Repairing a Batpony's Magic

21 August 2014

01:35 Inky huffs and pants as she stumbles along the second floor hallway, the journey having taken a lot more out of her than she thought. Her burst of excitement when she left the library had faded quickly as she trudged the long walk to the docks. The bat pony takes a moment to catch her breath, patting the lumps of her saddlebags under her cloak to make sure she still had all the books. She mare lifts her hoof and knocks on the door three times. She leans against the wall as she waits for a response, still panting softly.

01:39 Ruzeth was hard at work all morning studying the books he'd gotten to help train Lucent. All around him in a circle they laid, flipped open to different pages as he cross referenced techniques between the group of them. The note he'd gotten from Lucent that morning was a little discouraging, but he still had to try. Midway through the morning, he breaks out of his trance as he hears the knocks, looking at the door confused, thinking he probably heard something since no pony ever knocked on Lucent's room.

01:42 Inky waits... and waits, double and triple-checking the room number. She shrugs and lifts up her hoof to try again, rapping at the door three more times. The time spent waiting does give her a chance to catch her breath, though.

01:47 Ruzeth stares at the door for a couple more seconds, still supprised to have a visitor before quickly getting to his feet, eager to meeth them. "I'm coming~" He shouts out with much eagerness in his voice as he gingerly steps over the book ring before hastily making it over to the door, throwing it open to see a mare in a raincoat. His smile fades slightly, some of his excitment drained by the strange sight. "Umm Hello?" He asks, a hint of confusion in his voice.

01:52 Inky lightly waves a hoof in greeting. "Hey, Ruzeth," she says, trying to sound excited but failing miserably after the hard journey over. "It's me, Inky. From the library." The librarian looks much more tired and drained than Ruzeth remembered; her yellow eyes are almost grayer, and look a little sunken. The enthusiasm that usually pervaded everything the mare did was conspicuously absent.

01:53 Ruzeth stares at the door for a couple more seconds, still supprised to have a visitor before quickly getting to his feet, eager to meeth them. "I'm coming~" He shouts out with much eagerness in his voice as he gingerly steps over the book ring before hastily making it over to the door, throwing it open to see a mare in a raincoat that he vaguly recognised. His smile fades slightly, some of his excitment drained by the strange sight. "Umm Hello?" He asks, a hint of confusion in his voice. "Wait I know you...the librarian. Did you bring those books?" He still cant help but look questioningly at the raincoat, though he doesn't say anything.

01:55 Inky lightly waves a hoof in greeting. "Hey, Ruzeth," she says, trying to sound excited but failing miserably after the hard journey over. "Yeah, it's me, Inky. From the library." The librarian looks much more tired and drained than Ruzeth remembered; her yellow eyes are almost grayer, and look a little sunken. The enthusiasm that usually pervaded everything the mare did was conspicuously absent. She nods slowly in response to his question. "Yes, I talked to the library, and I managed to get you those books you wanted." The mare gives him a wan smile, knowing her fangs are showing but simply not having the energy to care.

02:01 Ruzeth steps out of the doorway and ushers her inside, his eagerness returning fairly quickly as he bounces in place energeticly. "Oh~Thats wonderful, I can't wait to look them over. Plain as day were all the books on the floor surounding a cushion, with a littel white fur on the ground, quite eveident of Ruzeths endeavers.

02:08 Inky steps into the room, looking around the small apartment. The mare makes no motion to take off her cloak, seemingly content to leave it on indoors. She vaguely remembers that Ruzeth said he was living with a friend, but they don't seem to be here at the moment. "Yes, I'll get them out in a bit," she says, her voice almost devoid of enthusiasm. "Oh... are those those books you checked out? Are you finding what you want?" The bat pony leans down to inspect the ring of books, but this proves to be too much for her after walking all the way over. Her legs buckle and she collapses forward, landing on the floor with a heavy thud. She lets out a little groan .

02:16 Ruzeth takes notices of Inky's fangs as she steps into the room and despite that he knows she's alright, he shrinks back from her slightly, the stories of batponies from his tribe still lingering heavily in his mind. Ruzeth sighs slightly at fidning out hw wont immediatly get access to those cherished books. "Oh but I cant wait to get started, and we have such limited time if you're gonna take them away when you leave." Ruzeth gives a light laugh a the mention of the books, shiftin on his feet uncomfortably after the previous nights lack of success. "Not everything is going according to plan..." he admits. The zebra gasps when Inky collapses, rushing to her side and leaning down, reaching a hoof accross her forehead. "Are you alright miss bat pony?" With a light of inspiration he rushes over to the window and closes the curtains, filtering out most of the light. "There, I'd forgotten that sunlight drains your kinds energy. You can take your cloak off now."

02:18 Rainbow_Dash waves to Sleepy-Luna[NLR] and hugs her back

02:24 Inky 's forehead feels fine, although a midge sweaty from walking over while wearing a cloak. She weakly pushes the zebra's hoof away, and brushes her dark blue hair out of her eyes. "Sunlight's fine," she grumbles, "that's just an old mare's tale." The bat pony starts to say "I'm fine," but stops midway and sighs. "No, I'm not alright. That's why I'm here." She makes a token effort to get off the floor, but decides it's far too much work.

02:30 Ruzeth had made it halfway back to be the time she responds about the sunlight and chooses to attend to her than reopen the curtains. Stoping in his paces as he nears her, he tilts his head confused, "But...I thought you were here about the books? You should go see a doctor or a /real/ shaman if you're sick...I can't help you as much as you'd like. Lets get this off of you though..." Ruzeth responds, walking over to her before beginning to remove the cloak, pulling it firmly up towards Ink's head, staring with the end, though he doesn't notice Inky's missing cutie mark at first.

02:34 Inky sighs again. "Well, them too. I'm hoping they'll help. And I don't know any 'real'... what are you doing?" The mare notices Ruzeth trying to pull her cloak off and her eyes widen. "No, don't!" Weak as she is, she's powerless to resist, and the young zebra easily pulls the cloak off of her. Feeling naked with her bare flanks exposed to him, Inky folds her ears down and covers her eyes with her hooves, waiting for the inevitable reaction. "It's... it's not as bad as it looks," she says in a small voice.

02:46 Ruzeth tugs the garmet off and begins to fold it up when he hears Inky's complaints. Setting the coat asside, he turns to look at her, blinking a couple times in the dim lighting and not noticing anything particularly odd. Taking a seat beside her, he grabs the mares near hoof and gently tugs it away from her face. "WHats not as bad as it looks?" He asks confusedly, "I don't see anything wrong?"

02:48 Inky turns to look at Ruzeth and blinks as she realizes that Ruzeth hasn't noticed her missing cutie mark. "Oh, um," she says, thinking quickly, "I'll tell you really soon. But... would you mind if I used your bed?" The tired mare cracks a smile. "It looks more comfortable than the floor." She tries to get up again, managing to lift herself slightly before collapsing back on the floor with a wumph. "I'm... gonna need some help, though." In a further attempt to temporarily distract him from noticing her condition, she remembers the zebra mentioning some sort of "plan." "And... what was that, about something not going to plan?"

02:58 Ruzeth gives a quick nod, figuring that there was no harm in letting Inky lay on the bed. "Ya sure go on ahead I suppose. He watches as Inky lifts herself up off the ground before wincing as she hits the floor once more. He leans down and works his muzzle under her neck to lift her up and with her help gets the mare to her feet before wrapping her hoof around his shoulder. "We really should get you to a trained medical pony. You're in no conditon to come back here. he comments leading her over to the bed. The zebra freezes in place at the question about the books though, thinking quickly about how to best answer it withough incriminating Lucent. "Well um...teaching magic is harder than it should be..." He says, not elaborating at all, nor answering who he was teaching.

03:03 Inky lifts up her head to let Ruzeth works his way underneath her, draping her foreleg over his withers as he lifts her up. The mare leans heavily on the younger pony as they walk towards the bed. "No, I... I promise I'll explain," she says with a sigh. "But first, who are you trying to teach?" Even drained as she was, the mare was still naturally curious and couldn't resist pressing the zebra further. She tries to take another step forward as Ruzeth freezes, pulling him onwards since they were nearly there.

03:12 Ruzeth staggers under the larger ponies weight, trudging their way over to the bed at her insistence, giving a reluctant glance at her answer. He ignores her question till she's finally at the bed, pushing her body forward till her chest lay on the covers and slowly working his way backwards till Inky was fully on. "Oh...well...I'm just trying to teach...teach a friend." He says, rather hesitantly, before trying to change the subject, "So umm...ou said something about the books helping?" Obviously trying to hide something.

03:17 Inky slowly climbs onto the bed, shifting to lay along the side. She stretches out on the soft surface, sighing happily as she relaxes. The mare could tell Ruzeth was hiding something, and her curiosity wouldn't let up until it was sated. "Yeah, just hold on," she says softly. "Who's your friend?" Reaching for a pillow, Inky's hooves are just short, wiggling fruitlessly just a few inches away.

03:22 Ruzeth nearly laughs at the absurdity of the situation as Inky waves at the pillow despite the sadness of it all. He wanders over to the head of the bed and grabs a pillow tossing at the bat mare as he ansers her question with a shrug, responding nonchalantly, "Oh, its just somepony you wouldnt know."

03:25 Inky sighs in exasperation. "You can tell me, it's fine. If it's.... it's you, or something, that's not really gonna work." She grabs the pillow and tucks it under her head, resting for a few moments before she sighs. "I suppose I ought to explain myself now," the mare says.

03:33 Ruzeth responds quite quickly in a defensive voice to her words. "I know that....I'm not capable of magic. Its for...well I'm not allowed to say," he finally admits to the mare, drooping down beside her. He turns to look into her slitted as she speaks, finally getting to sate his curiosit, "Yes please, tell me whats wrong...though I'm sure I cant acutally help..."

03:40 Inky 's pupils were wide in the darkness, like great black pools. She slowly reaches up a hoof and boops the zebra's nose. "Shh. Don't sell yourself short. And if you can't say, you can't say. ...But I know you can help me." The bat pony lets her hoof fall back to the bed, and takes a deep breath to prepare herself. "Well... you may have noticed that I'm... tired, and weak. And..." Inky squeezes her eyes shut for the last bit. "It's because I've lost my magic."

03:47 Ruzeth scrunches his nose under the gentle boop, shaking his head, doubt still written accross his face despite the mares reassurances. "Miss batpony, I think you're really sick, your delusional. You're a bat pony, not a unicorn, you /have no/ magic. Even if that was true I can't help you...Im just a failure of a zebra who ran away form home before he became a full fledges shaman...and now I'm stuck here with no means even making money...let alone continuing my training..." He laments painfully.

03:52 Inky shakes her head and huffs in irritation. "Call me Inky, please, and yes, we /do/ have magic. I swear I tried to tell you before!" She holds a hoof to her head, taking a moment to recover from her little outburst. "...Look at my cutie mark," she says, hoping that that would at least convince the zebra she wasn't just delusional.

02:22 Ruzeth looks doubtfully at the mare, and then trails a hoof down the side of Inky's body, brushing at the fur gently till his hoof lays on her flank. He strains his eyes in the dim light, trying to make out a shape on the mares but but only sees her purple grey fur. "Miss Bat...Inky," he says correcting himself. "I don't see any cutie mark. Are you sure that batponies get them? I hear yall arn't like normal ponies..." THe zebra says, not remembering her Inky spot from before.

02:31 Inky just lays there while the zebra runs his hoof along her side, not trying to push him away. "Yes, exactly," she says. "It's gone. And of course we have cutie marks, we're just as much a pony as you are!"

02:36 Ruzeth raises an eyebrow at the mare, still feeling slightly confused, "Gone? How can a cutie mark just disapear? I thought they were like apart of your core spirit, you're ture self?"

02:41 Inky groans in frustration. "It disappeared the same way it showed up, with magic! Why won't you believe me?" The mare tries to step off the bed towards Ruzeth, intending to look him in the eyes and explain pony magic to him in depth. Her plans are cut short when the hoof she puts on the floor doesn't support her weight, leaving her hanging half on and half off the bed. "Ack!"

02:48 Ruzeth turns to her with a sigh as she explains, shaking his head. "Because I think I'd know if I had magic. It seems like the sort of thing that I'd have been..." The stallion jumps up midthought as the mare collapses, moving over to her to try and push her back onto the bed. "Careful there."

02:55 Inky wraps her foreleg around Ruzeth's withers as he stoops to help her up, but she doesn't let go once shes back on the bed. Willing together all her strength, the mare yanks him close to her, their noses almost touching. She stares at him with the big black pools of her eyes, her expression very serious. "Ruzeth," the mare says, wanting to make sure he was listening. "/Everypony/ has magic. All kinds of ponies. Unicorns, pegasi, bat ponies," she says, giving her wings a flap, "and yes, even earth ponies and zebras."

03:08 Ruzeth leans in close at the mares insistent tugging, looking back into her eyes as she stares at thim. The stallion shifts uncomfortably on his hooves, looking like he wanted to break eye contact with her. Her tone makes him begin to doubt himself as she was so certain of it...and she was without a cutie mark. His muzzle slowly twists into a frown and he responds, "Maybe your right...perhaps if I wasnt a failure of a shamman I'd know for certain if you were correct...""

03:15 Inky does her best not to let Ruzeth go, since she wasn't finished yet. "Think about it: our magic lets us fly and control clouds. For pegasi it does that and lets them control the weather too. Unicorns are obvious. Earth pony magic gives them strength, and lets them grow things better than anypony else." The mare pants a bit from the effort, before she keeps going. "Zebra magic... well, I don't know as much, but I know it's more... uh... spiritual?" She gives a tiny shrug, not wanting to actually move her muscles that much. "I just know that this," she nods to herself, "is the kind of think you could help with." The mare sighs and slumps, the explanation having taken a lot out of her. "You're not a failure," she says, her voice having lowered to a whisper. "Please, you don't have to take my word for it. Get the books out of my saddlebags and read them if you don't believe me. I know you can help me." Her last sentence sounds like she's trying to convince the both of them, the bat pony nearly at the end of her rope for trying to solve her problem. Any more stress and she might break down.

03:25 Ruzeth droops down even more as Inky explains to him. feeling even less enthused about the whole thing when she seems to think that ha can help her. His ears fold flat against his head and he tears his eyes away from hers solemnly. "I...I can't...I'm not a propper shaman...I'm just a no good runaway. A worthless pony who got himself stranded far away from home..." Ruzeth laments, unconvinced that anything she had would help him.

03:34 Inky takes a shaky breath, feeling her eyes starting to get watery. "Ruzeth... forget about that. You're here, I'm here, and that's all that matters." She sniffles. "I /need/ you." The mare's eyes shift to her saddlebags, which were left on the floor when she collapsed. She gives the barest of nods towards them. "You were so excited for those books when I showed up," she says, her voice weak.

03:49 Ruzeth sighs dejectedly as he follows her gaze over towards the saddle bags before pulling away from teh mare and taking a hesitant step towards it, followed by another and another until he slowly reaches the bags. "I don't think these books will help but if I try, will you please see a doctor?" he asks, insistently before reaching in and dragging out the first book, a book on potion theory and begins to hoof through it.

03:52 Inky gives a weak nod of acknowledgment. "Yes, if you honestly try and can't help, I'll try a doctor... though I'm sure it won't come to that. I'm not sure what they could do for me anyway..." The tired mare stretches out on the bed, resting and trying to recover some of her energy.

04:06 Ruzeth looks through the book with a little sigh, not noticing any that seems to be of much use. "Ugh...this is all just potions theory. As nice as that is...there doesn't seem to be anything in here about..." The zebra goes quiet as he finds a entry about replacing used up magic. "Well...this might lead to something..." he notes and gets up, checking the section of the cubboard hed quartered off for his own use. "Hmm...we seem to have everything to give this a try..."

04:11 Inky smiles weakly. "See? Never give up," she whispers, drying her eyes with a fetlock. The mare waits patiently for Ruzeth to make the potion, letting her eyes drift closed as she waits.

04:13 < Ruzeth> (Should I take that as a timeskip? Describe him making the potion and have ti ready?)

04:18 Ruzeth heads over to the stove and pulls out a pot, setting it on the stove with a clang and the putting the book in easy viewing distance as he began to work dilligetnly, mixing various ingredients he'd recovered from his trip with lucent through the forest. Its probably a good thing Inky fell asleep because it took much of his concentration and the better part of an hour to boil the soup down to a fairly small potion. The solution oozed like sludge into the cup and had a foul smell to it, and likely a pretty terrible flavor as well. Regardless, when he finishes, he carries it over to teh nightstand and nudges inky a couple times, setting it down. "Alright, it seems to be exactly as desribed in the book."

04:21 Inky blinks her eyes open as she's poked awake, her pupils contracting back to slits as the room is lit up again. "Whuh?" she says, rubbing her eyes tiredly. "Eugh, what is that smell?"

04:27 Ruzeth indicates a hoof over to the blue sludge sitting in a clear glass, "That, is what's going to fix you. It'll just probably be a little unpleasant on the way down," he says, under exagerating. "Just make sure it stays down or it wont work."

04:31 Inky takes a moment to process what Ruzeth said, before her face lights up with happiness. "Really? Thank you, thank you so much!" The mare reaches for the glass, at the last moment slowing herself down to grab it carefully. She holds it to her lips and knocks it back, her widening eyes and expression making it clear just how foul it tastes. Still, she forces it down, setting the glass down hard when she finishes. Inky grimaces and wipes her mouth, sticking her tongue out at the flavor. "Ugh! That... was gross," she says, holding a hoof to her belly as the potion makes her queasy. "Nghh... I don't feel... so good..."

04:40 Ruzeth gives a nod towards teh mare, feeling a little better about his chances after having made this potion. "Yep it shoul start working in about 10 minutes or so. The book seemed to indicate that it was mostly for unicorns that burn out, but the symptoms seem to line up...Your body should need less energy to produce magic for a bit." The zebra looks physically pained as he watches the mare drink down the potion, the look on her face telling him full well how awful it was. "You need to keep it down. I cant give you anything else or it might render what you have useless...or worse."

04:51 Inky nods, doing her best to keep it down. "Got it," is all she says, focusing on keeping herself from throwing up. After a few minutes the mare starts to feel warm, then hot. The queasiness subsides, but the bat pony starts to pant. "I feel... really warm," she says. The potion was amping up her magic replenishment, though it hadn't fixed the connection to her magical storage, meaning that her body was still dumping what it produced into nowhere. But thanks to the amount being replenished, the average amount of magic in her body still went up. There's a small flash of light, and the dripping brushstroke reappears on Inky's flank... but it doesn't seem to have made up its mind about staying, fading away almost immediately. "Ruzeth," she gasps, "look..!" Her cutie mark wavers in and out like this for a couple minutes, the mare panting heavily from the 'effort'.

23:19 Ruzeth waits impatiently, watching Inky lie on the bed, pacing back and forth infront of her, his hooves clicking on the hard wood floor, and growing more despondent with each passing second that it seems to not work. He finally turns away in disapointment less than ten seconds before Inky called for his attiention. Turning back around, he nearly leaps back into the air with exctement in seeing the potion begining to work. His excitement turns into a mixed expression as teh cutie mark doesn't stay. "What? Thats strange...you should be building up magical energy at this point..."

23:28 Inky grins at Ruzeth's reaction, though she can't put much energy into it. The mark on her flank fades out for the last time, and the mare slumps on the bed, exhausted. "Ooof," she groans. "Did it work? I feel... like I've been run over by a train." Her sides expand and contract slightly as she pants, still catching her breath from the potion's intense drain on her energy.

23:44 Ruzeth 's mixed expression turns tino a full on frown as it disapears, leaving nothing left. The zebra walks up to examine her, putting a hoof on her flank, looking for any trace of the mark that had just been there. "But...but...it was there! Where did it go? Its like you're losing every bit of magic that your body creates..."

00:28 Inky mrfs softly as the zebra pokes her rump, her tail twitching once. The mare's ears droop as she hears him speak. "It's gone?" She sighs. "Well... at least that sort of worked, right? Y'see, I told you I had a cutie mark!"

00:41 Ruzeth huffs to himself frustrated that his fix didn't seem to work. "Ya, you did, and I saw it...but I don't think that book will have anything eles that can help us with this..." He sighs out, dejectedly. "I mean I cant just keep feeding you those potions. You'll get sick and you're looking a little drained as it is..."

00:52 Inky tries to reach out and give the zebra a comforting pat, but she's far too weak, her leg falling and hanging off the bed. "Ruzeth," she says quietly. "I already appreciate everything you've done for me, even if it didn't work. And... there were two books, weren't there? Or is my memory going too?" The mare giggles, the proof-of-concept success of the potion having improved her mood a bit in spite of her exhaustion.

01:04 Ruzeth frowns even more, feeling disheartened by Inky's failed attempt at comforting him, and yet, at the same time, that spurred him onwards. "I suppose there was another book...hopefully that one will prove to be more fruitful..." Ruzeth reaches out to touch her hoof, clasping it. "I'll give that one a try too." He wanders back over to Inky's pack and pulls out the one, hoofing through it.

01:11 Inky blinks as the zebra clasps her hoof, then she smiles. "Thank you," she whispers, her dangling hoof swinging gently. The librarian watches Ruzeth pore through the tome, the few pages she could see full of writing in a language incomprehensible to her.

01:23 Ruzeth 's eyes are wide open with amazement and disbelief as he poors through the pages, the old paper crinkling under his hooves as he flips throgh them. "Oh...intersting..." He mutters to himself, seeming to stop on a chapter and poor more intesnsly over a couple of pages. "Supposedly there are points within a ponies body that route magic. There's some basics here...but...its all really complex stuff...I don't know if I can..." He explains, mostly talking to himself as he puzzles over the pages.

01:33 Inky 's mouth turns up as she watches Ruzeth's eyes widen and the zebra start reading with more enthusiasm. "You find something?" she says softly. Her ears lift up and swivel towards the zebra as he mumbles. "Are there really?" the mare whispers, curious. "I'm sure you can, Ruzeth..."

01:45 Ruzeth hears Inky's words in the back of his head and smiles to himself, glad that she could provide the enthulsiasm he lacks. "Oh ya, I think I might have something...but I'm not sure if I'm good enough to do it..." The zebra walks over to his stash and pulls out a couple sticks of insence, laced with a spiritual herb. He brings a tray over to the nightstand and fumbles with a match, lighting up the stick. "Now just be still and relax, breathe deep for me." He takes a seat on the bed next to her and goes quiet, closing his eyes as he tries to enter a trance.

01:49 Ruzeth is too absorbed in the book to hear Inky's words, instead pooring over the tome eagery. After a couple of minutes, he finally gets up, saying, "I think I might have something...but I'm not sure if I'm good enough to do it..." The zebra walks over to his stash and pulls out a couple sticks of insence, laced with a spiritual herb. He brings a tray over to the nightstand and fumbles with a match, lighting up the stick. "Now just be still and relax, breathe deep for me." He takes a seat on the bed next to her with the book and goes quiet, closing his eyes as he tries to enter a trance.

01:57 Inky looks up at Ruzeth from her spot on the bed, her eyes hopeful. "Just try, please?" she whispers. "I know you can..." The older mare stretches out on the bed, grunting with effort as she tries to pull her dangling leg back up. With a gasp, she manages to swing it up onto the bed, then lays down panting. She takes a breath of the incense and coughs, before getting more used to the strange smell. As the zebra sits next to her and meditates, she glances around, still feeling completely drained. "Ruzeth... thanks, again," the bat pony whispers after a while of silence.

02:23 Ruzeth sits in silence for quite a bit longer, not moving a muscle. Slowly, the smoke begins to work its magic, causing both Ruzeth and Inky to begin to relax, opening up the zebra's mind to his connection with the magic around him, the same state that allows him to communicate with the spirits. The mare can probably feel a little bit of an increased connection as well, though to a lesser extent. Finally, Ruzeth slowly opens his eyes, looking down at Inky.

02:31 Inky sighs as the smoke makes the tension leave her body, though she doesn't feel any less tired. The librarian stretches out limply in front of the young zebra, resting and relaxing while she waits for him to start doing... whatever it is he's going to do. She feels... strangely comfortable, and in tune with the world, though she can still feel that something's /wrong/. When Ruzeth opens his eyes, she doesn't even notice, the older mare just laying there peacefully.

02:40 Ruzeth glances down at the book, moving in a trance as he refreshes his memory on what to do. With his eyes not leaving the pages, his front hooves reach forward as he lays them on the mare. As he does so, he feels something strange and off about her. He moves them around Inky's body, feeling for different points, trying to get a feel for how the mana flows.

02:57 Inky squeaks when she feels the zebra's hooves on her, the mare tensing up under Ruzeth's touch. She soon relaxes, letting him run his hooves over her fur. With his heightened awareness, the zebra can 'feel' the energy pathways in the bat pony's body, and the small nodes where it collects and feeds in locally. There's one on her flank where her cutie mark should be, and he can feel a hint of some of them in her wings as he prods near them. Deeper inside, the amateur shaman can feel the central connection to what the book describes as the storage for a pony's magic is... strangely missing. he conduits in the mare's body seem stressed and somehow frayed. It's likely that the potion Ruzeth fed her contributed to that, making magic unpredictably surge through her. Though he can tell that the potion wasn't the first time that that'd happened recently, her pathways still recovering from an earlier series of surges.

03:12 Ruzeth bites his lip rolling Inky over onto her back and pressing his hooves against the mares belly, trying desperatly to find this storage space that everthing bleeds off from. Following the pathways, he finds them reach a dead end, dumping a large amount of energy into nothing. "Its not there..." Ruzeth says, his voice full of worry. He pulls away and begins to look through the pages for a discription fo that mana disruption, hoping that the cure was listed. All he can find, however, is just a description of bypassing a damaged pathway. "Inky...I'm going to do something drastic...We're going to bypass your battery...but I dont know what that will do to your magic..." he explains, with a hesitant voice, as if asking permission to continue.

03:21 Inky relaxes under the zebra's gentle poking and prodding, letting him do what he will. When he grabs her and rolls her over towards him, the mare tenses up again and squeaks, taking a moment before relaxing and exposing her soft belly to the young stallion. She tries to suppress a quiet giggle as his hooves dig into her her belly. Deep inside her midsection, the zebra can faintly feel some nodes seemingly just in the middle of her body. "Wha? What's not there?" she asks curiously, tilting her head to watch Ruzeth flip through the book out of the corner of her eyes. "I, uh," she says in a quiet voice. "If you think it'll help, then I trust you, Ruzeth."

03:35 Ruzeth nods in affermation as Inky gives him the go ahead, feeling a little more confident in his abilities. He searches for the central nodes in the network, placing a hoove on each one of them in turn, leaving the other hoof on her core. Each time he reaches one, he takes a deep breath, severing the link between it and the core. The sensation probably leaves Inky feeling even more disjointed as there's not even a broken core linking her parts. There were 6 central nodes to which he pressed, her forehead, heart, one at each of her wing bases, and one on the inside of each thigh. Ruzeth seems especially hesitant as he touches those last two, blushing bright red as he breaks the connections.

03:44 Inky keeps her breathing steady as she feels the zebra press a hoof into her chest, and one into her forehead. Then... something changes, and she feels even more wrong than before. "Nghh," the mare groans, the sensation taking some time to get used to as the zebra breaks the link from her heart as well. When he presses against her wing base, she obligingly unfurls her wings, the one on Ruzeth's side laying against hs chest. The bat pony shivers as he presses into the sensitive wing base, but she manages not to make any more noise than a soft, happy murr. She tenses up as he tentatively reaches between her thighs, but tries to hold still, not wanting to mess up whatever the shaman was doing to her. The older mare gives Ruzeth a reassuring smile as she notices his furious blush, though each time he severs a connection she winces from the odd feeling.

03:56 Ruzeth takes another deep breath, glancing back down at his book to insure that he does this next part right and then returns to the spot inside inky's hips, closing his eyes as he traces a link between each node. Inky can feel a burning rush of energy behind Ruzeths hoof as he forms a new pathway for her magic to travel, connecting each node in a circular pattern. Inky can probably feel some of her energy returning as the mana flows once again throughout her body, her expending nodes now able to draw energy from her producing nodes, though at merely a trickle, much of the energy lost in the frayed pathways.

14:54 Inky shivers as Ruzeth's hooves leave a hot, tingling sensation behind them. She starts to pant from the 'heat' as he traces all over her body, the older mare quivering under his touch. As he finishes connecting all the nodes he'd severed, she does feel slightly better than before, but it'll still take a long while for her to get back to reasonable ambient magic. "Ngh... what... what're you doing?" she pants.

02:15 Ruzeth turns his gaze over to her face, giving a wavering smile as he tries to guage her reaction. "I just separated your magic pathways from your mana storage. I dont know how much magic your pathways can hold without that...but at least they arn't dumping all your energy into nothing. I do not know how to make you whole though..."

03:33 Inky looks up at the blue eyes of the zebra, blinking as she tries to understand his explanation. "My... mana storage? Magic pathways? What?" She looks back at her forehooves and moves them slightly, still panting as she recovers from the 'rewiring'. "I do feel... a little better, I think." The librarian looks back at Ruzeth and gives him a little smile. "So... what, exactly, did you do?"

04:20 Ruzeth sighs and thinks for a moment on how to explain it more clearly. "Different parts of your body collect and use magical energy. Usually it collects in a central area, which then your magical using parts tap into to draw the energy out of it. Thats why ponies, especially unicorns, have been known to suffer magical burnout. I disconnected that storage and routed everything direcly to each other," he explains, looking up and away as he tries to recall the information from the book. "Basically, what it means is that your now not able to store any magic, but you should be able to use exactly what you produce. Probably just some low level stuff..." He rests a hoof on her shoulder, looking back into her slitted amber eyes with a comforting smile.

04:30 Inky watches Ruzeth as he explains it to her, nodding slowly. "Fascinating... I sort of thought that was how it worked, but never really knew how, specifically..." She tilts her head. "So... my 'storage' was what you said was missing? And I was dumping magic into, uh, nowhere?" The mare can't help but return the zebra's smile, one of her ears twitching as he puts a hoof on her shoulder. Acting on impulse, she forces herself to sit up and grabs Ruzeth before falling back to the bed with a wumph, the effort having taken a lot out of her. The bat pony pulls the young colt to her chest, pressing his head against her chest fluff. "Thanks," she whispers, resting her muzzle against the top of his head.

04:38 Ruzeth squeaks out in suprise as he's suddnely grabbed by the mare, falling flat on her chest as he's dragged back down, pressing into her chest fluff. The moment is enough to shock the young zebra out of his frame of mind, losing sight of the mares pathways. He suddenly looks a whole lot more tired than he had moments ago, his head drooping. "Ya, no problem Inky. I'm not done though...but...I think I need a minute," he says, taking heavier breaths now.

04:45 Inky rolls to her side, sliding Ruzeth off of her. She keeps her loose hold on him, and slowly shifts one of her hooves up to stroke at his mane, making it jingle. The mare chuckles as he calls her "Miss Inky" again, her chest jerking slightly against him with her quiet laughing. "You're not done?" she asks, her voice soft. "Please, take your time... but what are you doing next?"

04:54 Ruzeth scoots up against her, shifting a hoof around the older mare to gives a gentle hug, playing with her bun in the other. "No miss Inky...but I do need to rest...Your pathways are still in disarray, leaking as much magic as they're channeling, but uh...I lost touch a moment ago." He scoots backwards on the bed, till his head rested on the same pillow Inky was using, his mane ringing gently as he slides back.

05:04 Ruzeth pulls away from the hug slightly, still feeling a little unfomfortable about being next to the older mare, especially a bat pony, though he doesn't break the hug, knowing she needed some comfort. "No miss Inky...but I do need to rest...Your pathways are still in disarray, leaking as much magic as they're channeling, but uh...I lost touch a moment ago." He takes a deep breath and begins to slide off the bed. "You rest here, I'll go et comfortable on the chair."

00:59 Inky 's ears droop slightly as she feels him pull away, and when she realizes that her impromptu hug was probably why he lost touch with her pathways. As the smaller zebra gets up to climb off the bottom of the bed, she tries to hold out a hoof. "Wait," she says in her quiet voice, "you don't need to go over there on my account. You just need to rest for a little, right? Stay here, it's comfy." The bat pony lets her eyes drift closed, getting comfortable on top of Lucent's bed.

01:05 Ruzeth sighs and seems to consider still pulling away from the mare, his eyes shifting back between Inky and the chair. He wasn't wholey comfortable sleeping next to her, but he wasnt sure she didn't need the comfort. Finally he settles for shifting as far away from her as he could while still remaining on the bed. "I guess I can stay here. It should be a short rest..." Ruzeth scoots back to find a pillow, but discoveres Inky was presently using both of them. He extends his hooves backwards and lays on them, using them as an impromtu headrest, closing his eyes.

01:16 Lucent arrives at his apartment much later than normal, the unicorn having taken a long, meandering route home while he pondered what exactly he should tell Ruzeth. Finally he decides that he may as well tell the zebra everything, or at least some things, leaving the question of how much unanswered even to himself. The stallion stands outside his door and takes a deep breath before he unlocks and opens it, stepping inside. "Ruzeth? I'm sorry I... what!?" he starts before cutting himself off with a squeak, the apology he practiced completely forgotten when he notices the zebra asleep on his bed with a strange mare. The stallion runs over to the bed and grabs Ruzeth with both hooves, shaking the younger pony awake. "Ruzeth, what the hay are you doing with this, this mare?" he hisses, barely managing to keep his voice quiet. He hasn't yet noticed her odd wings or the hint of her fangs poking out.

01:28 Ruzeth yelps in supprise as hes shaken awayk by Lucent, havn't not quite figured out whats going on. "Huh? Whats wrong Lucent?" He asks, not even bothering to lower his voice, forgetting that Inky was next to him. The smell of the Zebra's incense still hug in ght air, the zebra having forgotten to put it out before he fell asleep.

01:37 Lucent takes a deep breath to respond and goes into a small coughing fit. "Ugh, what is that smell?" he says, waving a hoof in front of his face. "Ruzeth, you have got to open a window when you brew potions!" The stallions shakes his head. "No, what in Celestia's name are you doing with this mare? In /my/ bed?" He glares at the zebra, his blue eyes angry and confused.

01:37 Inky doesn't even respond to the noise at first, the exhausted mare out like a light. She does start to stir, slowly, as the two begin to raise their voices.

01:40 Ruzeth blinks a couple times, staring blankly at the question before he fully wakes up and gives a nervous laugh. "Remember? I'm a shaman. She came to me for help and I've been helping her. Look at her side, no cutie mark... And that smell? Thats inscense not a potion," he responds rather matter of factly, as if nothing strange was going on at all.

01:49 Lucent stares incredulously at Ruzeth. "That doesn't explain why you're both /in my bed/," he yells. "Is that how you 'help' ponies?" The unicorn does look to see if she has a cutie mark, but the mare's folded wing catches his eye instead. He stares at it, trying to process the strange shape.

01:49 Inky does wake up now as Lucent shouts, groaning and shifting slightly. She blinks and slowly rubs her eyes with her forehooves, then yawns. When her vision clears she spots the warm yellow unicorn staring at her. "Oh, you must be Ruzeth's friend," she says, holding out a hoof to him and smiling.

01:55 Ruzeth lifts a hoof up to shush Lucent, but its too late as he hears Inky stir and talk to him. Ruzeth glares at his friend and shakes his head. "No, I was helping her by giving her magical therapy. Her magic is all messed up so I was massaging her till it was alright again. And then...well I kind of lost it, and got tired, falling asleep next to her. Lucnet, this is Inky, Inky, Lucent," he says, gesturing back and forth hoping to be a reasonable show of good faith.

02:16 Lucent glances at Ruzeth briefly, barely registering his words before his gaze fixates on the bat pony's fangs and her slitted yellow eyes. The stallion yelps, backpedaling and falling on his rump as he backs into the corner. "W-what is that thing?" he whimpers, pointing a shaking hoof at Inky. "Ruzeth how could you let this- this demon into my room!"

02:19 Inky blinks as the stallion recoils, her expression shifting instantly from excited (though tired) to incredibly unamused. She rolls her eyes and flops back on the bed, turning away. "Ruzeth, can you just... handle this," the mare says as she looks up at the zebra, having no energy to deal with this kind of pony right now. "He's your friend, and I just... don't feel like dealing with this." She grabs a pillow and drops it on top of her head.

02:27 Ruzeth puts on a sad fearful face and shakes his head, "I'm sorry Lucent, I had too in order to become a great shaman. You see, this demon promised me that I'd be the greatest one that ever lived if I let her suck the magic right out of some pony, and you know...I just kinda figured that you dont really want it anyways. So...I went ahead and traded your magic for my power." He says, solemnly, not letting his face show any hint of joking.

02:49 Lucent 's eyes widen at Ruzeth's 'explanation', the stallion starting to hyperventilate. "What? No!" he shouts, his eyes wild. "No! I won't let you!" His face contorts in concentration, and his horn sparks once, then twice before blazing bright gold. Lucent throws his forehooves out in front of him as though to ward off an attack, and an amber field snaps into being around him, quickly growing into a sphere sandwiched between the bed and the wall. The shield shunts the unicorn into the middle of it as it pushes him away from the wall, and forces the bed the rest of the way against the far wall with a sudden lurch.

02:52 Inky blinks as she hears what Ruzeth says, sure she must have heard something wrong. "Ruzeth, what the--" she starts before the bed suddenly jerks under her. She pulls the pillow off of her face to see Lucent wide-eyed with terror, and gives Ruzeth the hardest thwack on the back she can muster (a light bump). "Do something /useful/," she says in a forceful whisper.

02:57 Ruzeth begins to crack up at Lucent's reaction, rolling around on the bed in a mad fit of laughter, watching as his friend throws up an amber sheild with bemusement, tears rolling from his eyes. That is of course, up until the point where Lucent's sheild begins to push the bed away. The zebra takes only a few moments to stifle his laughter as he grows worried about how far Lucent was taking it. "Wait! Lucent! I really was just kidding. She's not actually a demon! She's ahhhh....a pegasus...in a costume!" he shouts out, hoping that his friend would calm down before any damage was actually done.

03:05 Lucent groans, wincing as the magic starts to get away from him. The shield lurches again, lifting the unicorn up as it expands onto the bed. "What?" he shouts. "Don't /joke/ like that! Nghh!" He grunts again and squeezes his eyes closed as the spell pulls more power from him, expanding so that it was now pressing up against the ceiling. The glow around the unicorn's horn wavers, but doesn't go out as Lucent starts to pant.

03:09 Inky tries to squirm away, but finds her tail already stuck between the shimmering orange light and the bed. "Ruzeth..." she hisses in a half-whimper, "make him stop!" The mare hides her head behind the zebra, her ears flattened down against her skull.

03:13 Ruzeth gets quite worried as Lucent continues to expand the shield, moving away from the stallion. He tires to pull Inky away as well, but finds that she's stuck. "Lucent! Drop the sheild, cmon. You're scaring us now!" He calls out frantically, hopping off the bed. He tries to pull it away from lucent, budging it a little and perhaps giving inky a small opportunity to escape if she moves fast enough.

03:18 Lucent screws his eyes closed as he concentrates, his horn flickering. The luminescent field wavers in size before it winks out, unceremoniously dropping the unicorn to the floor in a heap. He groans in pain, holding a hoof to his aching head as he rolls onto his back, sprawled out on the hard wood floor.

03:20 Inky squeaks when the zebra grabs onto her and pulls, but finds herself stuck, She closes her eye and turns away, at least until she hears the loud thump of Lucent hitting the floor. The bat pony raises her head to look over at where the unicorn used to be floating before letting it fall back on the bed with an exhausted sigh. "Phew."

03:24 Ruzeth climbs up and over the bed, accidentally stepping on Inky as he rushes over to where Lucent lay, pulling the stallion close in a hug, that showed just how much Ruzeth cared for him. "Oh, I'm glad you're Ok, and that the rest of us are. I'm so sorry for that joke, I didnt' mean anything by it," he explains, strokings Lucents mane gently.

03:40 Lucent grunts as he's lifted up slightly and draped against the zebra, leaning his head against Ruzeth's chest. "Ow.... Ruzeth, what the hay were you thinking," he mumbles, still holding a hoof to his head. "Who is that mare, really?"

03:43 Inky was resting on the bed, one ear perked up to listen to what was going on. She rolls onto her back to be a little more comfortable, and that's when Ruzeth steps on her in his haste to get to Lucent. The bat pony gasps as she gets the breath forced out of her, wheezing lightly as she slowly recovers. "Careful," she wheezes in a barely audible voice.

03:46 Ruzeth nuzzles Lucents neck and hugs him tigher, stroking hat hsi fur. "I was just playing a little prank. I didnt' expect you to go off like that." He gestures a hoof towards the bed. "That there is Inky, she's a bat pony who lost her magic and I'm helping to fix her. If you want proof, she has no cutie mark. And dont' worry, bat ponies, while not common, arn't demons either.

03:53 Lucent sighs and looks down at the ground. "Well... it happens, sometimes... sometimes I lose control," he says, sounding morose. He stiffens up in the colt's forelegs as he says "bat pony". "So.. those fangs are real?" he asks, shuddering. "What if she just wants to bite you, Ruzeth?" The unicorn tries to get up, but stumbles and falls back down on top of Ruzeth. "Ugh, my head. Monsters don't have cutie marks either, you know."

03:54 Inky slowly gets her breath back, listening to the pair of them talk. She rolls her eyes at Lucent's protests and "hmphs" loud enough for the pair to hear her, letting them know that she could hear everything they were saying.

03:58 Ruzeth rolls his eyes pfffs at Lucents protests, "Look, was I not just asleep next to her. If she wanted to bite me, she'd have had ample opportunity. I dont think those are much use beyond sucking the juice out of fruits." He grunts as Lucent crashes back down on him, and then tries to help the stallion back to his feet. "Look, I saw her cutie mark for a moment, and monsters don't work as librarians either."

04:04 Lucent leans heavily on Ruzeth as the zebra helps him up, still wincing. Apparently the runaway spell had done a number on him. "Well... if you trust her, then I guess I can," he says reluctantly. "I suppose I've made an ass of myself, haven't I." He looks over at the purple mare laying on his bed and sighs, before holding out a hoof. "Um... sorry." The stallion has his other foreleg draped over the younger zebra's shoulders, using it to support himself.

04:07 Inky calls out "Yeah, pretty much" when the unicorn mentions being an ass, but when he approaches her with a tentative apology she smiles. "S'alright. Not my worst first impression," she says, straining to reach up one of her hooves to bump against Lucent's before letting it fall back down limply. "I hope you don't mind me borrowing your bed. Kinda tired."

04:13 Ruzeth helps walk Lucent over to the bed to meet Inky before deciding that the bed might be occupied for a bit. "Lets get you over to your chair so that you can rest up, since your bed is otherwise occupied. I probably should finish fixing her. I lost my place about halfway through." He says, turning to face Inky and giving her a faint smile, glad that Lucent seemed to have warmed up.

04:18 Lucent involuntarily steps back when Inky smiles at him, the unicorn still not remotely comfortable with her fangs. "Y-Yeah. Uh, it's fine," he says, not really knowing what to do with the older mare. He lets Ruzeth guide him over to his chair, flopping down in it with a sigh. "Ruzeth," he says quietly as the zebra sets him down. "Could you... get me something for my headache? Please?" The stallion winces again and looks up at Ruzeth plaintively.

04:20 Inky sighs when Lucent steps away from her, but she hadn't really expected anything else. "Yes, let's finish that up," she calls after Ruzeth's slowly retreating form. "So much for a quick rest, huh?" The bat pony giggles and slips one of the pillows under her head, making herself comfortable again.

01:13 Ruzeth turns to look back up at Inky as she calls to him and gives her a nod, "Ya sure thing inky," he responds cheerily before turning to respond to Lucent. "Sure, I can get you something." Ruzeth trots on over to his cabinet and digs through his stash, pulling out an herb and bringing it back over. "This should do the trick~" Lucent would notice that Ruzeth hadn't actually prepared a mixture of herbs like he usually did, instead hastily giving him just one.

01:23 Lucent blinks and cocks his head at the single herb, since the zebra normally gave him a mixture. "But... just one?" he says, confused. The unicorn doesn't take the herb, looking up at Ruzeth with a furrowed brow. "I thought..."

01:25 Inky stretches out on the bed, watching the two stallions with interest. Though tired, she hadn't gotten any less curious, and Ruzeth hadn't told her much at all about the friend he was rooming with. She notes that Lucent is also very young, and wonders how the two of them ended up sharing the apartment, For now she keeps her questions to herself, not wanting force herself to speak at a normal volume. The mare waits for Ruzeth to finish and come back to resume her treatment.

01:31 Ruzeth rolls his eyes and drops the herb in Lucent's lap. "Just take it, your headache will go away." While Ruzeth was correct, it was also the case that the herbs he normally cut it with eliminates the side effects, which included a dulling of Lucent's connection to magic and restlessness. The zebra then turns away from Lucent and heads back over to inky. He changes out the incense stick and then takes a seat back on the bed. "Are you ready now inky?"

01:35 Lucent looks down at the herb, picking it up in his hooves. When he looks back up, Ruzeth's already headed back to Inky. Laying back in his chair, Lucent sighs and stuffs the herb into his mouth, chewing slowly. He tries to figure out what he was going to do now that Inky had thrown off all of his preparation for the evening, but it's all just too much for him. Rather than deal with it, the unicorn just turns away slightly, content to put off thinking about the magic training and telling Ruzeth about his past until later. Hopefully much later. He closes his eyes, intending to try to get some rest and ignore the two ponies on his bed.

01:38 Inky watches Ruzeth come back over, smiling weakly. "Mmhmm," she says. "Remind me... what were you doing now? Something about magic-line things?" Out of the corner of her eyes, she sees Lucent turn away, and her ears droop slightly. Though she did worry that he was feeling sad, left out or both, the mare was just too tired to speak up about it.

01:47 Ruzeth doesn't even pay attention to Lucent's sulking ad he faced away from his friend. A smile shown on his face as he stares down at Inky. "Oh, just that your magic lines are pretty messed up right now and leaking magic pretty bad. I need to fix that." He lights the new incense, allowing the earthy smell to fill up the room, probably not helping Lucent's headache.

01:51 Lucent finds it hard to relax for some reason, even as his headache mostly fades away. Overhearing Ruzeth happily talking to Inky, the unicorn huffs and turns further away, now sitting with his back to them. He tries to block them out, but fails, an irrational worry gnawing at him that Ruzeth didn't like him anymore because of how he'd treated that... that bat thing.

01:55 Inky takes a deep breath of the incense, sighing and trying to relax to make Ruzeth's job easier. "Okay," she says, the mare stretched out limply in front of him. "Thanks... again." As she waits, her curiosity builds until she just has to know. "Hey... Ruzeth? How did the two of you meet?"

02:07 Ruzeth started breathing deep of the scent that filled the air, allowing his mind to begin to shift into the right frame of mind. That is, of course, until Inky asks him a question bringing him right back out. He shakes his head for a moment and then smiles, "Well, as I was getting off the ship into Seaddle, he kind of saved my life. A crane snapped, and that sheild spell...well he used it to protect me from the falling load. Since then he's kind of taken me under his wing like a brother." Ruzeth shakes his head to clear his mind once more. "Now let me get on with fixing you please..."

02:11 Lucent squirms in his chair, unable to get comfortable. When Ruzeth starts to explain how they met, he curls up, not wanting to hear it, but he can't block it out. The zebra's explanation mollifies his worries somewhat, hearing Ruzeth talk about him like that making him feel a little better. He does start to worry when the zebra doesn't say how he feels about that, though, his anxiety starting to build again.

02:14 Inky looks up at Ruzeth out of the corner of her eyes and nods, her eyes widening at the explanation. "Oh, wow... that's sweet. Good on him." She giggles sheepishly. "Sorry, I didn't know it would mess you up... I'll try to stay quiet now." The bat pony sighs, wanting to ask more questions but forcing them out of her mind instead, trying to relax.

02:22 Ruzeth closes his eyes once again, going silent for about a minute before he lazily opens them again, once again feeling in tune with the flow of magic. His hooves reach out to touch Inky again, once more filling his mind with the layout of her magical pathways. Each frayed path calling out to him. He first settles on one just under her wing and begins to massage along it, willing the paths to fix their tears. The massage is deep and hard, but not unpleasant as his hooves work their magic.

02:25 Lucent tosses and turns in his chair, rolling over to face the other way and covering his eyes with a foreleg to block out the light and and chance of him seeing the other two ponies. He's growing increasingly frustrated that he can't seem to relax, and every little annoyance is starting to irritate him.

02:29 Inky eeps quietly when Ruzeth puts his hooves on her again, holding herself still as he strokes all over her, feeling out the layout of her pathways. As he pulls his hooves away, she sighs, only to squeak when the colt starts massaging under her wing. His forceful kneading of her muscles makes her shiver, the zebra having chosen a spot that was very close to the sensitive base of her wing. As Ruzeth slowly massages that part of her paths back in shape, she feels an odd tingling warmth build there, the feeling rather pleasant.

02:33 Ruzeth hums a zebra tune to himself as he works, soon moving from his current spot, without warning, to her wing base, and then from there he fans out her wing, gently massaging all the way up each bone. He doesn't seem to, at first, realize what that was such a senstitive spot for the pony as he works.

02:40 Lucent grunts as the chair seems to be refusing to cooperate, hopping out of it and onto his hooves. He gives his seat a kick with one of his hindlegs before starting to pace restlessly back and forth in front of the door. Something felt... wrong, and he couldn't figure out what it was.

02:40 Lucent squeaks again as the zebra shifts directly to the base of her wing, pushing hard against the sensitive area. Her eyes widen and she starts to breathe harder as the massage is followed by the warm tingling, feeling even better on her wingbase. Her whole body quivers as the colt unfolds and starts massaging her wing, the bat pony starting to pant from the pleasurable sensation. She didn't really have the energy to stop him, and she wasn't sure if she should anyway, since there was doubtless some very important magical pathing on her wings. Still, the warm tingling building on her wing makes her shudder, her tail folding down to try to hide her involuntary arousal. "Ru-Ruzeth," she gasps, squeaking as he rubs over each of the bones in her membraned wing. "N-n..." Thankfully, the strong smell of the incense easily covered up the small hint of her own scent that leaked into the air, at least for now.

02:41 Inky squeaks again as the zebra shifts directly to the base of her wing, pushing hard against the sensitive area. Her eyes widen and she starts to breathe harder as the massage is followed by the warm tingling, feeling even better on her wingbase. Her whole body quivers as the colt unfolds and starts massaging her wing, the bat pony starting to pant from the pleasurable sensation. She didn't really have the energy to stop him, and she wasn't sure if she should anyway, since there was doubtless some very important magical pathing on her wings. Still, the warm tingling building on her wing makes her shudder, her tail folding down to try to hide her involuntary arousal. "Ru-Ruzeth," she gasps, squeaking as he rubs over each of the bones in her membraned wing. "N-n..." Thankfully, the strong smell of the incense easily covered up the small hint of her own scent that leaked into the air, at least for now.

02:46 Ruzeth feels the shudder as he massages, but doesn't think much of it, figuring the massage might be releasing some physical tensions as well. He then turns his attention back towards the mare's words as he finsihes the wing, pulling away a little and frowning at her. "What is it Inky? Is something wrong?" he asks, cocking his head as he notices the mares heavy panting.

02:58 Lucent 's ears perk as he hears Inky panting and what sounds almost like a moan escape her lips, the stallion glancing askance at the pair. He doesn't see anything weird about Ruzeth massaging her wing, though, and doesn't want to look too long at her odd, batlike features anyway since they make him uncomfortable. Continuing to pace, Lucent's expression darkens.

03:02 Inky takes a moment to respond, still panting heavily as the tingling in her wing hasn't died down yet. She manages to pull herself together after several seconds. "My wings are... really sensitive," she pants, feeling her face get hot. "N-not your fault, but..." The mare can feel her arousal burning, hoping that the colt won't notice what he's done. She hasn't started to drip onto the bed just yet, but she'd be headed that way fast if she didn't get a chance to recover. "B-be more gentle, please?"

03:10 Ruzeth takes a deep breath and sighs, "I'm sorry Inky, but the book was pretty clear about this. If I go any lighter, I risk not actually repairing anything. Its going so smoothly right now." He then returns to massaging her chest, all around her heart and neck area before moving on to the other wing, giving it the same exact treatment as before. He actually seemed to be spending longer on this one, hmming to himself as if he was having difficulty."

03:15 Lucent paces and then sits down behind his chair, putting it between him and the two ponies who he feels have somewhat taken over his house. He feels that he'll have to confront Ruzeth about this... but is too wishy-washy to do it now.

03:29 Inky whines softly as Ruzeth says he can't go any lighter, trying to prepare herself for enduring another wing massage. The older bat pony squeaks as she's rolled over onto her belly, flushing bright red as her slick marehood is no longer under the protective cover of her tail. Her scent is strong for a moment before the mare flicks her tail towards herself, resting it on her lower belly in a very unsubtle attempt to cover up her nethers. The massaging on her chest and neck are pleasantly relaxing, though, the zebra's hooves against her warm fur feeling good in a more platonic way. As his hooves shift towards her other wing, the mare braces herself, her forehooves digging into the bed to keep herself from shuddering too violently. The massage and the tingling that follow quickly rekindle her arousal to its previous level and then some, Inky biting her lip to stifle another moan. Her face is bright red as she stares as far away from Ruzeth as possible, occasionally glancing back up at him to see his focused expression before looking back away. She's panting harder than before by the time Ruzeth finishes, a small trickle of her juices dripping slowly onto the bed. As she thinks he's done, the zebra presses hard one last time and sends a jolt of pleasure up her spine, a loud moan escaping the mare. She claps a hoof over her mouth, blushing furiously and looking up at the young colt, having no idea what to do. Her scent is a bit stronger now, and even though it is covered up by the incense, it still has its normal effects, making Ruzeth feel rather warm, especially in more intimate areas.

03:42 Ruzeth isnt' even oblivious enough to such matters, even in his full trance, to fail to realize what was going on. Underneath the zebra's snow white fur, a bright pink blush begins to form as he turns away from Inky's moaning form, his eyes inadvertently landing on Lucents chair. "Inky! Calm down!" The zebra pleads desperatly, alreayd feeling quite uncomfortable with the aroused mare on his friends bed. "Please just try to turn your thoughts away from that." Ruzeth squirms aroud, straddling Inky's belly, the scent in the air begining to turn him on a little. His lenght begins to extend against her body, causing the zebra to reach a hoof down to cover his parts. He seems to have momentarily forgotten about the job he was doing.

03:51 Lucent hops to his feet again as he hears what's definitely a moan, stomping around the chair to look at his bed. "What's going on," he starts, before his jaw drops as he sees Ruzeth poorly covering his length while straddling the mare, who was obviously quite hot and bothered. "OUT!" he yells, pointing at the door. "Both of you!" The large stallion stomps up to the bed, clearly intending to force them to leave if they didn't get up. He didn't really know how weak Inky was, and wouldn't have cared anyway, wanting the strange monster-creature out of his house and away from Ruzeth. "Actually, you stay," he barks to Ruzeth, not wanting to let him spend more time with Inky alone.

03:55 Inky notices Ruzeth's blush and her face burns even hotter, realizing that the zebra can tell exactly how she feels. She looks over at him, trying to stammer an apology. "Sorry, I... my wings," she says, before trailing off with an embarrassed squeak as she feels his member poking into her belly. The bat pony's ears flatten as she hears Lucent yell, shame obvious on her face. "W-wait," she tries to say, but her voice comes out only as a whisper as he stomps closer to her.

04:04 Ruzeth throws up his hooves at Lucent, shaking in his hooves with obvious distress. "Wait! Lucent! This isn't what it looks like! If you dont' believe me, feel free to watch. Shes just reacting a little...extreme to the treatment. You dont' wanna kick Inky out before I'm done recovering her magic do you? And even if you do, I'm going with her, to finish the job," the young shaman says adamantly, though shame seeps through in his voice as well. Before even giving Lucent a chance to respond, the zebra returns to his duties, massaging Inky's front legs, one in each hoof as he tries to repair the magical damage.

04:10 Lucent snorts and stomps the ground, his nostrils flaring as he glances between the two ponies. "Fine! If you want that thing more than me, keep it!" He turns and heads for the door, breaking into a run as he doesn't want to hear any response to his impulsive words. Slamming the door closed after him, he gallops down the hallway, finally slumping and sniffling when he's out of sight of the room.

04:14 Inky looks up at Ruzeth thankfully as he defends her, interposing himself between her and the angry unicorn. She squeaks in surprise as he suddenly presses on her forelegs, the zebra's half-erect length resting on her belly as he leans forwards. When Lucent stomps out of the room, she watches him leave out of the corner of her eye, the slam of the door casting an awkward silence over the room. "...Um. Sorry," the mare manages in a small voice.

04:20 Ruzeth takes a deep breath, tring to calm himself after Lucent storms out of the room as he finishes up Inky's legs. Having reached a bit of a stopping point he sighs and glances at the door, biting his lip as he tries to decide what to do now, since Lucent is obviously quite upset at him, but Inky needs his attention as well. "I think I need to go talk to him..." Ruzeth says dejectedly, shifting off of Inky's belly and getting ready to slide up off the bed.

04:27 Inky tries to prop herself up a little, but her tingling forelegs won't support her weight, leaving her stuck laying on the bed. "R-Ruzeth, wait," she says, lifting a hoof at him slightly. "He's not... he's not thinking rationally. Give him some time." Her blush deepens slightly and she averts her gaze, lowering her hoof to point between the zebra's hindlegs. "...Also, you're still showing a little bit." She sighs, the unicorn's words having hurt her more than she'd care to admit. The fact that Ruzeth clearly cared for him made her unable to just shrug them off like she normally did. "...and please don't leave me here," she adds in a quiet voice, not wanting to be alone in the apartment of somepony who possibly hated her.

04:35 Ruzeth turns his look back towards Inky, grimacing as she struggles to hold her hoof up to him. "But...but what if I hurt him pretty bad by having you here...Will he forgive me for just letting him walk away? I...I dont want to have to choose between either of you..." Ruzeth trailsl off, little droplets of tears forming in the corner of his eyes, and dripping down his face onto Inky's body. "Maybe...maybe getting you out of here as fast as possible is the right way..." He says, turning back towards the mare sadly, begining to massage over her face with his hooves ocasionally brushing against those fangs. Each time he feels those sharp teeth under him, Inky can feel an uncomfortable shudder go through the stallions body.

04:41 Inky wishes she were stronger, so she could sit up and hug the crying colt to her chest. "Well... he doesn't think I'm a pony," she says, letting some bitterness seep into her voice. "Ruzeth, are you two...?" The mare lets the question hang in the air, not finishing the sentence though it was obvious what she was asking. Her voice is a little muffled as he massages near her mouth, Inky finding the feeling of him pressing and prodding at her muzzle really odd. The novice shaman can feel pathways running to a pair of nodes in her fangs, which seems odd since the bat pony had claimed that they only used them for fruit. She can tell that her fangs make him uncomfortable, which doesn't help her down mood, making the mare wilt a little further.

04:51 Ruzeth frowns even deeper, his ears drooping as the mare points out what he'd been trying to ignore about what Lucent is saying. "He's...he's just a little scared is all, and feeling a little jealous I think..." The zebra then squeaks at the question, blushing even deeper, and pretending he didn't hear it as he continues to work over her face, spending extra time on her snout to fix those strange nodes. "Inky...If you only suck the juice out of fruit with those...those...your fangs...then why are the hooked up to magic? That seems a little odd to me..." He asks, pulling away as he finishes up, leaving just the one spot he'd been avioding the whole time. The zebra shifts around on the bed uncomfortably, stealing glances between her hips as he realizes thats all thats left.

04:57 Inky can't help but smile a little at the zebra's reaction to her question, though it's not very noticeable with Ruzeth's hooves on her muzzle. "I'll take that as a yes," she says with a giggle, letting him keep working on her face. The bat pony starts to wonder why he's taking so long, and what he's even fixing there, when he speaks up. "..Oh. Uh, well," she says, her gaze shifting around the room as she realizes there's no way she could hide that from him. "They're not used... /just/ for fruit."

05:01 Ruzeth shifts his attention fully back to her face, shifting back away from her a little bit. "What do you mean they're not just used for fruit?" He asks, dreading the answer. "I thought you didn't suck ponies blood and turn them into zombies! You promised me! And here I am...giving you your magic back." He says, looking very worried at the mare. He's hanging mostly off the bed now. If he scoots back any further he might just fall off.

05:06 Inky shakes her head as much as she can. "Nonono," she says, before sighing. "We don't turn ponies into zombies... but we do suck blood sometimes. But not just any ponies! Only ponies we really, really like." She blushes again, always feeling a bit awkward explaining this to others. What had happened between them just a little bit ago wasn't helping either. "It's... it's about trust, and it's a very intimate activity and we don't just sneak into ponies' bedrooms and bite them," she says, he words coming out all in a rush.

05:13 Ruzeth looks at Inky skeptically, narrowing her eyes at her explanation. Despite her denial, it didn't make much more comfortable with the situation. "Sucking blood is intimate? I suppose this is some strange homeland custom that you dont get to practice here then, seeing as no pony in their right mind would let you suck on them like a glass of fruit juice." The zebra relaxes only slightly, and doesn't move any closer to Inky while he awaits further explanation.

05:17 Inky looks away. "I've... I've found ponies," she says quietly, not entirely comfortable talking about something akin to her sex life. "It's not /about/ the feeding," she tries to explain. "It's about showing somepony that you trust them and sharing something really special with them." She goes quiet for a bit. "...And I'm told that it feels quite good," she adds. The bat pony wasn't entirely happy with having to explain herself yet again, but at least Ruzeth seemed somewhat receptive to her explanations.

05:26 Ruzeth narrows his eyes before finally sighing, shaking his head. "Fine...whatever...lets finish you up. Just remember that I helped you out before you go biting me or Lucent," He says, not entirly satisfied with her explanation. He turns away from her, and reluctantly places his hooves on the inside of her thighs, massaging up towards the hoof. He keeps his gaze fairly high up, trying to avoid looking down where he knew he'd eventually have to fix, though he wanted to delay it as long as possible. With his nose even closer to the source, he felt even warmer and his half extended length ends up fully fleshing out, though its mostly hidden by his body. That doesn't, however, prevent it from occasionally brushing up against the mares leg, as much as he tried for that not to happen.

05:37 Inky rolls her eyes and shrugs. It wasn't the best response, but she'd take what she could get. "You don't have to worry about me biting you, silly," she says with a chuckle. "I'm not into you like that. And I /always/ do it with consent." The mare works her mouth a bit as the tingling in her fangs feels really odd. She eeps quietly as she feels his hooves brush against her inner thighs, the mare's tail having fallen back down to the bed at some point, leaving her glistening marehood exposed. It'd stopped drooling, but her scent was still strong. Inky tries to cover herself with her tail again, but only succeeds in brushing her tail against the zebra's length, which she can feel poking into her legs now and then. She's quite embarrassed by the situation, glad that she couldn't see Ruzeth's face and he couldn't see hers. As his hooves work on her inner thighs, the young shaman can feel the frayed paths and nodes around where her cutie mark should be. He can also feel that there's some nodes nestled in between her legs, attached to her marehood, and it even feels like there's more of them further inside her.

05:48 Ruzeth slowly massages up her inner thighs, trying to put out of his mind the fact that he was really close to Inky's intimit bits. His hooves reach all the way up her leg as he fixes up the pathways between each node. Inky's tail brushing against his member causes him to squeak and shuffle his current position, though at this point he couldn't blush any deeper. He too, is glad that he doesn't have to face Inky as he does this. Finally his hooves move on the outside of her legs, massagin over her cutie marks. Ruzeth looks down at the mares slicken canals and grimaces, biting his lip. "Umm...I...I have to touch you down there to finish up..." he mentions, though Inky would have to strain to hear him cause all he can manage is an embarrassed whisper.

05:52 Inky can't help but murr at the pleasant tingling left by the zebra's massaging, a drop of her fluids falling from her slit. The rubbing of where her cutie marks should be felt especially good. As her tufted ears catch the zebra's whisper, she tilts her head. "What? Why... oohhhhh," she says as realization dawns on her. "Uh... are they going to fix themselves on their own?" she asks, hopeful that the younger stallion wouldn't have to do that. "It's, those aren't really, uh, important or anything."

06:00 Ruzeth takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly, turning to Inky to address her concerns. "I mean they're still leaking magic and yes...I think they would fix themselves over the course of a month or so...but you have no way of storing magic. Every bit you leak through those sites are going to drain from what little you'll be able to use. I can leave them and hope they recover...but you wont be as strong," the zebra explains, leaving it up to Inky to decide. "And there are even some...some that I cant reach. They're deep inside you. I guess those might have to heal on their own."

06:10 Inky sighs as Ruzeth explains her condition. Her ears flatten against her head in embarrassment as he mentions that there's more deep inside her. "Y-yeah, there would be some there, wouldn't there," she says to herself. The bat pony looks up at Ruzeth, her slitted eyes plaintive. "I... I can't ask you to do this," she says, "but I'd really appreciate it. I'm as embarrassed as you." The mare's eyes slowly slide down to stare at the zebra's erect member, her blush deepening. "Also, could you stop sitting on me? You're not that heavy, but after a while..."

06:23 Ruzeth shifts around as he slides off of her, but finds that the only position where he could access those last few nodes was sitting on her tail looking up towards her thorugh the hips. His length is quite visible as it stucks fully out, but he's far enough back from Inky that it doesn't manage to touch her aymore. "Alright...here...here I go..." The young zebra takes a deep breath and then puts both hooves on her mound, massagin around the slickened canal. Slowly his movements encroach deeper on her, until finally one hoof slips partially inside as he gets at the ones just inside of Inky.

06:35 Inky watches the stallion clamber off of her and turn around, able to see him visibly blush as he stares between her legs. She braces herself as he leans forward, though even biting her lip is not enough to stifle her moan as her aching marehood finally gets some direct stimulation. The puffy lips are slick with her juices and slip and slide around under Ruzeth's hooves as he massages around her opening, the mare immediately panting heavily. His kneading of her nethers bring her tremendous pleasure in spite of herself, Inky unable to control herself under the combined assault of the zebra's hooves and the warm tingling that they left behind. A loud gasp escapes her as one of the young shaman's hooves slips into her hot tunnel, pressing and prodding around at the nodes inside of her. She arches her back, bucking her hips once to try to get more of the leg into her. The bat pony opens her mouth, but can't form anything resembling words as the stallion's hooves and her tingling marehood leave her breathless.

06:45 Ruzeth wasn't quite prepared for the response that he gets from Inky, causing the zebra to wince in discomfort every time she'd moan. His now moist hooves leave trails across Inky's lips as he massaged causing him to bite his lips at the strange feeling. As he gets ready to finally pull away from Inky, having done the best that he could for her at the moment, Inky gives a mighty buck, knocking Ruzeth off balance and causing his leg to slurp up into her shoulder deep with a wet noise. "Umm Inky!" he cries out in shock, taking a moment to find his footing with his other front leg.

06:50 Inky hadn't been thinking consciously when she bucked, but if she had she certainly wouldn't have expected her buck to be so effective. The sudden filling of her needy tunnel instantly pushes her far over the edge. She grits her teeth as she climaxes, her hot canal clenching around Ruzeth's foreleg and squirting out more of her juices onto the bed. While for Inky the orgasm is powerful, her tired body is only able to shudder and quiver a little bit as it rocks her. Panting, she returns to her senses, and is instantly mortified as she sees the young zebra shoulder-deep in her nethers. "Oh Luna I'm sorry," she says in a strangled voice.

06:58 Ruzeth closes his eyes, trying his hardest to ignore the warm oozing tunnel that clenched around him and squirted out against his chest. He braces himself with his other leg, managing not to get pulled further in by her contractions, and, when they're finally over he slowly manages to extracate the limb from within her. "I...I think we're done here," he says, in a mortified voice, looking down at his leg, soaked and matted with mare cum. "Lucent is going to kill me..." he comments as he notices the state of the bed. "I just hope he doesn't walk in till after I'm cleaned up..."

07:33 Inky shivers as Ruzeth pulls his leg free of her depths, her marehood making a lewd squelching sound as he frees himself. "I'm sorry," she whispers again. "I never meant for that to happen, and I didn't mean to mess up what you two have or anything!" The mare lifts a foreleg and drapes it over her eyes, having less trouble than before. "Ugh, this is a mess."

07:39 Ruzeth wipes his hooves off on Inky's belly, trying to get clean enough to walk towards the bathroom. He doesn't acknowledge Inky's apology, instead walking off towards the bathroom, ears drooped and sulking the entire way. After opening the door, he slams it shut and turns on the water for the shower.

07:42 Inky grunts as the zebra roughly wipes his hooves off on her, pulling her leg away to watch him wordlessly stalk into the bathroom. She sighs, her ears drooping as she worries she might have ruined her chances of being friends with Ruzeth. Shifting around on the bed, the mare can feel the damp spot she made on the covers, wincing as guilt fills her for having soaked somepony else's bed in her cum. With another sigh, she settles in and waits for Ruzeth to come out, thinking of ways to apologize to him.

07:52 Ruzeth takes a pretty short shower, emerging fully cleaned up just fifteen minutes later, smelling much fresher than before. His stallionhood had also managed to come down during that time. He still looks sulky as he wanders out of the bathroom, looking around, hoping that Lucent came back.

07:59 Inky was resting with her eyes closed, but perks up when she hears the shower shut off. The rest of the room still smells like incense and Inky's sex, noticeable to Ruzeth again after spending a while without smelling it. "Ruzeth," she calls out, before lowering her voice back to its normal quiet half-whisper. "Thank you. For fixing me." Her breathing quickens and she sniffles. "Honestly... I had about given up hope," the mare says, her eyes watering.

08:05 Ruzeth wrinkles his nose as he stemps back out into the tainted air, shaking his head as he gets used to the smell. "You're welcome Inky...But...but we shouldn't have done it here. I should have insisted that we take it back to your house..." His eyes goes towards the door expectantly. "I just hope that Lucent can forgive me...I dont want to lose him..." The zebra begins to tear up once more, his ears drooping again and his tail hanging low.

08:10 Inky shakes her head. "No, I don't think I could have made that trip a second time," she says sadly. "It's my fault for just showing up and dropping my problems on you." She watches quietly as Ruzeth slumps, wishing she could walk over and give him a hug. "You care about him a lot, huh?" she says in a quiet voice.

08:17 Ruzeth sighs and shakes his head. "I dont think either of us knew that it would be that...involved. Things I should know as a shamman...and yet...ugh...I'm not even going to get to complete my training with what little there is here. I can't even find a mentor..." He laments, and then turns his thoughts to Lucent. "He's a realy great friend...I would do anything for him...exept apperently kick you out of the house when he asked...Am I a bad friend?"

08:26 Inky frowns as Ruzeth talks down about his shamanistic abilities. "Ruzeth, you really helped me! That's real shaman stuff." She grunts and shifts closer to the edge of the bed. "Thanks to you, I think I have the energy to," she says, trailing off as she slides off the bed and onto her hooves, her knees wobbling. Tottering forward, the bat pony throws her forelegs around Ruzeth and collapses on top of him. "Well, I almost had the energy," she says in a sheepish whisper. She pulls the zebra to her chest, pressing his head against her chest fluff... which smells a little bit of the dried cum that Ruzeth had wiped on it earlier. "You're not a bad friend. He wasn't thinking straight, and you stood up for what you thought was right, even though it wasn't the same. Friends do that."

08:33 Ruzeth looks over at Inky, face still damp with his body slumped as she scoots forward. "I...I suppose...but I wasnt able to fix you. Its just a hack job since I couldn't do it right..." He watches with a look of concern as Inky walks over to him, taking a deep breath when she seemed unbalanced. He wasn't prepared, however, for her sudden collapse and tumbles backwards, landing on his back with a grunt. He wrinkes his nose at the smell, though rubs gently against her. "I suppose...but...this is his place. WHat if he's still mad and makes me go away? I dont even have a job yet..."

08:42 Inky smiles as she feels the zebra rub against her, happy that her hug wasn't rejected. "Hack job or not, it helped. And I know just who to go to to ask about what you couldn't fix!" She gives the zebra a gentle squeeze. "I have a hunch I'll need you again, too." When the conversation turns to Lucent, she sighs. "I don't know him as well as you... or at all, really, but if he really cares about you, then he should understand." The mare pauses. "It was just a misunderstanding," she adds, avoiding mentioning that Ruzeth had essentially given her a hoof job half an hour ago.

08:50 Ruzeth sighs and then squirms out from underneat her, getting to his hooves. "I suppose your'e right, I did make it at least marginally better. I just hope that pony can really help you teh rest of the way." He takes a couple steps towards the door, before thinking better of it and returning to help lift Inky back up to take her to the bed. "Anyways, I really think I should go hunt him down and apologise...for everything. I'll be back as soon as I can."

08:54 Inky leans on Ruzeth as he lifts her up, shakily walking back towards the bed. "They'll know more about what's wrong. I think we might need your skills again, though." She climbs on, and actually slips herself under the covers this time. Once she's settled, she looks over at Ruzeth. "Um.. Lucent won't mind if I sleep here, right?" she asks, sounding uncertain. "And, and wait, what if he comes back and you're not here?" The helpless mare sounds actually a little worried about that possibility.

08:59 Ruzeth turns away from Inky and makes it mostly to the door as she voices her worries. "Lucent will mind, but he also wont want to sleep in that mess of a bed you made...and those our our only set of sheets so...he wont be missing anything. And I guess thats a risk we'll have to take. I cant just leave him alone and not at least let him know that we're done with your treatment. I owe him that much Inky." The Zebra opens the door and steps out, holding it open long enough to respond to the mare if she had anything else to say. His mind, however, was made up and he woulnd't be convinced.

09:04 Inky sighs, her ears drooping as Ruzeth brings up her dirtying the bed. Her eyes narrow briefly as he mentions it being a "risk". "A risk /I/ have to take, you mean," she says, not sounding very happy about it. The mare sighs and waves a hoof. "Go, find him. I'll be fine."

09:11 Ruzeth rolls his eyes and says, "One I'll be taking too. Its not like i'll be terribly happy if he fordces you out." The stallion shuts the door and begins to make his way down the hallway. Reaching the desk clerk he asks if he saw Lucent heading off anywhere.

00:41 Lucent had fled a while ago, but the pony at the front desk points a hoof to the west, towards the ocean. "'E turned tha' way," he says. "Seemed pre'y upset." The old earth pony leans forward over the desk and peers at Ruzeth. "Yer that stripy whatsit."

00:45 Ruzeth takes a deep breath, glad to have a direction, though he needed further clarification. "Did he say where he was going?" The zebra's ears frown as soon as he see sthe slur and glares up at the desk keeper, leaning up to close the distance. "I'm a zebra. Not. A. Stripey." He says in a stern voice, turning away from the counter before he can even get a response.

00:50 EveningBreeze (holds the zebra where he is, legs hanging out of his mouth, as he tightens then loosens the coiling of his tongue, playing the forked tip over his head.)

00:55 Ruzeth huffs at the deskpony and walks out the door, feeling quite irritated at him, letting it slam shut when he exits. Shivers as he steps out into the cold salty air, looking down the bricked street that ran infront of his house, searching for a clue as to where Lucent might have gone, but sees no sign. With a sigh, Ruzeth just heads off in the direction he'd been pointing, keeping an eye out for his friend as he headed towards the surf.

00:59 Lucent was laying on a bench at the end of the pier that he'd taken Ruzeth to on their first day. The rest of the docks were deserted save for a few down on their luck ponies picking around, though even they were slowly heading more inland. The moon was bright and the sky clear, so there was plenty of light for Ruzeth to find his way. The area around the pier would feel a little familiar as he walked closer, helping him find his way to where the unicorn had run off to.

01:06 Ruzeth walks all the way towards the beach when a tinge of recognition as he reaches the wooden planks, realizing that this was where he'd walked that first day with Lucent after they'd both been left feeling a little down. He follows the path along the docks, suddenly having an inkling of where his friend might be. Ruzeth finally finds him at the edge of one of the pleasure piers, sitting on a bench that overlooked the see, where the moon was rizing over the water, casting its sprecral light accross the crashing waves. Ruzeth says nothing as he slides into the bench next to the down stallion, leaning up beside him.

01:09 Lucent was staring off across the water, watching the moonlight play on the crests of the waves. The land breeze ruffles his mane and blows it into his eyes, but the unicorn makes no move to brush it away. He was so caught up in his own thoughts and in the movement of the ocean, as well as the sound of the waves crashing under the pier, that he doesn't even notice Ruzeth approach until the young zebra is leaning up against him. Lucent starts and glances to his side, relaxing when he sees that it's just Ruzeth. "Hey, Ruzeth," he says quietly. His voice is thick, and he'd obviously been crying. But he was all cried out now, and the tears had stopped.

01:14 Ruzeth wraps a gentle hoof around Lucent's mane, nuzzling up against the stallion and letting out a long sad sigh before replying. "Look...Lucent, about earlier...I'm sorry. Its...its like you have put up with me and helped me when I've been in need. I couldn't just throw her out on the streets, despite her appearances," he exlains in a sad voice, little droplets of tears foriming in the corners of his eyes and leaking onto the stallions yellow fur.

01:19 Lucent lets his head tilt and fall on top of Ruzeth's, resting it there. "I can't control what you do," he says. "If you like that 'bat pony', fine." He doesn't seem to have gotten the point that Ruzeth was trying to convey. "But I can't believe you brought her to my house." The stallion doesn't make eye contact with him, staring out at the ocean instead.

01:26 Ruzeth reaches a hoof up to stroke at Lucent's mane, pulling his head more into Ruzeth's fur. "Look, I dont like her like that, and she showed up at our door with the books I ordered and then needed help. Was I supposed to turn her away and leave her to fend for herself? What...what if you had lost your magic and I'd done the same because you were a stranger?" He asks, trying a different aproach. He cries even harder, a small stain now begining to appear on his friend's fur. Ruzeth looks up towards his freind despite Lucents lack of gaze.

01:32 Lucent hmphs. "Not from what I saw," he says, pushing the other stallion away. "You seemed to 'like her' just fine." He spits the "like" out as though it tasted absolutely vile. "As for me I'd be happy. Never caused me anything but trouble." Another part of him objects, saying that magic was wonderful and without it he wouldn't have the friends he does, but Lucent quashes that thought. Where were two of them, anyway? And it seemed Ruzeth had left him, too. The stallion's expression darkens from his internal conflict, his mouth twisting unhappily.

01:43 Ruzeth plays his hoof down from Lucents mane, running it over the far side of his friends coat before giving a gentle squeeze. "No! I like you like that. She...the only reason I did what I did back there is that's what I needed to do to fix her. I can tell you about it if you wish, but you'd probably not find it terribly interesting. "And without your magic, I'd be dead. Nopony else would have been able to save me like you did." Ruzeth pulls away from Lucent, glaring at him. "Look, there's something deeper going on here. I think you're jealous of what you saw with Inky, but she's not you. I...I have some feelings for you," he admits, his voice going from a harsh tone into one of shyness.

01:52 Lucent mouth twists further, the zebra's reassurances not helping very much. He keeps frowning until the colt mentions that without Lucent's magic, he'd be dead, which seems to shock the unicorn out of his funk. He stares into the distance, eyes following the trail of moonlight on the water up to the horizon, before he grabs Ruzeth and leans onto him, resting his head in the zebra's lap. "I don't care about whatsherface," he says, his voice wavering as his eyes are starting to glisten again. "Just don't leave me, please, Ruzeth..." The unicorn doesn't respond to any comments about the kind of feelings that Ruzeth has for him.

01:56 Ruzeth chuckles lightly and pulls Lucent closer, enjoying the warmth of his friend staving of the cold night chill. "Leave her for you? She's got nothing on you. I barely know her, and she's so /old/. I promise you, I will never leave. Just please...trust me Lucent."

02:00 Lucent huddles closer to Ruzeth in the cool night air, the constant breeze from behind them making the pleasant night rather chilly. He sniffles, taking a deep breath of the salty sea air. The smell reminds me of his job, which reminds him of something else. "Thank you, Ruzeth," he says quietly, only barely audible above the sound of the surf below. "Before you showed up, all I did was work. I took on as much as I could, so I could lose myself in it. Busy all day, and when I was finally done, all I could do was sleep."

02:06 Ruzeth presses his entire body back into Lucent, practically causing his friend to aly on top of him to shelter himself from the night. The stares out over the ocean, contemplating as the waves rose and broke near the pier, creating a relaxing sound. "What about before that Lucent? You promised you'd finally tell me your story. You've kept it hidden from me for this entire time..."

02:13 Lucent goes silent for a bit before he continues as though Ruzeth hadn't said that last bit, the unicorn not ready to tell that part of his story yet. "Not yet!" He sighs. "It sounds bad, but it was great. The future was scary, and that way I didn't have to-- I couldn't think about it." He reaches over and runs a hoof through the zebra's mane, making it jingle. "But now the future's not so scary anymore..."

02:19 Ruzeth goes quiet, not feeling like pressing the issue if Lucent wasnt ready to talk about it, especially not after what had happened earlier that day. Instead he lies there listening, nuzzling against his friends belly until he finished. "What...was so scary about the future? You're pretty set here arnt you?"

02:29 Lucent snorts. "Hardly." He mulls that question over and finds, surprisingly, that he wants to answer it even less than he wants to talk about his past. "Y'know, maybe I will tell you." The stallion shakes his head, his disheveled orange mane falling partway over his eyes again. "Where do I even start..." He sighs. "You saw that picture I have, right? Of me with my brother and sister Umber and Amber. Well, the whole family is earth ponies. Everypony but me." He lets that sink in for a bit, staring off at the waves in the distance.

02:35 Ruzeth waits for an answer, perking up as Lucent seems to want to tell him what's going on in his past finally. The Zebra's ears poke up against the stallions gut as a smile creeps across his face. "Ya, I remember that picture..." Ruzeth goes silent for a couple of moments as he doesn't quite get the implications at first. "But...why should that matter?"

02:41 Lucent stares at the reflection of the moon in the water, the waves making it look like shards of glass. "Because I was the only one with magic." His eyes start to get watery again, distorting his view of the ocean. "And my parents never approved of it. We only ever farmed the earth pony way."

02:49 Ruzeth shakes his head, giving a long sad sigh. "But...dont they know? All ponies have magic. They have just as much magic as you do. Inky...Inky and those books taught me that. I'm so sorry...how...how could they treat you like that?" Ruzeth asks, his voice full of concern for his freind. "So...thats why you ran away then?"

02:56 Lucent tilts his head a tear trickling down his cheek, but his past is momentarily forgotten. "What? No they don't, what are you talking about? What kind of magic do zebras or earth ponies or pegasi have?" He lets out a long sigh. "It's complicated... but yeah," he says.

03:01 Ruzeth sighs and looks down at the ground, his eyes not even reaching the sea beyond. "Ya...thats what I thought too, but everypony has some form of magic. Earth ponies...well at least their cutie mark...but their strength as well. Inky and pegasi couldn't fly without their magic. I...I dont actually know if zebra's have any though." He slumps down at this admission, withering under his friend.

03:06 Lucent blinks slowly, thinking over what Ruzeth said. "That would explain why I was never as strong as them... even my little sister could outwork me in the fields. I always thought I was just weak." He sighs. "So did my father." Shaking his head, the unicorn grits his teeth and glares at the moon. "I don't like it. That feels like a crutch." He leans back his head to see the zebra out of the corner of his eyes. "If they all have some kind of magic, then you probably do too. But that all sounds different from my mag-- from unicorn magic..."

03:17 Ruzeth nods softly to himself in agreement with Lucent. "Well...maybe...I dont know...It might be something specific to ponies though..." He says, with an air of skeptisism in his voice. "But, thats definatly why you had issues. It would be hard to live up to such things. Magic is all the same though, it just manifests in different ways."

03:19 Lucent shakes his head slowly. "No... my parents wouldn't let me do magic, because they thought it was dangerous." The unicorn crosses his hooves and sniffles again. "The problem is, they're right... I've hurt ponies," he says, wiping his eyes with a long-haired fetlock. "The first time I did magic, I..." he says, trailing off and shuddering.

03:28 Ruzeth shifts his head out from under his friend and looks back up at him. He wished he was in a position to reach up and pat his friend on the back. "No...magic itself isnt dangerous, its just that...like back at the room...when you dont know how to control it all the time...then its dangerous. Otherwise...think back to when you saved the pair of us. Its...its wonderful. What happened the first time?"

03:29 Lucent winces at the mention of what happened back at the room. He continues with his explanation, though his voice is uncertain and he trails off often. "Well... I was just a colt, and was walking in the woods with Amber and a pegasus friend of mine. He had just learned to fly, and he was showing off. But... one of the branches he landed on was dead, and broke, and..." The stallion gulps, his breaths becoming shorter. "We ran over to see if he was okay, and... the whole tree was rotten..." Rather than finish explaining with words, he points one of his hooves up to the sky, before letting it fall over onto the bench with a loud 'thunk'.

03:34 Ruzeth tilts his head curiously, staring back up at Lucent confused. "What? How is that dangerous? That sounds like you may have saved yourself and your friends. Whats so dangerous about repelling a dead tree?" The zebra asks, rolling onto his back to that he could hug his friend. Any passerby however, would see what appears to be, two stallion in the 69 position.

03:40 Lucent nods. "I-I did. I didn't know what I was doing, but I saved us. The tree split in two." His face twists. "But after that they were so excited about what I did that, that they wanted me to do it again. And I tried, and tried, and eventually I managed it." The unicorn takes a deep breath, and lets it out shakily. "And it got away from me. It trapped, uh, the pegasus between it and the tree and," he says, his words coming closer together, "and when I finally stopped it, it, I, I broke his wing. Badly."

03:47 Ruzeth forces a reassuring smile up towards his friend. "Like I said...that's why we need to get you to practice. You didnt mean to do it and you lost control That's something we should be able to avoid.", he responds confidently. "Was your friend alright in the end? I hope the wing managed to heal." The zebra stretches his hooves up and around his friend, stroking gently at his back, to try and calm him down.

03:51 Lucent shakes his head. "I.. I dunno. I think so. We, um... sort of stopped talking after that." The unicorn sighs, this trail of thoughts not a happy one for him. "Every time... I nearly crushed Umber under some hay bales when he caught me practicing once. When I tried to block a runaway swather, it veered into our barn and nearly brought the whole thing down..." He twists to look at Ruzeth. "You saw me earlier! It's dangerous!" His voice drops to barely above a whisper. "It scares me..."

04:00 Ruzeth sighs and shakes his head. "Were there parents involved in why they wouldn't see you again? Surely they would forgive you for an accident like that? And thats why we need to practice, so taht its not dangerous. It has its uses too. If you hadn't done it, you'd be dead multiple times over." The zebra reasons, trying to talk some sense itno his frind. He pats the back of his coat, holding him tight.

04:04 Lucent shrugs lets out a long sigh, wishing they could talk about something else. "Still..." He looks out across the sea, and at the stars he could see that weren't washed out by the bright moon. "Ruzeth... you're from over there, right?" The stallion waves a hoof at the wide expanse of water in front of them. "Do you wonder if you made the right choice, leaving?"

04:16 Ruzeth follows the stallions hoof out towards the vast rolling ocean out infront of him, biting his lip at the follow up question. Ruzeth shifts around underneat Lucent, considering the question over in his mind. IT put him at unease to think about such things. "huhhhh," He sighs, "Ya...I came from over there, and, I've been wondering if I really should have come since that first day where we couldnt find a teacher...I dont know if I made the right decision at all...But...even if I didnt, I'd of missed my chance to meet a wonderful pony like yourself, and there's so much thats new here."

04:20 Lucent blushes as he listens to the zebra's response. "Me too... About earlier, I didn't want to think about the future because, well, I didn't... I didn't think I had one." The stallion gently wraps his forelegs around whatever bit of Ruzeth is in reach, hugging him softly. "I didn't have... a plan when I left. And after I left I wanted to go back, but I don't think... I can, anymore. I'm worried I picked wrong, and that's why I worked myself so hard, so I wouldn't have to think about it..." He sighs. "But... after I met you, I actually have something to look forward to. Some/pony/."

04:31 Ruzeth leans into the hug, begining to cry tears that are a mixture of sadness and joy once again into Lucents fur. "I...I cant go back either. Even if I had the bits for it...I dont thingk that my tribe would be all to happy to see me once again. The future scares me though...I dont know what I'll be doing since I dont' have any real avenue to do what I though I would be. I'm glad to have you Lucent...and...And part of the reason I indulged in helping Inky is that I want to be able to help you out."

04:34 Lucent feels a few tears trail down his cheeks as well as he hears Ruzeth crying. "You too, huh?" He sighs. "This sounds... really sappy, but we have each other," the stallion says, snorting to himself. He hugs the zebra tighter. "But... help me how? You said she 'lost her magic' or something..."

04:36 Ruzeth lets the thought sit in the air for a couple of moments, enjoying the prescense of his friend. "But...Yes...she lost her magic, and gave me an avenue to become a better shaman...If...If I can get good at that sort of thing, then maybe I wont feel like I'm wasting my life when you go out and work. I could help you not have to work so much..."

04:40 Lucent blinks. "Well... aren't you already a pretty good shaman? You made that potion that saved us... even if tonight's was kind of a flop," he says, remembering the zebra's hasty headache cure. He squeezes the zebra with both pairs of legs, pressing the smaller pony into him. "If you could help that b-- that... mare, you have to be good, right?"

04:44 Ruzeth sighs and looks away from Lucents gaze, letting his eyes settle onto the moon. "Most of that stuff is really simple...This stuff I did with Inky...THat was really advanced stuff and I need more practice wtih it. Still...you're right though. I can at least find an apothecary that might be interested in me..." He resonds, sounding only partly convinced. He goes quiet, though the sound of the surf fills the silence.

04:49 Lucent smiles at Ruzeth's idea. "You should do that! I bet you'd be great." He goes silent as the colt trails off, listening to the sound of the ocean. After a while, the yellow stallion gets up and turns around, laying back down and shifting Ruzeth in front of him. He wraps his legs around the zebra and nuzzles into his mane, pressing him hard into his furry chest and belly as he looks out at the sea.

04:51 Ruzeth turns hi shead to look up at his partner, locking his legs around him in a four legged embrace, belly to belly. "You know...maybe we should just spend the night out here...its gorgeous tonight, and I dont think the pegasi have anything scheduled...Just you and me and the sea." The stallion tilts his head backwards so that their lips brush up against each other and then presses against them.

04:55 Lucent hesitates only for a moment before he presses back into the kiss, locking lips with the smaller pony. After a few seconds he breaks it, wanting to speak. "I wouldn't recommend that," he says with a little chuckle. "It's all right now, but come morning we'll be shivering and covered in sea spray." He squeezes back, pressing the two of them together and inadvertently --- or possibly intentionally! --- pressing their sheathes against each other.

05:03 Ruzeth purrs into the kiss, pressing his tonuge up against Lucents lips and licking against them before the stallion pulls away. "But...I dont think we'll have our bed if we go back. I dont mind it here." The zebra's eyes widen a little at the sudden movement and gently returns the favor, pulling him down and shifting his hips so that they slide against each other, watching for Lucent's reaction.

05:05 Lucent shakes his head. "I've done it once. Trust me, it'll be bad." The stallion looks at Ruzeth a little oddly. "Why, is that.. mare still there?" He squeaks as Ruzeth slides down a little bit and slides his hips against his own, feeling a little stirring in his sheath. His cheeks flush red-orange, but the stallion doesn't object.

05:14 Ruzeth nods up at him with a frown on his face. "Ya...Inky...She kind of fell asleep after the whole ritual and stuff and she'll probably be out of it till the morning. I gotta check on her then and hopefully send her on her way...But...we can deal with that later." He whispers in a quiet voice, as a slight blush shows through his striped fur as his face begins to heat up. He gives a slow arch upwards with his hips, while pulling Lucent's face back down for another kiss.

05:17 Lucent murrs despite himself and presses his mouth against the zebra's, letting his tongue venture into Ruzeth's mouth and letting Ruzeth do the same to him. He still pulls away fairly soon, now blushing quite hard. "But... we're in public," he says in a strangled whisper. "And we can't make a mess..."

05:22 Ruzeth presses back into the kiss, feeling quite excited that Lucent seems to finally be opening up to his feelings. He hums his pleasure as his tongue snakes into Lucents mouth, tying itself around Lucents. Ruzeth blushes even harder at Lucent's comments and then looks around from his admittedly terrible vantage point from under Lucent. "I dont see any public around...and we can clean up anything that happens," He whispers, too caught up in the moment to really care about things like that. Ruzeth gives another slow thrust, feeling his memberbegining to fully flesh out between them.

05:28 Lucent feels the arousal rushing to his head, clouding his judgment. The stallion's own shaft starts to poke out from his sheath, the wider head rubbing up against Ruzeth's already mostly hard member. He shudders in pleasure. "Well," he says, quickly glancing over the bench behind them and not seeing anypony, "there doesn't seem to be anypony around, and it is late... but I really don't want to get our fur all sticky." He gently pushes the zebra away a little bit, revealing Ruzeth's hard length and his own, slowly growing member. Lucent's shaft pulses a little bit in time with his heartbeat, but is still nowhere near full length with only a few inches poking out of his sheath.

05:38 Ruzeth nods in understanding s teh feelings rush to his head as well and squirms underneath Lucent, though there was enough distance that they didn't rub. "Well...you know...I could think of a way that neither of us would get our fur dirty..." he says, trying to scoot around underneath his friend, lifting him up some to wiggle back into the position they were in initially. His tonuge snakes up to lick ever so slightly at teh soft flesh that pokes out of Lucents sheath.

05:42 Lucent blinks. "Hmmm?" he says, only to let out a long "Ohhh," half of realization and half of pleasure as the zebra licks his emerging shaft. Even that gently lick makes his length surge out another inch, growing faster under the colt's attentions. "So I, uh," he says, looking down at the mottled length flopping between his hooves. "Do I...?" The larger stallion tentatively grabs it between his forehooves, feeling the weight and how it slightly throbs between his hooves.

05:50 Ruzeth gasps once Lucent took his throbbing length into his hooves, arching up to rub it even more so. The zebra finds the stallions head with his tongue and squirls it aroudn the tip, scooching backwards as the member fleshes out as not to lose his position. He pulls off for just a second to respond. "I...i dont know. I just know what I've heard about. Just umm...do what seems right..." The zebra responds before dipping back up.

05:54 Lucent starts to pant as he feels Ruzeth swirling his tongue around his tip, the large stallion shuddering. His shaft starts to push out into the zebra's mouth as his arousal mounts, the unicorn's member growing very quickly to its full length. The yellow pony bucks his hips a little bit, trying to get more of his length into Ruzeth's warm mouth. Staring at the length in front of him, Lucent lifts it up and runs his other hoof down the side, having never really inspected another stallion's member before. He notices the slickness of pre at the tip and rubs first one hoof, then the other over it, before sliding them slowly up and down the young zebra's length. They bump over his medial ring each time they pass it, sending little sparks of pleasure into Ruzeth's body.

06:05 Ruzeth opens his mouth wider to take Lucent's steadily growing member, though the inexperienced young zebra couldn't help but occasionally slide his teeth over the tender flesh as it entered. His front hooves reach out to trace from Lucents sack up to about the ring where they met Ruzeths lips. His tongue slipped off the stallions tip and instead incircled the length, wrapping and loosening in time with the throb of Lucents heartbeat which he felt through the length. The zerbra's hooves move back down to the sacks, fondling and inspecting those of his friend. The small stallion shudders as Lucent rubs over him own length as he leaks even more pre out, glistening in the moonlight.

06:08 Sparkler ( micrdoms Ruzeth )

06:11 Lucent moans loudly, glad that there was nopony around to see or hear them. At least he really hoped not. He does wince as the hard teeth graze his sensitive flesh, but it's not entirely painful and is quickly drowned out by the tongue encircling his unflared tip, squeezing and lapping over it. His panting increases in frequency, the unicorn starting to thrust a little into Ruzeth's mouth. He lowers himself a little more each time, wanting more of his shaft inside the zebra, though he doesn't really know how much he can take. On the other hoof, he's not in the right state of mind to care. Looking at the oozing length in front of him, Lucent can feel it pulsing in his hooves. He reaches lower to fondle the zebra's own black orbs, returning the favor since it did feel oddly nice. Finally, he opens his mouth and gives the top a curious lick, finding it tasted... not bad. The yellow pony slips the head of Ruzeth's shaft into his mouth, licking and swirling his tongue over it to get more of the salty-sweet taste of pre.

06:18 Ruzeth pants around Lucents member, giving it a little less attention than he had just moments ago as his friend finally begins to go down on him, sending blissful shivers through the zebra's body as his head is licked over and sucked on. He arches up, pressing a little bit more into the amber unicorn's mouth as Lucent presses back into him, gagging slightly as Lucent's tip reaches the back of his throat. He can feel a distant pressure building as Lucent continues to pleasure him, moaning around Lucents lenth, blasting humid air over it.

06:22 Lucent begins to thrust harder, the blasts of air around his length teasing him to no end. He forces the wide tip of his length against the entrance to Ruzeth's throat, mushing it a few times before it slips through, visibly bulging out the zebra's throat. Gasping in pleasure around the zebra's own length as his tip enters the slimy tube, the stallion takes a bit more of the thinner shaft into his mouth. As the zebra arches up, he takes in a bit more than anticipated, finding himself gagging as well as he pulls back. Lucent feels his climax approaching as he resumes sucking on the zebra's member, his thrusts into Ruzeth making him bob his head on the colt's shaft.

06:29 Ruzeth gags around Lucent's tip as it slips all the way past, his convulsing throat massaging over the tip as his tongue rubs over the center of his shaft, focusing especially on the ring that was just in reach. He feels the throbbing cock in his mouth twitching even harder as Lucent grows closer. Ruzeths hooves stroke up and down the remainder of the shaft in time with each thrust of his partner. Ruzeth arches up again and again, though as Lucent keeps pulling away from his thrusts, he plateaus shy of climax, moaning out and desperatly seeking for Lucent to go harder on him.

06:35 Lucent pants harder as he feels the zebra's slick throat squeezing and rippling over his length, fast approaching his peak. "Mmm gnnnh," he grunts around the shaft in his mouth before the zebra's tongue licks hard over his sensitive medial ring, pushing the large stallion over the edge. He groans in pleasure as his flare fills out inside the zebra's throat and his large, pendulous balls twitch, starting to shoot spurt after spurt of hot cum down the colt's throat. His own pleasuring becomes a lot sloppier as he shudders and quivers with orgasm, lowering himself more onto the zebra's shaft. Just as he lowers himself, Ruzeth arches up again, pressing his thin shaft hard against the back of Lucent's mouth. The unicorn gags before swallowing, taking the other pony's member into his throat. His forelegs buckle, and he plunges all the way to the hilt, his nose brushing up against the zebra's sack and smelling his musk. His throat bulges slightly with Ruzeth's length, the muscular tube rippling and squeezing over it as he swallows repeatedly to keep from gagging.

06:43 Ruzeth gasps once more as he feels the hot waves for fluid rushing down his throat, swallowing to keep himself comfortable as it rushes in, causing the throat waslls to massage every last drop out of the stallion. Ruzeth gives a gasping moan as at first he feels his length go down Lucents throat, and once more as he, collapses, taking it all in, filling the zebra's mind with hazy pleasure as his entire stallionhood is rubbed and clenched by Lucents maw. It doesnt take much longer to finally push the zebra over the edge, causing his body to shuder as his seed begins to spurt down Lucents gullet. His mouth hangs open in pleasure as his head falls limp, causing Lucent's length to fall from his mouth, leaving a trail of saliva across the zebra's coat.

06:47 Lucent 's face twists at the odd feeling of the warm goo spurting down his throat, but it's just a little more oddity on top of having Ruzeth's shaft down there in the first place. He keeps swallowing, having to force himself to do it to stay comfortable with the member in his throat. The stallion thrusts himself more into the zebra's open mouth as he feels him start to fall off his shaft, though he wasn't done cumming yet. Despite his efforts, Ruzeth still slips off, taking the last couple of spurts in his mouth before the flared length slips out completely, trailing a mixture of cum, saliva and pre across the zebra's coat.

06:57 Ruzeth spurts for a little bit longer before falling limp on the bench, panting with pleasure as his entire body relxes, flooding with wonderful feelings as he staired up at his friend. "Mmmmmm, that was wonderful Lucent," he purrs out, hugging his friend close and inadvertently massaging some of the latent cum out of his friends fur, getting both their bellies sticky. He wiggles his hips and rubs up along Lucents back with his hooves, nuzzling against hs friend.

07:01 Lucent sits up and pulls the zebra's softening length out of his mouth, gagging one last time as the flare passes out of his throat. He gulps, feeling the taste of cum on his tongue, and decides he doesn't really like that taste so much. "Yes," he gasps, "thank you, Ruzeth." The stallion lays there in a blissful afterglow. "Ruzeth... I think I love you," he says softly, before frowning as he feels a slick feeling on his fur. "...but you're getting me all sticky."

07:11 Ruzeth nuzzles into Lucents belly as he feels his member sofening and retreating between them. "Mmm...Thank you. I've enjoyed our time together, and I want this to continue..." He responds, twisting around to look up at Lucent face to face, smearing the fluids even more into their fur. "I...I think I love you too Lucent," he purrs happily before frowning and cocking his head at his partner. "Way to kill the moment..." he groans out before adding, "Well, you're the one on top here. Go ahead and get off if you must..."

21:29 Lucent clumsily clambers off of the bench, managing to only step on Ruzeth once in the process. He rubs a hoof through his slickened fur, trying to get out what he can, but it's a lost cause. The cum is firmly stuck in his coat, thought at least it's just a little bit of it. Away from the relative warmth of Ruzeth and the bench, the cold air seeps in, making the stallion shiver. He looks back to the zebra, waiting for him to get up. "I need to sleep," he says, yawning as if to prove his point. "I have to get up for work tomorrow, and I'm already up way too late." The unicorn looks at the moon, now well above the horizon. "What time even is it...?"

21:34 Ruzeth grunts in pain as Lucent steps on him, rousing him from his thoughts. "Oh...I guess..." he says back towards Lucent, though making absolutly no move to get up. "You could call in sick tomorrow maybe? I could whip up a potion to give you the trots or something." The zebra offers, holding his hooves out to welcome Lucent back to the bench should he decide to take him up on that offer. His tail swishes back and forth lazily as the cool air on his wet fur causes him to shiver on the bench. He waits expectantly for an answer, a smile plasted across his face.

21:39 Lucent looks at Ruzeth a little incredulously. "Why? Then I'd spend tomorrow feeling terrible. You might enjoy spending time with me like that, but I think I'll pass." Thinking Ruzeth wanted to be helped off the bench, he steps closer and shrugs before grabbing the zebra's outstretched forelegs and lifting him up.

21:43 Ruzeth sighs defeated as Lucent grbas his hooves and pulls instead of stepping into them, reluctantly getting up to his feet and onto the pier. "I mean, it didnt' have to last /all/ day, just as long as one of the shorter potions would take to wear off. Then we could just spend all day together." Regardless, he begins to make his way down the dock, following behind Lucent, as they head back towards the appartment.

21:46 Lucent twists his mouth. "Eh... I'd feel bad for doing that. And what if somepony from the docks saw us?" He shakes his head. "No... I'll play it safe." As they walk, the larger stallion drapes one of his forelegs over Ruzeth's withers, holding himself close to the young zebra.

21:53 Ruzeth looks down at the ground, but leans into Lucents embrace as they walk. "Allright...be a goody four shoes then...but, we should do more things together. I'll try to find a place to take me on in the mean time." Ruzeth turns over to nuzzle Lucent, grinning. "I'm glad you've decided that you love me." He leans in to give a slight peck.

21:58 Lucent nods. "I'd like that," he says, leaning down to nuzzle the colt back. "Oh, but... don't tell /anypony/ about us. I'm not... I'm not ready for that. I don't know what ponies'd think." He gives the zebra a squeeze with his leg. "/Anypony/."

22:03 Ruzeth sighs and looks away from Lucent, trying to hide the frown that grew on his face . "Are you ashamed about me? But...but its fine. Most ponies wont even care about us being into each other," Ruzeth explains, not actually having agreed to Lucents demand as of yet.)

22:05 Lucent slumps a little bit, hanging his head. "Not of you... not because you're you... I just," he says, having trouble putting his feelings into words. The stallion sighs. "I don't want to deal with it..."

22:10 Ruzeth looks back up at his friend, trying ot meet his eyes. "I take it your family wouldn't approve of such things? Its common enough around here. I'm supprised you havn't come accross any couples yet."

22:15 Lucent glances over at Ruzeth, their blue eyes meeting. He tries to work up the courage to say it's okay, but fails, and sighs. "Sorry... just please keep it a secret for now," the stallion says as they turn onto the street of his apartment.

22:19 ZuthalSleep (crawls into Inky, wherever she may be, to sleep)

22:22 Ruzeth sighs and gives a solemn nods towards his friend, not really likeing the answer, but he was willing to agree to it anyways. "Fine...I guess...I'll do my best from accidentally telling anypony about us."

22:23 Lucent nudges the zebra in the ribs. "And from intentionally telling anypony, too. I want to hear you say it." He stops in front of the door to his building, holding onto Ruzeth and keeping him from going inside.

22:27 Ruzeth sighs and shakes his head at Dusk with a little giggle, "Oh, I do on occasion, perhaps you two a little bit more than others, but I hope word doesn't spead /too/ far. I'd be disapointed to have too much of a reputation like that. Its just...nobles gossip a fair deal."

22:28 Ruzeth gruts as he's nudged and nods back at Lucent. "Of course. I meant that as well. I won't intentionally nor accidentally tell as soul, to the best of my abilities, though...are you asking me to lie if directly asked?"

22:30 Lucent makes to open the door, before stopping. The zebra's last question gives him pause. "Umm... I don't know," he says slowly. "I guess I am... is that okay?"

22:36 Ruzeth scrunches his snout as he looks at Lucent, looking a litttle bit uncomfortable with being asked to do so, but he doesn't object to it. "Alright...I guess. If thats what you really want...though I'd rather not."

22:39 Lucent sighs. "Just not yet... okay?" He pushes open the door and starts to walk towards the stairs, absently leaving his hoof draped over Ruzeth's withers.

22:42 Ruzeth nods and and takes a deep breath, looking at Lucent as they enter the lobby. He stops in the center of it and tries to give his friend a passionate kiss right there. "Anything for you..." He whipsers right before his lips meet Lucent's, 'forgetting' about the desk clerk nearby.

22:53 Lucent mrfs as Ruzeth presses his lips against him, surprised by the sudden kiss. He leans into it, letting his eyes slowly close. They snap open again when there's a "Yechh" from the desk. The stallion pulls away and turns to see the deskpony making a face at them. His ears fold down immediately, a blush coming to his face. The pony at the desk shakes his head before waving a hoof at them. "Ge' a room," he spits.

22:57 Ruzeth closes his eyes as well, leaning into the kiss as his tongue snakes out, that is, until they were rudely interupted by the desk worker. THe zebra's face flushes red as he suddenly remembers that pony and giggles. "S-sorry...I thought maybe you'd gone to bed," he stutters out and then glares a him.

23:00 Lucent blushes and shrinks down, trying to hide himself. "We-we'll be going now," he says in a quiet voice, hurrying towards the stairs and dragging Ruzeth behind him. The old deskpony pays no heed to Ruzeth's glare and nods approvingly. "Good riddance. 'N don't forge' yer stripy friend," he says, before turning back to his paper.

23:06 Ruzeth wraps a hoof around his friend defensivly continueing to glare at the deskworker as Lucent drags him away towards the stairs. "Thats Zebra to you, you racist asshole!" He calls out as he disapears up the stairs behind Lucent.

23:15 Lucent only speeds up when Ruzeth yells back, practically cantering into and up the stairs. He's silent as they walk towards his room. "Um... sorry about that," he says quietly, stopping in front of his door.

23:18 Ruzeth follows along quickly, soon reaching the top of the steps with Lucent and shakes his head when he appologizes. "What are you being sorry for? You're not hte one who's being a jerk. Its him. We just have to put up with him I guess." The zebra, slowly opens the door, trying to keep it quiet in case Inky had managed to fall asleep, not wanting to wake the mare.

23:23 Lucent steps into his room after Ruzeth, looking with a little distaste at the lump Inky made under his covers. He shakes his head, not wanting to dwell on the encounter in the lobby anymore. "Well... yeah. Let's just move that bat to the chair so we can get to bed, okay?" His voice isn't that low, but Inky was so exhausted from her ordeal that she didn't stir at all. The unicorn starts walking purposefully towards his bed, frowning at the mare.

23:31 Ruzeth gives a small laugh as he looks at Lucent. "Do you really want to sleep there? After the mess she made of the bed? Why dont you take the chair and I'll crash on the floor or next to you. We really shouldn't move her right now in her fragile state anyways," Ruzeth argues, stepping in front of Lucent to cut him off.

23:33 Lucent tilts his head and blinks, his eyes narrowing. "What mess? Is it not house-trained or something?" He stomps forward to inspect the bed, examining the top cover. "I'll be so sore if I sleep in the chair..."

23:39 Ruzeth sighs as Lucent gets to the bed and points towards the crusted spots where Inky had made a bit of a mess. "Remember how she got just a little bit excited when I was fixing her up? Well...that kind of lef the bed in need of washing. We could both sleep on the floor though. It wont be that bad for one night."

23:44 Lucent rolls his eyes. "Of course." He shoots Ruzeth a glare, still not entirely comfortable with what seems to have transpired here. "We've slept in worse. And it's just on top, anyway." He steps to the head of the bed and digs his hooves under the bat pony, preparing to drag her out. The mare had fallen asleep with her fangs out, and the sharp teeth glint in the moonlight. Lucent's eyes fall upon them, and he shudders. "No bat demon thing is gonna keep me from sleeping in my own freaking bed," he grumbles.

23:46 Dusk shakes her head againg and giggles as he rubs her mane "Well that's kinda the point of it being called fraternization and why it's not allowed...which was my original point."

23:52 Ruzeth shrinks back under the glare, feeling Lucents frustration directed towards him with a grunt. He puts his hooves on top of Lucent's legs, pinning them down to the bed. "Look, You're being as bad as that pony downstairs. She needs the bed so either you can suck it up and sleep next to her, or we can sleep elsewhere. You're not going to ruin the chances of me having a patient who will actually recomend me to work under a healer will you?" The zebra says, trying to guilt Lucent into playing nicely. "And she's not a demon. They dont even suck any blood."

23:57 Lucent grunts as Ruzeth pins his legs down, yanking them back and out from under Inky. He wilts under the accusation, staring at the still soundly sleeping bat pony more intently. "But... but she has fangs," he protests. "And her wings are all weird. That's not normal, Ruzeth..." The stallion shakes his head. "You think having that-- er, her, recommend you will actually help?"

00:01 Ruzeth glares at Lucent as he continues to protest, trying to make him feel even more guilty about his racism. "It is normal where they come from. There's a whole kingdom of them apperntly to the north. Just give her a chance, she's really sweet, and she doesn't bite. You love me right? That means you should trust me as well..." Ruzeth says in a convincing tone, hoping Lucent will see it his way. He pulls his hooves up off of Lucent, leaning in to give him a nuzzle in the chest.

00:04 Lucent sighs as the zebra nuzzles into him, unable to stay mad with Ruzeth. "Well... I suppose," he says. "If you say she's okay, I'll trust you." He looks at his chair, then back at her. "You're /sure/ we can't move her, though?"

00:10 Ruzeth nods towards Lucent in affirmation, just glad that he's going to do it after all. "No...we really cant risk moving her. I'll just sleep in that chair or on the ground. It'll be alright. And Lucent...?" He says with a pause, burying his face into the stallions chest, "Thanks for trusting me."

00:14 Lucent leans down and nuzzles into the zebra's mane, smelling his distinctive smell. He wraps a hoof around the stallion and hugs him gently. "It's the least I could do," he says softly. The stallion looks at the other half of the bed and twists his mouth. "So I'd be with... her, then? I dunno..."

00:20 Ruzeth returns the hug, warpping a hoof back around Lucents withers and pulling himself in close, smelling the sweat from the day past since Lucent never managed to get that shower in. "Mmmm, well, its either that, the chair, or the floor. We cant move her tonight without risking anything. And you're just sleeping together, you're not /with/ her, just next to her."

00:32 Lucent shakes his head. "Last time I went in to the docks with a sore back... ugh. I'll deal." The stallion gives Ruzeth a hug and a nuzzle before he walks around the bed and starts to climb on, shuffling towards the head where he can slip under the covers.

00:39 Ruzeth returns the favor before moving over to the chair and curling up on it, shifting aroudn to get comfortable. "Good night Lucent, I hope you sleep well. See you in the morning...If you dont leave before I wake up anyways."

00:41 Lucent slides under the covers, the bed so small that it's almost impossible for him not to brush up against Inky a little bit. The mare is completely out, though, not having reacted at all to any of this. "I'm sorry about that, Ruzeth, I just... wasn't ready. I'll see you in the morning. ...And her, I guess." He sighs. "I hope she doesn't think I'm some horrible racist..."

00:43 Ruzeth closes his eyes, finally finding a somewhat acceptable spot. "It'll be fine Lucent. I'm sure thats nothing she hasn't delt with before. Just be nicer to her and she'll forgive you. I...I kind of did the same thing when I first met."

00:44 Lucent smiles at that, Ruzeth's admission making him feel a lot better. "Really? Well... that makes me feel better." He yawns and closes his eyes, already feeling himself slipping into sleep. "Gn'ight..."

00:52 Ruzeth nods towards teh stallion, though the darkness hides his motions. "G'night Lucent," he says, yawning in return beofre closeing his eyes as well, drifting off to sleep.

02:37 Inky is still sleeping like a log.

02:37 Lucent falls asleep quickly, despite the unfamiliar mare sleeping next to him. During the night, he tosses and turns, having gotten used to sleeping next to Ruzeth. He eventually ends up cuddling Inky, his forelegs loosely wrapped around the older mare. The stallion was still laying there past when he normally got up, oversleeping due to being up so late the previous night.

02:41 Ruzeth tosses and turns on the chair all night, never quite managing to get comfortable. He's gotten such a bad night of sleep that he wakes up soon past dawn duie to the light streaming into the room. Ruzeth lays there for a couple minutes, trying to get back to sleep, when he finally just gives up. He makes his way over to the kitchen area and begins to prepare some pancakes and eggs for the other two when they wake up, knowing that Lucent should be waking up soon for work.

02:44 Inky still doesn't wake up, though her ear twitches at the sound of frying eggs. The mare stirs a little bit and snuggles into the warmth of the pony beside her.

02:48 Lucent sniffs in his sleep, taking a deep breath of the smell of breakfast, but also doesn't get up. By the time Ruzeth is finished with breakfast, it's a while after the unicorn should have gotten up, yet the yellow stallion seems content to lay in bed.

02:54 Ruzeth works hard, getting every thing prepared when he notices that Lucent has yet to get up from bed. Walking over to it, he giggles, seeing Lucent wrapped around the mare there. He decides to play a little prank on his friend and leans down to grate his teeth over the stallion's horn, trying to get him nice and fleshed out.

02:57 Inky moves around a little bit more, approaching wakefulness. She seemed much closer to being awake than the stallion behind her, having slept for a few more hours than him.

03:00 Lucent lets out a breath as the zebra drags his teeth over his fluted horn, his shaft responding to the stimulation -- albeit a little slow after last night's activities. It presses between his belly and the bat pony's back, starting to fill out as Ruzeth keeps playing with his horn. A slight flush comes to Lucent's cheeks and his breathing changes, letting the zebra know it's working.

03:05 Ruzeth bobs up and down on Lucent's horn even faster, taking care not to apply too much movement onto the bed as he did so. His teeth click over each ridge and his tongue swirls over the boy length, watching with amusement as Lucent fleshes out.

03:08 Inky leans on Ruzeth as he lifts her up, shakily walking back towards the bed. "They'll know more about what's wrong. I think we might need your skills again, though." She climbs on, and actually slips herself under the covers this time. ...

03:10 Ruzeth bobs up and down on Lucent's horn even faster, taking care not to apply too much movement onto the bed as he did so. His teeth click over each ridge and his tongue swirls over the boy length. He sees the stallion going flush and grins, knowing that it was working pretty well. One hoof snakes over to where Lucent's stallionhood would be, applying a light pressure as he feels for it.

03:12 Lucent moans softly in his sleep, his eyes fluttering. He's quickly being brought towards the waking world, just as his shaft is being brought to full mast. The zebra can feel the distinctive bulge through the sheets, the wide member sandwiched between Lucent's belly and Inky's back. As he drags his hoof over it, Lucent thrusts once, grinding his member against the furry body in front of him.

03:13 Inky grunts and shifts forward a bit as the stallion's shaft pokes into her back. The mare twitches and mumbles something as he thrusts against her, but she manages to cling to sleep just a little bit longer. She's starting to slowly move and stretch, and another one of those thrusts would definitely wake her up.

03:18 Ruzeth giggles with anticipation as he hears Lucent thrust into Inky, knowing that he'd gotten the stallion well and good. He pulls away and puts a hoof onto Lucents shoulder trying to shake him awake, hoping that Lucent will be Lucid enough to realize what he was doing.

03:22 Lucent grunts as Ruzeth shakes him, and blearily opens his eyes, slowly moving them over the purple hair in front of him. He stares at one of Inky's tufted ears uncomprehendingly for a few seconds, also wondering what the feeling between his legs was, before it clicks and he realizes who he's cuddling -- and who his 'morning wood' was pressing up against. The unicorn yelps and jerks backwards, shuffling until he's pressed up against the wall. He turns bright red, and his forelegs dart down between his legs to cover up his erection, not wanting the sleeping mare to find out about it.

03:25 Inky mrfs as the stallion jerks away, the sudden movement finally bringing her to wakefulness. She yawns and stretches, displaying her fanged maw to the world. Rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, the well-rested mare smiles brightly at the zebra in front of her. "Morning!" She feels leagues better than yesterday, although still not at her regular energy level. The mare blinks and her brows furrow briefly as she recalls the feeling of somepony pulling away from her, and the mare twists around to look with surprise at Lucent, who was huddled against the wall. "Morning to you too," she says cheerfully, grinning at him. "Lucent, was it? Sorry if I took up too much of the bed for you!" Inwardly, she is a bit surprised to see that he was sleeping in the same bed as her, given his reaction yesterday, but his current reaction is about what she expected. The mare feels too good to let it get her down, though, and her smile doesn't waver.

03:33 Ruzeth breaks out into a laughing fit as soon as Lucent freaks out, leaning down ot whisper in his ear in a voice loud enough for Inky to here. "I see you've reallly warmed up to her, in fact, perhaps a little too well given that it looked like there was more than just some cuddling going on in that bed." The zebra falls backwards, breaking into a laughing fit as he rolls on the ground.

03:37 Lucent stammers, but can't manage to get anything out in his embarrassment. The stallion does notice that his horn feels a little odd, and lifts a hoof to it to find it slick. His eyes widen and then narrow as he shoots Ruzeth an extremely unamused glare. "Ruzeth," he growls, making to get up and head towards him before he realizes he can't, or Inky will see his arousal. The stallion holds his position against the wall, fuming. "I-It's fine, um," he says, looking back at the bat pony for a brief moment before he finds her slitted eyes and fangs too unsettling. "Miss."

03:39 Inky tilts her head at Ruzeth's words, not understanding what he was talking about. The stallion across from her definitely didn't seem the type to take advantage of her during her near catatonic sleep, and aside from the whole racism thing, seemed pretty all right. "Oh, he's a cuddler, huh?" she asks, turning to watch Ruzeth collapse on the ground and stifling a giggle at his antics. "I thought I felt him jerk away." The mare turns back to Lucent and smiles. "There's nothing wrong with some good cuddling," she says. "Nothing to be ashamed of."

03:43 Ruzeth watches Lucent discover his let horn and just laughs even harder when Lucent shoots him a glare and raizes his voice. He lays there on the floor for a couple of seconds before finally getting back to his feet. "I made you noth breakfast. Yall should go ahead and get something to eat. And yes, Lucent loves to cuddle, its just...sometimes they get a little intense in his sleep. Fortunatly I woke him up before he made a mess though," the young zebra teases, patting lucent on the head a couple times, making sure to wipe up the saliva with his foreleg.

03:48 Lucent keeps glaring at Ruzeth as the zebra reaches over and wipes off his horn. "More like you almost caused a mess in the first place," he growls, shoving the zebra away. He doesn't move to get out of bed, waiting for his softening length to fully retract. With a sigh, he looks back at Inky. "Sorry about my friend here..."

03:51 Inky turns a little pink as she figures out what Ruzeth was saying. "It's fine, no harm done," she says to Lucent, trying to cheer him up after Ruzeth's teasing. "He's a great shaman, but still just a kid, y'know." The mare slips out of bed and onto her hooves, able to support herself and walk around. She trots over to the table and helps herself to some food, munching happily. Her tail swishes with excitement as she feels full of energy for the first time in a few days, reveling in the feeling. Just fore of her swishing tail, the dripping stroke of ink adorns her purple flank again, her magic having recovered enough overnight to put it back.

03:56 Ruzeth allows himself to be shoved back after he manages to get the horn all dried. "I'm sorry if your dreams of me were just a little to tantalizing," he teases, ribbing Lucent as he makes his way over to the food on the table. "I dont know about great Inky...but thanks for the vote of confidence either way..." He says unsure as he fixes his own plate. "Hey Inky~ Your cutie mark is back." He turns to Lucent and says giggling, "See, I told you she was a real pony, not a monster."

04:00 Lucent grumpily climbs out of bed, only a few inches of his flaccid length still flopping around outside his sheath. "Stop it," he hisses at Ruzeth as he walks over behind the zebra. "Not when other ponies are around!" The stallion takes a seat at the table and serves himself a plate of eggs and pancakes, giving Ruzeth a begrudging nod of approval as he digs in. "Oh?" He leans over the table to peek at Inky's flank. "So she does." The stallion sighs, before he forces himself to meet Inky's eyes. "Sorry, miss uh... Inky, about yesterday," he says, finding his habitual deference to older ponies kicking back in once he starts acknowledging her as a pony.

04:04 Inky 's ears catch everything Lucent says as he whispers to Ruzeth. "Stop what? Oh, are you shy about you two being a couple?" she asks, remembering how the zebra reacted when she asked yesterday. "I mean, it's pretty obvious!" She grins. "Don't worry about it." When Ruzeth points out her cutie mark, her eyes widen and she looks at her flank. "EeeEE! It's back!" The squealing mare hops out of her chair and gallops around the table, throwing her forelegs around Ruzeth in a violent hug. "You did it! Thank you thank you thank you, Ruzeth!" She squeezes him as tight as she can before letting go and moving onto Lucent, giving the larger stallion a hug just as big in her excitement. "Eh, don't worry about it," she says in response to his apology, too caught up on the high of getting her cutie mark back to even consider letting something lower her mood. "I've dealt with worse. You're fine!"

04:11 Ruzeth winces as Lucent hisses at him, feeling tinge of regret at what he'd done earlier that day. "S-sorry Lucent I'll try to be bet-Eeeeep!" The Zebra makes a noise of suprise as Inky guesses their secret, sinking down even further as he anticipates further glares from Lucent later. The stallion jumps, startled, as Inky lets out that high pitched squee, caught off guard by her excitement, and doublee so when she charges him, giving him a hug. Ruzeth awkwardly hugs her back, grinning at Inky as her joy caught on. "Well...Its only partially fixed you know. Still, I'm glad you're feeling better."

04:43 Lucent squeaks and blushes as Inky mentions that they're together, his ears flattening. Her reassurances that it's fine don't help much. He flinches as Inky squees with excitement, watching with a little frown as she nearly tackles Ruzeth in her glee. The unicorn is completely unprepared when she hugs him, too, holding still almost in shock. Her excitement proves contagious, and he can't help but smile a little bit and lean into the hug. This time, her reassurances about how he acted do help a little bit.

04:46 Inky nuzzles Ruzeth briefly before she moves onto Lucent, squeezing the larger stallion in a tight hug. Despite being younger than her, the unicorn stood a good inch or two taller than her, likely due to his earth pony ancestry. "See? Nothing to worry about," she says to him as she notices his frown turn into a little smile. The bat pony lets go and spins in places, tilting her head at Ruzeth. "Partially fixed? Oh, yeah, you mentioned the magical storage... thingy... Ah well! I feel fantastic right now, better than I have in ages!" She hops back to her seat, climbing back on and taking a big bite of pancake. "I bet Dusk will know what went wrong with the storage. If you couldn't figure it out, it's probably something her device messed around with. Are you free in the next couple of days to come visit her with me? We might need your abilities again!"

21:29 Ruzeth continues to stare at the ground as Inky apologises, her words not doing anything to comfort the zebra in his disapointment. "And you'll let me brew potions in the library?" He asks, unenthusiastically, as if he figured he already knew the answer to that question. His disapointment turns nervousness as Inky presses him for more information, backing up a litte bit from the leg. "I...yes, I conviced him to come around and be nicer to you, or at least just to trust me. He umm...didn't want 'Some Dumb bat demon' to prevent him from ususing his bed. He tends to be a little cuddly in his sleep," Ruzeth answers, dancing around the unspoken question.

21:40 Lucent takes a bit to dry himself, as usual not using any magic to towel himself off.

21:40 Inky wilts slightly as he asks about brewing potions. "Well... no," she admits, her ears drooping. She leans forward to hug the zebra, feeling bad that she couldn't help him. "I'll do my best to let you get them, okay?" The mare perks up as the conversation shifts, letting Ruzeth pull away from her, and she bursts into giggles when he quotes what Lucent called her back to her. "He said that, huh?" She scuffs the floor with a hoof before looking back up and smiling. "I didn't mean to end up staying the night here, and I feel bad for imposing, but you gotta admit it's pretty funny how he woke up!"

21:47 Ruzeth giggles as well as when the mare starts laughing, shaking his head at her. "Ya, I know, its pretty funny isnt it? Hes a bit of a strange pony, but I hope I can help him work through his issues. And it was hilarious how he woke up isnt it? I cant beleive he was humping you in his sleep liek that. Good thing I woke him up before you woke up huh?" The zebra breaks into an even harder laughter as the situation, loud enought hat Lucent can probably here them through the door.

22:01 Lucent blinks as he hears laughter and steps out of the bathroom, freshly cleaned. He starts when he sees that the bat pony is still there, having hoped that she would be gone by now.

22:01 Inky giggles along with Ruzeth, but her ears fold down a little bit as she remembers what Lucent said about Ruzeth almost causing a mess. "I think whatever you did probably made it worse for him, though," she says. "If you really wanna help, maybe you should tone that down... oh hi Lucent!" The mare perks up when she notices the unicorn standing at the bathroom door, and she hops and trots over to him to give him a friendly nuzzle. "I wanted to say thanks for letting me use your bed, and your house!"

22:07 Ruzeth scrunches his face and playes innocent, "What? I dont know what you mean. I think he was just being confused in his morning slumber." He rolls his eyes when he hears inky talking down to him, Opening his mouth to protest when she points out Lucent was there. "Oh, Hey there Lucent, we were just discussing this mornings events," he says, cheerily

22:17 Lucent squeaks and stumbles backwards when Inky nuzzles his damp fur, looking down at the bat pony with surprise. "Uh... um, you're welcome?" he says, sounding unsure. His face reddens at Ruzeth's comment, and he looks away with his ears flattened. "Sorry," he mumbles, shooting Ruzeth a nasty glare.

22:20 Inky steps forward as Lucent steps back, finishing her nuzzle before pulling away. "Thanks! Thank you both for your hospitality, really!" She trots over to her saddlebags and slips them on, then trots over to the Zebrican books and carefully puts them back in. "It's okay if I visit again, right? Until I get these books sorted out I have to stay with them while they're outside the library."

22:26 Ruzeth snickers when he sees the dirty glare, rolling his eyes at Lucent, and snickering to himself. "No, its fine. Its perfectly natural for a stallion to feel like that next to a cute mare," he comments. Ruzeth flattens back down when Inky puts away the books, shaking his head disapointedly. "I'd rather you not have to take them...but if you must..." He resonds with an air of sadness, "Still I'd behappy to have you back over, if Lucent doesnt object," He turns towards his frieind with a hopeful grin.

22:27 Lucent looks back up at Ruzeth and glares at him again, starting to walk over towards the Zebra. "She can come back, as long as she doesn't spend the night again," he says, his eyes never leaving Ruzeth. "And as long as you tell me beforehoof."

22:29 Inky rolls her eyes at Ruzeth and shakes her head. When the unicorn says she can come back, she clops her hooves together and beams. "Great!" The bat pony spins around and trots to the door. "Thanks for breakfast, Ruzeth! And for everything else, too!" She looks over at Lucent, having noticed him glowering at the younger zebra. "And Lucent, don't be too hard on him -- he's a good kid! And I think you two are a great fit! Seeya!" She grins and waves before turning and trotting out the door and down the hall, humming happily to herself.

22:35 Ruzeth looks pretty happy when Lucent agrees to let her come back, having a bright grin on his face. "Oh! Great! Thank you so much Lucent. The zebra walks over to the unicorn and hugs him tightly, before waving bye at Inky. "Well, I hope we meet next time under more normal circumstances."

22:37 Ruzeth looks pretty happy when Lucent agrees to let her come back, having a bright grin on his face. "Oh! Great! Thank you so much Lucent. The zebra walks over to the unicorn and hugs him tightly, before waving bye at Inky. "Well, I hope we meet next time under more normal circumstances." He smiles when Inky mentions them being a good fit, and hugs his friend even tighter, giving the stallion a quick nuzzle, before gently brushing his horn with a stray hoof.

22:39 Inky grumbles and grudgingly leans into the hug, enjoying it despite being angry at the zebra. He hmphs at Inky's advice, but her parting words make him squeak and go rigid. He turns to protest at the bat pony, but she's already gone, the door clicking shut behind her. Slapping Ruzeth's hoof away from his horn with a hoof, he hmphs and turns away, his mouth twisted. "Finally, that's over," he grumbles.

22:40 Lucent grumbles and grudgingly leans into the hug, enjoying it despite being angry at the zebra. He hmphs at Inky's advice, but her parting words make him squeak and go rigid. He turns to protest at the bat pony, but she's already gone, the door clicking shut behind her. Slapping Ruzeth's hoof away from his horn with a hoof, he hmphs and turns away, his mouth twisted. "Finally, that's over," he grumbles.

22:45 Ruzeth shakes his head and pulls away, smilling at his frined despite being knocked away. "Oh, dont be liek that, you know you liked her after a bit. She is pretty sweet after all, though definatly a bit old..." The zebra turns towards the window and notices the position of the sun in the sky and frowns. "Hey Lucent...Arn't you supped to be at work already?"

22:48 Lucent sighs and scowls, looking back at the zebra. "Yeah, but not like /that/," he says. "And you weren't helping at all!" He looks out the window and yelps. "Yes! Yes I should!" The stallion scampers around the room, rushing to pack his saddlebags and get them on. "Okay see you later bye" he calls back as he canters for the door.

23:12 Ruzeth shakes his head with a grin as Lucent ran around the room frantically. "Oh you ate just way to easy to me blush Lucent. It's all in good fun. Anyways, she knows we're together." Ruzeth steps infront of Lucent, giving him a quick peck before unblocking the door. "Have a good day."

23:16 Lucent blushes again as Ruzeth pecks him, and stops to give the zebra a little neck hug. "Still, other ponies might not be as nice as," he says, "as her." The stallion stands up straight again as he remembers that he's late, and rushes out the door. "I'll see you tonight, bye!"

23:20 Ruzeth grins as Lucent hugs and sighs at his shame, shaking his head, but not commenting. "Ya, ya, I know..." He waves at Lucent as he runs out the door. Cheers to tonight "

23:20 < Ruzeth> S/cheers to/see you