Adventures of a little Pumera

She felt like someone was shaking the world around her. Throwing her hand out to lash onto anything in the darkness of the void, Ally heard a very familiar voice. “Ally… be hurting Soey.” Ally opened her eyes and there she was. Soey was standing right next to the cot in her cell, alongside miss Rowen and mister Nebojsa. She realised her hand was clutched tight around Soey’s wrist and quickly let go.

They said they were taking her with them, that it was time to leave. Ally couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She was going home? She hadn’t even told them that she had made her mind up yet! Rowen made a quick phsyical checkup on her and made note that Ally hadn’t been eating properly and then… Ally stepped out of her cell and walked towards the exit. No one tried to stop her. No guards, no alarms.

Soey had been tired and miserable, her sleep cycle completely broken from the many hours she spent just curled up on her pillowbed, thinking of Ally, feeling lonely. All she could think of was Ally and how much she was missing her. When Mister Nebby called her to let her know Ally was ready to leave the jail, and that they’d go to get her that same night, she was instantly awake though, and starting to make preparations.

Some hours later she was finally there, walking up to her cell, and the last few steps, she just couldn’t control herself anymore, couldn’t hold back her joy, and ran past Mister Nebby and into Ally’s cell, ready to give her the hug of her life - just to see her lying there, barely conscious. Her smile was instantly gone as she knelt down next to her, trying to take her hand to check up on her, when Ally suddenly grabbed her wrist painfully hard.  “Ally... be hurting Soey”, she muttered, helplessly looking over to Rowen, who was already busy examining her...

Soon after they had established that Ally is healthy, just missing nutrition, they left the prison, hopefully never to return, bringing Ally to Soey’s place. Well, their place now, as Ally had agreed to move in with Soey. Without telling anyone, Soey had prepared a little surprise at home, combining some of her favorite things: her love for Ally, pillows, flowers and candles. Sitting there on the pillows with Ally, all she hoped for was that now, finally, everything would be fine...

As Taulin curled up tightly, her side nuzzled by a thick layer of warm, fluffy pillows (purple! She’d noted… which made them all the softer), her mind swam through pictures of the night’s events - pushing against a gentle tide of mild intoxication.

Where had it started, again…? It was a… rusty bottle? Bottles! The bot had thrown a bottle at her! She’d wanted to seek out some of the less familiar bars of Thayd and she’d ended up stumbling into a little place just off a narrow Alley… and the barbot had served her something that didn’t taste at all like cider and smelled far too… rancid. A human had hit it for her and, well, it responded by spitting the bottle across the room. Wait- did it hit anyone?! She’d not thought about that… she’d been worrying about the man who’d punched the bot, in case he’d broken his hand or something. Good thing he hadn’t asked her name or anything. She wouldn’t get into any trouble… hopefully.

It had been a good time to get away to the next place, at least… someone was offering free drinks! Or a free drink, for everyone. That was convincing enough to get her to the… Scythe. That was the name of the bar, wasn’t it? Ugh, she really needed to take better note of that stuff… But the Scythe had been a nice place! And it had reminded her of someone…

A flick of the tip of her tail and purple fur brushed a little against orange. She smiled a little to herself, contentedly nudging her nose against another pillow. She’d remembered that Soey had been the one to direct her to this part of Thayd, originally… and she’d been nice enough to buy Linny a drink! (A favour she’d returned later in the night… it was only fair!) She’d also promised another hug. It seemed a nice idea to invite her out again… and they’d had a real great time as a result - chatting and joking and messing around a little after another drink together. As well as… well, this. The Thorntails, she’d said. A tribe for Aurin in need. And once Linny’d said she needed a bed, Soey hadn’t let up until she’d convinced her to drop by their village.

But that had come much later, of course. They still had a whole night to go! So they’d headed on to a place Taulin had heard plenty about, but not seen. A bar in space! On a rock! The… Pink Salmon. It was amazing! And talk about a view… it was just a shame their visit was disrupted by some bad blood. She’d just wanted to share a drink with Soey and Marian - another Aurin she’d met the other night, at the Cherub. Instead a foul-mouthed aurin male had decided to harass them… and she’d been very close to putting a bullet in his knee for it, with the nasty things he’d been saying about Mari. If someone hadn’t intervened… well, at least a whack to his head had sent him packing long enough for her and Soey to depart, before he decided to try his luck anymore.

And so… here Soey took her. The Thorntails…

It was a nice village, she’d quickly decided. A nice, cool atmosphere… and Algoroc wasn’t so bad a place, if a little lacking in greenery compared to Celestion. At least she could get barbecue in the morning…

…right, the morning. How long had she been sat here, pondering over the last few hours? She could see Soey’s sleeping form just past her bare feet, their tails touching and curled together at the tip. A contented sigh escaped her, finally letting herself sag into the pillow-bed and letting her eyes fall shut.

She missed Soey. Very much a lot, as Soey herself used to say. Ally was tempted to accept the offer the Black Hoods had made just to be able to be with her again.

She thought about the improv night at the Station. It had not been long before she had been incarcerated and Ally had invited Soey there, even though the after work nights were officially only for employees. The Runners had come into possession of two large crates of masquerade clothing after a client had failed to provide payment for the delivery and Papova, having seen no way of profiting from the goods, had generously allowed Ally to use the costumes for company events.

Even though Dynna, Rowen and a few others joined in, Ally and Soey were probably the ones that appreciated the theatre games the most. They had been acting silly, dressing up in one costume after another, laughing together. She could be silly with Soey. Soey never called her childish or stupid. She just made Ally feel at home…

After the recent incident at Fortune’s Ground, Ally found herself incarcerated in an underground high-security prison cellblock located somewhere on Nexus, only accessible through transmat. Spending her days more or less isolated she had more than enough time to go through what had happened, over and over again.

She had felt unexpectedly calm since she came there. No longer did she have to worry about her family’s farm, of getting up to go to work in the morning. Her thoughts seemed clearer, more distilled than ever. Details that she usually would take no notice of now shone like bright beacons before her inner eye. When thinking back on past events she realised how much had passed her by. Mocking words, demeaning glances…

The next day she had been allowed to visit Ally though, and she took the first chance she got to do so. Even there, she managed to just learn little more about the reasons for Ally’s incarceration, partly because Ally didn’t know, and partly because the little Ally said, Soey didn’t really understand. Ally was hurting her father, because he wanted to take her away, threatened to hurt Soey? It.. didn’t really sound like Ally to hurt someone. Then again, it wasn’t really her, it was those robots, by what she told. Ally didn’t seem to understand herself, so how would Soey?

((Music: One Summer’s Day - Joe Hisaishi))

It was staring right at her, black eyes the size of pinheads, peering into her own as she looked up. It’s face, if you could call it that, was brown with red stripes running down along it. It didn’t seem to know where it was, or what was going to happen to it. After a short while Ally’s eyes focused and she noticed Soey, sitting there on the pillow with a cheerful smile, holding the little bug up to her face.

“Ally be hungry?” the ginger aurin asked. Before her was sat a small ornamental bowl filled with various insects, wriggling over each other, unable to scale the steep edges. Ally blinked.

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...Soey woke up later, Ally still not having returned. But she said she would, so Soey kept waiting.. and waiting... after an hour of waiting, she tried to call, but didn’t get through. after another hour, she tried again. More than 4 hours had passed, before she gave up on waiting, and got up to go to Thayd, to look for her beloved.

She couldn’t find, what wasn’t there though. Ally had already been incarcerated by the peacekeepers, the mess had been cleaned up. But how would she know? Soey looked everywhere, asked everyone if they’d seen the pig-tailed woman of her dreams. She checked with every cafe, every barista, every bar, every single place that could have coffee. Talking to the people she met, she heard a bunch of crazy stuff about a murder, about a machine uprising taking a death toll even, but all that just went over her head, she couldn’t make any sense of that, so she kept on looking, and trying to call her, leaving her messages every few minutes, asking where she is, and if she’s okay.

Tomorrow’s Date Night folks, remember you can still sign-up by whispering Riley Wintermoss in-game or sending her a mail!

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Downtown Date Night!

Where?: The Charyb Nightclub When?: July 4, 1666AE (2015), 7 P.M. Nexus Mean Time (GMT; 8PM BST; 9PM CEST) Whose Plot?: Lyo Sunward What Server?: Jabbit EU

The Charyb is pleased to announce that this coming Saturday on July 4th, 1666AE (2015) will be our special Downtown Date Night, a themed evening designed to get the sparks flying on the dance floor! Featuring our signature DJ H1N4 and a buttload of discounts for Blind Dates and Couples alike, the evening’s sure to have you entertained! We’ll also be offering services such as discounted private rooms, Hookah smoking tables, Special dessert services for the evening, and of course, our signature mix of electronic tunes added with relaxed, slow tunes!

Drinks and Desserts

The Charyb will be offering Desserts and specially rethemed cocktails to go along with the evening. Some of these Desserts will be the usual Chocolate and Vanilla cakes, Ice cream for two, Milkshakes, and a wide variety of other sweets such as brownies and fruit-flavoured candies. For drinks we will offer these cocktails and liquors:

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