“Are you sure you don’t want to join me for this,” Novo asked Skystar.

“Maybe next time,” said Skystar, “it’s only been four days since we got here, I’m not comfortable about this place yet.”

“I understand,” said Novo as she swam past Skystar in the nude, Skystar was equally as naked, and opened up her wardrobe and grabbed a pair of seafoam green starfish-themed pasties and placed it on her considerable bosom, they laid over almost the entire front of her tatas with the center of the starfish over the nipples. “I don’t know how long the whole event will last, but I have to be where they told me to be where they want in twenty minutes, the show is supposed to start a bit after that. Try not to cause too much trouble while I’m out.”

“I doubt that will be much of an issue,” said Skystar, “seeing as I can’t even mess with the room service most of the time.”

Queen Novo looked at her daughter with a look that said she expected more from the girl, “You chose to come with me for this, I told you several times you were not required to follow my choice. Besides, you looked clearly uncomfortable during that meeting with Sphinx.”

“Something about that lady just makes me feel uneasy,” said Skystar, “and I honestly couldn’t think of anything else to try and commit to. Maybe after we get some of the currency they use on the surface, I can try investing it into something I feel is a better fit for me.”

“Alright,” said Novo before pecking her daughter on the forehead, as she swam out, she said, “we will discuss this in more depth when I get back.”

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Queen Novo arrived at what looked to be a dressing room about five minutes after her little chat with Skystar. The first thing she saw was Sphinx, her new employer giving a bit of a disapproving look at her. Before Novo could ask, Sphinx said to her in a disapproving amused tone, “Oh, honey, we can’t have out on the floor like that. Those stars don’t properly complement your complexion; maybe if your coat was a darker color, it would be fine. I guess I should have warned you about aesthetics above water, that’s my bad. It’s my first time officially working with an aquatic individual.” Sphinx snapped her fingers, and starfish pasties changed to a dark blue with seafoam green accents, “There we go, much better and everything is a bit more complimentary. Now, you’re good to go,” she took a look at the clock and said in an impressed voice, “and ahead of schedule.”

“How about we start the show a bit earlier than planned, that way it can run a bit longer as a treat for the guests who arrived for this first show,” said Novo, with curious tone to her voice.

“I like it,” said Sphinx, “You were supposed to start in twenty minutes, but we’ll bump it up to 10, that should give the rest of the crew the time they need to finish the setup for the show. Just remember, your original show was supposed to go for an hour, now we’re adding 10 minutes onto that.”

“Is that so,” said Novo with amusement, “I have been known to just go on my singing for over two hours if someone doesn’t interrupt me.”

“Maybe next time,” said Sphinx, “this is more of an intro show for our patrons.”

Queen Novo just nodded before diving back down following the passage to her “stage” and came to her entry and waited for the appointed time, Sphinx would use her magic to send the message Novo was on. Novo actually had no experience with this sort of thing, she had only ever sung for ponies she was familiar with. Due to seapony anatomy, outfit options were severely limited, even if you were familiar with the nuances of what was required for making attire custom-tailored to their bodies.

After a few minutes, Sphinx gave Novo her cue and the seapony queen burst out of the trough of fountain she was in and expertly landed on the water from the top spout, all without disrupting the flow of the water and began singing a wordless song, after a water-resistant (but not waterproof) microphone was transported to her via magic a moment later, she began to sing. Her melodic song went on, completely undisturbed, for a good half hour before she took a brief break to get some water back in her mouth from the fountain with a few elegant handfuls of water. She was used to having a very high level of moisture in the air when she sang above water, the atmosphere here was much drier than she was used to.

After her short break, she started a whole new melodic song, one with a clearly different tune. At some point between the first and second song, the number of listeners to her show had increased by a sizeable margin. She kept going at the second song for about forty minutes before breaking to get some larger sips from the fountain than before the first break before diving into a third wordless song. Once again, the number of observers had increased between breaks. Novo’s third, and final, song was longer still, while still being wordless but with a shift in the melody, many could notice, and stopped just shy of an hour when she finished.

Sphinx hadn’t told her to stop, chances are she hadn’t expected the first show to run almost double her original estimated time but let it all slide with just how much attention Novo got with her song. Shortly after finishing, Novo thanked all the patrons present before diving back into the base of the fountain and making her way to the backstage area to consult with Sphinx on what was to come next.

Author's Note

And here we have more characters coming in