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[sky_child]

A haggard looking, pointy eared teenage boy in green pajamas wanders into the bar like a zombie. He stops by Bar, mumbles his order, and, carrying a fresh cup of coffee (green, of course), drags his feet to a nearby table.

And proceeds to stare blankly at the swirls of heat rising from the coffee.

Somebody hasn't been sleeping well.

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[gorgonfondness]

Coffee looks like a mighty fine idea to another person who hasn't been sleeping well.

For a relatively pleasant reason. Her child is asleep for the time-being, though, so she can take a coffee break herself.

"You okay?" she asks when she comes by, the handle of a pram in one hand and an iced coffee in another.

[sky_child]

"Mmmn..."

He blinks, looking up to her, slowly, with bleary eyes. He recognizes her immediately--it just takes a moment or two until his brain digs up the reason why she's familiar.

He looks back to his coffee and nods. "Mm."

[gorgonfondness]

"You look exhausted, Link," Mia comments with concern, but not worrying so much to keep her voice down.

Scorpius is a heavy sleeper. Short in sleep but once he's out, he's out.

[sky_child]

Exhausted, yes. He feels exhausted, like he could use a...

Oh. Right.

He lips his cup to his lips, taking a sip.

"I'm fine."

[gorgonfondness]

He gets a dose of Mom Look. But not a full one since she has something else to say, too.

"Hey, I wanted to say I'm sorry for before," she tells him. "That wasn't exactly the best first meeting and most of that was my fault."

[sky_child]

"Oh, yeah...that..." he mumbles, rubbing one of his eyes. "Yeah, it's...uh... Okay, I guess."

[gorgonfondness]

She drinks some of her iced coffee.

"Have you been sleeping?"

[sky_child]

"...yeah!" he says, as if he's been accused of not practicing.

[gorgonfondness]

Okay, perhaps she needs to rephrase the question.

"Have you been sleeping well?" she clarifies.

[probie62truck]

Cradling his own cup of coffee (it smells like coffee, and chocolate, and caramel - enough sugar to wake the dead most likely) he passes by the table with the sleepy teenager at it.

With a smile and a nod, he sits at the next table over.

[sky_child]

Link nods back, not really sure who he's nodding at, but knowing that somebody smiled and nodded at him, and thus it is only polite to nod back.

[probie62truck]

"Don't want you to fall asleep in that," he offers helpfully - because he is helpful like that! "Drinking it would be better."

[sky_child]

"...huh?"

Oh. Oh yeah, that's right. He got coffee, and he was going to...drink it...

He lifts the cup, staring into its black depths (he'd only added a bit of sugar) before he blearily thinks that maybe he should drink some.

Which he does.

[probie62truck]

"It'll help," he says, with the knowledge of a man who's made a habit of consuming giant amounts of it.

"Rough night?"

[sky_child]

He nods. "Can't sleep well."

[probie62truck]

"Oh. That sucks," he says.

He wonders if the ears make background noises more obvious? But that would be rude to ask.

[sky_child]

They do! But given that he's been around pointy-eared folk all his life, he wouldn't know that was the case

"I keep...having this weird dream..."

The proper term for it is nightmare, but he doesn't want cause any undue concern.

[havetubawilltravel]

And now he's got a pink pony peaking at him.

"Woah, you look tiredddd!" Pinkie says. "Have you tried the chocolate-covered coffee beans?" They are, in Pinkie's opinion, AMAZING.

[sky_child]

wow she certainly is a pink pony

"...I...never heard of coffee...before I came here..."

why is she so pink

(At least it's waking him up a little?)

[havetubawilltravel]

The pinkest pony in the history of the universe, Link!

"Try some! They should wake you riight up!" Pinkie grins.

[sky_child]

"Um. Okay."

Since he is super tired, and talking to a pink pony, he's not about to argue or debate whether he should do it. He merely waves down a wait rat and places his order.

[havetubawilltravel]

And the waitrat comes back at fairly quick speed with a small sack of espresso beans, coated with milk, dark, and white chocolate.

Pinkie picks up one and tosses it into her mouth.

"Mmmf...you can taste the twitters," she says.

[sky_child]

Link picks up a bean and scrutinizes it briefly before popping it in his mouth.

"It's..."

Hmm.

He tries another.

"...interesting."

[havetubawilltravel]

Interesting is good. "Feelin' perky yet?" BOUNCE BOUNCE!

[sky_child]

"A little, I guess."

But he's narcoleptic so that's not going to last for too long.