It's your birthday, just us and your birthday! [Private action to Morgan]

[neighfeni]

It was a lovely Tuesday eve as the couple exited the building nuzzled up against each other, neither really caring what other ponies thought as they laughed in tandem at some joke shared. It felt nice to laugh like this, especially considering the day before...but it wouldn't do any good to stay in and worry herself to sickness again. She did wish it had come at another time, but...hopefully Mae would be back soon. Until she returned, all Nephenee could do was go forward, and that included going ahead with plans made more than a bit ago. Besides, her coltfriend had a birthday to celebrate, so she'd do her best to help him with that, even if this was the night before. The party would be tomorrow, but she'd stolen him away tonight for some time alone, away from prying eyes...

Well, maybe not that last one, since they got looked at anyway. Whispers about how cute it was or something floated about, but her mind was very much focused on her Knight. She'd surprised him with not only the fact that she'd pretty much tackled him to the ground in a hug when she'd met him outside the dojo, but the little black dress, tail wrap, and overall simple, but radiant look had gotten a great reaction too! Neph knew Morgan liked black and he liked leg and he liked how she wore her dresses, so she just combined them, then whisked him off for dinner and dancing and anything he really wanted to do -within reason.

Her heart still pounded from the physical exertion of the dancing, or perhaps just being this close to him kept it at such a rate, but she was rather happy right now, even if it was tinged with a little melancholy, and she couldn't help but be a little happier knowing he'd love his other gifts. Because apparently, a bag-of-holding and a custom lance weren't enough for her to give!

She liked spoiling friends, alright? Plus the main one was from the family, so.

Sneaking a kiss to his cheek, the Sentinel sighed happily. This night was quite wonderful.

"So, enjoyin' your birthday yet, my Knight?"

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[neighfeni]

"Oh nooo," she skittered back a few steps, "big bad spider's gonna get me, what'll Ah do~?"

At least he wasn't about to mess with his chi and gain a few limbs, since then, Neph'd actually be skittering away for real. For all the joking, past circumstances meant she rather didn't like spiders much...

[morganknight]

"Succumb, my dear," Morgan said, advancing another step like some B-movie vampire. "Succumb to the spider's kiss..."

[neighfeni]

"Nooo, Ah'll get gobbled up for sure!" More backwards stepping, and she might've been intentionally allowing him to maneuver her into a corner. "Ah took ya out to eat already!"

[morganknight]

"Dessert!" Say, Neph ended up being his metaphorical dessert a lot, didn't she? Maybe she shouldn't think about that too much... No, he was totally advancing on her, forelegs flailing every so often to 'menace' her. Let her get nice and trapped as he crept closer...

[neighfeni]

Not that she would remotely understand it, so it never occurred to the innocent mare that might mean more than what lay on the surface. "Ya had dessert!" Almost backed into a spot she couldn't escape from - easily, anyway...then her rump hit the wall. "Oh no! Ah'm doomed!"

[morganknight]

"Since when can a guy have too much dessert?" Morgan lunged forward to seize the mare, then began devouring her! ...by way of nibbling on her ear just a little bit. Surprise!

[neighfeni]

Surprise, indeed, and it got a small, shocked whinny from her.

"A-Ah...y-ya ain't..supposed to a-actually e-eat me..!" She didn't even realize why she was going so red, just that it felt nicer than she'd imagine that sort of thing might. "R-rascally!...brat!"

[morganknight]

"Hey, I warned you," Morgan said through teeth that were still lightly closed on her ear. "I totally did! What did you expect?"

[neighfeni]

"Not actually doin' it!"

Poor Nephenee, she was so very unsure of how to take this. On the one hoof, it felt nice! On the other hoof, it felt nice, and she could feel her body getting hotter for whatever reason, and this was foreign and the Sentinel had to concentrate to not get lost in a fog. Not the place!

[morganknight]

"Well I can't always do the nice neat little things you expect, Neph," Morgan said, apparently perfectly content to sit there with his teeth pressed gently into her ear. At least he wasn't explicitly nibbling any more?

[neighfeni]

At least there was that small mercy. "Y-ya do 'nuff o'em to reckon ya can do more..." Yes, her accent did just get thicker, her unconscious efforts to lighten it all gone as she tried desperately to not be overwhelmed. There was also a very conscious effort to remember to breathe going on in that noggin. Woo boy, this fellow was trouble!

[morganknight]

"If biting your ear makes your accent thicker, I may never let go, you know." He mentioned he liked her accent, right? She definitely didn't need to worry about him judging her for its depth in her unguarded moments.

[neighfeni]

She didn't worry about that anyway; it was old habit more than anything else, especially since she knew he liked that accent. Swallowing hard to steady herself, the farm girl replied with a shaky quality to her voice, "Guess Ah shouldn't...do that then..." Sorry Morg, back to normal it went.

But why did the room feel so warm... "It's...real hot in here...m-maybe we should turn the air down..."

[morganknight]

Morgan took pity on the poor girl and released her ear from his mouth. "See, you should never underestimate Spider Morgan," he said, bumping her cheek with his nose in a playful and not at all enticing gesture.

[neighfeni]

Too bad she didn't know about a certain movie, or he'd have gotten a rendition along the lines of 'Spider Morgan, Spider Morgan, does whatever a Spider Morgan does...' And even if she knew of Spider-Man, a few things were a bit too parallel in her mind to joke about that comfortably.

"Awful Spider Morgan, treacherous Spider Morgan." She giggled at the nudge, bonking her head against his, and dropping to all fours after. "Well, this fly still gotta give the spider his other presents. So he should probably close his eyes or somethin' so she can give 'em to him."

[morganknight]

"Oh right. I'm still being spoiled by an excess of presents." Morgan plopped down on the floor, then shut his eyes quite dramatically. "Okay. You want to forbid me from using magick, too? Because I could still see just fine if you didn't!"

[neighfeni]

"Oh. Yeah, no usin' that, neither." Sometimes Neph forgot he could do crazy things like that.

Once she was quite satisfied Morgan wasn't using it or peeking, she whisked a small globe of Earth out, and, sitting in front of him, activated it with a tap. It started to float over her hoof, and the mare smiled. "Alright, ya can open your eyes."

[morganknight]

The downside to being ponies, Morgan reflected as he opened his eyes, was that a surprise like this would never be a sexy naked girl no matter how advanced their relationship ever got, because, well, ponies. Still, little chance in hell of that anyway... but a weird earth globe, he hadn't expected. He quirked an eyebrow at Neph.

[neighfeni]

One day, he might get a sexy naked girl...just not here where they couldn't change forms as they pleased. More than likely, though, he'd have to unwrap her first...she was totally the sort that would gift wrap herself. And maybe sing something about mailing herself to him...

"It's Earth! Ah got it made for ya...Ah mean," She rubbed the back of her neck a bit sheepishly, "Ah don't gotta thing for your other home world, but still had an earth map on my PDA so...hopefully it's good, though?" Nephenee couldn't help feeling a little awkward at that look, but she was hopeful that Morgan liked it.

[morganknight]

"I had no idea you even had a map of it!" Morgan reached out to take the globe, now comprehending entirely. It... really WAS Earth, now that he looked at it -- he hadn't registered that on first glance, as she might have expected. He spun it to bring up the United States, then pointed a hoof at a spot a little distance back from the East Coast.

"Now I can show you where I'm originally from!"

[neighfeni]

"Yeah, on my PDA! Ah mean, so many o'my friends're from there...why not?" Which was totally true and in no way hinted at anything beyond what he said.

Neph craned her neck to see where Morgan gestured, squinting. Crud...which was that? She remembered Colorado was one place he'd mentioned, but so was...Pennsylvania? Right, that one, the one that reminded her of Dracula.

Running through pretty much everything she remembered of the map she'd seen, she looked half-hopefully, half-helplessly at him. Too many states! "Uh...Pennsylvania?" She had a 50/50 chance, she supposed.

[morganknight]

"Yup, that's the one. And then here's where I grew up in the temple," he said, shifting his hoof west on the globe. "Not much for the view, but it gives you the idea, right?"

[neighfeni]

Alright, phew. Got it right.

"Are Colorado an' Pennsylvania real different? Like, how it looks an' how the folks are?" They were so far apart, it seemed, so...maybe? Given that Nephenee'd never been to the States, she might have been thinking more on the lines of them being almost like different countries.

Or... "Or...is it more like duchies? Lots o'similarities, but it's got a lotta differences too?" That was the worst way to describe it, but she wasn't entirely sure how to phrase it; truth be told, she felt a little lost. Government was not a strong subject for her.

[morganknight]

Morgan nodded to her last statement. "Right. One central government, but the states are all different. Of course, living up in the mountains was pretty much like its own world itself."

[neighfeni]

"Mmm..."

She thought about that, thought about the view and beauty of the mountains they'd been up in not too long ago. "That sounds like it'd be wonderful...Before we went up a bit ago, Ah'd not been up in mountains much when it wasn't for fightin'. Didn't get to really appreciate the view then." Which was a pity; it was hard to take in the beauty of nature when people were rolling boulders down said mountain to try to kill you.