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Aurora was at home enjoying a little quiet time for a change. Belldandy at flute lessons, Crooner with his vocal coach, Moon was at dance practice, and Pale was with Drama at rehearsals. Sheets of new music were scattered around the coffee table, a sheet with lyrics in her hooves.

"Mmmm..." she scratched out a line, slowly singing out a different line "Do I love you or the thought of you.." she hummed the next few bars of the song before the sound of front door opening caused her to pause. Odd, no one should be home yet. She rounded the corner of the living room to find her daughter in the foyer in tears.

"Moondance, honey, what's wrong?" the mare cooed, gently stroking her mane.

Aurora smiled and cuddled Moondancer close. "Well carnies the the park here have steady pay and all the popcorn and cotton candy you can eat." she cooed jokingly. "Come here, come here.." though harder to do now, Aurora lifted her daughter up and onto the couch in the living room.

She frowned a little at her description of being laughed at. Aurora would have to have a talk with the teacher if that was a case. But at the moment she needed to bring Moon's spirits up. "Is it a certain move or step that's giving you problems?"

Waiting till Moondancer calmed down properly, she listened to the description of the dance move. Hmm. It was more complex then most of the moves she sometimes did on stage, but maybe she could help the filly find out why she couldn't land the step.

The mare stood, leaving Moon swaddled in the couch throw. She pushed back the coffee table and a large chair. "Ok squatted down.." she hunkered down a bit on her thin, long legs. "Push yourself into the air.." that was easier, she knew how to fly. "And try and twirl all the way around.." On instinct, as she pushed off her hoof, her wings opened to fly. Aurora snapped them back down to herself, after all Moondancer didn't have wings.

Closing her wings turned her twist into a mid-air flail and she landed with a plop on her flank. Her long tail was corkscrewed around her back leg and her mane looked like it was trying to strangle her. Blowing strands of hair from her face, she mustered as much dignity as she could and said; "Well, that IS a little more difficult then it sounds.."

Aurora winced as her daughter landed on her butt beside her. Suddenly, giggled welled up in her chest, and she started to laugh softly. "Aren't we an ungraceful pair?" she giggle, nuzzling her daughter on the cheek. "Did I look like that when I did it? I can do better!"

She popped back on her hooves and brushed her hair back with a swish. She crouched, pushed up and as she tried to twist, made her legs do a wriggly octopus dance, doing a over dramatic duck face, landing again on her flank. She began to laugh in earnest. "Tell me Moon, was I graceful?" she managed to ask, laugh tears at the corners of her eyes.

Laughing, Aurora stomped applauded Moondancers's spin. "My turn my turn!" She wriggled her bum, jumping into the air, flapping her legs like bird wings. "CAW CAWW!" she shrieked as she glided in the air, clumsily landing on her hooves but skidding across the floor and colliding into Pale Moonlight's piano seat. The flutter laid across it, laughing hysterically.

Aurora wiped her laugh tears away and hugged Moondancer, brushing some of her mane out of her eyes. "I know you'll master that move one day, but if you happen to land on your flank, laugh along with your classmates. I don't think they're laughing to be mean, after all I'm sure several of them have landed on their butts and you may have inwardly giggled right?" She tickled her daughter lightly. "Feel better right don't you?"