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 Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 10:49 am
Umbra sighed, hoof lifting to scrub at his forelock as he tried to think up how to explain this, what he assumed to be, rather basic concept without sounding like a jerk.
"Because getting home should be a priority over socializing. Because, as you say, your parents are doubtlessly 'flipping out' right now. It's not good to not let them know where you are. Yeah okay I go out a lot myself, but I check in at least every day so my mom doesn't worry herself sick." Umbra took a breath, stepping forward out towards the street itself.
"So c'mon, we're going to get you home."
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 1:34 pm
"Huh, you think so? Dad is the only one aware enough to check up on most nights," Nightvine shrugged. "He knows I go out digging for worms and things. I don't get much socializing, there's hardly anyone awake to talk to. I don't even see a lot of people doing night shifts around where I live." Nightvine sidled up beside Umbra, ready for adventure.
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 3:44 pm
Well, someone had to lead this trainwreck of an adventure, and even though Umbra didn't think himself exactly qualified, he had to at least be better than the napping wonder beside him.
"Well, yeah. S'not nice, yanno. To make someone worry. 'Sides, I can't imagine it's safe, sleeping anywhere and everywhere. What if you came across a weirdo? Or the chick that drowns foals? At least find a friend's house to nap in or something. You have to have some friends. Don't you?" Umbra gave the other colt a very skeptical look. Umbra could understand himself not having friends, he wasn't that easy to get along with, but Nightvine seemed pretty normal aside from the sleeping thing, and therefore had no excuses.
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 8:45 pm
"I don't have any friends," Nightvine shook his head. "Everyone I've known of so far sleeps at night. I gotta go to night school sometimes, which is weird. 'Cause like my school mates are adults and my teacher looks kinda like a hippy. Well, what Dad calls a 'hippy', I don't know what hippies are." Nightvine was content to follow Umbra, who seemed to at least look like he knew where he was going. "I've never seen anyone drown anyone," Nightvine went on. "Have you?"
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 8:52 pm
"Nope," Umbra replied honestly, trotting down the sidewalk at a good clip. They probably had a lot of ground they needed to cover.
"You don't have friends? You seem the kind to have friends. Even if you made them in your sleep." Umbra didn't bother to stop at crosswalks- there was absolutely no carriages or cars or anything else on the streets at this time of night, stopping would be silly.
"So maybe you just don't know that you have friends." Seemed perfectly logical to Umbra. What were friends but people you hung out with?
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 4:05 pm
"That's nice of you to say, but I think you're the first person who's been willing to even give me the time of night," Nightvine admitted. "I didn't think that being out all over town would be so troublesome. I don't recognize any of these streets, I really had no idea how big Phonyland really was."
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 4:54 pm
"Well, I'm sometimes up at nights, but someone in my house always is awake to see the stars. So you can pop by if you want." He said, though a touch uneasily. Nightvine was an odd, but nice colt, and some of Umbra's sisters were sensitive, and he wasn't sure he was entirely okay with them dating. Not a problem to worry about now, though.
"You should invest in a map." Umbra replied smartly, leading them through the housing area and towards a main street where, hopefully, Nightvine would recognize a way home. "Because if you're going to get lost this often, at least you'll be able to find your way home."
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 5:12 pm
"Oh, that'd be nice," Nightvine nodded. "I mean, now that I know where your house is," he added with a laugh. "Gee, I've never thought to even consider a paper map." Nightvine stopped to look upon a tall free standing clock near a park, it was lit up and its hands were marking entirely the wrong time. The second hand looked to have been stuck or broken. "Drat, this clock is on but broken," Nightvine sighed. "A lot of Phonyland's clocks seem to be broken in one way or another. The one near my house has the right time, but the water got into the glass and it broke. Now birds have nested in half of it on the inside!"
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 5:32 pm
"Too bad there aren't more maps signposts about. Though I don't imagine it would do us much good if that was broken too." Umbra sighed, head craning as if he could be lucky and spot the bird-infested clock Nightvine spoke of somewhere between the houses and trees. There wasn't any such clock, of course, and Umbra began to wonder how far off Nightvine had wandered.
"Anything look familiar?"
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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 11:07 am
"It's nice of you to tell me all this, by the way," Nightvine shook his head upon not recognizing anything. "If you can leave me near a store that sells paper maps, I'm sure I can find the rest of the way tomorrow night. It's okay, once I'm asleep, no one even sees that I'm there. I've had people build things around me before." It had never occurred to Nightvine before that anyone else would really be all that concerned with his dropping dead asleep the moment any thread of sunlight showed through the sky. But they may be a long ways off and he didn't want to have his new friend go so far from his own home. "It was good of you to be so honest," he added. "I never considered that my dad would really be that upset. I imagine he's probably got flyers up by now," he laughed. "But Mom is asleep all the time, so he's always really busy. I was just trying to do for myself that I didn't realize how it'd affect other people."
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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 11:24 am
Umbra just rolled his eyes at Nightvine's laughter, though his mouth was quirked up at the sides. Well, Nightvine was learning, that's all that mattered. The colt had a good heart in him, he knew he wasn't trying to scare his parents on purpose.
"A little thoughtfulness goes a long way." The colt chimed, the words feeling thick on his tongue as he quoted his mother. (She often said as much to him when he was a little younger and had a bad habit of knocking down his sibling's toys while he was wildly playing about the room.) Umbra nodded towards one of the park souvenir shops disguised as a quaint little store- they would be open and have good maps of all of phonyland.
"Good thing maps are free here." Umbra wasn't letting Nightvine out of his sight just yet- one paper map would be in the colt's side-bag before he saw fit to part with Nightvine. "Take care of yourself, okay?"
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Posted: Wed May 18, 2016 11:45 am
(( Wrapping this one up! Thank you so much! *o* )) "Thank you kindly, Umbra," Nightvine beamed at him. Nightvine would later suggest that his dad buy him a prepaid Phonyphone for emergencies and invested a little of his allowance money on maps, a compass, and even a small telescope. He treated it basically as though he was permanently hiking or camping and seemed much better off for Umbra's honest assessment of his way of life.
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