mylittlejamjar | 26th Lance ↟ | Morale Fades [Visual]

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26th Lance ↟ | Morale Fades [Visual]

[Shortly after Rise comes to her and they discover Cirno's disappearance, with a pained spirit, Nephenee picks up her scroll, thinking of how to best to announce it. Ultimately, given her own struggling to stay calm visually, she opts for voice. There's a bit of silence before she speaks, but her voice is quiet when it begins, full of hesitation.]

Um...everypony? Ah...

[A sigh.]

Ah jus' wanted to let folks know that Cirno's gone. She..vanished sometime this mornin'. Ah jus'...hope she's back in her world or...that she comes back soon.

So...please forgive me if Ah ain't myself for a bit....

...Does...anypony mind if Ah an' Daisy, Amara, an' Astra stay with 'em...? J-jus' for a bit..? It...feels real empty here without my sisters...

[That's all she's willing to say for the moment. She's going to hide in her secret tree in the woods for a bit.]

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[Morgan doesn't have an immediate response to this! In large part because he's shoving down a furious swell of attraction and arousal, because damn does this girl turn him on. Especially when she's assertive like that.]

[But, with a fairly obvious shudder, he does indeed reach out to snatch the tray of cookies up.]

[She notices the shudder, but it's Nephenee; the meaning behind it goes flying over her head, so she internally shrugs. Seeing he's got the tray firm in maw, she trots over to the futon, and stopping beside it, lowers herself so he can get off without spilling things. Though on that note...]

Here, Ah'll take the tray now, jus' stick the other mug on, that way you can get off easier. Thanks for gettin' it.

[Before she takes it though, she kisses him on the cheek in thanks. Chu~]

Aww, I have to get off?

[Morgan passes her the tray, not that he has much worry of spilling it as he eases himself off her with a slow motion that may just happen to run his hooves over her shoulders and back.]

[Judging by the light squeak and shiver, she noticed that!]

W-well, if we want more h-hot chocolate an' cookies, might be a good idea...

See, now I'm the one with the terrible choice.

[As tempting as it is to just feel up his girl some more, Morgan slowly slides off her to drop back down to his own hooves.]

[If she didn't have a tray in her teeth, Nephenee might have shaken herself out a bit at that, but she chuckles, despite the tray in her mouth. Setting it down beside their spot, she hands Morgan his mug after he sits, then hops back onto the futon with him and grabs her own. It takes her all of a few seconds to get back into snuggling up against him, and she hands him a cookie.]

S-see? Ya get both.

This isn't quite riding your back, you know. [Few things could compare to that, for all the unique sensation it offered.] But it will do.

[Nephenee can only offer him a confused look at that, before deciding it's probably just because they both enjoy doing goofy things, including riding on each other's backs as ponies. It's not the right answer, but it makes sense in her naively innocent brain.]

But it's my cookies an' your hot chocolate an' us snuggled. Sounds pretty good to me.

[Sweet, naive Nephenee.]

[Oh Neph.]

It is pretty darn good, don't get me wrong. But you know, I have told you a thousand thousand times by now, that I really like how strong you are. And snuggling you isn't always the best demonstration of that quality of yours.

[She gives him an innocent smile at that.]

Well, clearly Ah jus' need to snuggle ya really hard. Like this.

[Setting down her mug, Nephenee wraps her forelimbs around his torso and, sticking her head on his shoulder, proceeds to snuggle Morgan really hard. Like, if a bear hug was done as a snuggle, and by a pony that benchpressed a dragon. It is a very strong snuggle.]

Strong 'nuff?

[Morgan's only human -- err, equine -- and tough as he is, he can't help but let out of a grunt as the air promptly gets knocked out of his lungs.]

S'pretty nice!

[Only half the strain in his voice comes from the pressure she's applying.]

[Well, you do enjoy being squished up against her, Morgan...this is just a bit more literal in the squishing sense. Being Neph, though, she's oblivious to what the other half is.]

Ain't it, though?

[She gives him one more squeeze before letting go and snuggling against him normally with her drink.]

[Not. A. Clue.]

...Thank ya.

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For what? [Morgan doesn't see what he did to deserve thanks, at this point. Except possibly managing to not pounce the hell out of her.]

For helpin' me feel a bit better...reminds me that Ah still have folks here, too.

Ah...know she may come back, but if she don't...Ah got y'all to help me through it. Hopefully, she's back home safe, not in somewhere like Rakuen...

[Her friends help with the loneliness, too, which is good, because that house is too quiet right now.]

Yep. I'm sure not going anywhere.

[He can't promise that, but if Morgan has anything going for him, it's intuition. And this he has a pretty good feeling about.]

[He has a lot more going for him than just that, but he does have that too. It's helped a lot, and will continue to do so long into the future, if she has any say.]

Ya better not...Ah'd be real sad without my Knight again.

[That month (and the knowledge of time before Rakuen slamming into her as it had) had been painful enough...she'd like to not revisit that agony, kthanks.]

[With some nuzzling into him more to get more comfortable, she let out a sigh. Even if she didn't know her own heart right now, she was yelling it loud enough...though she did want to holler that she wanted to be by his side forever.]

Oh, well. Now it's an order, so I'm definitely going to not go anywhere. I wouldn't dream of disobeying my Sentinel.

[He tightens the foreleg around her, nestling up as close as he can get.]

Good. One missin' friend's bad 'nuff...

[Not that he's just a friend, obviously. But, even as she nuzzles more into that closeness, she's not sure what a better term that applies to the both of them is. Well, she can figure that out later...there's not much else to do but sip hot chocolate and nibble on cookies and cuddle, right now.]

Ah'll hold ya to that, my Knight.

[But she does yawn a little after a cookie bite. Alright, maybe slightly more to do than just that.]

You gonna crash here tonight?

[He's more than fine with her doing so, of course. Actually he worries about sending her home alone, so he really hopes he doesn't have to convince her...]

Why would Ah cr-[Wait a minute.] Oh, ya mean stay over!

[She's good at this. Insert sheepish rubbing back of neck here.]

Daddy's gonna let me stay at his place tonight, an' the Fluttershys said Ah could another night...how 'bout tomorrow? Ah already told Dad Ah'd take him up on it tonight...

[Otherwise, yeah, she'd be all for crashing on the futon after grabbing Astra.]

Well, if you intend to make good on that promise, you might need to move now before I have to carry you all the way over there. [He's disappointed, but certainly good at hiding it. The important thing is that Neph is all right, and if she's going to be all right somewhere else, he can't ask for more than that.]

Maybe, but...it ain't that late, is it?

[She looks up at the clock - nope, not late at all. Barely three...she thinks for a moment as she nibbles at her cookie.]

...Maybe a nap'd be a good idea? Reset my energy an' noggin...

[And a handy excuse to snuggle and feel a less lonely even in her dreams.]

If you go to sleep here, I can't promise I'll wake you up. I'm not THAT virtuous. [Sad reality -- Morgan simply isn't above keeping her here all night if he gets the choice.]

You're gonna let poor Astra starve?

[Well, if he's gonna be a brat...]

Ah can't take responsibility if he pecks at ya, then.

[She and Astra are brats, too.]

It's out of my hands, Neph. [He lifts his hooves in a helpless shrug.] I'm a poor boy helpless to fight against your incredible appeal.

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