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Day 3: Jean

Jean frowned as he glared at the horses who were flat out refusing to cooperate. It had been Sasha's idea for him to be in charge of setting up the horse-drawn carriages - probably because he had called her 'Potato Girl' again - but despite apparently popular belief, Jean was not some kind of horse whisperer. In fact, other than his own horse, most of them did not like him. Jean was getting tired of chasing horses around and attempting to put the harnesses on them so they could pull the carriages. As another horse ran swiftly away from the carriage Jean was trying to convince it to pull, he grumbled in complaint.

"Why do we even need carriages? I fail to see why we can't just walk, we aren't going anywhere particularly far away." Jean muttered irritably. After a few more failed attempts to put a harness on a particularly tempermental horse, Jean was ready to give up.

Petra often visited the horses when she had a day off, and that day was no different. She headed to the stables, grabbing a brush to brush the horses' manes as she entered. Half the horses were missing, which surprised her since there weren't any missions scheduled for that day. Just as she decided to ask Commander Erwin why some of the horses were missing, she heard someone entering the stables. Turning to face them, she saw it was Jean, leading a couple horses back to their places in the stables.

"Oh, hello, Jean. What are you doing?" Petra inquired.

"I'm supposed to be setting up horse-drawn carriages, but none of the horses are listening to me!" Jean explained.

Petra approached one of the horses and lead it towards the carriages. She began attaching the harness to the horse, which made no attempts at escape. Jean watched in surprise as she guided all the other horses into place, and soon the carriages all had a horse or two to pull them.

"How did you..?" Jean asked, shocked.

"You probably started yelling at them when they wouldn't cooperate, didn't you?" Petra questioned.

"...Maybe..." Jean said quetly.

"Well, you wouldn't want to listen to someone who was yelling at you, either, right?" Petra told him with a smile. Then she walked away, leaving Jean with the horses.

"I still don't understand why this was even necessary." Jean sighed.