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>>160245
"Well...have you ever seen manticore?"

>>160247
She blinks before staring at Silver with wide eyes. She raises a hoof, and bends. It.
“No…?

>>160246
Tricky takes a long drag on her cigarette, before blowing out the smoke.

“But they’re gone now. Not sure that they’ll ever be back.” She says

>>160249
He smirks widely at her.

"I have."

>>160250
“What… I’ve heard of a manticore but… what is it exactly?”

>>160251
"It is large creature that has body and head of lion, wings of bat, and tail of scorpian. They are fierce opponents when threatened, and are very territorial."

>>160252
She nods along, at first letting her mouth hang open, but then closing it. She listens intently to Silver as he speaks.

“Sounds threatening.”

>>160249
"The Princesses Will return one day, We just have to hold out hope."

>>160031
"I suppose he is. I'm quite out of my element when talking to him. I'm not quite sure how he reached his conclusions, but I'll have to give them some deeper thought."

>>160254
"I've got to hold out myself." She says. It's clear she is going to smoke the cigarette all the way to the end.

>>160255
"Well, don't worry about understanding all of those abstractions. Just know the basics."

>>160256
"Basics?"

>>160256
Dark Star takes another drag off his

>>160257
"Heh" He makes an awkward smile

"His conclusions."

>>160258
She smiles, and looks over to him with a playful look

"So what is it you really do?" She asks

>>160259
Amber can only stare blankly in confusion. "Anyway, this is a nice gathering. Has this been planned for a while?"

>>160260
“No.” He breathes out. “No. But we gather here regularly. So we shall make the best of this impromptu meeting.”

>>160259
He smiles back
"I told you. it's super secret."

>>160262
"Heh heh. Surely it can't be. You work at a factor line in the day time, don't you?""
She exposes her teeth as she smiles to Dark Star, and holds the tiny little stub of what remains of her cigarette.

>>160263
"That would be a vacation."
He laughs
"want another cigarette?"
He takes another Drag

>>160264
She blinks
"Yes."

She holds out a hoof.

>>160261
"That's fortunate, then. Who are some of the other guests here?"

>>160266
"Tarquill, from the main palace. Ershaum, from the military. Hertzell and Nedelheim. Two others I don't know the names of."

>>160265
He extends the pack one with one sticking out of it

>>160267
"You've always been well-connected, Helm."

>>160268
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>>160269
"My family has held a noble title in these lands since before the Empire. To be connected to us, is to be well connected."

>>160268
She looks at the pack, takes a cigarette, and smiles to Solar.

"Alright, I'll play with you. Why don't you tell me a few things that you can. Hehe."

She lowers her head and raises her shoulders as she smiles to him in some sort of gesture.

"Can I have a light?"

>>160270
Amber nods. "Thank you for the invitation. If only this had been under more pleasant circumstances."

>>160271
He takes a more serious expression.

"This is a very old house. Very old indeed. I have many possessions I will be... I will very much lament the loss of. I am trying to remove them as best as I can."

>>160270
He lights the lighter and extends it towards her cigarette.
then he thinks for a moment
"Well, I'm not really that interesting. I'm only 19. my brother was always the more interesting pony."

>>160274
She lights it, and takes a single draw. But it's a much more shallow draw than those before. She looks up towards Dark Star/Solar Night in silence, with a blank expression, as if uncertain.

>>160275
"We Did have to live on the streets, for a long time"

>>160276
“You too?” She asks, holding the cigarette in hoof.

>>160277
He wasn't expecting this response.
"Yea. You had to go through something similar?"

>>160278
"Maybe not in the way you did." She says

"We didn't exactly leave Hearthswarming and Cloudsdale with any money, skills, plans, or place to live." She answers

>>160279
He nods, clenching the cigarette in his teeth.
"My Brother and I Got kicked out of our house after our parents were....after they died."

>>160253
"They can be. Equestria is full of monsters like that in remote places. Some I have seen, some I have yet to. Like chimeras."

>>160280
She looks at Solar, and nods.

“How old were you?” She asks

>>160281
She looks at Silver, her hooves pressed into the table.

“Didn’t you… say you were in a war?”

>>160282
"I Couldn't have been older than 9."
He nods
"It was.....a difficult time."

>>160283
She nods
"I can't imagine what that would be like as a foal."

>>160272
Amber tries to find words to console a griffon who has much more at stake to lose, but nothing comes.

>>160284
"I got stabbed before i was 10."
He takes a long drag off his cig

>>160287
She opens her mouth
gasp

"You were stabbed?"

>>160285
"There's a few items I will be smuggling out of the country. Some I will keep here. Hopefully the estate itself will remain unmolested until interest dies down. And hopefully the peasants don't revolt. Again. But a few of the more sensitive items will go missing if the house is searched by police. And those I will have sent along with us."

>>160288
"A Few times yea."
He motions to his left side.
"Almost killed me."
He moves his fur out of the way to revile a scar.

>>160289
She looks at it
"Guh! Terrible."

>>160290
"The zebra who did it wasn't lucky enough to survive."

>>160291
Her eyes go very wide.

[1d20 = 9]

>>160288
"That's the best plan. It's unfortunate to have to worry about such things at all, but ameliorating this is the best one can hope for."

>>160293
"Those bastards will meet their own fates soon enough. We only need to outlast them." He says

>>160294
"Yes, very true. Evil inevitably consumes itself."

>>160292
"Yea after my brother found out.... He wasn't very happy. a full grown zebra stabbing a colt..."

>>160296
“I see.” She nods, with a look of concern, and smokes more of her cigarette.

>>160295
He laughs
“Heh heh heh heh. Oh, you give them too much credit.”

>>160297
"What do you mean by that?"

>>160298
"The triviality of it all. Their petty politics. They will not last. They cannot. They don't have the fortitude."