A Visitor in Mind[Private][Dated]

[°๖ۣۜXarith]

-=[::] December 2nd [::]=-

Readied himself for another day as he went to unlock the front door to his shop. With a slow movement, he finally threw the heavy locks open and let the door swing wide as a refreshing breeze swept through. A light barking noise came from the alchemy room as his two new Scottie dogs scampered though the store and ran circles around the shelves. The zebra just let out a breath as he smiled lightly and returned to the front counter.

This is where he promptly folded his arms over the table and stuck his face in it, preparing himself for another slow day.

[Starlight Charmer]

Looking around out of an alley where she chose to hold up in last night, Starlight disguises as a milk-white Unicorn with bedazzling violet eyes and a blue mane, streaked with gold. Picking up the last two apples from yesterday, that had thankfully not rotted, she slips them into her side satchel, and heads out of the alley, and into the quiet street ahead of her.
((for those of you with no imagination, here is the OC disguise.))

Spoiler:

Picking one of the apples out of her side-satchel, she eats it, marveling at its sweet taste. It tasted fantastic, despite the fact that she didn't require food to survive, but it simply helped her look normal, and not what her simple transformation hid. Gazing around, she looks for the store that she had been captive in yesterday. They wouldn't know... Let's just hope I didn't transform into a pony they knew... Entering the store, she looks around, seeing no sign that she was here earlier.

[°๖ۣۜXarith]

Xarith heard a light bark from his dogs as they alerted him of a new costumer, scampering away back into the alchemy room as they had done there job and not wished to disturb the new pony. Straightening himself out, the zebra dusted the imaginary debris from his cloak.

It was just another pony here to check out the shop for a short while, he reasoned, as the mare entered and took a look around. Clearing his through lightly, he spoke out to her.

"Hey there. Need help finding something?" he asked politely.

[Starlight Charmer]

After entering the store that had once held her hostage, she takes a good look around the room, and notices the gargantuan amount of Rum and Coconuts. Giggling slightly at the rum, the thoughts of getting drunk zoomed through her head. Smiling slightly, and acting normal,with her disguise's melodious voice, she kindly asks the Shopkeeper in front of her,

"Hello...Could I please buy about twenty kegs of Rum, and about 10 coconuts? How much would that be?"

Pulling out her satchel, she looks into it and takes a gander at the one hundred bits inside. Hope I have enough...

[°๖ۣۜXarith]

Pulling out a notepad from under the table, the zebra went about writing down the things that would be taken off his inventory. In all reality his notes weren't that extensive, as when you had this much of one thing, you weren't getting rid of it anytime soon. Leaving it on the desk, Xarith offered his smile to the mare again.

"That should be around 40 bits," he said lightly. "Anything else?"

[Starlight Charmer]

Considering the question in her head, she gazes upon the Zebra fully, for the first time, blushing brightly at his handsome features. Oh my Celestia... C'mon, Star, play it cool, gotta ac-But those beautiful stripes and those sparkling eyes...

Shaking her head out of the thoughts, she declines, her blush still smoldering on her face.

[°๖ۣۜXarith]

Raising a slight brow to the mare, Xarith quickly regathered his own thoughts and kept his light air around him. He began out into the store, taking the ordered things down from their respective shelves and placing them on the counter. Waving the mare over, he started to check the dates on each bottle to make sure she wasn't getting a bad bottle.

"Well here you go, miss. That'll just be 30 bits."

[Starlight Charmer]

Levitating the needed bits for the assorted goods she was purchasing to Xarith, she stealthily places twenty more bits onto the counter. Giggling slightly, her blush morphing into a crimson red, she kisses the Zebra on the cheek, whispering "Thank you for your troubles~" as she floats some un-expired kegs of rum from the shelf. He's so hot... I hope I don't undisguise, that'd suck.... I could stand next to him all da-It's just a filly's crush, no more, you'll get over i-But he's so sexy...

[°๖ۣۜXarith]

There was a brief moment where Xarith yet again froze up, not completely expecting such a gesture from somepony like that. After shaking it off, all the zebra could think of doing was offering her his kind smile. "Of course," he said with the slightest redness on his features. "Always happy to help out."

With the the zebra moved back two a small lockbox where he lightly swept the bits into its container before sealing it up and placing it back on its respective shelf.

[Starlight Charmer]

Realizing what she had just done, Starlight melts into a blush as deep as a trench, giggling madly. I can't believe I just did that. It felt so good, too... As her rational mind left the building, she lost grip of her transformation, completely oblivious to it.

Continuing to giggle, she asks Xarith "So, the coconuts~?"

[Roulette]

Roulette yawned lightly as she wandered out of the bedroom she was currently occupying while healing from her attack a few days prior. Being in the bed quickly made her restless and urged her to at least escape the room to stretch her legs. Even if it was too dangerous for one such as herself to go out in town in broad daylight, she needed to get somewhere that offered a change in scenery.

An ear twitched as the sound of voices wafted in from the first floor of the building. Maybe she could finally see what kind of things Xarith sold in this place in greater detail.

The 'ling slowly moved down the stairs and through the simple alchemy room, nudging the door open just in time to hear the word 'coconuts' get uttered. Opening the door all the way, she offered a mild chuckle.

"Don't get me started on this shop and those." She stated bluntly as she slipped her way into the main room of the shop, carrying herself with a strong posture despite the bandages wrapped around her midsection. "He must have hit one interesting jackpot."

[Starlight Charmer]

Seeing the new Changeling snapped Starlight out of her dreamlike state of mind, and now noticing that she wasn't disguised Oh crap, Must've lost myself with him.... Her face paling, Starlight starts to back away, in fear of what might happen. Tripping over herself from walking backwards, she plummets to the floor. Nonononononononono.... Not now...

Sheepishly, Star tries to put on a smile as she asks, "Hey t-there, How a-are you?"

[Roulette]

Roulette raised a brow ever so slightly at the reaction that came from her fellow changeling. Taking a few steps closer, she offered a hoof to help her up.

"I think the better question would be, how are you? You seem as rattled as a pair of dice." She stated bluntly while keeping her gaze locked on the shop customer. "I hope I didn't barge in on any important transactions here or anything. Though, how serious can you be with coconuts?"

[Starlight Charmer]

Making a quick glance at Xarith, blood instantly flows to her face, to make a blush as crimson as the Evening Sun. One from the hive.... Thanking the new Changeling as she gets up with the help of her hoof, Star puts on a mischievous grin as she kisses the Zebra's cheek again.

Turning to Roulette, Star answers, finishing the sentence with a giggle. "As tropical as it could be. Ever drank rum in a Coconut? Neither have I. And I plan to."

[Roulette]

Upon seeing the peck placed upon the zebra's cheek, Roulette slowly brought a hoof up her her muzzle to stifle a laugh that wished to escape from her. The one gesture was enough to speak volumes to the red-colored changeling.

"Ah, so it's that way is it? You sly little zebra, Xarith." She said, shifting her eyes to the zebra in question, offering him a fanged grin that was enough to give off her mischievous air. "I had a feeling you would be giving the wheel a spin somewhere... But in your shop during business hours? I like the game you play."

[Etulia]

Etulia slowly opened her eyes as she woke up. She scanned the room, just to find out Roulette has left it.Quickly she stood up and put on her socks and boots which she tooks off before sleep. she wore her collar the whole night, she never took it off as sign she was a servant. hopefully she had not done something that could harm her she thought as she moved out of the door of the room. As she heared voices from downstairs she headed there. She moved into the shop and saw roulette, Xarith and a new changeling. She just moved in and stood in the back silently.

[°๖ۣۜXarith]

There wasn't much of a moment between Xarith throwing the lockbox back into its original drawer and locking the drawer itself, and having another kiss laid upon his cheek. Standing back up to attention, the Alchemist kept his smile polite as he tried to mask his own slight redness. Yet, Xarith had himself in another weird situation as he Roulette addressed him with a more interesting prospect.

"Well..." Xarith began quietly, "This is an unusual situation to find myself in; I know that's for sure." Placing a hoof where the kind gesture had been, the zebra turned his gaze to the pony in question.

-Or changeling, as he soon found out looking over the newly undisguised mare. A curious look took over his features this time as he noticed that the changeling was the same one that had been to his shop just the other morning. He opened his mouth to speak, but chose to stay silent for a short while, choosing to see where this would be going.

[Starlight Charmer]

Giggling uncontrollably, Star quickly lands a kiss on the top of Xarith's nose. Quickly realizing that another pony had come to see the commotion, and the other Changeling watching her, she quickly retreats to a corner, her face a pure red to make an apple envious. Oh boy, Look at what I caused...

"Well, Things are about to get a tad interesting..." Picking up a keg of rum, she downs it in four minutes. Setting the empty bottle down, she wobbles to Xarith, falling over midway. "Ith othay, I feeth thine..."

[Roulette]

Roulette straightened her stance slightly, a brow raising once more at the strange sight that seemed to unfold in front of her eyes. This new changeling suddenly downed a keg in a near instant. She was a strange one, that's for sure.

"Can't even wait to get home before taking up the cards?" She asked in a slightly cold tone of voice while taking a set back. "No matter. I guess we just have to make sure you don't kill yourself if you get a few unlucky cards dealt to you."

Turning her attention towards Xarith, she asked the question with her simple expression. Now what?

[°๖ۣۜXarith]

Xarith just shrugged as he called out to his brother.

"Athanix! Stop being lazy and get your flank down here to man the register!" No sooner did he summon his eccentric zebra sibling, the one in question slowly hoofed open a cabinet under the counter and rolled out of it lazily, lethargically picking himself up and straightening out his glasses with a hoof. Giving Xarith a lopsided salute, he planted his face into the counter and continued his sleep.

Content at seeing his sibling this lively given the time, Xarith went over and knelt by the new changeling, his head slightly tilted. "Now what did you plan to do with getting yourself like this?" he asked lightly.

[Starlight Charmer]

hiccuping, Star dazily looked around the blurry room, and noticed the four Xarith's surrounding her, causing to her to squee, a crimson blush blanketing her face. Her drunken stupor caused her to rapidly transform as she hiccups. Putting her hooves around Xarith's neck, she kisses him on the muzzle, falling back onto the floor soon after. "I planned to -hic- go undiscov-hic- an..." Closing her eyes, Starlight passes out.

[°๖ۣۜXarith]

Still able to taste a bit of the drink from the gesture, Xarith was quick to stand to his hooves as he lightly wiped his muzzle with his cloaked foreleg. Then turning to the others he shrugged before moving over to the sleeping changeling and gently picking her up and placing him on his back.

"We can't just leave her here now," he said a bit of an annoyed tone his voice. "Don't want others to step in the shop to see her on the floor like this." Pointing over to her rum, he gestured one either Roulette or Etulia to pick it up and bring it into the back room as he took the coconuts up in a bag and into the Alchemy room.

[Roulette]

Roulette nodded lightly in reply to the request asked of her by Xarith, lighting her horn up with a fiery red aura and enveloping the rum keg and swiftly lifting it up off of the ground. Moving into the back room with the shop owner, she placed the item down in an out of the corner.

She didn't say anything, simply taking a deep breath before letting a large sigh escape her.

[Starlight Charmer]

Approximately four hours later....



Star woke up groggily, her head pounding. Oof, that was a day... Realizing the time, she quickly sat up, scanning her surroundings, also noting that she didn't black out on a bed. How'd that happen...

The room was a fairly large one, with multitudes of desks and drawers, and a bigger, empty area in the middle. A cork-board with notes on it hung on one wall, the bed in a corner of the room. On the same wall the bed was placed upon, were three windows that overlooked Main street.

Hopping off of the bed, Star walks over to the cork board, and starts reading the notes.

[°๖ۣۜXarith]

Just coming back from another run for the shop, Xarith entered his room carrying his board and satchel on his back. He didn't notice that the changeling had woken up at first as the door opened in a way that hid her from his view. Leaning his dirtboard up against the wall and throwing his satchel to his main desk over looking Mainstreet, he tiredly walked over and opened the window to let a cool breeze roll through the room. The weary Alchemist then took his cloak off and set it over his chair before sliding into it himself.

With his back turned to his corkboard, he began writing down his notes for after his run.

[Starlight Charmer]

Hearing the door opening, and the entrance of Xarith, Starlight blushes a deep crimson, slowly rising, so as not to disturb him. Huh... I guess he didn't see me...Wonder why. Tip-hoofing to Xie, she suppresses a giggle as she kisses his cheek, whispering into his ear, "Forgot that I was here, did you~?" Releasing a loud giggle that was audible throughout the entire building, Starlight kisses Xarith's cheek again, continuing giggle as she articulates various suggestive sayings into his ears.

[°๖ۣۜXarith]

Nearly spilling his inkwell over his notes, Xarith jumps in his seat as he feels what little energy he has left put into the action. The zebra steadied himself as he let a light breath escape him before he turned to face the mare that had been addressing him. He felt the slightest redness on his features again as he stood up out of his chair to stand while speaking to her.

"And what may I owe that to?" the Zebra asked curiously, shaking his head to further clear his thoughts from their tired haze.

[Starlight Charmer]

Falling over on the floor, Starlight laughs at Xarith's spooked response. Wiping a tear from her eye, she quickly stands up, and quickly remembering what she had said to the zebra, she lightly blushes. Tilting her head, she curiously questions Xarith on what he was writing.


And answering his question, she says "Oh... You know, fooling around, you know, the usual...." Ahh crap, I'm done for.

[°๖ۣۜXarith]

Looking over to his notes before going over, Xarith carefully swept them all up into one pile to be organized later. He turned back to the mare to answer her question. "Those were just some notes for my runs. Just a bit for here and there so I don't forget things when I go on my next trip," he said lightly as his features showed an even more curious expression to the changelings own answer.

"And it would seem so with the display from earlier as well as this one."

[Starlight Charmer]

Blushing in embarrassment from the latest comment, Star quickly kisses Xarith's muzzle. Slowly trotting off to the stairs, she shakes her hips suggestively, slowly disguising as she does so. It's too bad I can't have him... He's so handsome, and cute... Shaking her head vigorously as if to rid herself of the fool thoughts, she continues to her destination.

[°๖ۣۜXarith]

The Alchemist just raises a brow as he watches the changeling leave through the door, disguising as she goes amongst other things. Though, with a light smile and a relieved breath, Xarith turned back to his desk and placed his notes back into their proper place as he moved over to his bed. Quickly making it, Xarith tiredly climbed in and closed his eyes for a light nap.

[Starlight Charmer]

Quickening her step down the stairways, she loses herself in naughty thoughts of Xarith, she trips, causing her to fall head-over-hoof down the stairway. Arriving at the bottom, she slowly raises a hoof over her face in embarrassment and shame. Look at me, I can't go five seconds without looking like a fool over that sexy zebra.... Shaking her head, she rises, and slowly trots to the door to Main street.

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