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Found a place to stay! Its big enough for a couple people to crash, if anyone's interested. I should have it ready for living in a week, if anyone's interested.

[Three guesses as to where he lives, buuuuut people who know him probably only need one guess. ~~Or not, you may be surprised!~~]

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[Man. He is really into this and Surprise doesn't really know how to respond. She takes a small moment to think before speaking again.]

Man how're you going to pay for all of it? I mean you won't be paying for labor, but you still gotta pay for all the materials right?

You'd be surprised how you can find this stuff. Dumpster diving can be pretty rewarding like that.

[...He's totally serious.]

Man you're going to find that much electrical wiring just by dumpster diving?

[Shes a bit hesitant to accept that.

But at the same time...]

...Think you could show me which ones later?

How big are you going to make this place anyway?

Like I said, you'd be surprised by what people throw away. And yeah, I can definitely show you.

[Hey, nothing wrong with recycling!]

I'm going to knock out the wall over there, since I think that's a false wall which was meant for cosmetic buttressing when they changed the sewer system around-

[Yeah he's babbling on again.]

I guess so! All I've found are clocks and those stupid drinking birds man. I might as well open a hotel with how many of the little suckers I found.

[Man, she is a little intimidated to hear Don keep talking about renovating the place. It isn't because she can't follow but rather by the fact that she herself has just never had that kind of gumption.]

Man anyone ever told you you got a lot of energy?

Things like clocks and drinking birds are perfect items to start with, though! Think about it - they are machines. All mechanisms work because of the little things inside of them. Together they work a little like a recipe but...sciencier. You take one item apart and you get the individual parts and pieces. And those parts and pieces are just what you need to build other machines!

[Nodnodnod!]

Well, I do drink a lot of coffee, I'll grant that. Though making and tinkering with things and learning new stuff always makes me excited!

...It's kind of funny, you know? How there seems to be parts of everything in everything else sometimes. It's like the world is this big machine just kinda grinding on.

Man, I-I dunno.

[Surprise shakes her head a little. It isn't a sad gesture, more an uncertain one.]

Like, I'm just a pony with a wrench, you know? I do what I'm told. I haven't really gone outside the lines of thinking on how to build or work things for so long sometimes I dunno if I really can anymore.

Heh. You wouldn't have any coffee now, would you?

[He...can sort of relate to that. Being told what to think. What to say. How to look. What to do.]

...Yeah! I've got some coffee. Right over here.

[And behold! There is a pot of coffee on top of a refurbished hot plate.]

[It's odd. Surprise would never expect that Don would understand. Not that she thinks Don is selfish or unemphatic, but that he just seems so chirpy she hopes he doesn't understand. She feels selfish, really, even talking about it at the moment.

Still, she laughs a bit as she goes to get some of the coffee.]

Thanks man. I didn't get any sleep at all last night. Whoever said counting stars gets you to sleep is a liar.

[It was better that way. Don wouldn't - couldn't - subject the people of Equestria to his experiences. It was better to pretend, just like in Panem, and Kon Ran, and home. Pretend that he was totally fine and little-to-nothing was bothering him.

~~Right?~~]

Same with counting sheep, too. Though I didn't get any sleep myself. I just drank coffee.

[Oh Donny. Pretending is always the solution.]

Tell me about it. I don't sleep when I can help it you know? It's...

[It's terrible. A lot of the time she can get away without dreaming, or having nonsense dreams, but when she doesn't it is terrible. And she just hates it. Hates having a reprieve and then going back to what's a living hell.

Better to avoid it if possible.]

It's unproductive, you know? I'd rather be at the Factory.

Yeah. Especially when there's so much do to, and a ton of ideas to try out!

[You should see his dreams sometimes, Surprise. At least you're not eating people's heads from right off the spine.]

I don't like leaving a job undone.

Yeah.

[She nudges her coffee cup with a hoof a little, watching the dark liquid slosh around and around.]

You know. When I was little?

I had these little tinker toys man. Like they weren't those little plastic bricks or nothing, they were more like little actual machine parts, like little sticks and levers and screws and all that.

So anyway I remember this one time I was little and I got it in my head to build a train track, and the track would take this little train of toys I had all around the house. So I spend the whole night just building it man, and it just goes everywhere. Through the hallways, in the bathtub, over and under and through the couch. I mean everywhere.

So dawn arrives and all I can think about is how I'm going to show my parents all around the track and explain to them and bam. My dad comes out from the bedroom and just steps right on the track. I mean gone. The pass is destroyed just like that.

[She pauses for a moment. And then?

Just starts laughing. Not hysterically. Amused, and a little apologetic.]

Crap man. I'm sorry. I don't know what brought that on, I know you don't wanna hear about all that.

Oh hey, its fine. I mean, I've had those moments too. Like the time I...

[...pfff.]

Like this one time, I was rebuilding a toy truck...

Yeah?

[She tilts her head a little. Curious. She's genuinely interested in hearing the story.]

What happened?

...well, I fixed it, and I was showing my brother, and I ran after it and fell into a sewer river. The flow nearly took me to a 50 foot drop into the lower levels, but my brother managed to get me out of danger. But I lost the car.

My first question to him when I got my breath back, "What, you didn't get the car?" I'd worked on it and I was so mad at him, I...totally didn't even care about what had almost happened to me.

[She laughs a little. It's small, and short, but sincere.]

Man, my brothers just threw my trucks over the sides of the clouds when we were younger man.

So you got brothers at home? You the older or younger?

Second youngest. I have a younger brother and two older brothers.

And that's not very nice. If my brothers tried that they knew I could take them on, so they generally didn't, at least.

Well they were the younger siblings, you know? So I was always meant more to like take care of them and watch over them than anything. They were just dumb. And I couldn't stay mad at them for that long, because...I dunno.

[Trying to change anything is futile anyway. That's not how she would have looked at that when she was so much younger; really, from a foal's eyes, she was just annoyed and thought they were being stupid little brothers.

But it's hard to separate that from her conceptions of hopelessness and futility now.]

What would it accomplish, you know?

Not much, though Master Splinter would have disciplined my brothers and me if we got too out of line.

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