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| Secrets Need Be Kept[7January5151]; Rough Cut, open | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 23 2012, 03:16 AM (664 Views) | |
| SaintAbsol | Sep 23 2012, 03:16 AM Post #1 |
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Harmony shivered under the coat he'd been given to wear. It was extra thick, to handle the winter months, but even it was having a hard time keeping him warm in this cold. The night had lasted too long, it never warmed up anymore, it just got colder and colder and he was out of thicker coats. His father wasn't even bothering to try and grow something in a window bock or green house, his mother bundled up like she was an arctic explorer to make it to the classrooms and teach the few students that still came to classes, and he walked freezing roads since he just wanted to be out of aunt Carrot Top's way while his parents helped her around the house. He hated this night, hated the night in general now. He wanted the sun back, he needed the sun back. "Why can't we have the sun back!?" He screamed up at the moon, his overlarge stetson jostled by the violence of the motions. He had no delusions that Luna would hear him, he was just angry and screaming because there was nothing else he could do. |
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| Lorventus | Sep 23 2012, 10:23 PM Post #2 |
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"That isn't gonna happen until Celestia comes back from whatever break she's on." Rough Cut said to the colt as he happened to scream his rage at the sky. She was outside, not because she wanted to be, but because the management of her Inn had complained about her sharpening her weapon inside the building; apparently they were worried it would light a fire. To that end she drew a stone down the slightly curved blade of her sword. "What's a little guy like you doing out an an hour like this anyway?" She looked up, leaving her weapon held with one hoof, the tip stabbed into a chunk of wood to help keep the whole thing from flopping around when she drew the sharpening stone. |
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| SaintAbsol | Sep 25 2012, 01:56 AM Post #3 |
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Harmony jumped when someone spoke in response to his shout, only to come down hard on the frozen ground when his hooves shot up to hold his stetson in place and continue hiding his horn. When he finally managed too look toward where the voice had come form, his eyes turned into barely visible pinpricks. As could well be expected of a pony with his history, he was very fearful of anypony who carried a weapon around so visibly. He pulled his hat down farther and started to use his still developing wings and his back legs to push himself backward. "S-sorry for bothering you." He kept his voice as steady as he could, not wanting to set the pony with a sword off and have a very short life. "I- I- I'll be going now." |
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| Lorventus | Sep 25 2012, 02:49 AM Post #4 |
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Steel flashed then vanished, buried deep inside a leather sheath, its owner sighed, there were more steps to sharpening, but she couldn't go scaring colts and fillies while she was at it, what would her superiors say? She hooked the weapon onto its spot on her harness, cities were safe places generally and normally she'd never take off her armor, experience told her though that the smaller the city the more likely ponies would get skittish around armor and arms. So she wore now little more than some armor around her barrel and a harness for her city walking gear, "Hold up, you weren't bothering me at all. Look I'll walk you home, shouldn't be out walking alone in the dark, no matter if it's 'day' or 'night'." She sighed a bit as she stood and walked over to the colt, "Anyway, my name's Rough Cut!" She smiled warmly, she hoped this colt would not be trouble, so many children were it was almost enough to make her want to go off and get sterilized just to prevent the possibility. "You are?" |
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| SaintAbsol | Sep 25 2012, 06:57 PM Post #5 |
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Contrary to what Rough Cut was hoping for, the fact that she put away her sword was not gaining her the pretend pegasus's trust. She had a sword, she clearly didn't carry it around for show, nopony that owned a sword for show just carried it around; and she was a stranger on top of that. He had had a lot of bad experiences with strangers back in Trottingham and that was before he had been outed as having a horn on as well as wings. He was in no mood to possibly get run thought by a sword or otherwise hurt by her. I- I- I'm H-harmony." He was having great difficulty keeping his voice steady now, this strange mare scaring him greatly since she was so desperate to accompany him. "I'm just going home, it's fine." He could tell all the dragging he doing was going to leave a stain on his white coat, but a wash should get it out. Besides, he was more worried about being the reason his parents had to leave again when they were just trying to live a normal life. |
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| Lorventus | Sep 26 2012, 12:32 PM Post #6 |
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As they got just a few steps further it occurred to Rough Cut, "Are you afraid of me?" It was rather infrequent that ponies showed such direct and open signs of fear toward her, usually it took a few minutes of related queries and active avoidance to get down to the nitty gritty that the pony in question was afraid. She put forward a sad frown, "Come on little guy, I'm harmless." Not entirely true if the pony or creature was hostile, but this colt was by all rights tiny and helpless, the very essence of what she vowed to protect. She tried to smile disarmingly, as she awaited a response. |
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| SaintAbsol | Sep 26 2012, 10:49 PM Post #7 |
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It was getting pretty obvious that he wasn't going to be getting away from this mare while scooting on his belly like this. However, he was loath to remove his hooves from his hat lest- for whatever reason- it get separated from his head and reveal his true nature. Also, he had no idea what to say now; since telling the truth would likely set this stranger off and end with that sword going through him. "I- I- I'm n-n-n-not af-f-fraid of you." He put on a very forced smile to answer Rough Cut's, hoping it would work. "I- I just n-need to get home." |
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| Lorventus | Sep 27 2012, 12:32 AM Post #8 |
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Rough Cut circled in front of him and shook her head, "That's fine, but you're ruining your coat with all that scooting about." She put on her most affable smile and continued, "You sound kinda really scared though. I promise I won't hurt you, I've never and will never hurt a foal, colt or filly! Once you're big enough to start trying to rob ponies, then we'd have problems, but you wouldn't do that would you?" She widened the smile a bit more, then realized she was going too far almost immediately, "Horseapples I'm sorry! Really I'm harmless, here, push me over and see!" She stood tall and offered a hoof for Harmony to push. |
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| SaintAbsol | Sep 27 2012, 02:26 AM Post #9 |
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"Th-that's okay." He managed to stutter out through another forced grin. "I needed a bath anyway." He was desperate to get away from this mare, and there was nothing she could do to change that. He also found himself wishing his wings worked so that he could just fly home while keeping a hold on his hat. Nervously, he did release his hold on it, but didn't try to push her over; for all he knew, that hoof was going to shoot out and pin him to the ground for whatever nasty things she wanted to do to him. Not to mention it would knock his hat off. Right now, he was just a young pegasus to her, something that was ordinary and mundane. He didn't want to see how badly she reacted to discovering that he was really a young alicorn. "I- I need to get home." He tried to walk around her and give her a wide enough berth that he would be able to react quickly to anything that she did. |
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| Lorventus | Sep 27 2012, 07:35 PM Post #10 |
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Rough Cut continued to watch the little colt, she'd never in her life so far met such a cagey colt. Most were in fact interested in her weapons and armor, they were after all the things of stories and even in dire times such as these they were rare. She gave the colt one last look, sighed and started walking back to the Inn, "Well alright little guy, if you insist, I'll leave you alone." She stopped and looked back a deep sad frown on her face, "Be careful." She turned away again and continued. She spent a moment weighing her options, her instinct and fervent desire was to see the colt get home safe, but he was making it impossible to escort him there without her looking like some sort of foalnapper or foal-fiddler. She sat back in the snow with an annoyed thump and returned to servicing her blade, sharpening was pretty much done, now she had to remove the burrs and apply some oil. She went through the motions while her brain couldn't let go of the Colt walking home alone. It was maddening. The worst possible outcomes kept coming to mind, events which could happen to a defenseless foal that could never happen to Rough Cut herself. Foalnapping, rape, murder! She squirmed anxiously trying to keep herself calm with her blade maintenance. |
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| SaintAbsol | Sep 28 2012, 11:40 PM Post #11 |
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Harmony was every bit as anxious as Rough Cut, just for the opposite reasons. He wasn't sure that she wouldn't follow him; particularly when she got her sword back out again. He found himself repeatedly glancing back to make sure that she was still there and not sneaking up on him to turn him into a pony-kabob. However, fate likes to mess around with the little ponies that were bound to it, and Harmony was no exception. On one such look back, the wind suddenly picked up significantly and his hat was blown off before he could reach up and hold it down. And, as was instinct at this point, he gave chase thanks to his magic being unskilled enough to grab it. Not noticing that he was rapidly closing the distance back to her. |
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| Lorventus | Sep 29 2012, 12:02 AM Post #12 |
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Rough Cut was rather despondent at this point, moving only a little as she used a leather strap to clean the burs off her sword's edge an act that would make its cuts go from ragged tears to clean slices. It is something of a mercy since it makes cleaning up after the weapon much easier; torn ragged flesh knits so much more poorly than a clean cut, harder to stop the bleeding too. She finished the last bit when she noticed a hat blowing down the street. She smiled to herself, freed her sword, sheathed it and with a quickness one normally did not see from somepony wearing forty pounds of gear, got up to the hat and put her hoof down on the rim. She leaned down grabbing it in her teeth, then turned to hoof it over to the pony who had lost it. As she turned to meet the pony who'd lost it, the hat blew up into her face and had to be pulled down into a hoof. She looked at it for a moment, "Oh hey, Harmony you lost your hat!" She smiled wide and offered it up, only now getting a good look at the rest of Harmony's head. Her eyes went wide and she let go of the hat, which she followed by scrambling to catch it again. She landed half on top of it and immediately made an effort to try and undo the damage, "Sorry! I can fix it!" |
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| SaintAbsol | Sep 29 2012, 12:16 AM Post #13 |
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Harmony was panting, running through snow wasn't easy on short, foal legs even for a pony that had the strength of an earth filly. More to the point, he was standing in front of a pony that now had a perfect view of his forehead and the protrusion coming from it. Time seemed to slow to a crawl for him, more than a trillion thoughts running through his mind as his pupils contracted to nearly non-existent pinpricks. He watched her fiddle around with his stetson for a bit, before his mind finally caught up to him and he finally reacted like he had always told himself to. He ran. |
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| Lorventus | Sep 29 2012, 12:27 AM Post #14 |
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Rough was left stunned when she turned around and the Royal was gone. She gulped hard, she'd been terrifying him earlier, unintentionally granted, but still! What if he went back to Luna and told her how shabbily a member of the Alicorns had been treated by her. She wasn't one prone to looseing bowle control and she didn't now, but she was close, one of those terrifying moments when you realized how absolutely bucked you were. She stared forward, she couldn't just run after him, no he'd been scared of her, he'd be more scared if she came trumpeting after him. "Oh horseapples I am screwed." Think! Think think think! What would Daring Do do. Hehe dodo. Ah! No time for that! She turned in place and trotted briskly into the inn. There she shucked her armor and weapons into her room and locked the door, She put on the hat, and her heavy coat and her face crushing, bucking boots before totting out the front door at the same brisk pace she'd entered at. Outside she took the hat off and stuck her nose into it, taking a deep breath to get the scent of the wayward prince, as that was all he could be. Scent in mind she started tracking him, following his scent at a much slower clip than he was making it. Eventually she'd catch up, but by the same token it'd be a while. |
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| SaintAbsol | Sep 29 2012, 12:55 AM Post #15 |
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Harmony continued to run along as fast as he could. The problem was that, with the snow not being able to the eternal night, it had gotten rather high by this time and he was having a difficult time in running through it even with his adrenaline. He stumbled, falling flat on his face in the icy cold, but got right back up and kept going. Another stumble came a few moments later, his breathing heavy as he pulled himself up in the snow; he had to make it to his aunt's house, had to make it home. Finally, the house was in sight and his pace was quickened once more. There was hope, there was always hope when he was around his Mommy and Daddy. He panted as he ran through the snow, the cold and the exertion taking their toll on his tiny body as he created a furrow through it. Part of him entertained the thought of trying to hide, but that was just a foal's dream; the path he'd cut through the snow would lead right to his house, since so few ponies willingly ventured outside anymore. The only reason he still did was because he wanted to be out of the way while his parents worked with his aunt to make the house livable for four ponies. He figured it was safe since he was usually alone, but now... now he wasn't sure. The alicorn colt stumbled again, tears in his eyes as he finally made it to the yard and ran up to the door. He didn't bother with pretending now, just used his highly limited magic to pull on the handle until it opened and he rushed inside. "Harmony?" It was his mother, drawn by the sound of the door slamming, who spoke. The black coated unicorn brushed her white mane out of her green eyes as she looked at her son. "Where's your hat?" He didn't answer, just galloped up to Square Root and hugged her forelegs. "I'm sorry! ImsorryImsorryImsorry!" He kept repeating 'I'm sorry' and various variations there of as he desperately clung to his mother. For her part, Square was just confused, until his next line made it clear. "I should have just run away from her, I'm sorry!" The unicorn mare's eyes widened, before she telekinetically picked up her son and called for her husband. "Bountiful! I think we have a problem!" Edited by SaintAbsol, Sep 30 2012, 04:21 AM.
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