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Branching Out [Open]; Febuary 26 5151
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Flying Minx stepped into her new office, smiling as she brushed a boot-covered hoof over what could vaguely be described as a sofa. Canterlot still needed her, yes, but she'd gotten a number of tips suggesting that Ponyville was a festering boil of neuroses and self-deluding individuals. It made sense, seeing as the entire Elemental Harmony Squad had resided here once; obviously that left an impact on the community, and one thing would lead to another.... So she had decided to open another office here, in order to help the ponies that would otherwise stew in their own problems until they went mad.

Of course the commute was going to be a bit odd, but if she alternated weeks she could keep scheduled appointments in both cities.

The Zunicorn nodded to herself, turning on a few mood lamps. Then, with casual grace, she stepped outside her office and glanced around. Surely some ponies must have seen her flyers and realized they might need her services...
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Her counselor had gone out for the week and had sent her to Flying Minx for awhile. Just for the week. Because he considered her not stable enough to go without a counselor for a long time. Jewels felt fine… She guessed…. Maybe not. Whatever. But here she was, referred here by her counselor to this one. Flight Risk was off at school for now, and she walking towards the office. When she got there she looked at the slip of paper that told her the address, then the building, then at the zunicorn. She wasn't sure she was at the right place… This was probably some changeling on top of it all… Huh… "Ummm… You know who Flying Minx is?" She asked the zunicorn.
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"I am she, and she is me!" Flying Minx turned to the pegasus with a warm smile. "Ah, I believe I've heard of you. Miss Jewels, yes? Well I don't want to keep you waiting out here in the cold. Come in darling!"

Flying Minx lightheartedly pranced into the office, which was decorated in such a psychedelic and wild matter that it seemed at first to be confusing. But looking would reveal something of a pattern, with warm reds and purples serving as the base where deep blues and electric yellows highlighted various parts of the room. Along one wall were the faces of various smiling colts and fillies; in some of them Minx was standing beside them, her outfit much more restrained then what she currently wore. On the rounded desk sat a picture of her and another unicorn, her in a dress and him in a tuxedo.

Dhe gestured toward the fainting couch. "Now then darling, what do you think you need? Don't try to answer me in the right, there are no wrong answers!" She smiled and tapped her forehead. "After all I need to understand you if I am to help you understand yourself."
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"Yah, Jewels is me. Just don't feed off me please." Jewels said as she followed the zunicorn, all along assuming she was a changeling. A unicorn with zebra stripes. It was so implausible and rare that it had to be a changeling.

Wow. They were really really bright. Everything was bright. "My Counselor was supposed to send ahead my file explaining my situation… you got it right?" She really hoped that she wasn't going to have to tell the whole story again. Jewels was deeply ashamed of it and would rather not have to retell it all again. She'd rather not be talking about it at all.
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"Feed on...?"

Flying Minx shook her head and laughed. "No no no, darling, I am no Changeling. These stripes are all me and all natural." She telekineticly pulled open a drawer, pulling out a picture of herself as a newborn. "There, you see? My mother was a unicorn and my father came from the Mchezaji tripe in Pundani. And yes, I did receive the files, darling, but that is just paperwork! Words! If I am to help you I must know you, understand?" The zunicorn gave the pegasus a sympathetic smile. "Come now, dear, tell miss Minx why you think you're here. I promise I will not judge."
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Jewels positively didn't believe her at all when it came to the changeling thing. "Just read the papers. It has the story of why I'm in counseling too." Jewels didn't very well appreciate those papers being called just paperwork. They had that… Thing in there. That moment in her life that she very much wished would be gone forever. At the very least she wished all written record of it was all gone. Unlikely really… Meh. She didn't want to talk about it. She'd already had to choke it out to her original counselor, and she'd very much rather not to have to do more of that.
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"I don't think you understand what I am asking. I am not asking about the events that made you seek out therapy; I've read the papers, I know about that already. I am asking why you are here, not what caused you to be here, but why you are here." She gently pushed Jewels onto the couch. "It doesn't even matter if you think it's not a good reason. A reason is still a reason, darling, and it is with reasoning that I must deal with. If my question makes you feel uncomfortable, just say so and we can move on to other things, alright?"
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"Move on."Jewels had a hard enough time with her own counselor. She had no idea why he was insistent on substituting anyone at all for the days in which he was out of town. She could say it was because her son had pushed her into it, that she didn't want to slip into what she had last time… She couldn't end up there again. She couldn't. But that second one would be a lie. Jewels would never end up there again. She would never do that to Flight Risk and Johnagold. And as for the other one… It just sounded pathetic. That her loved ones were making her do this. She knew they were right, which was why she was going. But still.
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"...All right."

Flying Minx made a mental note: Jewels did not want to confront her problem directly. Ashamed, perhaps? Well, then it would make sense to walk her through things she enjoyed, things she was proud of. As a mother, no doubt she would enjoy talking about her son's accomplishments....

"I hear you have a wonderful young colt. Flight Risk, yes? I used to work at an orphanage, so I find the affairs of the young quite enjoyable." Flying Minx leaned smiled, glancing at the photos on the wall. "So how is your little pony, hmmm?"
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Jewels' mane bristled a little at the mention of an orphanage. More than ever shed dint' want to let her son go. and the encounter with Heinrich had made even implying taking her son away from her hateful. Not that it would have been hateful before. But even the implication it was now. A little part of her was telling her that the changeling wasn't meaning that, which was why she didn't storm out of the room right now. There was only one Heinrich after all. "He's alright." Jewels muttered through clenched teeth, unable to keep the hostility out of her voice.
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Protective of her child... to a paranoid degree. Perhaps scheduling an appointment with Flight Risk at a later date would be advisable, but it would not do to make such a suggestion when Jewels was so defensive. "Darling I do not mean to imply anything. I was only curious. Perhaps I should stop asking questions. Is there anything you want to talk about?" A patient could sometimes lead herself down the path of recovery better then a doctor could, and even if they didn't the path they walked would often provide some sort of clue to the correct action to take.
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"Not really." Said Jewels bluntly. She didn't like the concept of substitutes at all. It was weird enough with her regular psychologist, but a complete stranger? No. She didn't like the idea at all. Jewels was aware she was begin difficult, but wasn't really in the mood to change said thing. She never really liked the idea of these appointments. They just felt like a pity party, poor me deal. Pathetic. Yes, she did have issues but… Still. It just felt pathetic to even be here.

But she needed her son to think she was strong. To think that every pony had the strength to live out their day to day lives without going off the deep end in suicide. And going to these sessions was the only way she could think of so far.
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Non responsive, deliberately being vague, and hostile to a mention of her personal life.

Flying Minx gazed sympathetically at Jewels. There had been a number of ponies that walked through her door, ponies that did not need to be merely fixed but actually cared for. And the most difficult ponies were the ones that could not, would not let her comfort them. Most often, it was because of something in the past, where they had sought out help and been rejected in a time of great need. Only after they opened up could any progress be made, and Minx had discovered long ago that it was rather easy to get them to do so... if one spoke a question that would pain both the therapist and the patient.

The zunicorn steeled herself.

"Jewels.... why do you not trust me?"
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"Well there's no way you cannot be a changeling. And while Canterlot seems to be pretty helpful to you guys, I saw the newspapers. And it reeks of mink buck to me." Sure, the mare could say that she wasn't a changeling. But Jewels honestly wasn't convinced. It was a poor disguise, but still a disguise. And then there was the fact of even talking about the stuff at all. Even normal substitutes were a troublesome point for her.

But she'd start with the fact that the zunicorn was obviously a changeling. And she wasn't really inclined to trust them. Perhaps Flight Risk could forgive them, he having been personally mind bucked by their leader, but Jewels was less than willing to let that pass.
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"Even if I am, I have to be a decent therapist. Otherwise I would never be able to infiltrate this position. But setting aside the changeling argument for the moment..." Honestly, she had never gotten this sort of thing until twenty years ago. "If I was, theoretically, a normal pony, would there be any reason that you don't trust me?"
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