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>>129159Iron unfortunately shakes his head.
"I am basically as lost as you currently, with my sudden awakening after some perturbing dreams," he answers tiredly "I figured you had an idea on what to do to pass time."
>>129160"Oh yeah"
She waves with a hoof
"At night the picture shows stay open till maybe ten. Bars until 2, and clubs sometimes even later til 4. There can be private parties at houses and such that can last all night."
She sways a little more
"You also cuddle with the opposite sex, you know"
>>129161Iron's mouth contorts into a tired smile at the last suggestion. "I suppose there is always that," he admits knowingly "but I am not much of a bed talker, as you know."
Iron exhales softly, looking up at the ceiling. "...what would you prefer out of the options you have said?"
>>129162She closes her eyes, and then opens them slowly
"The picture shows are closed now, the clubs play jazz, no one rich has invited me to their party here, so that leaves the bar, and cuddling"
>>129163"Cuddling it is, then," Iron concludes with a tired smile, blinking slowly.
>>129164She almost jumps on him
"Why don't you carry me?"
>>129165Iron chuckles as he lays down in order for the mare to hop on. "Let us go to our room, love," he proclaims.
>>129166She essentially mounts him, finding an awkward position ontop of him that she nearly falls off of, holding onto him with her left foreleg
"So do you like, have a house?"
>>129167Iron chuckles softly as he stands up. "I am pretty sure we talked about this already," he responds amusedly "but no, I do not."
Having said that, the native starts walking a bit to see if Sands can actually stay perched or not.
>>129168She is a bit wobbly on him, but she wraps her foreleg around him, and more of less keeps balance
"Oh... Cause I've got like, no house. And no job anymore"
>>129169"Yes, I know," Iron replies as he rubs one of his eyes "but you will always have a roof and something to do with me."
Iron tentatively tries going up the stairs in a slow fashion to see if she can adapt.
>>129170She has to hold on tighter, and then wraps her hind legs around him
"And uh, do you have a job?"
>>129171"I do have ponies I can talk to in order to do jobs for them," Iron offers as a response, breathing softly "mainly shady ones. There is also my side project to start a potion selling business."
>>129171>>129172The native proceeds to start climbing the stairs in a careful fashion.
>>129173>>129172Up the stairs, up another flight, and another
"Oh I see. That's a living, hey?"
>>129174"Mhm," Iron agrees as his ascension continues before he blankly stares forwards, realizing he's drained his topics already and ensuring he doesn't fuck up in this delicate endeavor.
>>129175A silent ride upstairs, and to the room. Inside, and to the bed
>>129176Iron couldn't help but stare at the bed for a few seconds before shaking his head and hopping on it with Sands in tow to ease her descent.
>>129177She pushes herself off and rolls over onto the bed, on her back and with her hooves up in the air in a semi-curled position
>>129178Iron lets out a single chuckle at seeing her flop down to the bed, gently wrapping his hooves along her barrel as he rests his head near her shoulder.
>>129179"Iron" she says, looking up
"Why won't you open your heart to me?"
>>129180Iron's ears perk up, eyes focusing on hers as he lays next to her. "What do you mean?" he asks, lightly surprised this question popped up.
>>129181Her eyes seem to go up towards the ceiling
"What I said. Why won't you open up your heart to me?"
>>129182Iron looks at Sands with a small tilt of the head to the side. "I..." he utters "I do not know what you mean by 'opening my heart', Sands."
>>129184"You know. Love me like you love that zebra. Instead you get bored with me"
>>129185"Oh," Iron lets out, awkwardly looking at the bedsheets as his ears droop "I... I suppose we have not fully explored eachother."
I thought that someone was messing with Iron again, I wasn't expecting a PSA on safe sex. Also I get the feeling Iron was supposed to be frightened by the changeling but he's lived in a jungle so big bugs don't scare him.
Worst part of it for him is the messed up sleep schedule. You just need one bad nap and that takes days to fix.
>>129186"Fully explored each other?"
She tilts her head
"You mean like anal?"
>>129187Now he'll be waking up at 1 AM every night >>129189"No," Iron replies "I do not even know what anal is. It feels..." He pouts softly, trailing off in his sentence as his ears droop once again "It feels like I still don't even know you, even after all we have been through, you know?"
>>129188Yeah, the whole physical thing, he got it covered.>>129187Oh crap. I hope this isn't going to affect things mechanically. >>129190She sighs
"It's been a long year. More than a year. In captivity...."
She turns over to him
"I'm like you in a lot of ways. I'm not from here. I'm far away from my family. I don't have a home right now, I don't have a traditional job, and most of what I do do is a bit on the, well, it's with the 'non-traditional economy.'"
>>129191"Yes," Iron answers, tone steadily declining further into regret "you already told me all about you back at Hoebuck. Even with that huge amount of information, I am still a lost lamb." Iron's vision soon snaps into the wall facing him "Is sex really all that you want with me?"
>>129192She touches him. Or at least, she seems to try to
"I want you to love me" She says
>>129193Iron sighs, now back at looking at the bedsheets. "I cannot love from sex alone," he confesses, voice starting to quiver "and so far I cannot seem to connect to you through anything." He snaps his vision to Sands. "I know it has been a single day since we met and you may have something you have yet to reveal that may spark such a thing, but... we consumated already." He takes away his hooves from her to the sides of his head. "We should know eachother from fur to heart by now."
>>129194She blinks, with her mouth partly open in concern
"What do you want to know?"
>>129195"That is the thing," Iron replies dejectedly "I do not know
what would even do it. I can only guess." He sighs, slumping his head into the pillow. "Foolish stallion that I am, making you go through my ramblings..."
>>129196"What do you want?" She asks him. "I don't mean from me. Out of life"
>>129197"I..." Iron starts "I suppose it is a mix between discovery, companionship, wealth and..." The stallion stops, glancing at Sands for a few seconds, ears drooped and self-judging look apparent in his eyes. "...validation." he spills out, ears drooped and glancing away in shame.
>>129198She nods her head
"Tell me. Who is it? Your mother?"
>>129199"...who is what?" Iron asks, a smidge of confusion inbetween his depressing mood.
>>129200"Who is it you need to validate you?" She asks
>>129201"I want to feel like I help the ponies I care about," Iron continues to confess "ponies like you, or Cauldron."
>>129202"So what is it that makes you care about a pony?" She asks
>>129203"I..." Iron stammers as he closes his eyes "I do not know. Maybe all I need to care is to... feel like I could be the one to save them out of their troubles. Maybe it is something stupid like having a particular thing they do that endears me, or maybe it is because... I know I matter to them."
>>129204She nods
"And you need these ponies to validate yourself?"
>>129205Iron nods once, having opened his eyes to stare at the ceiling.
>>129206"Now tell me. What, to you, is 'companionship'?"
>>129207Iron inhales deeply, ears drooped and gaze firmly stuck to the ceiling.
"W-well, I cannot say I know for sure," Iron replies "but being with a companion just makes me feel all... fuzzy and happy by spending time with them."
>>129208"And that isn't me, is it?"
>>129209"...n-no," Iron replies, rubbing his foreleg with his other "I am not sure why that is."