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[both_neither]

I was wondering if there might be anyone here who'd be willing to teach me to ride a horse? I hear we have some full stables and I need better way to get around.

Oh, and if there's anybody who owns something out there that isn't a horse - a giant bird for example - I wouldn't mind seeing that in action.

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[waterproofed]

I'm offering riding lessons for anybody who wants them.

[kid_apocalypse]

I've...actually been thinking about going down to the stables and seeing what's available. I haven't ridden in a little over a year, but I could probably teach you, if you wanted.

[both_neither]

I wouldn't mind, if you don't mind taking on a complete beginner, that is.

[both_neither]

Yeah? I'm assuming when you say ride you mean horses.

Btw, I'm setting him up to find the Flygon my old character Jono left behind =3

[kid_apocalypse]

Yup! I...well...sorta grew up on a Kansas farm. It's sort of complicated, but we had cows and horses and the whole nine yards, so I learned how to ride as soon as I was tall enough to sit on a horse.

[legacydeck]

I could teach you horses and some of the related pack animals. And probably elephants, too, though I'm not sure there are any around.

Birds would be a new one for me, though.

[both_neither]

I have no idea what they have out there, to be honest. Thought I'd just start with a horse.

cute

[both_neither]

How do you 'sort of' grow up on a farm?

[legacydeck]

Well, I can say for certain there are horses. There should be one or two tame enough for a new rider, even.

[both_neither]

Well, good, cause I'm more used to spacecraft than animals.

[gottaknockhard]

[Now he wants a horse. Don't turn into Andy, Gren. It's not a good look for you.]

You can't always afford to be picky.

[waterproofed]

Nah, it's cool. The horses won't mind, either.

[nothingtobelieve]

Looking for a new hobby?

[legacydeck]

[Clow chuckles]

I suspect that's an entirely different set of dangers, there.

I've been looking for an excuse to do it for a while, lol

[kid_apocalypse]

Well...that's the complicated part. I'm...actually a clone, and my childhood was a simulation fed to my brain as I matured. The memories and things I learned are all real...they just didn't happen in the real world is all.

[both_neither]

Sounds like it would make Thanksgiving complicated.

[kid_apocalypse]

[Okay that? That makes him laugh. Like, a gut-busting, can't control himself laugh. Finally, someone with a sense of humor about tragedy emerges.]

Heh, that's a way of putting it, yeah. I mean yeah...it is what it is, but I've still got my friend Wade, and my friends at school and stuff, so it's not like I'm alone in the world. Just came into it a little different than most people. Doesn't make my childhood any less real, just different.

[both_neither]

Not exactly. I was thinking more in the line of business opportunities.

[both_neither]

[Not really what he has in mind, thankfully]

Well, since cars are out...

[both_neither]

[After living through what he has, a sense of humor is pretty much a necessity. Not that he's even been a pessimist.]

I suppose so. In a sense you're pretty lucky, because someone had control over your childhood and could make sure it was a good one.

So how old were you when you woke up from that?

[both_neither]

At least a few I can think of off hand.

so do you want to do the action part on your post?

[both_neither]

You know that for sure, huh?

[kid_apocalypse]

Yeah, that's what Wade said, too. He said that there were plenty of people out there who had "normal" lives who hated their childhood, so I didn't end up with such a bad deal.

Biologically? I was 13 when I was woke up. Too early, according to my Uncle Cluster, but I had all the memories, knowledge, and experience of someone my age raised on a small farm. Chronologically, I was in gestation for a year and a half, accelerated. Only reason they woke me up early was because there was a bad guy I had to help fight.

sure go for it ;)

[waterproofed]

Yep. They told me.

[gottaknockhard]

Shame the spaceship didn't work out.