Unfortunately for Geralt, Jaskier all but gasped with delight when the Witcher demanded he sing. This made twice in one day! Jaskier was still high on the delight of winning a fight (technically), so he threw his arm up and drew a deep breath. He grasped the first song that came to mind, a delightful ditty about a milkmaid and a merchant, and broke into bright and cheerful song.

The gold horse stared at Geralt's hand for a moment and then its head swiveled with delight as Jaskier started singing. It bounded out of the fountain and shook itself off, flinging water droplets across anyone and anything in the surrounding space, and then all but skipped after Jaskier as the bard walked back to the stables.

In a very, very odd turn of events: Jaskier found the stable doors both closed and latched. The stalls were closed properly as well. Not a single thing was amiss, apart from the golden horse being on the wrong side of the walls. Fortunately, Cantata was more than happy to listen to him sing as he opened the stable doors, led the horse in, and went about resettling it in its stall.

Roach, however, was less enthralled by the music and seemed rather annoyed on whole.

To Jaskier's shock, as he walked the stallion past her stall, Roach leaned her head out and snapped at him. (Cantata, not the bard--his heart might have broken if she'd snapped at him.) She caught some of Cantata's mane in her teeth, a bit rather close to his ear, and gave him a sharp tug. The distracted fellow didn't react quickly and his poor head clunked hard against the door to Roach's stall. She let him go then and huffed, irritably, as he gave her a dazed look.

The stallion appeared...both confused and duly chastised as he meandered back into his stall.