The Nineteenth Trial

[hot_mess_express]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 43, evening
Where: The Mermaid's Beach

Come on, come on heroes...! Come hither!

[ There's a playful giggle and the sound of splashing as the Mermaid's beach appears in the clearing. ]

Let's play a game...!

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[daydreamshimmer]

[Looking her over.]

[Looking her over closely.]

....you're not also a unicorn that got turned human shaped?

[LISTEN SHE HAS TO ASK]

[voreaciously]

No, I have always been shaped this way. How are you adjusting?

[daydreamshimmer]

Terribly.

[For reasons.]

[Oh, there's the rock she needs.]

[Gonna grab it and scrape it against the other.]

[voreaciously]

I apologise for your misfortune.

[but she was a unicorn? that's actually super exciting.]

What sort of crafts could you make as a unicorn?

[SHE SAID SHE KNEW ABOUT ART but also opposable thumbs are the way to go.



so are fingers, honestly.]

[daydreamshimmer]

Yeah, it's been a whole thing. So what are you, if not human? What's even different?

So far, drawings. Did really good with chalk for Eliza. I would probably be better with telekinesis, it depends how much I dedicated doing it the earth pony way. Though I am curious to see if hands can match the precision of telekinesis.

[Scrape scrape scrape. Then holding out the larger rock to 80H with a rough version of that flower on it.] At least they seem to do well with rough tools.

[voreaciously]

I am not an organic being, but synthetic and technological. Hands can be incredibly precise, yes. Please do let me know how you fare with them, in time.

Ah! [she says upon receipt.] Thank you, it's lovely.

[daydreamshimmer]

Ah, so different insides, okay. That is impressive though. Not often magic comes alive like you. Well, alive and not raving mad.

Depends what I figure out first, hands or shapeshifting magic.

You're welcome.

[voreaciously]

[implying she's not insa]

And outside. My skin is made of silicone.

[she's curious about how magic functions where she comes from but she needs to focus.]

What else would you like to do?

[daydreamshimmer]

[Raving mad means razing the country side without rest.]

What's silicone?

Let's see.

I need to say something I like about myself.

[.....jeeze, she hasn't actually thought of this????]

[voreaciously]

Any of a class of synthetic materials which are polymers with a chemical structure based on chains of alternate silicon and oxygen atoms, with organic groups attached to the silicon atoms. Such compounds are typically resistant to chemical attack and insensitive to temperature changes and are used to make rubber and plastics and in polishes and lubricants.

[she waits patiently otherwise]

[daydreamshimmer]

....that sounds like a really cool compound. [And kind of....familiar? Sorta????]

[Okay, no, can't think of that, what does she LIKE about herself?]

[Like she would say her smarts, but that was apparently useless for her.]

[Um]

[Geh]

My ability to....take action? Yeah, I guess that. [Just because things were fruitless, at least she was trying and that's good!]

[voreaciously]

It is. Acting decisively is an admirable trait and you do not seem the type to rest on your laurels. [she nods.]

[daydreamshimmer]

Yeah.

Yeah, definitely. I don't want to sit around just doing nothing.

[voreaciously]

As for myself, I am punctual.

[daydreamshimmer]

[....that combined with some of the other stuff....]

Well, timing is important.

[voreaciously]

That it is.

[daydreamshimmer]

...right. [Empath has suspicions.]

So I need cuddling.

[voreaciously]

...Very well.

[daydreamshimmer]

[So she propositioned someone else, but then got a new card that still needs cuddling.]

Excellent.

[Gonna find somewhere comfortable to sit and gestures for her to sit down.]

[voreaciously]

[80H hesitates a moment before joining her.]

[daydreamshimmer]

[Studies her a moment.]

[And then she's going to wrap her arms around 80H's shoulders and pull her close for a cuddle.]

[voreaciously]

[this is very heterosexual.

she's stiff, very stiff, but she relaxes a little as time goes on and reaches for one of her hands.]

[daydreamshimmer]

[Oh 80H.]

[She's from My Little Pony, nothing about her is ever heterosexual. Bisexual at best.]

[Will let her have her hand though, she needs handholding too.]

[voreaciously]

[She starts to hum very, very quietly, as well.]

[daydreamshimmer]

A serenade?