Copyprinting a Bill

23 May 2014

01:03 GyroTech wiggles his cute little plot at Inky

01:04 Inky raises an eyebrow. "What do you want, Gyro?"

01:05 GyroTech shrugs and looks over his shoulder at the mare. "I don't know..

01:08 Inky walks over and boops the unicorn's nose. "I know you, and you only do that when you want something! So what is it this time?"

01:12 GyroTech scrunches his under the pressure of her hoof and grins at her innocently. "Well... You see I'm kind of looking for somepony to do some calligraphy for me." He smiles even more hopefully at her.

01:14 Inky sighs and frowns. "What for? I suppose I could help you out, but I can't promise anything about the quality..."

01:20 GyroTech brightens up quite a bit at her agreement. "Well... You see... I'm proposing a bill to the mayor that says all cranes in use in Seaddle must be certified by the port engineer, including those on foreign ships. We had one break last week and so I just want to make everything safer...As for why I want your calligraphy, presentation is everything. "

03:21 Inky looks surprised. "A crane broke? Oh no, was anypony hurt?" she asks, worried. "Also... aren't /you/ the port engineer?"

03:27 GyroTech shakes his head, a relieved look on his face. "No according to the incident report the zebra under the load was saved by a unicorn with a shield spell. Also no, I'm not /the/ port engineer... I'm just generally the one he brings in to do much of the work. But really this is all for the safety of the ponies. "

03:36 Inky breathes a sigh of relief. "Well, that's good." She rubs her muzzle thoughtfully. "Hm. Even foreign ships, though? How's that gonna work? Like do you just turn them away if they fail inspection?"

03:43 GyroTech nods back at her. "Well kind of... See ships that come into port have to get permission to leave or else they can't be admitted to any other port on good standing cause of Port agreements"

03:51 Inky tilts her head. "Uh... so we could keep them here indefinitely if they failed this inspection... thing?" Her mouth twists. "I don't want to help propose some kind of skeezy bill or anything!"

03:54 GyroTech gives Inky a hearty pat on the back and laughs. Not indefinitely, only till they become compliant. And pony public safety isn't sleazy. " He gives her a peck on the cheek. " As I said I'm not the port engineer anyway. "

03:59 Inky is knocked forward slightly with the force of the pat, and she blushes lightly at the peck. "Well... would you deny that you'd benefit a lot from this bill?"

04:01 GyroTech hoofs at the ground lightly. "Well... Hypothetically If I said yes would you still write it for me?" he asks hopefully with a grin.

04:03 Inky shrugs. "I dunno. I just... I know you too well, Gyro. Your motives are almost never this pure! I'm just skeptical this is really for public safety."

04:08 GyroTech grins innocently at her. "Well... It really does help keep the dock workers safe. I don't want to read an incident report where some poor helpless pony gets squashed in an accident like what almost happened... Do you?"

04:09 Inky gives GyroTech a skeptical look and crosses her hooves in front of her. She raises an eyebrow.

04:11 GyroTech pulls out his draft of the bill and slips it over to her. "That is what almost happened this week you know..."

04:16 Inky sighs and pulls the bill towards her, giving it a read. "Well... if it would actually improve safety..."

04:20 GyroTech takes a seat on a cushion as she reads it. "The document itself was full of technical specifications, a rigorous maintenance schedule to be maintained by the ship as well as periodic audits and inspections by the city of Seaddle.

04:24 Inky is totally lost by the document's technical writing. "Uh... I can't understand any of this. Mind helping me out?"

04:28 GyroTech scoots on over to her and goes over the document explaining it in as plain language as he can.

04:35 Inky scrunches up her nose as she wrestles with whether or not to help. Finally, she sighs. "Okay, I'll do it. But you can't tell anypony who did the writing."

04:40 GyroTech nods in acceptance. "Sure. Still not confident in your calligraphy skills yet? Thank you for this."

04:44 Inky looks at the floor and scuffs a hoof. "Yeah, not really..." She carries the bill over to her desk and gets out her paper, ink and pen. "Um. This is gonna take me a bit of time to copy over. Do you want me to write the /whole thing/ like this...?"

04:50 GyroTech gives an even brighter smile, "You really are quite good. Best one in town as far as I know. And yes if you wouldn't mind. I'll repay you for this. Just name your price."

04:53 Inky squirms uncomfortably at her desk. "Payment? But I couldn't... I dunno..."

05:07 GyroTech giggles at her reaction and smiles. "I didn't mean necessarily a monetary or anything. Just like I owe you a big favor or at least a really good date."

05:13 Inky grins back at the unicorn. "It'd better be a REALLY good date to make up for all of this," she says, waving a hoof at the long bill. "I better get started..." She inks her pen and grabs it in her mouth, settling in for the long haul.

05:17 GyroTech gives the mare a hug even as she picks up the pen. "It'll be the bestest date I've ever taken you on." He pulls away and watches her work.

05:21 Inky gets to work, moving her pen in precise, careful strokes. She glances up and sees GyroTech watching her and flinches slightly. "Coow you nah wash me, please?" she says, muffled a bit by the pen.

05:24 GyroTech sighs Sadly, getting up and walking towards the door. "I guess I'll see you in an hour or so then?"

05:26 Inky grabs the pen out of her mouth and reaches out a hoof at the stallion. "Wait, no, please stay! Just... don't look, please?" She sighs. "Sorry... I know it's kind of silly, but I'm just not comfortable with ponies watching me work."

05:30 GyroTech raises an eyebrow and clocks his head. "Am I just supposed to stare at you beautiful plot then?" He heads back over to her and takes a seat on her bed.

05:33 Inky shrugs. "I dunno... I guess I just kinda want your company. I can't really talk very well when I'm working..."

05:41 GyroTech shifts to laying down on Inky's bed, just staring at the mare's tail. He lets out a yawn. "ill keep you company Inky."

06:01 Inky sighs. "C'mere and give me some cuddles, Gyro. That's nonverbal, at least!"

06:06 GyroTech rolls off the bed and trots around the desk. He curls around her butt, his head resting on her tail. "How's thus?"

06:10 Inky giggles and gives the stallion a few pats. "That's just fine, Gyro." She flicks her tail and curls it onto his chest, then picks up her pen and gets back to work.

06:14 GyroTech watches for Inky to pick the pen off the paper to refresh the ink before slipping his snout under Inky's tail and nuzzles between her thighs.

06:17 Inky stiffens, careful practice keeping her from accidentally spattering his bill with ink. "Nah now, Gyro!"

06:20 GyroTech giggles and gives one long teasing lick before pulling away, laying back down on her tail.

06:27 Inky shudders, a few drops of ink falling on the margins of her papers. "Ngfhh..." She puts her pen down and looks back to glare at the stallion behind her. "Either you leave that alone while I work, or go all the way in!"

06:33 GyroTech giggles sheepishly at her. "I'm just having a little fun. I think you'd have trouble working if I went down on you anyways. I'll play nice now."

06:35 Inky makes a mock pouting face. "Aw, I woulda liked you swelling me out for an hour or two," she says, rubbing her belly as she talks. "But cuddles are perfectly fine." She reaches down and tousles GyroTech's mane.

06:37 GyroTech smiles and chews idly on Inky's tail and closes his eyes murring happily.

06:38 Inky grins at the stallion, giving his mane one last ruffle before she picks up her pen and gets started for the third time.

06:45 GyroTech drifts off to sleep, curling even tighter around her warm body as he snores softly.

06:56 Inky smiles as she feels GyroTech curl around her and start to snore, the stallion's presence somehow making her more comfortable with her work. She carefully copies the bill text onto her papers, her mouthwriting neat and refined as allways. After about an hour and a half of hard work, she finishes and yawns herself. Shouldering GyroTech onto her back, she stumbles over to her bed and climbs on, ...

06:56 Inky ... hugging the sleeping stallion close as she falls asleep herself.