“Excuse me?” a faint whisper of a young girl’s voice echoed through the darkness.

Poke.

“Excuse me?” the same whisper echoed once again, this time nearer. Her voice was accentuated by a thunderous applause- no, that was just thunder.

“Wake up!” a claw raked across my face as the flesh it was attached to bitch-slapped me across the face, jolting me awake.

“Weiss, what the hell?” I demanded as the small white dragon leapt off my chest and onto the stone floor.

“I’m sorry, did I wake you?” she asked innocently, staring up at me with golden eyes. The light in the dungeon was all natural, indicating daylight despite the gray skies that usually alluded to a thunderstorm.

“You- I was- I’m not even going to get into this.” I replied, holding my hands in surrender. “What is it?”

“It’s daylight!” Weiss stated, pointing a claw towards the window. “Time to wake up!”

“Weiss, you do realize that we were up at ungodly hours this morning and so I desire sleep? At least another five hours?” I replied, rubbing my eyes with the heels of my hands.

“I know, but Princess Luna is waiting for you.” Weiss explained, turning my attention towards the cell door and to the waiting dark blue Princess. “She’s been watching you sleep for an hour now!”

“I- I wasn’t- There was no- hmph!” Luna defiantly rejected all suspicious of creepiness as she crossed her hooves over her chest, just under her collar. “I merely came down here to see how you’d gotten on last night after my sister and I had left, and to see if you’d like lunch in the sunlight. Eben has already left to go and work on setting up your shop.”

“Lunch? What time is it?” I asked, forgoing to try and look out of the window.

“About just past mid-day I believe.” Luna replied thoughtfully, completely devoid of all nervousness prior. “Should you wish to accept our invitation, you are welcomed to join us in the Royal Kitchen. A guard will escort you to prevent undue attention.”

“Will there be gems to eat?” Weiss asked hopefully, standing on the tips of her toes; her claws keeping her balanced.

“Unfortunately we do not have any in the castle at the moment; however we have procured a few choice meats for your consumption, should you choose to partake of such ghastly behaviour.” Luna replied as she stood and exited the Dungeon.

“Well, free meat is free meat.” I replied with a stretch and a following up yawn. “Just wish I had some new clothes to wear instead of these ratty old things.” I added as I stood to scratch my ass over my ragged grey sweats. They were black when I got them.

“I don’t quite understand the use of clothes in the first place.” Weiss replied as she climbed up the back of my legs to fix herself in her new favourite riding position. “Everypony else just wears clothes on special occasions.”

“Yes, but in human culture it’s sort of illegal to wander around in public naked. Humans are shameful creatures my dear Weiss, so we feel the need to cover up. Had I the opportunity I'd be layered in as much clothing as I could get my hands on, gloves included.” I explained as I pulled up short of the wooden door.

“What is that?” Weiss and I wondered aloud simultaneously as a bag that wasn’t there last night sat patiently near to the door.

Pulling open the bag, I found what looked like actual human clothing!

“Holy shit I can wear clean clothing!” I shouted, doing a small dance on the spot and nearly throwing Weiss off my back in the process. With my calloused feet padding on the cold stone surface, I all but dumped the bag’s contents onto my bed and began sorting; underwear, pants, shoes! Shirts, jackets, even a pair of leather working gloves next to a comb!

“Oh my god I never thought I'd be so happy to see another comb in my life!” I announced in near utter bliss as I set to the painful task of tearing the tangles out of my silver hair; still no idea why it wasn’t brown anymore.

Soon I had my hair straightened out and combed back, out of the way behind my ears as I set to pulling my old clothes off and tossing them aside. Leaving myself in my boxers, I became aware of the female presence and curiously glanced at Weiss until she took the hint.

“Oh, right! I’ll be in my room!” Weiss scampered off with a nervous chuckle, her white scales flushing red. Taking the opportunity, I quickly swapped out for a clean pair before burying the old set under everything else I was likely to incinerate.

Pulling on a set of leather armoured pants; basically just a pair of jeans with leather panelling on the knees and calves; I pulled a blank black t-shirt on over my head before slipping into a thick leather jacket with odd leather loops on the back and shoulders.

“Alright Weiss, I'm decent.” I announced, picking up the comb to drop it into my back pocket for later use. The baby dragon rounded the corner and took one look at me before wolf whistling.

“Wow, who knew a fresh pair of clothes could make the male?” she announced as she almost free-ran up my back in one go before settling herself into place, grabbing onto the leather loops with her clawed hands and feet. “Handy.”

“And now the heavy leather makes sense.” I replied with a shrug. Pushing the remaining clothing back into the bag before setting the bag itself to the side, Weiss and I resumed our detour and exited the dungeon.

“Oh god, that sunlight burns!” I hissed as I stepped out into the courtyard, holding my hand above my face to shield from the rain.

“But, it’s raining! There is no sun!” Weiss replied, looking up at the skies and received a face full of water droplets in reply.

“I know, it was sarcasm Weiss; you’ll get to learn it if you stick with me.” I replied as a guard in gold and white with blue plumage galloped up to us.

“Sir, please come with me. I shall escort you to the kitchen as per Princess Luna’s request.” the guard commanded before turning and walking off. With a shrug and a glance to Weiss, I soldiered on after the pegasus and was quite content with myself when we stepped into the castle and out of the rain.

Of course, no sooner had we stepped inside than a roar of thunder rolled through, making Weiss yelp and dig her claws into my shoulder through the padding.

“Wow, okay, need more padding on the shoulders! Weiss, you’re skinning me!” I declared in steadily rising voice as I worked to release the tiny claws hold on my flesh.

“Sorry! Sorry!” Weiss replied, coming to grips with the world we lived in and released me. “I just hate thunder!”

“No shit?” I asked in no seriousness at all. “I love it. Has an awesome low rumbling bass to it.”

“Nope, I hate it! I hate it I hate it I hate it!” Weiss insisted, bouncing up and down on my back using her new handholds as a fulcrum.

“I get it Weiss, come on; let's go get lunch.” I replied, resting my hand on the back of Weiss’s head to comfort the small white and gold dragon.

“Sir, through here.” the guard ordered, blocking all access to the rest of the hallway with his wings as he pointed a hoof into a large kitchen.

“Ahh, thank you? As you were?” I tried suggesting, receiving nothing in reply. “Oookay…” I stepped past the guard and into the room where I was met with an all out buffet. Both Weiss’s and my eyes went wide. “Well shit, if this is how prisoners wrongfully accused by the Equestrian government get treated after their release, I should get dropped on my ass more often!”

“Meat!” Weiss shrieked, leaping off my shoulder and skittered across the stainless steel table towards a large slab of… Ham?

“Is that ham?” I asked pointedly, already drooling. Weiss dragged her claws over the meat, shredding off a slice before sucking it into her mouth in pure bliss.

“Oooohh, yeah!” she replied, having a moment to herself as a string of ham hung from her lips. “That is so good!”

“Cut me off a slab would you?” I requested as I grabbed a pair of plates for us. Weiss obeyed and drew her claw through the meat again, the slice of ham coming off as thick as my hand was wide. “Okay, cut me off a slab thinner than that, please? About half as thick?” I requested with a chuckle as I set the hammed plate down next to the dragon.

“What? Can’t handle my four inch slab of meat?” Weiss asked with a smirk, making me drop both the plate and my jaw.

“Oh! Baby dragon got jokes now!” I back pedaled a couple of steps as my jaw drop turned into a massive grin. “Damn! I knew I liked you!” I stepped back up to her and held my hand out for a high five before she reached out with a greasy claw. “Ooh, wait till you’re hands are clean.” I replied pulling my hand back again and retrieving the plate to let Weiss, still grinning like an idiot, slice me off a thinner piece; still about as big around as my face.

“Well you gotta admit, you kind of walked into that one.” Weiss replied, wiping her claws off on a nearby towel. As soon as her claws were clean her held her hand up eagerly, receiving a high five from me as promised.

“If that is the type of behaviour that you plan to be teaching and reinforcing in a baby dragon, then I weep for humanity.” Luna announced as she entered and immediately selected a plate for herself before tossing on a bouquet of flowers into it.

“While I'm right there with you on that statement, she surprised me with it as well.” I replied, surveying the rest of the buffet. “Ooh, blueberries!” I announced in a childish, higher octave of voice as I accelerated around tables to the table of blue wonders.

“What’s with all the cakes?” Weiss asked, hopping from table to table with her plate balanced on her head spines.

“Those are for my sister and you’d be wise not to touch them.” Luna instructed sternly as she sat down before an empty table to eat.

“No worries, not a cake person myself.” I replied having filled my plate with other assortments of food items. I sat down near to the Princess across the table from her, just in case there was some rule about sitting on the same side as an Alicorn. “I’m more of a pie person.” I added, taking a fork and knife to the ham as Weiss came and sat down next to me; her own plate stacked with everything but the kitchen sink.

“I shall have the Castle chefs prepare a blueberry pie for you then, should you decide to join us for dinner tonight.” Luna replied, watching my dragon friend and I tear into our ham steaks with disdain. “I know dragon’s occasionally ate meat, but I had no idea that humans also ate it.”

“Yup,” I replied with a mouthful before swallowing. “There are the occasional vegetarian or vegan but I'm too much of a carnivore to ever give up on meat entirely.” I explained with a new cut piece of pork in my mouth, the fork up in the air and threatening to drip juices.

“So I see.” Luna slowly remarked, a fork of flower petals hovering in her dark blue magical grasp. For a moment we matched gazes, both of our forks in transit to deliver precious cargo to our mouths however Luna froze as she stared at me, her eyes darting between my features.

“Now now Luna. I accept that as handsome as I may be, we are yet still two separate species. It is unacceptable in human culture for me to fuck a horse, pony, alicorn, whatever.” I announced, making Luna’s fork drop as Weiss all but burst into laughter, dropping her own fork in the process.

While Luna turned a lovely shade of purple as Weiss collected her faculties, I took another bite of blueberries and ham. Interesting combination, that.

“I genuinely have nothing to say to that.” Luna finally broke the silence, save for Weiss calming down from her fit of laughter. “I was merely noting that your right eye has changed.”

“My right eye?” I asked in all seriousness. “Does it look like a dragons? Reptilian in nature?”

“Yes, so you are aware of this change, then?” Luna replied, still purple but gradually regained colour.

“Yeah, I'm aware of it. Is it still blue?” I asked hopefully. Nothing against hetero-chromatics but I preferred my blue eyes, even if one of them was a Dragon Eye.

“It is. What is the nature of this development?” Luna inquired before finally filling her mouth with “food”.

“Last night the torches blew out prematurely. Turns out the dungeon gets dark enough to be unable to see anything. Weiss was kind enough to give me Dragon’s Eye to allow me to see.” I explained, turning back to my plate; as did Weiss now that she was upright and calmed. “Personally thought it was a temporary thing but, ehh, whatever. I’ll probably get her to even out the eyes with a left Eye eventually.”

“Actually,” Weiss turned to look up at me with golden eyes and a full mouth. “That trick only works on the right eye. We’d have to use a different gem for your left one and that, I'm sure, will change your eye colour.”

“So then what effects can be planted in my left?” I turned my head slightly to address the dragon-ling.

“Uhm, I think there was something involving a jet but I can’t remember the effect it had.” Weiss replied, placing a greasy claw against her chin. Rolling my eyes I grabbed a napkin and wiped off her mouth and face, surprising the small girl in the process.

“Regardless, I can’t help but notice the change.” Luna finally concluded, emptying her plate entirely to drop it off in a nearby sink. “If you’ll excuse me, I did have an ulterior motive for bringing you topside today.” Luna announced, sitting back down at the table floating a dessert from a nearby table.

“Oh really?” Weiss asked for me, given that I had a mouthful of ham and blueberries. “And what would that be?”

“I have spoken to some friends of mine and they’d like to place a custom order for some furniture.” Luna replied, bringing out a rolled up leaf of paper.

“Then take it to Eben, he’s the one who handles the requisition orders.” I replied with a shrug, having finally swallowed and finished my own plate and pushing it away from me.

“Very well, I'd just wondered if you’d have liked to meet them face to face to talk about the project.” Luna replied, vanishing the scroll from our reality.

“Yeah, living down in the dungeon does have that intended effect of avoiding the locals.” I replied thoughtfully as I sat back, relying on my legs wrapped around the table leg nearest to me to keep from falling backwards. Weiss took the opportunity to lick her face off in one go, push her plate back as I had and crawl up into my lap for a nap.

“I would recommend that until you can produce exemplary products to talk face to face with the customer.” Luna suggested, watching Weiss sleep peacefully on me with a smirk. “She has taken quite a liking to you, hasn’t she?”

“Yep, she’s already decided that my back is something to ride.” I replied as I gently stroked the dragon’s head spines. “I presume the clothing was a gift from you or your sister?”

“Very astute; yes, I'd seen you walking around Canterlot last night with her on your back and I figured that you’d want some extra padding.” Luna replied in all honesty, slightly turning red again as she avoided eye contact. What is with her?

“Well I appreciate the clean clothing. I’m impressed that you were able to size me up so perfectly for everything.” I announced, smoothing out the arms of my jacket as I sat back upright.

“I do have some hidden talents.” came the embarrassed reply.

“Fine, I'll meet these customers. Could you provide me with stationary so I can draw up some blueprints for them?” I requested, scooping Weiss up in my arms to allow for me to stand properly.

“Of course, there should be sufficient stationery already in the library.” Luna announced with a breath, standing up herself to lead me from the kitchen. “Please, follow me.” she announced, turning to look back at me over her shoulder while her wings popped up straight.

“Lead on, moon-butt.” I replied with a grin, making Luna’s tail snap downward to cover her flanks entirely.

~~~

“Friends, I've brought the one who will be building your new furniture.” Luna announced ahead of me, the latter half of her body sticking out of the doorway to the library.

“Well then bring them in, ah’ve been itchin’ for a new bed frame.” A significantly western, significantly young sounding female announced jovially.

“Indeed, are they capable of cabinetry?” a second pony added, her voice dripping with squeaky propriety. “My sister need a new cabinet to store her fabrics.”

“Trophy cabinet for me!” a third female announced, her pre-pubescent voice nearing on tom-boyish.

“We’ll see, everypony. We’ll see.” Luna replied as her head peeked back around the doorframe. “Are you coming or not?” I rolled my eyes as I shifted Weiss’s warm body in my arms to keep her comfortably sleeping.

Stepping around the corner in all my human glory -not including my right eye- I stood before three tiny fillies of each breed of pony.

If there was a record playing, the screeching halt would’ve echoed through the entire library as the girls before me froze up, staring.

“What is it?” the white one with the proper voice asked in a whisper, leaning into her friends.

“Great way to start off, Princess; thanks. Terrify three fillies all at once.” I mumbled under my breath, receiving a swift kick in the back of the leg from the glaring Princess.

“I mean, hi! I’ll be designing and building your new furniture!” I announced in the most ripped off happy voice I could possibly muster, making Weiss snort in her sleep. Dropping all happiness again I entered into the library, circling around the three tiny girls and their dropped jaws to take a seat at a table with paper, quills and ink all set up for me.

Setting Weiss down to sleep on a nearby deep cushioned chair, I pulled up to the table and sat myself down.

“Are we going to get started?” I asked in all dull boredom as I organized the pages before me.

“Ah’d really like to know what he is first!” the small yellow one requested, looking nervously at me.

“And why is he carrying around a white baby dragon?” The white unicorn inquired in a whisper, staring at Weiss up close.

“None of that is important; can we just get a move on? I wanna get back to work.” I replied in steadily increasing irritation. “Who’s first? Bed frame? Fabric cabinet? Trophy cabinet?”

“Ah suppose I'll go first, I guess.” the yellow one climbed up onto the chair next to me, warily watching me for any sudden movements. “Ah need a new bed frame!” She declared, putting her hoof down on the table next to me with a clack.

“You don’t say?” I asked in all monotone. “Size of mattress? Style? Height from the floor? Anything that can help me out here?” I requested, making the small filly turn her head up in thought.

“Ah think it’s a double; dunno for sure though.” she replied after a moment. A book helpfully labelled “Generic Equestrian Furniture” appeared in a dark blue glow from somewhere in the library before setting down on the table and flipping over to the section for bed frames.

“Well that’s convenient.” I muttered under my breath as the filly began leafing through pages with her nose till she found one that was apparently her size.

“This-un!” she explained, stamping a hoof down on the indicated bed frame.

“Double sized mattress, only a foot off the ground, three feet in length; I might as well be building a bed frame for a dollhouse.” I mumbled, looking over the design. “In that style or something else?”

“Nah, that’s much to complicated for mah tastes. If’n you could simplify it somewhat, that’d be great!” she replied, beaming at me till she noticed my eye. “Woah, is that a Dragon Eye?” she asked, getting in close to view the orb in my head.

“Really? I wanna see!” the orange one declared, climbing up the chairs and onto the table before getting right up close to my eye. “Woah! That’s awesome! How’d you get a Dragon’s Eye?” she demanded, backing away again and scattering the papers before me in the process.

“Why’d you put it in your eye?” the unicorn asked in disgusted curiosity. “I still wanna know what you are, by the way. Maybe I can ask Twilight Sparkle?” she said, tilting her head to change her perspective of me.

“I have no doubts that Twilight Sparkle could potentially help you with your inquiries, but as you can see, he’d like to get back to work.” Princess Luna explained, lifting the orange pegasus off the table with her magic.

“Indeed. So then how about a rounded off head and footboard?” I asked, rough sketching out a bed frame on the page before me once I'd reorganized once again. “I’ll add a bit of scroll-work into the top of the headboard, maybe a bit in the footboard?” I suggested, drawing in a bit of artistic swirls and whatnot, typically popular with women or people who prefer the fancier things.

“Ah, ah think the rounded head and hoofboard is fine, but ah’m not so sure about all that fancy squiggling you’ve got goin’ on.” the yellow pony requested with a frown as she looked over my sketch.

“Oh, what if there were the words ‘Cutie Mark Crusaders!’ in the headboard?” the white one suggested eagerly.

“Oh yeah! That’d be great! Can ye do that?” the pony demanded, looking directly at me.

“Cutie Mark what now?” I slowly asked for clarification. “Never mind, something like this then?” I asked, erasing the fancy scroll-work and replacing it with the words requested, slightly arched to match the shape of the headboard.

“Yeah! Like that! And put an apple in the hoofboard!” I shrugged before drawing in a hasty apple logo in the footboard as requested. “Perfect!”

“Alright then, I'll turn this into a proper blueprint before I get to work then.” I announced, rolling up the page to set it aside. “Princess Luna, could you retrieve me a book of wood types in Equestria? I want to let the customer choose what wood they want the products to be formed from.”

“Ma name is Applebloom, just so ya know.” the yellow one declared with a raised eyebrow. “Nice to meet ya!” she declared sticking out a hoof to shake, which I did.

“Likewise, I'm-” the book I'd requested smacked down on the table before me, interrupting my introduction and waking Weiss nearby.

“What! Where are we?” she asked, looking around through cracked eyes.

“Library, meeting with our first customers.” I replied in a louder voice, given that she was now awake. “Who’s next?” I asked, forgetting about the wood selection as Applebloom stepped down from the chair and I brought out a new page of paper.

“Me!” the pegasus shot back up to the table again, eager to get started. Applebloom and the unicorn left to go meet with Weiss and chat. “I’m looking for a trophy cabinet! Something awesome that I can present as a gift to my idol!”

“Okay, and what kind of- I presume this is a pony right?” I asked, changing tracks for clarification.

“Yep! She’s the most awesomest flier in all of Equestria!” the pegasus replied eagerly. “Oh, can you carve her Cutie Mark into it somewhere?”

“If I knew what it looked like, probably.” I remarked, already set to drawing an open faced cabinet with plenty of shelving for trophies and/or ribbons.

“I’ll draw it for you!” the pegasus declared, biting down on a quill and dipping it into ink before drawing out a crude three shaded lightning bolt with tiny words, Red, Yellow, Blue! in them; above that formed a cloud to originate the bolt.

“I’ll provide you with a better depiction of the Cutie Mark when you get home again.” Luna whispered in my ear, successfully turning my face red as I turned to look at Luna and finding her muzzle right up close with a seductive smile.

Both our faces turned crimson as Luna back-pedaled quickly while I remained frozen in place, my left eye twitching from the unexpected.

“I- I'm so sorry! I don’t know what came over me!” Luna insisted, galloping hard from the room.

“Well that was something.” Weiss announced; her own face frozen in shock as I turned and buried my face in my work again, trying my best to focus on sketching the Mark into the top header piece.

“Yeah, I've never seen Princess Luna act like that before!” the squeaky unicorn replied.

“So what are you going to do to make this thing look awesome?” the pegasus demanded, thankfully giving me an escape outlet.

“I’ll-” I had to stop to clear my throat with a cough. “-I’m going to line the backboard with felt or something if I can get some, I'll have to get my assistant to acquire me some hinges so I can add in cabinet doors below for the less savoury awards or trophy polishes she may have.

“If the image that Princess Luna gets me is in colour I should be able to stain the engraving in the specific hues with crushed gemstone paint.”

“Cool, and what are you going to make it all out of?” the pegasus asked pulling the book of wood closer to leaf through the pages.

“Preferably hardwood so that it’s guaranteed to last.” I replied, flipping to the hardwood section of the book. “It’s your gift so you pick the wood you want me to carve from.”

“Uhm, how about this one?” the pegasus pointed at a slab of wood in particular.

“Teak, very nice.” I replied, getting a good look at it. “Kind of reminds me of a much darker pine, personally.”

“What’s pine look like?” the pegasus inquired, leafing through more pages again.

“Pine is a softwood, it’s also -probably- what this table is made of.” I replied, knocking my fist against the tabletop.

“Oh, yeah it’s too bright. Let’s go with Teak. By the way, I'm Scootaloo.” Scootaloo announced, shaking my hand for introduction once I'd written Teak across the top of the page, followed by “-Scootaloo” for reference.

“I’m-” I tried my introduction again, however the final filly nearly kicked Scootaloo off the chair as she appeared and interrupted me yet again.

“Helping me now!” she declared with a grin, already looking through the book of woods. “What do you suggest for a fabric cabinet?”

“Softwood.” I replied with a roll of the eyes, flicking back to the front of the book. “What I'll do for this is I'll put in racks for the rolls of fabric to be easily accessible and will let the seamstress simply pull the cloth off without making too big of a mess.”

“That’ll work. I don’t really have anything specific to add to it, but my sister would love all the scroll-work you had before!” the unicorn announced, resting her head on her hooves perched on the table.

“That’s something specific to add, Sweetie Belle.” Weiss replied from her conversation with the others.

“Oh, I suppose it is. Never mind!” Sweetie Belle chirped as I continued my design in the paper.

“Something like this then?” I turned the page to show the filly.

“Yeah, that looks great! What is this going to cost us, by the way?” the unicorn asked with a frown.

“I couldn’t tell you at the moment. I have to get my assistant to go out and find out the cost of the wood so I can generate a cutting list and give you an appropriate price.” I replied, writing “Coastal Douglas Fir - Sweetie Belle” across the top of the page.

“Wait, what’s that one look like?” Sweetie Belle demanded, pointing at the wood name on the page. I replied by flipping through the softwood pages to the aforementioned tree and it’s lumber. “Ooh, I really like that one!”

“I agree. Once I polish it up it’ll have a much more golden look to it.” I replied, rolling up the page once more. “Applebloom, I'll make your bed frame out of pine; it’ll be a soft wood but it should be sturdy enough to work. It’s also going to be a fairly bright colour, similar to your coat. Is that fine?”

“Sure thing!” Applebloom called back as I unrolled her scroll and made the appropriate markings on the top.

“Alright then. With that taken care of, I'll have Weiss give her brother the wood lists so I can get started.” I announced, putting everything into an organized manner and stood up, giving Weiss the silent notification to end her conversation and climb up onto my back before nuzzling against my neck.

“Weiss, you have a brother?” Scootaloo asked in surprise.

“Yeah, both of us work together; he takes care of the shop and delivering the completed items or retrieving the materials. I stay with this guy right here to do the work; he’s even going to let me help him rough cut everything!” Weiss replied eagerly, hooking her tail around my neck to hold her up as her forearms shot up into the air exuberantly.

“Awesome! So then we’ll get to meet your brother when he comes to deliver our stuff?” Sweetie Belle looked eager to meet another baby dragon.

“You’ll probably meet him when he comes with the price lists, actually.” I replied, leaning against the table as Weiss reset herself to my back again. “Well anyways, I should get going and actually get to work. It was nice meeting you all.” I announced, grabbing my scrolls and turning from the library while Weiss turned around completely to wave good-bye.

“Good-bye strange creature, thing!” all three girls shouted after me as I turned down the hallway towards the Courtyard and my dungeon.

“Well that wasn’t so bad, we even made some new friends!” Weiss announced once we were taking the steps down into the darkness, our eyes adjusting for the light levels until we reached the bottom filled with torchlight.

“You made new friends, I made contacts.” I corrected, reaching back to lift Weiss over my head and set her down. She scampered off somewhere as I entered my work cell, sitting down at a small table to properly convert the images into actual Blueprints with measurements and all that.

Author's Note

You know, the comment boxes in the last few chapter and story main page are rather empty. I would like to hear what you all think about this so far.

Btw, I don't plan to write in any real romance between my character and Luna beyond small quips or suggestive comments based in humor, so don't ask.