Post by Diamond on Aug 26, 2014 4:57:22 GMT -5
Scene: Diamond visits her 'Big Sister' for a pep talk.
Starring: Diamond Dancer and Pinkie Pie
Location: Sugar Cube Corner:
Diamond_Dancer hasn't been by Sugar Cube corner in a long time. No ability to taste and no ability to smell makes a bakery not the kind of place a filly goes to hang out on her time off- but tonight she's huddled up in one of the booths, peering quietly out the window at the passerby in ponyville. Her right arm is entirely ebony now- no longer just up to her elbow- no, it's completely tanished now, right up to her shoulder, where only a few dots of silver are left, awaiting thier turn. Even some of her spikey blue locks have turned black, which, admittedly, is not the worst of looks for her.
Indeed, Sugarcube Corner has been doing a brisk business today, with lots of ponies wandering in and out, mostly leaving laden with treats in a bag or in their stretched tummies. It's not USUALLY this busy, and the Cakes were elsewhere today, so Pinkie... *a* Pinkie, *the* Pinkie, who can even tell now... was left running things alone. She noticed some time ago that among all the giggles and icing sugar there is one small pony enjoying neither, but it is not until now that things have calmed down enough for her to check on Diamond. She slips into the booth opposite the little pegasus and gives her a bright smile. "Hiya, Knight Flyer!" Pinkie slides over a little ice mold with a few sticks poking out of it. "Want an ice pop? I made them just for you."
Diamond_Dancer smiles inspite of herself when she sees Pinkie. For all of Diamonds defenses, and her wishes, and her ability to pull herself out of the tightest of situations- it was Pinkie who'd managed to rescue her from the bleakest places she'd ever been. "Heya Pinkie. Whats an Ice pop?" She squeaks, reaching up to- Whoops. Nope. Wrong arm. Other arm- the one that's still partially silver. She reaches up to poke at one of the sticks curiously. "Why would you'se make me somedin?"
Pinkie wiggles the sticks around and pulls one out, offering it to Diamond Dancer. It's a popsicle, basically. They are mostly colorless, with blue around the outer edges and something marked on the stick - but it is impossible to see through the ice. "This is! Sort of like an ice lollypop! I bet that's why they called it that, or ice lolly or poppyice or opplepice no probably not *that* one and I made it for the same reason I make treats for ALL my friends: because I hope it'll help make them happy. Even a little makes it worth it!" Her infectious grin doesn't waver and she doesn't look away from Diamond's face, but there's no way she missed the spreading black. She tugs out another ice pop. "Come on come on come on! I'll have one too!"
Diamond_Dancer's morose little pout fades away in proximity to Pinkie, and the edges of a smile start to creep up onto her lips. Not the brief flash of a grin- but a real, honest to goodness smile. Pinkie was good at this. So the little filly takes one of the icypoppysicle sticks, and gives it a slow, clumsy lick. "Business looks like it's boomin' here, Pinkie? You'se been busy today? I've been in da Crystal Empire, lately, so...Sorry I ain't come around so much. Princess has been keepin me real busy!"
Pinkie grins and licks her ice pop like only she can - one long slurp that seems to wrap entirely around it for a moment! Then she giggles! "Ih thickleth my thung! I didn't know it would do that!" She does it again, then reaches across the table to hug Diamond Dancer. "Aw! That's okay! I missed you like I miss all my friends but you've got jobs to do and you shouldn't apologize for doing them unless you make a promise you wouldn't but that wouldn't make much sense so don't do that. Ooh, I've been there! I've been there UNDERCOVER too - SHH DON'T TELL - was it fun, what you were doing there?" While saying this, Pinkie does something odd even by her standards - she moves the licked ice pop over to her ear, and apparently listens to it.
Diamond_Dancer giggles quietly. "I went over dare to do some research on Crystal stuff! See, I dink...uh, well I dink I'mma crystal pegasus! Dat would explain a lot, like, da reaction to da crystal heart, and also da durability, annnnd dat one time I toyned into a crystal pegasus. "She explains. "I've been tryin ta figure out how I did it, but, I couldn't come up wif nuffin, so I guess I'm just...ya know...stuck like dis. "She explains quietly, giving her ice pop another wet little clumsy slurp. Indeed, this time, the creation sticks to Diamonds tongue, and she yank-yank-yanks at the stick. "Heeeey...I goth enouff probleh tahkin!
Pinkie giggles at Diamond's predicament for a moment, then scoots away and back in a flash with a cup of warm water. She pours a little of it on Diamond's tongue to free it form its prison of frosty treat, then - without explanation - gently pushes Diamond's hooves until the ice treat is nearer her ears... which makes a gentle ocean-like 'WHSHHHHHHH...' noise audible! But then! "OOOOH REALLY? You could be! I don't know much about the crystal ponies except they throw a rockin' good festival (unless they've been enslaved for a thousand years, but I bet that would make ANYONE grumpy), and I was sorta crystal too one time but only for a minute then it went away and that's okay I liked being shiny but it wasn't important to me like it was to Rarity and- HAY!" She leans back "There is nothing wrong with being 'like you'. You are not stuck like you, you are the BEST you and that's AWESOME!" She punctuates this by waggling her ice pop accusingly, then sticking the whole thing in her mouth. "Hmf!"
Diamond_Dancer Can't taste the pasteries. She can't smell the delciousness being baked, and she can't normally interact with the ponies that frequent Sugar Cube Corner...so why on earth does the little filly visit this place when she's feeling sad? ...OH yeah...Pinkie Pie. Diamond giggles at her 'lecture'. "But, I'd rather be any pony else who wasn't sic-" and MMMMPHs when the icy pop is stuffed into her mouth like a cartoon and her eyes bulge and cross, whilst her cheeks pudge with icy pop. Well, that's one way to take her mind off her situation.
Pinkie grins and does the same thing to herself, *hompf!*, then briefly pretends to swordfight with the sticks, clacking the one sticking out of her mouth against the one sticking out of Diamond's (clickityclackityclock!). Then she sits back and takes her pop out. These melt fast, and the 'sssSSSSshhh' noise it a little louder now, but she's paying no attention to that. "Nuh uh! Bet you don't! You're Princess Luna's Night Errant! You'd rather be ANYPONY else? The mayor with her boring office full of boring papers? Would you rather be Applejack with all the farm work she has to do? Would you rather be Nettleglum and live in the creepy crawly dark?" She dabs Diamond's nose with her melty pop. ...shhhshhhFSSHshh... "Face it, you're only really cut out to be you, and that's good, because you're REALLY GREAT at it!"
Diamond_Dancer's cheeks even pinken when Pinkie says that, and her lips twist into a smile, regardless of how much Diamond is trying to be down on herself today. "HMmmhmp mpphmmpph!" She responds. Either she said thank you, or wheres the little fillie's room. Still, she's smiling now, a warm change from the broken hearted little pegasus that wandered in during the rush.
Pinkie smiles back. "That's what I wanna see! I love it when my friends smile." She licks her pop a bit. "I mean it, though. You don't wanna be anyone else, really. And I wouldn't want you to, because then what would I do about how much I'd miss *you*? You're special! All of my friends are special. I wouldn't trade any of them for anything or anyone else at all ever nope nope no-sirree-bob, and that's a Pinkie promise!"
Diamond_Dancer finally, pulls the frozen treat from her lips and gives it another little clumsy lick. "So, um, what flavah is dis?" She asks. "I can at least imagine it tastes like what it is. "She grins quietly. "I'mglad you'se dink I'm special, Pinkie. Not, just...a freak like some of da oddah pegasi. Cloudsdale ain't excatly da nicest of places, ya know. I like down here a lot bettah. "She explains.
The cotton-candy-colored mare nodnods! "Ponyville is super duper! Flavor? No flavor! Not for your tongue, anyway; these taste the same for me as for you! But it's busy-fizzy so you can taste it with your ears, and it's the same pretty silver and blue as you so you can taste it with your eyes! .... not LITERALLY, don't lick it with your eyeball, that'd be silly." Pinkie gigglesnorts! "'Course you're special! You might even be special and then special AGAIN! You work for the Princess, and you're only a little pony. How amazing is that? And all the things you've done for her? That's like the most amazingest amazing ever! Which means YOU are the most amazinest amazing ever! Isn't that amazing!?"
Diamond_Dancer blushes at that, stiffling a little giggle of her own. Yes, yes, yes, definitely the reason she heads to Sugar Cube corner, when she can. "Danks Pinkie! Hee, you'se know, you'se is real good at savin' me! From eldrich horrors, to bad moods!" She beams, giving the fuzzy icy pop another long lick "You'se is da so much fun, I've gotta take you'se wif me next time I go on a...ya know, non dangerous mission!" She explains
Pinkie beams, grinning from ear to ear! "Maybe we should have an eldritch horror themed party! Ooh ooh ooh! Dagon punch! Blindfolded pipers piping! Pin-the-tentacle-on-Cthulestia! Heeheeheehee! Fun! Fun! Heeeey could I? Go on a Non Dangerous Mission? I can do the Dangerous ones, too, they're fun! Everyone ELSE thinks they're not as fun, though, so maybe not." She claps her hooves together! "You should totally ask her! I'll bring my party cannon and everything! Nothing can be TOO dangerous if there's a party! Nothing to be afraid of!" Pinkie might or might not mean something different by that, though, since at that moment she lays her hoof gently on Diamond's - the one that's gone all the way black. But maybe she didn't. It's hard to tell with Mr. Igneous Pie's pinkest daughter.
Diamond_Dancer smiles quietly. "Not when you'se around, I suppose. It's hard ta be sad around you'se. I dink I'd give up bein' a crystal pony, just so I could have ...dat. You'se is really good at it. Even me...you'se is good at makin' me smile. "She explains quietly, biting at her lower lip. "I can't take you'se anywhere dangerous, Pinkie! You'se know I'd nevah evah forgive myself if you'se got hoyt! You'se leave da dangerous stuff ta me, and I'll leave da smiles to you. Sides, ain't no pony can make a pony smile, like you'se, Pinkie Pie!" Diamond explains, finally giving her poppysicle one last slurp- and finding the little secret hidden underneath. "...H, How..."
Pinkie beams so hard it seems like she has triple a normal pony's allotment of smile teeth! "I love being able to do that! It's what I do best! Baking is only second best. Also singing, that's second second best. Ooh, I remember things really well too, that's THIRD second best! It's just what I was saying, though. I couldn't be anyone else, I'm only good at being me. Same for you, same for everyone. I mean being yourself. They're not good at me! Or you. Or each other even though sometimes they might be and nobody's even good at being themselves the same way all the time and it doesn't MATTER because it's all fine. I bet you get more amazings than most ponies though!" She finishes her own ice pop and shows the cleaned stick to Diamond. Both the sticks have Diamond Dancer's cutie mark burned onto it. "How? Easy! I just used a woodburner ahead of time! Took a few tries to get six good ones, though." She indicates the kitchen with a wave of her head. Barely visible in one corner is a garbage bag bulging full of partly burned popsicle sticks. "Now tell Auntie Pinkie. Is something else making you sad? If ther4e is, I'll go GRRRR at it until it goes away!"
Diamond_Dancer Beams brightly too. She can't help it. Pinkie is VERY good at what she does. "I can't remembah. "She giggles, taking a deep breath. "Danks Pinkie...I needed dis. Eh, needed you'se. I guess I was sad dat I can't swim. My body and watah ain't excatly friends. And I wish I could taste stuff, you know? But you'se is also right. Ain't no odah pony can be me! DAT, is why I'm da princess's Night Errant! Ain't nopony else can do da job!"She grins. "So I'll be me, cause ain't no pony else can!"
Pinkie nodnodnodnodnods! "Uh huh uh huh! Nopony but you can be you!" She takes the two shooting-star-branded popsicle sticks and taps them idly on things for a moment - the salt and pepper shakers on the table, the napkin dispenser, the glass of warm water. She pauses for a moment, then grins. "That's right. You're the only you. You're the best you. So don't worry about being not you. That kinda thing is just too... heavy." <more>
With that, Pinkie starts up a distinctive plinky (Pinkie plinky! Hee!) beat on the objects with the popsicle sticks, and she starts to sing to Diamond. o/` Close your tired eyes, relax and then / Count from one to ten and open them /
o/` All these heavy thoughts will try to weigh you down o/` - she lays one stick under Diamond's chin and lifts her now-smiling face a little - o/` But not this time... / Way up in the air, you're finally free / And what you find up there you'll always be / All this gravity will try to pull you down- / But not this time... o/`
Diamond_Dancer's ears splay back against her head and the little filly bursts into a helpless string of giggles. "Dats my favorite song!! My bruddah sang dat to me! Oh...Bardy...I oughta tell him I'm back in town, I know I've been missin' him a lot, lately. "Diamond squeaks, flittering her wings to send her haphazardly spilling out of the booth and onto the floor. Not nearly as graceful as she might have hoped, but no one can take a punch like Diamond. Thats something she needs to keep in mind. After all, who would she be, if she wasn't she?! "Danks Pinkie, I gotta go see if Bardigan's home!" The filly squeaks, and throws herself forward to wrap her arms around Pinkie in a crushing little hug
Pinkie stops singing for the simple reason that the wind is crushed out of her by an excited pegasus filly! But she hugs right back, THAT at least is something Diamond can feel. "MmmmMM! Yay! Say hi to him for me! Come back anytime and we'll have ice pops again, 'kay? Bye bye bye!"
Starring: Diamond Dancer and Pinkie Pie
Location: Sugar Cube Corner:
Diamond_Dancer hasn't been by Sugar Cube corner in a long time. No ability to taste and no ability to smell makes a bakery not the kind of place a filly goes to hang out on her time off- but tonight she's huddled up in one of the booths, peering quietly out the window at the passerby in ponyville. Her right arm is entirely ebony now- no longer just up to her elbow- no, it's completely tanished now, right up to her shoulder, where only a few dots of silver are left, awaiting thier turn. Even some of her spikey blue locks have turned black, which, admittedly, is not the worst of looks for her.
Indeed, Sugarcube Corner has been doing a brisk business today, with lots of ponies wandering in and out, mostly leaving laden with treats in a bag or in their stretched tummies. It's not USUALLY this busy, and the Cakes were elsewhere today, so Pinkie... *a* Pinkie, *the* Pinkie, who can even tell now... was left running things alone. She noticed some time ago that among all the giggles and icing sugar there is one small pony enjoying neither, but it is not until now that things have calmed down enough for her to check on Diamond. She slips into the booth opposite the little pegasus and gives her a bright smile. "Hiya, Knight Flyer!" Pinkie slides over a little ice mold with a few sticks poking out of it. "Want an ice pop? I made them just for you."
Diamond_Dancer smiles inspite of herself when she sees Pinkie. For all of Diamonds defenses, and her wishes, and her ability to pull herself out of the tightest of situations- it was Pinkie who'd managed to rescue her from the bleakest places she'd ever been. "Heya Pinkie. Whats an Ice pop?" She squeaks, reaching up to- Whoops. Nope. Wrong arm. Other arm- the one that's still partially silver. She reaches up to poke at one of the sticks curiously. "Why would you'se make me somedin?"
Pinkie wiggles the sticks around and pulls one out, offering it to Diamond Dancer. It's a popsicle, basically. They are mostly colorless, with blue around the outer edges and something marked on the stick - but it is impossible to see through the ice. "This is! Sort of like an ice lollypop! I bet that's why they called it that, or ice lolly or poppyice or opplepice no probably not *that* one and I made it for the same reason I make treats for ALL my friends: because I hope it'll help make them happy. Even a little makes it worth it!" Her infectious grin doesn't waver and she doesn't look away from Diamond's face, but there's no way she missed the spreading black. She tugs out another ice pop. "Come on come on come on! I'll have one too!"
Diamond_Dancer's morose little pout fades away in proximity to Pinkie, and the edges of a smile start to creep up onto her lips. Not the brief flash of a grin- but a real, honest to goodness smile. Pinkie was good at this. So the little filly takes one of the icypoppysicle sticks, and gives it a slow, clumsy lick. "Business looks like it's boomin' here, Pinkie? You'se been busy today? I've been in da Crystal Empire, lately, so...Sorry I ain't come around so much. Princess has been keepin me real busy!"
Pinkie grins and licks her ice pop like only she can - one long slurp that seems to wrap entirely around it for a moment! Then she giggles! "Ih thickleth my thung! I didn't know it would do that!" She does it again, then reaches across the table to hug Diamond Dancer. "Aw! That's okay! I missed you like I miss all my friends but you've got jobs to do and you shouldn't apologize for doing them unless you make a promise you wouldn't but that wouldn't make much sense so don't do that. Ooh, I've been there! I've been there UNDERCOVER too - SHH DON'T TELL - was it fun, what you were doing there?" While saying this, Pinkie does something odd even by her standards - she moves the licked ice pop over to her ear, and apparently listens to it.
Diamond_Dancer giggles quietly. "I went over dare to do some research on Crystal stuff! See, I dink...uh, well I dink I'mma crystal pegasus! Dat would explain a lot, like, da reaction to da crystal heart, and also da durability, annnnd dat one time I toyned into a crystal pegasus. "She explains. "I've been tryin ta figure out how I did it, but, I couldn't come up wif nuffin, so I guess I'm just...ya know...stuck like dis. "She explains quietly, giving her ice pop another wet little clumsy slurp. Indeed, this time, the creation sticks to Diamonds tongue, and she yank-yank-yanks at the stick. "Heeeey...I goth enouff probleh tahkin!
Pinkie giggles at Diamond's predicament for a moment, then scoots away and back in a flash with a cup of warm water. She pours a little of it on Diamond's tongue to free it form its prison of frosty treat, then - without explanation - gently pushes Diamond's hooves until the ice treat is nearer her ears... which makes a gentle ocean-like 'WHSHHHHHHH...' noise audible! But then! "OOOOH REALLY? You could be! I don't know much about the crystal ponies except they throw a rockin' good festival (unless they've been enslaved for a thousand years, but I bet that would make ANYONE grumpy), and I was sorta crystal too one time but only for a minute then it went away and that's okay I liked being shiny but it wasn't important to me like it was to Rarity and- HAY!" She leans back "There is nothing wrong with being 'like you'. You are not stuck like you, you are the BEST you and that's AWESOME!" She punctuates this by waggling her ice pop accusingly, then sticking the whole thing in her mouth. "Hmf!"
Diamond_Dancer Can't taste the pasteries. She can't smell the delciousness being baked, and she can't normally interact with the ponies that frequent Sugar Cube Corner...so why on earth does the little filly visit this place when she's feeling sad? ...OH yeah...Pinkie Pie. Diamond giggles at her 'lecture'. "But, I'd rather be any pony else who wasn't sic-" and MMMMPHs when the icy pop is stuffed into her mouth like a cartoon and her eyes bulge and cross, whilst her cheeks pudge with icy pop. Well, that's one way to take her mind off her situation.
Pinkie grins and does the same thing to herself, *hompf!*, then briefly pretends to swordfight with the sticks, clacking the one sticking out of her mouth against the one sticking out of Diamond's (clickityclackityclock!). Then she sits back and takes her pop out. These melt fast, and the 'sssSSSSshhh' noise it a little louder now, but she's paying no attention to that. "Nuh uh! Bet you don't! You're Princess Luna's Night Errant! You'd rather be ANYPONY else? The mayor with her boring office full of boring papers? Would you rather be Applejack with all the farm work she has to do? Would you rather be Nettleglum and live in the creepy crawly dark?" She dabs Diamond's nose with her melty pop. ...shhhshhhFSSHshh... "Face it, you're only really cut out to be you, and that's good, because you're REALLY GREAT at it!"
Diamond_Dancer's cheeks even pinken when Pinkie says that, and her lips twist into a smile, regardless of how much Diamond is trying to be down on herself today. "HMmmhmp mpphmmpph!" She responds. Either she said thank you, or wheres the little fillie's room. Still, she's smiling now, a warm change from the broken hearted little pegasus that wandered in during the rush.
Pinkie smiles back. "That's what I wanna see! I love it when my friends smile." She licks her pop a bit. "I mean it, though. You don't wanna be anyone else, really. And I wouldn't want you to, because then what would I do about how much I'd miss *you*? You're special! All of my friends are special. I wouldn't trade any of them for anything or anyone else at all ever nope nope no-sirree-bob, and that's a Pinkie promise!"
Diamond_Dancer finally, pulls the frozen treat from her lips and gives it another little clumsy lick. "So, um, what flavah is dis?" She asks. "I can at least imagine it tastes like what it is. "She grins quietly. "I'mglad you'se dink I'm special, Pinkie. Not, just...a freak like some of da oddah pegasi. Cloudsdale ain't excatly da nicest of places, ya know. I like down here a lot bettah. "She explains.
The cotton-candy-colored mare nodnods! "Ponyville is super duper! Flavor? No flavor! Not for your tongue, anyway; these taste the same for me as for you! But it's busy-fizzy so you can taste it with your ears, and it's the same pretty silver and blue as you so you can taste it with your eyes! .... not LITERALLY, don't lick it with your eyeball, that'd be silly." Pinkie gigglesnorts! "'Course you're special! You might even be special and then special AGAIN! You work for the Princess, and you're only a little pony. How amazing is that? And all the things you've done for her? That's like the most amazingest amazing ever! Which means YOU are the most amazinest amazing ever! Isn't that amazing!?"
Diamond_Dancer blushes at that, stiffling a little giggle of her own. Yes, yes, yes, definitely the reason she heads to Sugar Cube corner, when she can. "Danks Pinkie! Hee, you'se know, you'se is real good at savin' me! From eldrich horrors, to bad moods!" She beams, giving the fuzzy icy pop another long lick "You'se is da so much fun, I've gotta take you'se wif me next time I go on a...ya know, non dangerous mission!" She explains
Pinkie beams, grinning from ear to ear! "Maybe we should have an eldritch horror themed party! Ooh ooh ooh! Dagon punch! Blindfolded pipers piping! Pin-the-tentacle-on-Cthulestia! Heeheeheehee! Fun! Fun! Heeeey could I? Go on a Non Dangerous Mission? I can do the Dangerous ones, too, they're fun! Everyone ELSE thinks they're not as fun, though, so maybe not." She claps her hooves together! "You should totally ask her! I'll bring my party cannon and everything! Nothing can be TOO dangerous if there's a party! Nothing to be afraid of!" Pinkie might or might not mean something different by that, though, since at that moment she lays her hoof gently on Diamond's - the one that's gone all the way black. But maybe she didn't. It's hard to tell with Mr. Igneous Pie's pinkest daughter.
Diamond_Dancer smiles quietly. "Not when you'se around, I suppose. It's hard ta be sad around you'se. I dink I'd give up bein' a crystal pony, just so I could have ...dat. You'se is really good at it. Even me...you'se is good at makin' me smile. "She explains quietly, biting at her lower lip. "I can't take you'se anywhere dangerous, Pinkie! You'se know I'd nevah evah forgive myself if you'se got hoyt! You'se leave da dangerous stuff ta me, and I'll leave da smiles to you. Sides, ain't no pony can make a pony smile, like you'se, Pinkie Pie!" Diamond explains, finally giving her poppysicle one last slurp- and finding the little secret hidden underneath. "...H, How..."
Pinkie beams so hard it seems like she has triple a normal pony's allotment of smile teeth! "I love being able to do that! It's what I do best! Baking is only second best. Also singing, that's second second best. Ooh, I remember things really well too, that's THIRD second best! It's just what I was saying, though. I couldn't be anyone else, I'm only good at being me. Same for you, same for everyone. I mean being yourself. They're not good at me! Or you. Or each other even though sometimes they might be and nobody's even good at being themselves the same way all the time and it doesn't MATTER because it's all fine. I bet you get more amazings than most ponies though!" She finishes her own ice pop and shows the cleaned stick to Diamond. Both the sticks have Diamond Dancer's cutie mark burned onto it. "How? Easy! I just used a woodburner ahead of time! Took a few tries to get six good ones, though." She indicates the kitchen with a wave of her head. Barely visible in one corner is a garbage bag bulging full of partly burned popsicle sticks. "Now tell Auntie Pinkie. Is something else making you sad? If ther4e is, I'll go GRRRR at it until it goes away!"
Diamond_Dancer Beams brightly too. She can't help it. Pinkie is VERY good at what she does. "I can't remembah. "She giggles, taking a deep breath. "Danks Pinkie...I needed dis. Eh, needed you'se. I guess I was sad dat I can't swim. My body and watah ain't excatly friends. And I wish I could taste stuff, you know? But you'se is also right. Ain't no odah pony can be me! DAT, is why I'm da princess's Night Errant! Ain't nopony else can do da job!"She grins. "So I'll be me, cause ain't no pony else can!"
Pinkie nodnodnodnodnods! "Uh huh uh huh! Nopony but you can be you!" She takes the two shooting-star-branded popsicle sticks and taps them idly on things for a moment - the salt and pepper shakers on the table, the napkin dispenser, the glass of warm water. She pauses for a moment, then grins. "That's right. You're the only you. You're the best you. So don't worry about being not you. That kinda thing is just too... heavy." <more>
With that, Pinkie starts up a distinctive plinky (Pinkie plinky! Hee!) beat on the objects with the popsicle sticks, and she starts to sing to Diamond. o/` Close your tired eyes, relax and then / Count from one to ten and open them /
o/` All these heavy thoughts will try to weigh you down o/` - she lays one stick under Diamond's chin and lifts her now-smiling face a little - o/` But not this time... / Way up in the air, you're finally free / And what you find up there you'll always be / All this gravity will try to pull you down- / But not this time... o/`
Diamond_Dancer's ears splay back against her head and the little filly bursts into a helpless string of giggles. "Dats my favorite song!! My bruddah sang dat to me! Oh...Bardy...I oughta tell him I'm back in town, I know I've been missin' him a lot, lately. "Diamond squeaks, flittering her wings to send her haphazardly spilling out of the booth and onto the floor. Not nearly as graceful as she might have hoped, but no one can take a punch like Diamond. Thats something she needs to keep in mind. After all, who would she be, if she wasn't she?! "Danks Pinkie, I gotta go see if Bardigan's home!" The filly squeaks, and throws herself forward to wrap her arms around Pinkie in a crushing little hug
Pinkie stops singing for the simple reason that the wind is crushed out of her by an excited pegasus filly! But she hugs right back, THAT at least is something Diamond can feel. "MmmmMM! Yay! Say hi to him for me! Come back anytime and we'll have ice pops again, 'kay? Bye bye bye!"
