mylittlejamjar | 2nd Claw Visual/Action

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[The feed cuts in and he's moving through the Everfree, breaking past some ferns onto an overlook to the river where the sun is setting. It's bright, just on the edge of the ever free a little ways from Flutter's cottage.

In the feed there is a tree. A large tree. One that has thick branches that hang over the side of the hill over the water. It's root system seemed to go deep, and even if it leaned a little bit out towards the sun, it still seemed stable. He tosses the scroll onto the ground and looks into it.]

I think I want that tree to be my home, ponies. But I don't really know where to start. It'd be nice to have stuff but I don't have any money yet. I didn't go to the bank yet, and I don't know how much it would cost to build something on that.

So I guess I'm just going to offer my services to pay off the work. Work for work. Is that okay?

Is there anyone who can actually help me with this or am I barking up the wrong tree all together?

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[He returns to ponyville as the sun sets, padding on around town coming from the ever free. Where's he heading? The infirmary. The problem? Seems he's got a bit of a louse problem from spending all his time outside. He had a few ticks on him, and the fleas were getting to him. He needed a little help now, and the only way he could think to do was to go the doctor.

But where was the doctor? After a while of walking, he realized that he didn't know where anything was. Help? Somepony?]

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[Skyfire nodded and soaped that area up too, and then went over Shadow once more to make sure that there were no other missed spots.]

There. That should be all of them... Lets get you rinsed off so that we can start getting you dried out.

[He pulls out the wooden plug in the base of the tub and starts to rinse Shadow off with water from the tub to clear off the worst of the suds, and then switches to warm water from a jug to wash away anything else left in his fur.]

[He shakes off the initial rinse, his whole body put off balance by the movement given he was a bit of a clumsy little cub. And then another dose of water, and what little mane he had was hanging over his ears and neck and eyes.

He gives another shake and climbs out of the tub.]

T-thanks. I don't really know what I was gonna do. You know? Those things all over me were driving my crazy.

So much better now.

Hey, it's no trouble. I can only imagine, but it must have been pretty bad.

[Skyfire grabs a towel off of a shelf and moves to help Shadow get as much water out of his coat as possible.]

Once we get most of this water out of your fur... It'll take some time for you to dry enough to apply the oils...

Would you like to come into the main cave for awhile and dry by the fireplace? It's a bit cool out today for you to be running around with wet fur...

[He nods to all of these, hard to disagree with good reasoning. If there was one thing Shadow wasn't, it was eager to run around in the cold with wet fur.

He shakes off again, his hair starting to get a little bit more volume rather than laying flat on his body, making him look a bit less like a giant weasel.]

I don't really know what I can do in return. But I think I should do something.

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[Skyfire just shakes his head as he gives Shadow one last rubdown before hanging the towels up. He'd clean up later.]

Don't worry about it... but if you really want to do something... Give someone else some help when you can.

[With Shadow as dry as he was going to get with towels, Skyfire would lead him around to the entrance to his 'home' cave and lead the way inside. It's well lit, and while most of the floor is still packed dirt, a good portion of it has been 'paved' with stones.

A good section near the fireplace also looks to be set up as a little girls room... complete with a bed and shelves.]

Let me get you something to lay on...

[Skyfire pulls down a couple of cushions and a blanket from high shelves that are quite hidden to anyone of pony size, from the sheer height and angle. He lays them out for Shadow in front of the massive stone fireplace, which is putting out just the right amount of heat to warm the cave without being too hot.]

Will that work? I can get another couple of cushions down if it's still too hard...

Bwaaaghh! [His voice was muffled in the towels, but that second time, he didn't see the dragon hands and towels coming! As Sky sets him down, he almost makes a dash to put distance between him, but relaxes as the towels are put away.

He follows Sky over, which is really just following his shift in weight since Sky is far bigger than he is, and in respect to the space he in habits, Sky really isn't moving as far as Shadow has to.

The small lion looks up, watching as a cushion was brought down to him. He almost feels bad taking advantage of all of this kindness, as it came to a surprise to him. Most of these ponies and animals were so damned kind, so unlike the people he knew growing up.

Still, paying it forward would be just as well.

He lays down on the cushion, then looks up at Skyfire.]

Were you always a dragon?

Edited 2014-05-26 02:28 (UTC)

[Skyfire shakes his head at Shadow's question as he settles down on the floor himself.]

I wasn't... but then again, I also had a dragon shape far before I arrived here.

[He gives Shadow a lopsided grin.]

It was quite a shock to go from looking like a dragon, to really being one.

Rr?

A dragon form? What were you then?

I'm not sure what your technology level was like where you're from...

If I say that I was a sentient, sapient, mechanical based life form... Does that make any sense to you?

[Skyfire could have gone for the really simple answer, but that can backfire... He'll be more than happy to give a simpler answer if asked.]

Ooooh.

So you're a robot android kinda guy? [You would be surprised what kind of things he accepts, Sky. This place is considerably more bizarre than his home.]

Alien and mechanical... but close enough. [Considering some wouldn't know what an android even is... since the humans on his Earth had just started sailing the planet's oceans...]

Also older than human life on the Earth I was on... [He shrugs] I've learned to assume others might not even have words for what I am...

Alien robot. [He says this with utter confidence. It was simple, and it summed up what skyfire described himself as.]

And that's cool.

Are you as big as you are now back home?

[Skyfire nods. Close enough for him and he wasn't going to quibble over semantics.]

Pretty much... Actually... I think perhaps I might be a little smaller here. Granted, I have nothing to really compare against... I do know that I am somewhat lighter.

A giant alien robot?

[He scrunches his nose to that. This dragon was already huge, but something even bigger would be like the giant monsters of Paragon, or the beast that slept beneath the sea.]

[Skyfire just shrugs a little]

Essentially... I was a scientist and an explorer. I was quite large even compared to my own people, though that worked to my advantage in my chosen profession. I was large enough to carry equipment and supplies for long journeys without putting a strain on myself.

[He pauses and considers something a moment.]

Actually, I was even larger before I took on my dragon shape... I did lose a lot of mass during the repairs and reconfiguration into that form.

Whooa. That's...

[He pauses, sort of trying to picture the size in his head.]

So way bigger than you are now even. And an explorer.

[You've just managed to draw his wonder back to that idea. He always wanted to go on grand adventures, what with watching reruns of 40 year old space adventure shows with his grandpa.]

What did you look like before you were a dragon?

Yes. It wasn't as much of a hassle when I was living on my own world, I was still large there, but on Earth and here...

[He sighs and looks both amused and a touch disgusted at the same time.] If there were a way to make me smaller at this point, I would welcome it. It's rather annoying being bigger than nearly everyone.

As for what I looked like...

[Skyfire used the tip of a claw to start and sketch a rough approximation of his bipedal mode's appearance in the dirt. It's nothing overly fancy, but it's a pretty good approximation all the same.]

Magic. [Because how else would you make something bigger or smaller? Those unicorns must have some kind of way to do it.

He looks down at his claw drawing. It looked to him sort of like the Nemesis robots, or the Clockwork ones.]

I'd buy the toy of that, if it existed.

[Skyfire nods and then sighs.]

Perhaps, but I don't know of any that would do such.

[He tilts his head as he looks at his sketch and then nods]

Huh. Never thought of it before, but you're right. My old form might make a decent toy, or at least a model. Maybe I should try and make one... It would be easier to show others what I looked like before.

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I hope this doesn't come off as too meta.

It's fine. It's actually given me an idea... XD