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His head turned when Claves approached him, eyes blinking at the question. Glancing at Timpani, a gentle roll his shoulders followed shortly after. He didn't mind not having those things, whatever they were. His father had them, but his mother didn't, and not having wings was a part of her. Nuzzling Claves gently, the male shook his head.

"Because mother doesn't have any, so we're like mom." His soft voice rumbled gently, now locking his eyes on his parents. His mane was green, like his fathers. He bore similar markings, and green legs. However, he had his mothers main body color and eye-marking. His sisters bore similar appearances, and it only reminded him that he was a combination of his parents. He was a part of them. A sense of pride rushed through his chest as he watched his parents before quietly resting his head on Claves.

Claves let out a long drawn out sigh, resting her head over her brother in return and staring wistfully at their sister and father. "When can we meet our other brothers...?" She asked after some time, raising her head again curiously. "I wanna meet them! I wanna see their wings too!" She beamed, completely ignoring the fact she was told only one had them. "Don't they live here too? They must! We do!"

Crescendo smiled and nuzzled Timpani happily, keeping her close to him. "Precious Tipi~" He said quietly, loving on her for a while. "Oh Claves...someday you'll get to meet Beat and Pach. Likely...Pach first, he's the closest that we know of. I'm not sure where Beat has wandered off to these days..." He frowned a bit, trying not to fear the worst for one of their older sons. He knew he would be fine and could handle himself, but there were days....

Del sighed, this was evidently going to become an issue with Claves. Maybe she would outgrow it? Even with being told that only one brother had wings, she just wouldn't listen. Had she ever been fixated on anything when she was younger? Dancing perhaps, and adventure, stars above knew that she'd wandered off enough times as a filly to make her mother go gray before her time. Good things had come of that though...it's how she'd met Cres after all, and she would never give up her mate for anything. He completed her.

But Claves? She worried that such an obsession would only end badly for her little girl. Flutters weren't the only ones with wings after all...and if it wasn't just the glossy wings like her siblings she pined for...What if she got tangled up with a kalona!?

Del shook her head. There was no sense in worrying about things that might or might not come to pass. Claves was just so unlike her laid back big brothers. This was truly an eye opening experience.

"Like your father said, hopefully Pachelbel will come visit soon...It's been some time since we saw him. I'm not sure he even knows you all exist. You'll be quite the surprise for him." she said with a mischievous smile. "A good surprise though."

Timpani fluttered her wings, causing them to buzz. All this talk of big brothers, and wings, and well everything, was so interesting, but it was becoming increasingly hard to concentrate as the earlier efforts of getting out of one's basket were starting to tell on the filly. She tired to restrain a yawn, but with no luck as it came out noisy and to some people attention grabbing. Although that hadn't been her intention at all.

"M'sorry..." she muttered looking sheepish. She didn't want anyone to think she was bored, it was just becoming very hard to focus on anything. She nuzzled more into Papa, but he was so warm and comfortable that her eyes began to droop. Her head dropped a bit, but she immediately snapped it back up trying to stay awake. "Not tired!" she protested, even though no one had asked, or possibly even noticed that she was starting to drift off.

Maybe if she got moving she'd perk back up? She slowly pushed away from Cres and stumbled over to her brother and leaned on his other side opposite Claves. While she was a little worried her sister might try to tug on her wings again, the need to cuddle outweighed her concern. Unfortunately it had the opposite effect and she felt even sleepier now nestled against her brother.

Del hid a smile and shook her head. "Get some rest, little ones, you've had a busy morning. We can talk more later." she said going over and nuzzling her three little foals.

Timpani squeaked and shied away a bit from Lyric's side. "Claves! Don't do that!" she said looking hurt. "That hurts, and I'll never learn how to do anything if you keep nibbling them down to nothing." she pouted and secretly wondered if Claves was trying to hurt her wings on purpose so they wouldn't be there anymore. If they fell off of her would that mean that Claves would get them? She didn't think that was possible but who knew.

"And I can't fly, Claves. They aren't that big." she said looking at her wings and buzzing them. "And I don't think that's how wings work." she said looking between the parents then back to her sister. "You aren't gonna get wings! You're like Lyric and one of our big brothers. You just didn't get them, Claves, but that doesn't mean you aren't pretty. I think you're a very nice color." she said coming back and settling next to Lyric again. At least he didn't try to eat her wings or ask her to teach him things she didn't even know how to do. She wished Claves would stop talking about wings...it was getting boring.

"But I'm not tired!" she said in protest to the parents wanting them to take a nap, which was followed by a yawn. "Maybe a little..." she said nuzzling Cres and giving her daddy a smile. "You'll be here when we wake up?" she asked eyes wide.

"Of course, Little One." Del said to her daughter. "One of us will always be nearby." she said with a smile. She nuzzled each of her new foals then moved just a bit away and waits for Cres to join her.

Once the little ones were settled she looked worriedly at her mate. "I don't know what we should do about Claves." she said. "Hopefully it is just a phase and she'll grow out of it, but hopefully not before ruining things between her and her sister, and probably Beat as well if he ever finds us." she frowned. She worried about her other son, a little too naive at times, a sweet boy, but she worried he wouldn't be able to find his way on a bright summer's day with apples on the path to show him the way.

"Do you think we should just ignore it and see what she does? Of course I don't like her nipping at Timpani's wings...she could damage them and I don't know any healers that would be able to fix them..." she looked up at Cres and hoped he had an idea or two. She was completely at a loss.

Lyric hummed deeply once Timpani moved closer, wiggling to close any gaps of space between him and his sisters. His head shook slightly to throw his mane to one side as Claves reached over to n** Timpani's ears and wings. Bright eyes closed and a muzzle nuzzled into Cres when his father reached down to nuzzle each one of them.

Lyric shifted when Timpani moved away and spoke, sighing gently once Claves hid her face. Clearing his throat, the quiet brother glanced between his sisters, head shaking. "You two are both beautiful and unique. Wings are beautiful, but so are the lack of them. Isn't mama pretty? Look how happy she is without wings."

Tiredly nuzzling into his sisters, he had no idea if his words helped or not. Probably not, but it was an attempt. Right now, he wanted to sleep.

Claves laid her ears back, hiding her face again. She felt bad and it didn't sound like her sister was really forgiving her at all. It didn't take much longer before she was yawning and then out light a light with her siblings.

Crescendo smiled and moved as close to his mate's side as he physically could, smiling at their foals once more. Even with the problems they were sure to experience with Claves, he was glad to have little ones running around the grove again. It brought back memories of their eldest two getting into all sorts of trouble.

"Now to get some time together before they wake up again." He murmured, nuzzling Rondel affectionately.