Pre-Wedding Panic

Information
Horse: ERS Last Queen of the Serengeti
Info: Baliro Mare
Rider: Selena de Clermont
Stable: RMS - Royal Musketeer Stables/ERS - Eyllisahn Royal Stables
Country: France
Competition: Pre Royal Wedding
Discipline: Running Away
 
Story  (510 words)
The days went by and Selena, at times, still had a hard time believing this was really happening. After all those years, she would marry Seth. It just seemed so unreal to her. Like she was dreaming even when awake.
Winter had set in in France and Vaux was covered in a white blanket. For her, the place could not be any prettier than it was known and it was for that reason she had chosen a winter wedding at the domain, complete with a competition. The preparation for it were coming along, but with every passing day, she felt more restless then the last.
One morning, she was taking Queen for some exercise. The mare was not hers, but while she was stables at Vaux in preparation for her departure to Eyllisahn, Coriath had asked her to give her some movement once in a while. The mare was sometimes a hand full, but once you knew her, she was a fine horse to ride. From the couple of times she had been on her back and the way she was build, Selena thought she would make an excellent jumper, preferably Cross. Perhaps endurance could be working as well, but with the proper stamina training. She was way to explosive to handle long distance well at the moment.
After saddling, she took the mare to the arena and mounted. A stable hand was busying himself putting the low dressage-fences in place, so that it would be ready once the competition started. The snow had left a white blanket here as well, so she started easy. Pretending nothing was going on, she send the mare around the field a couple of times, to let her get used to the cold, white underground. Once that was done, she put the mare in a nice trot while riding some figures to get her loose.
Normally, a ride like this always helped to calm her nerves, but not today. With every passing minute, she grew more restless, and so did the horse below her. “I’m sorry Queeny.” She looked to the mare, before turning her hard to the other side and putting her heels in the sides of the horse. With a soft whine, the mare went to canter and stormed out of the arena and past the castle to the fields beyond. Thankfully, the paths had been cleared, so she had a good underground to race over the domain. The stones spat up behind her while she made a run for it. She could not stand the view of all the preparations for what was going to happen soon. It was not that she didn’t love Seth, it was just that she could not handle the stress. Pushing the mare on, she soon entered the woods that would lead to the meadows where the horses were kept in the summer. She gave the mare free reigns. Hopefully she could forget everything for a second now, before returning, or she would lose her head. Tomorrow was another day for stressing, today was for her.

Credits
Selena, Queen, Art (C) Me
:bevBaliro: (C) Danesippi
Design Queen (C) EquineInc
Ref pic (traced) (C) LuDa-Stock  fav.me/d51zirk