[P] dance with the waves

[Charlotte]

it's time to
make a move

When Charlie lands, the kid starts to go on and on about some bird—a hawk, apparently—named Rory. She can only assume it’s the kids bonded, and even though she gets a pang of nostalgia for the days when it was just her and Indy against the world she also can’t help but wonder if this kid has an off switch.

“Sorry to burst your bubble, but Indy isn’t just a friend or whatever,” Charlie says, as she walks along the shoreline. “She’s practically my sister, and she’s an Osprey.” She doesn’t much feel like explaining the difference between different species of hawks to a practical newborn, who really shouldn’t even be this far from the court, so decides to drop it there and hope the girl won’t ask any questions.

When they get on the subject of her mother, Charlie is suddenly a lot more interested. Regent, huh? This little punk is the kid of Denocte’s Regent? Charlie is somewhat familiar with the woman, as she’s spent much of her life in the Night Court’s streets. She can’t imagine how Denocte’s infamously, horribly ornery Regent, managed to convince anyone to knock her up.

Good for her, she guesses. “If you have to call it ‘sneaking away’ then you shouldn’t be doing it, kid,” Charlie says in response to the filly’s statement. Charlie never had to “sneak out” because nobody was ever watching her, or telling her not to do things. If this kid has someone who does care about where she is, then maybe she should listen.

Unfortunately for the pegasus, whoever this girl is, simply does not want to stop talking. Which she would greatly prefer at this point. If she has a mother somewhere, then it is definitely not her job to babysit. “Yeah… I’m from Terrastella.” Charlie braces herself for more questions, because she knows they are coming regardless of what she wants.

@Maeve

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