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She eyed him. "Did you want to go and see if we could find Yue?" she hid her grin in her mane. "I'm sure we could make that our first adventure of the day." She gave him an amused look. The stallion liked kids far too much, from what she'd seen of him thus far. Possibly because he was just a big kid himself. "She should be with Quisty today, but I think..." she broke off for a moment, trying to think. Was it Duo's day? He'd been teaching the filly to fly... or trying to.

She grinned, but didn't reply to his playful babysitter barb. "I know the general area." she said, and danced off, humming. It didn't take long, really... they both used the same clearing for Yue, due to the fact that she tripped so much. Her legs were so much bigger than the rest of her... even with her wings.

She heard it before she saw them. Duo's voice, that oddly stern tone he used when he was being anything but serious (while pretending he was serious), teasing Yue. "Come on, leggy! Flap! flap!"

And a pitiful whine. "I hate you."

Yue was bouncing around the clearing, doing straight-legged hops into the air, wings flapping wildly. She lifted herself into the air, 6 inches... stayed. A foot... stayed. Went to rise higher, and... "YUUUUUUUUEEEE!!!!"

Duo jumped.

Yue jumped.

Duo stayed.

Yue fell with the gracefulness of 100 pounds of rock in a paper bag. "AIEEEE!" she wailed. Duo gave a gleeful snort, and dropped down next to her, nosing at her.

The moon mare stepped into the clearing, giving both males an icy look. "Are you alright, Yue?"

"I'm fine, Selene." the filly grumbled. One eye glared at the wind stallions balefully.

One grinned unrepentantly and danced over to Selene and Safi. "Heya!"

The auburn-maned stallion gave a single-shouldered shrug. "No problem. She's..." he eyed the filly, and tilted his head towards her, speaking loudly. "She's utterly hopeless. No talent there, those wings are just decoration. But we keep putting ourselves out to help her-" he gave a squeak and ducked around to Safi's other side as two bristling females glared at him. "She keeps trying to beat up the teacher." he said, almost mournfully. "She seems to think I get my weightless grace through luck." He almost, almost looked offended at the thought. "You should see her hopping around." he confided, loudly. "All stiff-legged, and with spindly legs, like she's hopping on sticks."

Yue Shuangsnorted. "Duo Maxwell, do you ever be silent?" she grumbled, and moved away from her mother, eyeing Safi with the imperious eye she had posessed the last time they had met. "He's obnoxious." she informed Safi. "Ignore him if you get the chance. How have you been, stallion?" she sniffed, staring up her nose at him.

Haughty little bugger, Duo reflected, violet eyes watching the colorful filly. But damn if she wasn't cute. He shifted, took a large chomp of grass, and looked cheerful. Cheerful was good.

"Oh, I know what they'll do to you." Duo responded cheerfully. "And it'll take just long enough that I can get away from them." his voice dropped. "And I betcha Yue would come after me as fast as she could bunny-hop too." the tones were thick with amusement. But he pranced away from Safi, head held high. "Want a flower, then, 'leney? I betcha I can find one almost as pretty as me."

She ducked her head, butting at him lightly. "That won't be too hard. There's a buch of thistle right over there." He laughed, and they chattered quietly for a bit. Duo wasn't so bad, when he was distracted by fresh meat. And that, Safi certainly was. The blue mare brushed off a shudder of laughter.

Yue glanced at Duo, then dismissed him as being an annoyance. And a failure too. "He's attempting to teach me to fly, I think. I can't tell, he keeps flirting with my mother." which was obviously apalling to her, as she shuddered delicately. "My mother. Does the man have no eyes?" She could empathize with Safi, understanding what torture her mother could do. "Does she nag you too? About bathing, and playing nice with the familiars, and not talking to strangers? Isn't it simply annoying?"

Yue looked.... constipated? She was making this very, very odd expression. "Ohhhh, ewwwwwwww!" she finally wailed, tiny body shaking. "That's my mom you're talking about!" She took a second to compose herself, trying not to froth at the mouth with the virulence of her disgust. "Who would want to be mates with my mom? I mean, she already has kids. What stallion would want a pre-made family?" she truly did look horrified.

Yue eyed him. "You use a lot of funny words, mister. Abskahnd?" she tried the word slowly. "And who needs another parent? I have my aunts and uncles, and they're bad enough." she followed his gaze. "Oh, wow, she's actually talking to him. Usually the sight of Uncle Duo has momma trying to hide. He talks a lot, and drives momma and Uncle Hanzee inane. At least, that's what Auntie Tehya says."

She looked pensive. "If you want a premade kid, why don't you take Uncle Duo? No one here wants him." it was said airily.

Duo blinked at her as the last comment drifted to his ears. Selene grinned. "Now, Yue, what would we do if we didn't have Uncle Duo to ignore?" The stallion nipped at the mare, and she laughed gleefully.

"So cruel to me, 'leney."

((I did mis-spell insane on purpose, btw. wink ))

She looked him up and down. "Duo can fly." she pointed out. "And you'd have to carry me. And really, I think you might be inane anyways. Who wants a kid, premade or not?"

The haughty demeanor faded eventually around Safi, the fluttercorn noted, oddly pleased. He had a good hand with her. Or maybe it was that he was easy on the eyes. She eyed Duo. "Why can't you be dashing?" she grumbled.

He looked affronted, then confused. "Are you gone all inane again, leney?" he asked, teasing. "I am dashing. Or did you hit your head?" She nipped at him, displeased with his response. "Why do you always resort to violence, you brutish mare?" he protested. "Yue, Yue, come protect me from your mother!"

Yue glanced at them, then catapaulted herself at Safi. "Take me away! I can't take it anymore! They are all inane!"

"And you are a little drama queen." Selene grumbled. "Safi, you can't take her anywhere until she can fly on her own. I'll not have her weighing you down, and I'll not risk her falling off while you cavort across who knows where."