Notes Of Time:
Chapter 21- Comet Trail:
Starlight decided to not really wait on the colt Pegasus, and just go ahead and head on home. Starlight though had a little living surprise waiting for Octave, and even though she still knew about her, Octave still wouldn’t see it coming.
“Well it’s a shame you decided to let him down Octave, that was actually kind of rude to leave him hanging like that.” Said Starlight, as the two of them approached her front porch.
“Hey, it was his fault he totally forgot about it, but I guess working will make you forget certain things, I don’t know.” Octave shrugged.
“Well…okay point taken, but still though, why didn’t you remind him then?”
“Did you seriously think I would go along with this date idea of yours?”
“Um…yes?” Starlight giggled with a smile.
“I think my mother was right about this kind of stuff at my age, no dates until I feel ready and of the appropriate age to do so.” Octave added, before Starlight rolled her eyes teasing her, and then turned the doorknob to lead them into her cloud home.
Starlight and Octave then saw an adorable sight of Flitter lying next to her daughter.
“Did you get in with the key I gave you?” Starlight whispered, as it was followed by nothing but a soft smile and mere nod from Flitter.
Octave didn’t know what to think at the moment? Who was this Pegasus with a bow in her mane? Who was that little filly sleeping peacefully next to her?
After Flitter gave herself a proper introduction to Octave, she made her way out onto the porch, and swooped off into the air back home. One question remained for Octave…who was this cute little filly sleeping softly on the couch? Her mind wondered seemed so focused on it, she nearly forgot that Starlight had a daughter in fact.
“Is…is this…Comet Trail?” she whispered pointing to the small filly.
“That’s her, and I’ll just get her here, and make my way into her bedroom to put her off to bed. You can do whatever you want, I think we may have a few hours to hang around and stuff before we need to head off to bed.” Starlight replied, still whispering as quietly as she could to her to avoid waking up the light sleeper.
“Aw come on, I thought-”
“Shhh!” Starlight intervened shushing her, unfortunately causing her daughter to wake up.
“Uhh…mommy…” the small voice spoke up, lookin back up at her mother.
“You want mommy to take you to bed?” Said Starlight. Comet Trail said nothing, and nodded in approval that she was awfully tired. When she got onto her mother’s back however, she then noticed Octave for the first time. This ended up sparking Comet Trail’s curiosity, and she hopped off of her mother’s back and made her way over to Octave.
“Hewwo…who awe you?” she tilted her head; her speech impediments making her sound all the more adorable.
“I’m Octave, and oh my goodness!” she then looked over at Starlight walking over next to her daughter.
“She’s so adorable Star!”
“I know, isn’t she cute?”
“She sure is! Aren’t you little one? Wait…her name was…”
“Comet Trail.”
“Right, Comet Trail…” Octave then got down to Comet Trail’s level on the ground, and saw her head still looking at her tilted a little with a smile.
“Oh my goodness, those little legs! That face of hers…” Comet Trail then intervened with her statement with something they would not expect to come from a filly her age.
“Can I sweep with her mommy? She’s vewy nice!”
“Aww, she said sweep instead of sleep.” Octave giggled.
“Well…alrighty then Comet…but don’t you go anywhere else when you do, understand?”
“Yayyy!” Comet Trail cheered, hugging Octave’s leg.
“She loves meeting new ponies, and one of her favorite things at such an age is making new friends, no matter how old they are.” Said Starlight.
“Oh I bet…but just look at how cute those tiny wings of hers are!” Octave touched one of Comet’s wings, making Comet Trail squirm a bit in place, and giggling a bit at the feel of a hoof touching her sensitive wing.
“Okay, okay, I got it…she is absolutely adorable, thank you Octave.” Starlight chuckled, wondering if she was going to be commenting on her daughter any more now.
A good while had passed now, and it had reached ten o’clock at night. Comet Trail had gotten her nighttime bath, brushing her tiny teeth, and gotten ready for bed in the spare bedroom that Starlight set up for Octave. All she did in it was set up a nice warm bed for her and Comet Trail to sleep in together, and a little lamp and a spare nightstand to set it on top of. Other than that as far as the spare bedroom was concerned, there were nothing but boxes full of stuff stored away on the other side of the room, and that was pretty much it.
“There you go sweetie…now you behave okay? Octave has to sleep too, so don’t toss and turning the covers okay?” Starlight then kissed her daughter’s forehead.
“I pwomise mommy! Good night!” she waved back to her with a small hoof.
“Okay dear, goodnight! Octave? Do you have everything you need? You need a glass of water or anything?”
“No ma’am, I’m good.”
“Heh…you said ma’am.” Star replied.
“What’s so funny?” Octave wondered.
“You called me ma’am…with me, you won’t find me so easily impressed like the others. I was in the military you know, and I led a small group, so I’m used to it, but it’s not like I want it to happen or whatever.” She replied.
“Oh okay, well I guess whenever I think it’s good to be proper I will be.”
“You do whatever you’d like to Octave…goodnight little lady.”
“Goodnight Star.” Octave waved back.
“I wuv you mommy!” Comet Trail’s voice called out to her.
“Mommy loves you too sweetie, I’ll see you both in the morning.” Starlight then cut out the light, and everything went dark, leaving nothing but a lamp on a nightstand left on.
A few minutes passed amidst the dead silence throughout the house. Octave felt Comet’s body rise and fall next to hers, trying to sleep soundly.
“Umm…uh…what’s your name?”
“My name is Octave, I thought you knew that?”
“I fowgot…sowwy.” Comet’s voice spoke up from a dim light next to them.
“Can we pway tomowwow? I wanna pway house…I be the mommy and you be the baby.” Said Comet in that adorable combination of trying to sound out words properly, but errors came into them in a cute fashion.
“I don’t know Comet Trail…because I need to go back home tomorrow.” Octave replied.
“But you don’t have any wings?”
“I know, which is why I need to get back home before the spell wears off…did that make any sense?”
Comet said nothing and only blinked once right into Octave’s eyes. “No…”
“Oh…I uh, figured you probably wouldn’t.”
“What’s that mean?”
“It means that you need to be big enough to understand some questions.”
“Oh…” Comet then looked back up to her again, and then got herself comfortable by curling up into a ball next to Octave.
“Am I a big girl?” she asked.
“Well uh…sure you are…just not big enough still.” Octave replied giggling.
“Oh…okay den…I’m uh-” Comet then interrupted herself with a yawn. “Sw-eepy…” the little filly then began to slowly close her eyes, and gently rest next to Octave. This feeling of an adorable filly had a few things rush to Octave’s mind just then.
“Mom told me I did something kind of like this when I was her age?” she thought to herself within her mind. “Wow…it uh…it gives me feelings for her sort of. She’s so harmless, so cute; I just want to snuggle up with her all day if I wanted to. Wait a moment…I can now.” Octave added in her mind. She then decided to bring Comet Trail a little bit closer to her, and Comet not resisting at all. She then brought her body around Comet Trail’s in a crescent shaped fashion around the filly’s body, like a mother protecting her child. The feeling of that little body generating so much warmth from her body seemed to radiate nothing but pure love. It relaxed Octave even more, causing her to fall asleep along with her in only a matter of minutes.