Almost like flying

OMG SWEET JUDAS THEY WOOON.


Gaaawd *inglorious-vikings I hate you for having such a stable logo with that decoration thingies on the top that are so hard to cut out and why on earth did it have to be the indoor arenaaa..*cries*
Lol just kidding _{except the logo part.. It was really difiicult to cut out.}
Soo this is a last minute entry again. xD Yeah I'm just that uncoordinated, always messing up with the deadlines.
And I actually quite liked the lines and the concept of this picture but I'm absolutely not satisfied with how it turned ot.:/ I wanted it to be like light and floating but it seems so heavy to me. Oh don't mind me talking nonsense, it's nearly 2AM here and I'm tired as hell.

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Erin was slightly nervous at the morning of the competition when she stood in Cloud's stall, thoroughly grooming the grey-ish fur of the stallion. She knew that she was good at vaulting, or at least she used to be, and the training went great, her muscles were not as rusted as she thought they would be but... all of a sudden she felt insecure now. Especially about Cloud's behaviour. The Pegasus responded well to Yan's idea to use cookies as a lure but Erin was afraid that he'd get bored of it just too easily and too soon.
Lost in thoughts of those sort she was tacking Cloud up when Yan joined her. "Mornin' boss." Erin simply nodded in response, not really trusting her own voice. "You're clothes are up at your room. And you're really sure that you want to wear those? I mean.. those long shawls that might be dangerous if you entangle yourself in one of them." Erin just raised an eyebrow. "Don't you think I already thought about that problem? They're fixed with small strings around my arms, just like some kind of sleeves. And I'll undo them more towards the end. So no worries there, little one." she laughed as she strode off to change. Meanwhile Yan already loosened Cloud with a few rounds around the warm up arena in a relaxed canter. He watched the other entrants from the corner of his eye, noticing an especially brave pair who actually danced on the back of their horse. The man snickered when he spotted Erin leaning at the side fence of the arena, looking rather nervous even though she tried to hide it. When the entrants with the starting number 8 were nearly finished he joined his boss at the arena entrance.
"You're gonna make it, mate." Yan smiled at her reassuringly while he entered the arena at her side, leading Cloud with his bridle. Erin just stayed silent with raised eyebrows feeling a great lump in her throat. Then the music began to play and the show started. 'Maaan I fell like a fucking rookie before her first show.' she scolded on her head, while jumping onto Cloud's back. The first few figures went quite well even though Erin nearly lost her balance when Cloud bolted a little more forward towards the cookie while she was hanging upside down from one side of his back. She heard a few people from the crowd cheer at the fact that that horse was following a cookie around the arena but Erin had no time to think about that now. The part of the music where she was supposed to jump from Cloud's back and land there again was drawing closer and she was gettign more and more nevous. During training Erin had only accomplished it once to land precisely a few inches behind the girth all the other time she had landed too far behind or too far off to one side that she had to jump down from Cloud's back. Already taking the small strings between her fingers that would undo the shawls around her wrist she bended her knees slightly, preparing for the exact moment. A rush of Adrenaline rushed through her veins when she heard the part in the song that marked the moment of her jump _{(skip to 2:59 here in the song)} and she pushed herself off, opening the strings, her body tense to the last muscle, eyes shut tight. When the light blue fabric spread out behind her for that tiny moment, just a few points of time, she really felt as though she was flying..

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- Event: TIS and IVS A Sort of a Pentathlon
- Part: #5 Vaulting
- Horse: EMS You have your Head in my Cloud
- Rider: Erin Compton
- Starting Number: #9
- Music: Lindsey Stirling - Song of the Caged Bird
- Theme: Freedom/flying

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