is as if the young man was destined to win. He flies across the fungus, faster than lightning - and he wins! And wins big!

The lucky few who put their money on him can’t help but smile. The crowd is entranced by this handsome though uncommonly shy runner. Everyone wants to know - will he be back? Will he run again? No one knows, not even the runner in question - but his sunny smile, and his outlandish performance, will be the talk of the racetrack for quite some time.

[do let me know if your character was there to cheer him on, bet on him, or otherwise was there to see him triumph. <3

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Hop Esse, Hop!

[sapho1byron]

Sapho was of course in attendance wearing a remarkable sporing bonnet. It was planted with only the brightest and happiest fungus and these were arranged to form a smiling solar disc. And she wagered heavily on Esse in every race (she also made sure to convey warm congratulations to the Turkish Girl for her victory).

[marinabeauvais.livejournal.com]

Though at that moment Marina was on her last days of being under the radar (to use a future expression), she was there along with a Miss Danni Flint, spending half of her time smiling and the other admonishing her maidservant for pickpocketing some of the audience.

The girl grumbles at this, of course, but she gets the last laugh when Marina visibly winces with every possibility of a slip that she catches Eskil doing, hands clasped in a silent prayer.