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[inmylight_commander]

[So guess who also shot at the Moogles and guess who also got to experience a stop spell stasis field, and who's less than happy about the whole thing?]

[This girl.]

[A video feed opens on another fully armored personnel, her Israeli accent edged with frustration.]

Noble Two calling Noble Actual. Come in Noble Actual. Colonel Holland? Auntie Dot -- Someone needs to tell me what the hell is going on.

[Some brief, jerking movements as she tries to brush off the Meow Wow that keeps rubbing up against her leg and snuffling affectionately.] Stop it. If I'd known you are what I was making I wouldn't have bothered. Go away before I shoot you.

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[sailorgenerous]

There's no need to shoot it! It only wants to be your friend.

Noble Two...you wouldn't happen to be a friend of Emile's, would you?

[inmylight_commander]

[She stares at the feed mutely for a couple moments. What exactly is she staring at.]

I don't need friends. I have Noble. [She stresses the word because what was this thing doing using Emile's name was beyond her.]

Where is Noble Four? [She's mad and she's not curbing any of it for the strange ... horse ... thing. If anything she's added an extra barb to her tone.]

[sailorgenerous]

[Ah. The staring. It's not exactly pleasant, but Rarity has gotten used to it by now.]

Well, I'm afraid you've made yourself a new one. Spirits are quite loyal - I'm sure he'll be a very good friend.

[Admittedly, Rarity is tempted to end the conversation there, but new arrivals are usually very startled, which tends to account for their manners. Plus, Emile wasn't much better when she first met him. This new person will come around in time. Hopefully.]

I'm not entirely certain at the moment, but he must be around here somewhere. You may be able to reach him over the network, though.

[inmylight_commander]

[Hey, people have stared a Kat her whole life. It's about time she gets to do it for a change.]

It needs to go be loyal to someone else. [Disgruntled, looking down at the happily little thing.]

-- and Noble Four has already contacted me, that's what I needed. He says you're a civilian?

[sailorgenerous]

It doesn't quite work that way. Spirits tend to stay loyal to whoever made them.

[There's squeaking from offscreen, and a Pricklemane begins bouncing in and out of frame behind Rarity. They're talking about Spirits! That means him! Hiiiiiii!]

[The term gives Rarity pause - she hasn't heard it much in Equestria, but she's starting to recognize it here.]

I suppose so, yes.

[inmylight_commander]

[Kat hefts a sigh.] Great. I probably have to feed it and walk it, too. [HAHA guess who's never had a pet before?]

[She stares at the pony again for that answer. Seriously? She answeres with an unamused deadpan,] It means you're not military.

[sailorgenerous]

A bit. Spirits eat the sweets that Nightmares drop when you defeat them, so if you do a lot of fighting, they tend to feed themselves.

Well, yes. I did know that.

[inmylight_commander]

Well, that's good news. [Fighting she can do. That's about the most good news she's gotten so far; that there would be fighting.]

You have military where you're from? [Trying to imagine pony military and failing.]