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[whathedoves]

Ah, the life of a single parent! I do not suppose there are many ladies out there who would find an unwed father particularly appealing. No, no, I'll have to hang up my hat on midnight fun soon enough. But these are the choices we make, are they not? [He's not sure he really chose to go on a Pokemon adventure, but why split hairs?]

I must say she was much easier to keep an eye on as a human - even visually impaired! Haha.

It seems I can't even educate my new little ward - not in book smarts, at the very least. Thankfully I was never one for rigorous study.

[For those more inclined to encounter Yuuya in person (or birdson), he is doing his very best to sunbathe luxuriously with his new Budew on the castle grounds.

Lucky the Pokemon is so small and also not really mobile - anything larger would be running circles around Yuuya. Nevertheless, if natures were easily transferable, this Budew would be Naughty. Every time it gets up to go exploring, Yuuya leaves his sunbath to track it down, herding it back with a buffet of his wings.

As he ruffles himself out for another attempt at leisure and glorious sunshine, Yuuya closes his eyes and calls to the open book:]

But it's nearly beach reading season! Whatever shall I do?

Until next time, mes amis. Safe reading.

Adieu!

((ooc: sorry to anyone who had to wait on tags from birdbrain for several days. we should be sorted now!))

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[whathedoves]

Truly? You held out on me during our tour, Luna. Perhaps there are other secret places you wish to take me later, your - Your Highness, it should be? A little flying pony told me you are royalty.

[doublethefun]

[a laugh]

Thou hast spoken to Fluttershy, yes? [the only other flying pony here]

We are no longer in Equestria; titles do not carry much weight here.

[whathedoves]

That's her! How astoundingly prophetic a name. She's very cute. I should endeavor to meet more mammalians if they all take after all of you.

That's quite humble of you to say, Your Highness - Luna - but it would hurt my soul to not give you the respect you are due.

[doublethefun]

Many of our names are rather telling. [understatement.

There's a fond smile at the journal] She is the most adorable filly.

As thou wishest. A true gentlecolt - gentlebird? to the end, I see.

[whathedoves]

Of course! If I hadn't grace, what would I have? [Then they would just go back to being animals!]

I should have known all along! You do have a countenance of royalty about your speech. I just thought it was romance, at first.

[doublethefun]

[a laugh] Charm, most certainly.

My manner of speech is merely a relic of my past; nopony else speaks thusly. Is it truly considered romantic? [yup, she sounds amused]

[whathedoves]

It's practically the language of poetry! [Though poetry had always been the domain of humans before the war...] I happened to be paying attention in class the day we covered man's Renaissance.

Do you know much poetry, Your Highness?

[doublethefun]

I have heard much poetry, but I do not write.

What dost thou mean by "man's Renaissance?" [sorta figured he came from a birdie world]

[whathedoves]

Perhaps one day we shall recite some together, then!

[Oh, oops!] Forgive me, Princess, I forget we are not all from the same plane of existence. During the Renaissance, humans created many great works of art - paintings and poetry and the like; music of the soul!

[doublethefun]

[hmm. That sounds like something she read in the human history books.]

Dost thou live side-by-side with humans? [like Yfandes?]

[whathedoves]

Well.

[Maybe he can do this better than he did with Uru...]

There are not nearly so many humans anymore, and there has been some bad blood ... But I believe that coexistence is possible. [Would have been possible...]

[doublethefun]

[well, she'd have less of a natural bias for either side than Uru would.]

Oh? What happened to them?

[whathedoves]

[Primates, am I right?]

War and disease, which I wager will get us all in the end, if I'm frank.

That same virus which uplifted birdkind was meant to kill us instead.

[doublethefun]

[yeah, honestly. What's with the hairless apes?]

They purposely introduced this malady?

[whathedoves]

Yes.

I believe wholeheartedly it was only for self-preservation though without it I would not be speaking with you today, yet sometimes science is unpredictable, hm?

[doublethefun]

'Unpredictable' is certainly a word for it.

[and it's not even genocide. It's like an entire clade. Do humans really do this?]

I can see why there would be resentment amongst the human, but why did they release the disease in the first place?

[whathedoves]

Our history is gory, Your Highness. I hate to make you think of such things, even for a moment.

[Pause.]

It was done to curb the spread of avian disease to humans.

[doublethefun]

[death, famine, and disease is hardly new to her.

Eartwitch.] I see. A drastic measure, but perhaps a reasonable one for the short-lived. [and short-sighted]

Populations rise and fall, but unless 'tis something truly catastrophic, they will almost always return.

[whathedoves]

And yet, I speak to you today because of it. So strange!

I do hope so. But it can be hard to swallow, for some folk, the thought of more than one intelligent species.

[And so, wars.]