Harley -- Dream 12 -- Pretty up the pony?

[justwantsafety]

((Dream effects: Uncertainty and a bit of confusion, mostly, but some measure of contentment, too, and embarrassment.
OR: Interactive for the event/moon phase this week. Come in and help pretty up the little pony? ♥
Style: Either. And please mark as viewing or jumping in, yes? :D ))

Harley sat, looking down at the furry, pink rug over the linoleum floor. He barely saw it, even as he lowered his nose nearly down to it, exhaling a sigh in a snuff out through his nose, almost a snort, and sulked.

Something about this just wasn't right.

He was calm again, and Rise had made certain of that with all the reassurances, telling him how it would be so nice, in that gentle tone of hers, while she ran her dainty little fingers down the back of his scalp, through the strands of hair she played with. Her smile, wide and happy, and constant chatter, had kept him from further paranoia for the last few days, and now it had been keeping him from thinking too much about what she'd been doing.

He looked up again, into the full-length mirror hanging on the bathroom door. Tried to, anyhow; all he saw from that angle was the sink, from below.

He wasn't sure he really wanted to lift his head enough to see himself properly again.

He looked to the door's side, and up at the knob which wasn't turning yet. Where was Rise, anyway? She said she'd be right back... but that had to be-- had to be at least-- two ten minutes ago now. What could she possibly be getting, that would take so long?

He looked back down at the rug, shifted a little... and finally raised his head to sit up a little straighter, and peeked into the mirror, still not entirely sure about this.

He was a tiny little pony, maybe two and a half feet high, white, with a wide gray stripe running down from bangs to mouth. Bangs which were currently tied in a pink bow. In fact, all of his mane, and his tail as well, had been braided and bowed, to the tune of Rise's coos, as he sat there on the rug, in front of her. He'd nearly fallen asleep several times during it, just from the hypnotic effect that the constant, light tugs on his hair had on him, as she worked. And now she'd left to go get something, and he was still sitting on her floor, looking at himself with pink bows all over his head.

At least no one else was going to see him like this, right?

....

Rise had better not have gone to get her Dreamberry, to take pictures of this.

((And if you don't want to do the interactive thing--))

Harley blinked, and rubbed his eyes -- and then quickly looked at his hand, turning it over. It was a hand, not a hoof again. Oh good, so that was just a dream.

...

Wait, if it was a dream, then--

...

Harley hurriedly reached over to the nightstand, grabbing the Dreamberry to shut it off. Maybe not everyone had seen that?

Comments

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[albhedbnehlacc.livejournal.com]

[Tilts her head to the side before giggling]

How adorable.

[justwantsafety]

*blink blink -- wait. Adorable? In other words, she just saw--*

....

*ooooh dear. D:*

*have an embarrassed sort of grin* ....it was my friend's idea. She said that's what horses were for. That, and riding on.

[albhedbnehlacc.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't know. We don't have them back in Spira. We have chocobos and shoopufs instead!

[justwantsafety]

I hadn't seen horses before then either. Actually, I... hadn't seen any animals, in the Junkyard. What're chokeabos and shoepuffs?

[albhedbnehlacc.livejournal.com]

You lived in a junkyard? Like where they usually put scrap metal and things?

Oh, well chocobos are these bird things that used to be all over the Highroad and shoopufs are these huge animals that you can ride to cross the Moonflow! They're something you have to see to believe~

[justwantsafety]

I don't know... I mean -- I don't know about scrap metal. There was some, since it was a war going on, but it was mostly just a bunch of rubble... broken pieces of buildings and stuff, like it'd been built over a ton of times. Maybe they were previous bases or something.

So the animals in your world were all really big? Did you have... dogs, there? *glances over at something, briefly, that the Dreamberry's camera doesn't catch yet*

And what's a moonflow?

[albhedbnehlacc.livejournal.com]

A war? How horrible! Spira only just entered the Calm that Yunie brought, but there's still signs of it here and there.

Not all of them. Some of them are kinda small. [Notices the look but answers anyway.] We sure did~

The Moonflow is a big huge river basically.

[justwantsafety]

I... guess? It's pretty much always been going on, though. It's just how it was.

But you're from Spira? What's that place like? What kind of dogs did you have there?

*at least he seems to know what a river is... he's seen them in Somarium. I think.*

[albhedbnehlacc.livejournal.com]

How horrible...But Spira was kind of like that too as long as Sin was there.

What kind of place? Well, it's full of interesting places. There's the Thunder Planes, Gagazet is a huge mountain where the Ronso live and there's the Bikanel Desert where I'm from. [Grins kind of sheepishly here] I'm not a big expert on dogs. I'm sure my friends would know more about those than I do.

[justwantsafety]

So it is kind of a little like the Junkyard, but with mountains and a river and deserts? ....what's Sin?

*he's so lost... but he's trying to understand, at least.*

[albhedbnehlacc.livejournal.com]

Uhmm...Maybe? There are a lot more buildings and cities and things like that.

Sin was this horrible thing that just caused all sorts of bad things in Spira. Summoners had to go on these journeys to defeat it, but when they did, the summoners died too.

[justwantsafety]

Well, there were bases in the Junkyard, too. Mine was Svadhisthana. I guess they were sort of like cities.... But there were civilians and things in Spira too, weren't there. Or was it all military?

....so this Sin thing... was a demon, or something?

[albhedbnehlacc.livejournal.com]

There were plently of civilians, but a lot of people joined the Crusaders which were these people who were trying to get rid of Sin by using Machina.

Yeah...you could say that. It wasn't very nice, but it's gone now for good and that's all that matters.

*needs to be smacked or poked or something* >_>;

[justwantsafety]

*shakes his head a little* The Junkyard was just military. No civilians at all. Other than that... I don't know, it still sort of sounds a little similar. Maybe?

How did you guys finally get rid of it?

XD it's okayy

[albhedbnehlacc.livejournal.com]

Maybe the idea of it was. Spira still had people trying to live their everyday lives. But Sin was horrible...it threw everyone off.

We figured out that Yunie didn't have to summon the final aeon so we gave it the ol' one, two and it was gone!

<3?

[justwantsafety]

Oh.

...

What's an aeon?

<3

[albhedbnehlacc.livejournal.com]

[Rikku can't help but giggle. This guy is a bit like a kid when it comes to questions.]

An aeon is a part of the Fayth. They don't exist anymore though with the Fayth gone.

<3

[justwantsafety]

*yeeeah, he sort of is. He has no clue what a lot of things are. Ask him about military stuff, on the other hand....*

Oh.

*pause*

What're Fayths?