Welcome to Hickstead, home to both Seven Oak Stables, and Blue Acre - two rival stables. Both offer opportunities for their clients to reach the highest level of excellence. Each stable differs from the other, so choose wisely and never forget, loyalty is everything... Meanwhile as the stables battle it out, there's trouble brewing at the university. Be careful, if you don't pick a side you may get caught in the cross-fire...
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She'd been working through the pros of moving to a new school, but here she was sitting in the town library, working through some of the cons. She had wanted to spend the rest of the school year doing correspondence work, but no, she had to attend actual school, she had to make friends with the rest of the horse-crazy people who lived in this horse orientated area!
She had found all the books she needed and made her way to the teen section that she had found before she had even started looking for the books she needed, and had really liked the area, and made herself a nest on a couple of the bean-chairs, knowing that she would need to minimise her space if the space got popular.
In the middle of trying to catch up on her history, she looked up as she heard a voice and gave the girl a smile. "Hi yourself." She returned. "You sitting here would be the opposite of disturbing me." She said with a grin, sitting up a little from where she was lounging. "I'm Azura. Yes, I've just moved here. No, I don't have a horse and no, I'm not interested in them." She grinned and shrugged, as they had been all the normal questions when she had met people at school. "You don't go to Hickstead." She was proud of herself for not calling it Hicksville
Azura zipped her coat all the way up as she sat on a damp rock beside the pond, her notebook open on her knee, glitter pen poised above the pages, yet there was nothing there, her thoughts had shattered, like a dropped glass, when the news of their move was dropped on her and she was still trying to sweep up all the pieces, and since she hadn't been able to breathe, let alone think at her grandparents' house, she had caught a bus and come here, where she thought her thoughts would easily flow as she sat watching the ducks float around the pond.
She knew that this move was good for her mum, but that didn't mean it was good in the long run. It was nice enough here, but it wasn't London. For one thing, there was too much green here, everything was green, and people all seemed so nice! Okay, that wasn't such a bad thing, but she was used to people just nodding at each other in greeting, rather than wanting to chat. She knew the best thing to do was to keep her head down, keep out of trouble, and keep quiet about what her mum did for a job - no one wanted to be friends with someone who's parent was a cop!
Picking up a small stone, she threw it into the water, making sure it wasn't close to the ducks, watching the ripples spread out from where the stone had sliced through the mirrored surface of the water. She tapped the end of the pen on her lips as thoughts began to surface
We are but ripples in a pond. Movements pushed by actions untold. We have no control of where we'll end, or of the events that will unfold.
She curled her nose as she read through what she had written, not really sure what she thought of it. It wasn't terrible, persey, but it also didn't make her go wow either. She guessed that was one good thing about being new to a school, the teachers didn't expect anything of her yet.
full name • Azura Hope Perry nicknames • Az age • sixteen birthday • 29th february occupation • student gender • female sexuality • hetro
the appearance
face claim• Kiernan Shipka
identifying features• While of average height, Azura’s blonde hair and hazel eyes seem to catch attention that she doesn’t always want.
the personality
likes • reading, herbal tea, being right, notebooks, writing dislikes • graphic novels, coffee (smells gross), arguments, getting dirty, homework strengths • researching, weaknesses • short fuse, she’s her own worst critic dreams • to have a book published fears • her dad fighting the custody agreement overall personality • To the world, Azura is self-assured and a go-with-the-flow kind of person. When she’s alone, she’s quiet and happy to get lost inside a book, or lost inside one of the worlds she has created in one of her many spiral-bound notebooks - if you ever need to know what to get her as a present, a notebook will never be the wrong answer. While she loves being outside, exploring old places (places with history), or lying on the grass and watching the clouds, she likes to stay clean, the thought of spending hours in a barn with horses makes her skin crawl.
the history
father • Magnus Perry; 45, officer mother • DIANA NOELLE PERRY , 44, DC siblings • nada important people • hometown • London overall history • Azura was a picket fence away from having a “perfect family". She had two parents who loved her, and each other and they both had great jobs so she never had to worry about where the next meal was coming from or how they were going to keep the roof over their heads.
As she got older, she noticed a change in her parents. Something had happened, and there was a palpable shadow between them, and she wondered if it was because of her, but they were both so busy that she never found the right moment to ask either of them… no, she never found the right time to ask her mother what was going on, as her father was more of a ghost than a person in the house, almost transparent, and not someone to talk to.
She guessed that it was the idea of what her parents did for a job that piqued Azura’s curiosity and sparked the idea of writing stories about what she thought they might do - without using their real names of course - and this started her passion in writing, creating stories of strong female protagonists who trained hard and got the job done. She knew that her first few stories were wrong, so she began to research what skills and training officers and federal agents needed, and often got lost down a rabbit hole of research. And, this allowed her to tune out the arguments between the parental units.
She was happy enough to go and take dinner to her father, following her mother into the precinct, eyes looking at how things were set out, so that she could later use it in her writing. Seeing her dad having petting time with a woman who could have been her older sister wasn’t what she was expecting, neither was she expecting her mother’s reaction - go mum!
The divorce, she expected, the custody going to her mum, she expected - most of the time the judge sided with the mother unless the mother was financially or mentally unstable. What she didn’t expect was the total upheaval that brought them from London to the backend of nowhere hicksville! Sure, she understood that her mother needed a new start, away from him, but surely there were other precincts she could have transferred to in London, rather than here.
the role player
alias • Cara age • hahahahahaha other characters • Let’s not open that can of worms