"I'm tired."
"Do you need some lovin' touchin' squeezin'?"
"I swear to Khepri if I have to listen to that damn Journey Destination song one more time, I will suck your vital organs out through your nasal cavity."
"Yeesh!
"Look, remember that concert I took you to that weirded even you, Mr. 'I like all kinds of music' out?"
"Yeah. It was two hours of indeterminate buzzing."
"Well, to me, that was music. I, and most changelings in fact, care little for the--to my ears at least--infantile and simplistic rigid major and minor construction of equine pop."
"Well, excuse me for not being hip enough."
"You are forgiven. I'm still tired though."
"Alright, let me try again. Do you want to, I don't know, cuddle or make out or something?"
"You could make me warm soup."
"Pardon?"
"Love is more than just tangential to reproduction and, um, I guess foreplay. Physical affection. That's the term I'm looking for."
"True, but I thought that, when extracted willingly, such physical activities are most satisfying."
"Do you eat the same meal every day, Clair?"
"Well, no."
"Exactly. I've been reading Cadance's new book, like my therapist told me to. I'm actually appreciating it a lot more than I expected. I thought it would all be stuff I already knew, and to a large extent it is, but she also points out a lot of little nuances. Ones of those is love languages."
"I've heard of the term before. Care to elaborate?"
"Sure. I'd love to over some hot soup. Make me some damned soup, please."
"Of course, of course. What flavor would you like? Looks like we've got a can of cream of mushroom--"
"Homemade, actually."
"But... okay. I can do that. What would you like in it, honey?"
"Surprise me. But there's one ingredient you must include."
"And what would that be?"
"Love."
Well, this looks like it's going to be an interesting exploration of two very different species amiably interacting. I look forward to more.
That last part had go Aaaawwww!
Its... Its just literally dialogue. I don't know who these characters are, but I don't care about them anyway. Less than onethousand word chapters leave no room for anything to get started, or any characterization (which is important for a dialogue driven story).
7054906 I think it needs some real world humans under the influence of drugs to really take it to the next level though.
7055096 i'm mostly doing this to practice characterizing characters through dialogue, and getting myself to write more and every day. Do you feel that this would gain a lot from adding scene description and character actions?
7055262 I updated the description to give sorely lacking context.
That pun, it burns!
7055627 If I do a mature sidestory for when things get too heated, I'll call it The Sexy Times They Are A Changeling.
I hear love cooks up a lot like egg whites in hot soup.
I like this! You don't see too many dialogue-only stories.
7055911 Glad you like! There's a group called Dialogue-Only Stories. You'll find a few more of mine in there.
Egyptian god of the dawn spotted.
You can tell because he has a beetle for a head...
Wait... So she sees a shrink, but doesn't have emotions? Huh... that actually could make sense, but it would be a real change from Pony or Human psychology... I wonder if most of the time they talk about how to handle other people in ways that don't apply when under cover?