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trans_92011-07-10 11:41 pm
appletastic) wrote in trans_92011-07-10 11:41 pm
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Getting some shut-eye aboard this...plantboat presented more of a problem than Applejack had first guessed. How was she expected to just tell time? And without time, how did you know when to sleep, when to wake up, when your work was supposed to start and stop?
She'd taken to just plain collapsing whenever she'd felt too tired to go on any further, but that sure didn't feel right. Every sleep time felt different, like she'd gone a few hours one night and many more the next. Was the work even going to get done on time?
So far, she'd done as much as she could whenever she'd felt alert. One of those apple trees was going to be ready for a bucking in a few days' time, and that would bring all kinds of work. Some of the apples would be kept raw for sale and trade, of course, and others would be baked and dipped into various sweets. She'd already promised a pie to Dean, and she was sure there would be more to follow.
At the end of this workday, though, Applejack carried just a few things on her back: one or two ingredients she'd begged for in her flankpack, a just-scavenged empty basket for future apple-carrying, and an old blanket for the pile of hay waiting for her back in Hydroponics.
It sure was uncomfortable to sleep there, though. The hay and outdoorsy breeze didn't bother her, no, but the lack of starlight did. How were you supposed to know it was night time? That the sun would come?
That was the problem, actually. There would be no sunrise to wake her up in the morning. Plant-boats didn't have suns, and even if they did, Princess Celestia wasn't around to raise it. There wouldn't be any more cock-a-doodle-doos announcing her gift of the mor. Her sister Luna wouldn't be bringing the night either. Out here, it was nighttime eternal until they found a way to pierce the darkness.
Applejack wanted to plan for that Ohm-bucking part some more, but the time to take on the darkness would come later. For now, the farm pony just wanted some sleep. Judging by the way she rolled, twisted, and huffed against the meat-couches in her current location, the only place with something that slightly resembled a starry sky, the time for sleep wasn't quite here yet.
"Consarnit, this just ain't working," she sighed. "How's a pony supposed to sleep on these things? A good bit of bedding's supposed to stay put."
She'd taken to just plain collapsing whenever she'd felt too tired to go on any further, but that sure didn't feel right. Every sleep time felt different, like she'd gone a few hours one night and many more the next. Was the work even going to get done on time?
So far, she'd done as much as she could whenever she'd felt alert. One of those apple trees was going to be ready for a bucking in a few days' time, and that would bring all kinds of work. Some of the apples would be kept raw for sale and trade, of course, and others would be baked and dipped into various sweets. She'd already promised a pie to Dean, and she was sure there would be more to follow.
At the end of this workday, though, Applejack carried just a few things on her back: one or two ingredients she'd begged for in her flankpack, a just-scavenged empty basket for future apple-carrying, and an old blanket for the pile of hay waiting for her back in Hydroponics.
It sure was uncomfortable to sleep there, though. The hay and outdoorsy breeze didn't bother her, no, but the lack of starlight did. How were you supposed to know it was night time? That the sun would come?
That was the problem, actually. There would be no sunrise to wake her up in the morning. Plant-boats didn't have suns, and even if they did, Princess Celestia wasn't around to raise it. There wouldn't be any more cock-a-doodle-doos announcing her gift of the mor. Her sister Luna wouldn't be bringing the night either. Out here, it was nighttime eternal until they found a way to pierce the darkness.
Applejack wanted to plan for that Ohm-bucking part some more, but the time to take on the darkness would come later. For now, the farm pony just wanted some sleep. Judging by the way she rolled, twisted, and huffed against the meat-couches in her current location, the only place with something that slightly resembled a starry sky, the time for sleep wasn't quite here yet.
"Consarnit, this just ain't working," she sighed. "How's a pony supposed to sleep on these things? A good bit of bedding's supposed to stay put."
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"It could be playing in our heads, like her voice? Or...nah, I don't get it either. Whatever it is, though, it seems to work."
And she was content with just that, sitting back and listening for a little while. She even seemed to be getting sleepy, swaying back and forth.
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Cassie found herself yawning as she listened to the soothing music, her eyelids drooping a bit. Sleep seemed to be catching up with her, although she wasn't sure whether she should credit the music, her morphing (Which always tended to take a fair amount of energy out of her), or the walk for this fact.
She turned her attention to her companion briefly and smiled when she saw some of the same signs of sleep overtaking Applejack. She hoped that her new friend would now be able to fall asleep.
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If the things she said didn't entirely make sense, it was because the pony was falling asleep rather quickly. She was slowly sinking to the floor, head rolled against one wall.
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She was tired, but still awake enough to think and morph if needed. She didn't want to wake the pony by trying to move her to another place to sleep or leave her alone overnight to wake up in the strange environment, so Cassie crept out of the room temporarily and morphed osprey to fly back to where Applejack had been trying to sleep previously to get her sheet. She then flew on back to her house, her osprey morph just managing to keep a good grip on the sheet, to collect a blanket for herself as well. After demorphing and writing a quick note so that her friends wouldn't worry if they found her missing, she put the blanket and sheet on her back and morphed into a horse, careful to morph in such a way that the cloths spread on her back wouldn't fall off her.
Then she made her way back to Applejack, demorphing again and covering the pony with the sheet. "Good night, Applejack," she whispered.
Cassie curled up against another wall, drew her own covers over herself, and promptly fell asleep before she was even fully settled, now completely exhausted, but satisfied.
OCC: If this doesn't work, then let me know and I'll change it. Thank you!
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Cassie was going to get a nice warm breakfast and a wish that she go to her comfy room if this ever happens again.
((It's fine! Thank you too :) ]]