Shifted

Luna looked calmly at Raul as he took a knee, resting his arm on it as he removed his helmet with his other hand and placed it on the floor. His black hair was slightly messy and formed to what the shape of the helmet, but was still as sleek as she remembered it. Her mind and eyes wandered to his chest and the memory of how strong he was. For a biped, that was.

“Luna, there are some things that I can’t tell you, but know that for as long as I’m able I’ll be here to watch over you. It’s partly my fault you’re here, you see-” a shuffling sound and Doc Blue entered the room, his tendril eyes flipping to look at Luna then Raul, the settling on the both of them.

‘You are welcome to watch the Tee-Vee,’ he annunciated in Luna’s mind then all his eyes looked to Raul and silence befell the room. Raul shrugged and got up, helmet in his hand, and quietly left the room to where the bedrooms were. ‘I, can not speak to or read his mind. Is he a mage?’

“There are many things I do not know about that man, but it is none of my concern. I am not worried about him, he has proven to be a loyal friend and servant to the crown… that I do not wear,” she sighed. Doc Blue waited patiently. “I, am not from this world, and even on my own I am almost a, dee-bee. The world I knew is long dead as are all my friends and consorts,” he mind flooded with images of long lost ponies.

“The years We were evil had taken their toll on mine sister as well. Whence the tides turned and We were again whole mine sister and I lay to sleep confessing our deepest feelings-”

‘Your words are being lost to me…’

“Ah, yes. Well, my sister and I were reunited and since then she hath taken it upon herself to teach me the ways of the world and how it’s changed. I… do not know if I belong there anymore than I do here.”

Doc Blue moved closer, she noticed his legs were tendrils like his head, slithering skillfully like a dozen snakes dancing in motion. He reached and opened his lab coat. ‘I am a dee-bee, and as such I am a curiosity here, as you are. I have never seen a talking equine, much less with your abilities, yet we are each unique to this world.

‘My world was destroyed and my kind enslaved for our powers. We can fix things. Our masters had us fix their ships while they went from universe to universe, pillaging and enslaving, he closed his coat and began to turn away, before you admonish yourself to a time of self-pity, be thankful you are free. If I may suggest, look to the dark one you travel with and learn why he is not human, like us. What makes him special, maybe you will find a kindred spirit as I have in many other creatures in this town.’

Luna blinked and looked down the hallway. She placed a gilded hoof to the floor and stopped, looking at her quicksilver shoes and lifted the one she’d placed on the floor.

With a sigh she looked from Raul’s door to her own and went to bed.

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