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       Re: A Drink for What Ails You
       By: Breezy Adlark Date: December 25, 2013, 9:39 am
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       An almost disappointed, sheepish look crossed Breezy's face when
       Clarity tried deciphering her speech, suddenly feeling very
       self-conscious about her ability to speak the Equestrian
       language. She always felt bad for inconveniencing ponies like
       that, despite it being something she always wanted to change.
       This sheepishness lasted until Clairvoyant nuzzled further
       against Breezy, causing her to smile gently as she hugged him a
       little tighter for a moment. "Zhe spa...?" Breezy asked in
       slight surprise after Clarity's plans of taking him to the spa,
       thinking for a moment how most male ponies weren't really into
       feminine things like that.
       "Clairvoyant is enjoyink spa? He is not makink fun of for be
       seeink zhere? He is very... uncarink pony, yes?" she asked, not
       realizing what her words meant in contrast to what she wanted
       them to mean. A moment after, Thyme came back with the books
       she'd offered to give Breezy, and the gryphon smiled to the mare
       as she reached her free claw out to take the books from her,
       although she was a little hesitant to begin reading... "Perhaps,
       if you vill beink villink, I vill return later, to practice
       here? I am... not best reader of Equestrian, so I vill be
       learnink better vhis you, miss Thyme. Em... How much am I ovink
       for books and trainink?"
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       Re: A Drink for What Ails You
       By: Clarity Date: December 25, 2013, 10:25 am
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       Clarity's look of concentration is replaced with a sad one as
       Bree finishes speaking, and she sits down, stroking his cheek
       instead of his ear.  "Well, sure he gets made fun of.  For how
       he goes to the spa, but also for how he can't talk, for how he
       can't see, how he can't smell or taste, for how he always has a
       stress ball and a plushie with him, for-"  She stops herself,
       having been talking faster and angrier as she continued.  A deep
       breath.  Smooth your dress.  There, that feels better, right?
       Her smile returns.  "Anyway, being made fun of for a lot more
       than just liking to go the the spa enough to keep doing it, and
       the spa workers are so nice.  It's his favorite place to go
       aside from home, and they know him there.  They know how special
       he is..."  She reaches and tickles him under his chin, eliciting
       a silent giggle from him in his sleep.
       "But yeah, he doesn't have an easy time meeting ponies who don't
       look down on him for his eccentricities.  We're in the 'noble'
       capitol of Equestria, after all.  I was barely able to convince
       him to come to the dance this weekend."  A thought strikes her,
       and she smiles brighter, looking back up to Breezy's face.
       "Hey, do you want to come?  It's open to all young ponies.
       Well..."  She blushes and looks away, realizing what she'd just
       said.  "All young ponies and others.  There just aren't very
       many citizens of other races here.  Oh, apples, I didn't think
       of that when we were making the fliers.  I hope they don't think
       they're not welcome..."
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       Re: A Drink for What Ails You
       By: Thyme Date: December 26, 2013, 1:39 pm
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       Thyme's smile fades as Breezy and Clarity talk, her eyes
       dropping toward the floor. Clarity was right, ponies here were
       entirely too quick to mock anything that was out of the
       ordinary, and Clairvoyant was very strange indeed. Breezy had
       been perfectly accepting though, her short-lived pity aside, and
       Thyme raises her eyes to look at the griffin again. She feels a
       little better, though her smile does not return. "Together it's
       60 bits, and if things don't work out I'll let you return them
       for a refund." She says, her voice just a little lower than
       before. "I usually close at four. If you're available you can
       come in then."
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       Re: A Drink for What Ails You
       By: Breezy Adlark Date: December 26, 2013, 5:21 pm
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       Almost immediately after Breezy asked her question, Clarity
       began talking about Clairvoyant's being made fun of, and
       Breezy's expression took on a slightly more downcast appearance.
       She knew exactly how it felt, being teased like Clarity was
       saying Clairvoyant was. For her submissive nature, for taking
       more time than others to grasp concepts, for her
       over-expressiveness... The only difference was that she didn't
       have a twin to support her like Clairvoyant did.
       Clarity then asked Breezy if she wanted to attend some sort of
       dance, to which Breezy just gave a lost, almost blank look to. A
       pony dance, that she knew was going to mostly comprise of
       ponies, if not completely. She would be the only non-pony there,
       but... Clarity said Clairvoyant had a hard time making friends,
       and if he was going... Breezy smiled to Clarity and inhaled as
       if to respond, then looked over to Thyme when she mentioned how
       much the books and training would be. Breezy paused for a
       moment, taking a few seconds to run that through her head before
       speaking. "I vill perhaps discussink vhis Moser first, miss
       Thyme. Vheser she is agreeink or not, I vill be tellink you next
       time ve are seeink each oser, yes? So until zhen, perhaps it
       vill beink best to set books aside..."
       She looked to Clarity then, the claw around Clairvoyant's
       shoulder gently running along his mane as he slept. "I vas often
       teased vhen I vas still livink in zhe Gryphon Kingoms. Almost
       every day, zhe oser gryphons found new vays to be makink me feel
       awful about myself, so... I vill go to dance, Clarity. I vill
       gladly be zhere for you and Clairvoyant. I am not best at
       dancink, sough. I am hopink I vill not be expect to dance... I
       am not vishink to lookink zhe fool in front of so many ponies. I
       vill feel out of place as it is, beink zhe only gryphon..."
       She glanced down to Clairvoyant then, offering a quiet sigh. "I
       am supposink vhe should vake him up now, so you bos can visit
       zhe spa..." She lowered her voice then and spoke in a quiet
       voice like a mother might when trying to wake their child.
       "Clairvoyant... Vake up from your asleep. Your sister is here to
       take you to zhe spa," she told him as she gently shook him
       against her, hoping to wake him as softly as possible.
       #Post#: 221--------------------------------------------------
       Re: A Drink for What Ails You
       By: Clairvoyant Date: December 26, 2013, 6:24 pm
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       Clairvoyant blinks sleepily and yawns, withdrawing a hoof from
       around...whoever it was that he was hugging when he fell asleep
       again to rub at his eyes, a smile on his face.  Feathers...does
       that mean Windy?  No, he didn't have feathers on his front.
       Whoever it is is much bigger, too.  He rubs at the back, trying
       to remember.
       Oh, right, Breezy.  He just met her.  She's a Gryphon.  Talks
       kinda fun.  Strong heartbeat.  And what was she saying?  Sister
       is here to-
       And then there's a pair of hooves around him, and he hears a
       giggle, an oh so familiar and wonderful giggle, and he removes
       his hooves from around Breezy to transfer his hug to his twin
       sister.  "Oh, Clair," he hears her say as he traces a heart on
       her chest.  "You made a friend!  You can tell me all about her
       at the spa!  But first, go give T-mom a hug while I get your
       things.  Time's a wastin'!"  And then he's being turned around
       and nudged forward, and he gladly complies, walking forward
       until he's enfolded by Mommy's hooves in a hug.  He returns it
       gladly, ending the hug with another heart trace on her chest and
       a kiss on the chin.
       "Now Breezy!  We'll be seeing her this Saturday, 18:00, right?"
       18:00?  Isn't that the dance?  Is his new friend coming?  And
       then he's being swept away from Thyme and back to where he came
       from, up against Breezy again, which he doesn't mind in the
       slightest.  He burrows into her feathers one more time, this
       time being careful not to fall asleep, and gives her another
       hug, held for 5 heartbeats which he taps out on her back in time
       with hers before he's being moved once more, this time
       presumably toward the door, leaning against Clarity.  "See you
       then!" she calls back, and he stops long enough to give a wave
       in what he hopes is the right direction before being guided out
       into the street.
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       Re: A Drink for What Ails You
       By: Thyme Date: December 26, 2013, 7:35 pm
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       Thyme takes the books back, nodding. "I'll hold them until you
       return, then." She says, turning around for a moment to place
       them on the counter. Her smile almost returns when Clairvoyant
       is woken up, the corners of her mouth twitching upward slightly.
       It comes back fully when Clairvoyant walks over for a hug,
       though it doesn't last long after he lets go and goes back over
       to the other two. As him and Clarity turn to leave, she gives a
       wave to the yellow earth pony. "Have fun you two." She calls as
       they leave.
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       Re: A Drink for What Ails You
       By: Breezy Adlark Date: December 27, 2013, 1:45 am
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       As Clarity moved forward to slip her hooves around Clairvoyant,
       Breezy removed her claw--albeit a bit reluctantly since she had
       been somewhat comfortable like that--before just smiling gently
       as she watched Clairvoyant trace some sort of shape on Clarity's
       chest, then be nudged over to Thyme to hug her. As that
       happened, Clarity spoke to her again, telling her the day and
       time of the event. Smiling still, Breezy nodded to Clarity in
       acknowledgement, accompanied by her saying, "Yes, I vill be
       zhere, Clarity. I am lookink forvard to it." Clairvoyant was
       then nudged back against her, and for the duration of this
       second embrace, she gently held him against her, claw rubbing
       his shoulder before Clarity pulled him away again.
       Breezy offered a wave to the pair before they left, giggling
       quietly at the fact that Clairvoyant didn't aim his own wave at
       all in the right direction. She then pushed herself up onto all
       fours before stretching her back paws out one leg at a time,
       followed by her tilting her head down so she could preen her
       chest feathers with her beak. Now that she had some time to
       finally browse the shop she'd been so interested in in the first
       place, Breezy slowly began walking past all of the potions on
       display, doing her best to read their labels and figure out what
       they meant despite her lacking capability to fully understand
       Equestrian. Eventually, she moved over to the section Thyme had
       pointed out to her earlier, spending substantially more time in
       this section as she perused what was there.
       When she was finished looking over the various potions, Breezy
       returned to Thyme with a gentle smile on her beak and waited
       until the mare turned her attention back to her before speaking.
       "Miss Thyme... I vished to sank you for your... hospitality. I
       have been... feelink out of place in Canterlot, but I am hopink
       maybe I have found somevhere zhat has acceptink of me, and zhat
       I have made some new friends. But... Vell, zhe point is... Sank
       you. I am appreciatink you." She smiled to Thyme a moment longer
       before realization played on her features. "And I am havink one
       more question. Clarity did not mention vhere zhe dance vas
       supposed to be... Vould you be happenink to know...?"
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       Re: A Drink for What Ails You
       By: Thyme Date: December 27, 2013, 11:15 am
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       Thyme turns to roll around the counter as Breezy goes off to
       browse, taking the books she was going to hold for the griffin
       and placing them on a shelf so they're out of the way. After
       also putting away the plushie Clairvoyant had left behind, she
       busies herself cleaning the back area of the shop. Once Breezy
       has finished looking around, she turns her attention back to the
       young griffin. "I'm glad I could provide that." She says,
       returning Breezy's smile with a small one of her own, though not
       quite as large as it had been earlier. "Ponies here can be too
       quick to judge, but they're not all bad." At Breezy's second
       question, she turns and rolls down the counter a little way, her
       horn lighting up as she comes to a stop. She produces a flier
       from a shelf under the counter, levitating it out to show to
       Breezy. "Here, this should have everything you need to know."
       #Post#: 233--------------------------------------------------
       Re: A Drink for What Ails You
       By: Breezy Adlark Date: December 27, 2013, 7:04 pm
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       Breezy watched quietly as Thyme rolled herself further down the
       counter, waiting to see what the mare was doing. When the flier
       that was produced was levitated over to Breezy, she gentle
       snatched it out of the air with a claw before taking a very long
       look at it, her eyes slowly scanning each and every line of the
       flier. Finally, after about a minute or two her face scrunched
       up in a frustrated expression before looking up to Thyme and
       waving slightly. "Sank you, miss Thyme. Zhis vill be helpink. I
       sink I vill be goink now, so farevell. I vill be seeink you vhen
       I speak to Moser," she said before turning and exiting the
       Alembic.
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