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[planetdialup]

Completely! Let's do this, it'll be fun!

[verynormalturnipseller]

I'll meet you there!

[planetdialup]

Yeah!

[She's so excited as she makes her way to the Enclosure. She's played around with it before, but nothing like this. No wonder she's bouncy as she waves to her friend.]

Wen Qionglin, hey!

[verynormalturnipseller]

[He's made lots of use of the enclosure, and is almost used to the magic of it now. He's more conscious about his decision to pull out his one decent set of robes, the ones he liberated from the wardrobe for mid-autumn. He tells himself it's practical. He learned to ride in split skirts and loose trousers, and you can't wear bracers with a hoodie.

But also, if he's putting on a show for the honor of horse-kind, and doing something as homey as bolting around on horseback, he feels he should look the part. His hair's even up! It... makes him look a lot more dead.]

Ready to race?

[Inane. He just can't bring himself to try trash talk again.]

[planetdialup]

[She was dressed as she usually did with a long dress with a slit. She could ride a horse or a chocobo easy enough!

But she beamed at Wen Ning, enjoying the robes and the hair up. Maybe it showed off the veins but she didn't care. She has her staff, but she had it in the crook of her arm.]

I'm ready! Let's do this!

[She's so excited to see chocobos again.]

[verynormalturnipseller]

[He moves to give the enclosure its instructions, trusting that it knows how to make a chocobo as well as it knows how to make a horse.]

Do you need anything special to ride? Saddles and... things?

[There are different styles of horseback riding. There may be just as many for giant birds.]

[planetdialup]

Saddle and bridle! Though no need for sidesaddle. The bridle goes over the beak- actually, I can write it in once you're done.

That way we can have more than just yellow chocobos! What colors do you like?

[verynormalturnipseller]

[He hadn't even thought of that.]

What colors are there?

[planetdialup]

Yellow, blue, green, black, and gold!

Gold is pretty rare, yellow is pretty common.

[verynormalturnipseller]

Green?

[It just sounds pretty. He is out of his depth.]

[planetdialup]

Yeah, green!

Here, I'll enter it into the computer, and you can take a look at them in the paddock. Do horses come in green?

[verynormalturnipseller]

Just... fur colors. Usually black and brown.

[Feathers get more interesting.]

[planetdialup]

Huh...that's too bad.

...did you want green horses?

[They could have ANY horses they want WN!]

[verynormalturnipseller]

I think I'd just like a brown one.

[He'd be distracted by the green any time he looked down.]

All of ours at home were black. It got a little boring.

[planetdialup]

Then we'll get you a brown horse!

No boring chocobos or horses for us!

[verynormalturnipseller]

The Nightless City was ridiculous that way.

[Sort of liberating to say.]

Ready to go and see them?

[planetdialup]

Sounds kinda dramatic.

[She giggles softly and claps her hands.]

Oh, yes please!

[verynormalturnipseller]

[Wen Ning makes a show of holding the door for her. He's dressed the part of the young master today. He should behave accordingly. Only once he's seen her through does he follow to find out what a riding bird actually looks like.]

[planetdialup]

[The show of door opening has her laugh and shake her head at him. It's very sweet and silly to her. But her attention is taken away when she sees a chocobo and hears the trademark 'kweh'! It makes.]

Oh, hello precious!

[And she hurries over to the chocobo, ignoring the horse to come right over to the chocobo, bridled and saddled, and reaching out to have the bird- looking so much similar to an oversized, yellow fluffy ostrich- bring its head down to Aerith's waiting hands.]

[verynormalturnipseller]

[Wen Ning's horse is a large, handsome beast, the kind that's rather impractical for the mountains. He moves to it, even knowing it's not real, because it doesn't seem fair to ignore it.

But his attention is firmly on the giant riding bird. He gawks quite appreciatively, as amazed as Aerith could wish.]

[planetdialup]

[Aerith has to dote on the chocobo first because, well. It's a chocobo, and it's precious and she's missed them. She gives it scratches all around the beak, and onto its head and neck where it offers trills of pleasure, closing its eyes and clearly happy at the treatment. Thankfully, she eventually eases up, and glances over.]

Sorry, I got a little excited and...whoa.

[That's a horse? That's a horse. It's big too! Like a chocobo but...not.]

It has four legs...huh.

[Guess Iris made mechanical horses based on real life?]

[verynormalturnipseller]

Well, it's not a bird, a person, or a dragon, so.

[He has definitely never given the number of legs any thought.]

I think that makes it very easy to ride? The only thing more comfortable would be a camel.

[He's never actually been on one, but he's seen a few passing through markets with traders from the west. Riding an animal with a built-in backrest must be cozy.]

[planetdialup]

...we could ride dragons?

[That. They have to do that. She tilts her head, frowning but...maybe it is more stable? Huh.]

So...once we're comfortable with chocobos and horses, we should try dragons and camels?

[verynormalturnipseller]

I just meant dragons have a different number of legs sometimes.

[Riding a dragon is definitely off-limits! At least as he understands them.]

Camels might be fun, though.

[planetdialup]

...they do?

[She had no idea! Well, if he doesn't want them to ride dragons...no dragons.]

But yeah, we can ride camels. Where do you usually ride camels? I don't think I've ever seen one in real life, but still.