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The whole point of a bond is to benefit both witch and monster. It's supposed to minimize the monster's feral impulses, make them easier to resist.

This is the first full moon she and Lapis have shared since they became bonded, and Peridot is not sure she's feeling any of those benefits yet. She feels just as agitated as ever, just as on edge. She's lurking up in her room, a victorian bedroom turned out of control greenhouse, pacing back and forth in front of the bedroom window as she keeps a mindful eye on her hoard of plants. She'd contacted Lapis by Watch, asked her to come up to keep her company. Which is frankly an embarrassing request to have to make, but for some reason it's the only thing that she can think that would make her feel any better right now.

Her eyes keep flicking to the door, ears pricked up for the sound of footsteps. It's totally dark in the room except for the moonlight filtering in through the bay window.

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"I absolutely could," Peridot counters, laughing and swerving to avoid Lapis's hand. "I'm an incredibly powerful dragon now! I can keep people out-- or bring people in-- to whatever places I want!"

"I'd like to see you try! What are you gonna do, pick me up?" There's no way Peridot could. She's too short. Lapis laughs in return, trying to playfully swat at Peridot again, though this time it's in an effort to muse her hair up.

"Nyah--!!!" She squawks indignantly, and then grits her teeth and makes a weird noise as Lapis totally fucks up her 'do. "Nooooooo, it takes me forever to get it in the right shape here!" she says plaintively, trying to muss it back up into usual bizarre triangle peak once Lapis's hand withdraws.

Then she points an accusatory claw at her. "You are messing with a force far more powerful than you could possibly comprehend!" Peridot says dramatically. "I could absolutely pick you up if I wanted to! Dragons used to kidnap people all the time, there are countless legends about it in the books here!"

Lapis is laughing so hard she's making snorting noises at Peridot and her dramatics. Actually, hang on, she might be wheezing, just a bit, leaning slightly forward and clutching her stomach.

She stops, long enough to open her mouth to say something.

And promptly starts laughing and snorting again. The thought of Peridot actually managing to pick her up is hilarious. She's too tall? Her arms and legs would drag on the ground!

Peridot frowns at her, unamused by Lapis's lack of faith in her abilities. She makes a small, dragony growl. And then, when Lapis is doubled over, she lunges forward, grabs her by the waist with both hands, and deadass lifts her up over her head like it's absolutely nothing.

She stops laughing once she's hoisted into the air.

Then realizes it's exactly how she pictured, and the fact that she can just almost touch the ground again sets her off once more, only this time even harder.

She's only ever been hoisted up by larger Gems, and this is a hilarious first.

Peridot just listens to her laugh for a moment. It's sort of infuriating, that she's not even a little bit impressed that she's able to do something like this now. But at the same time, it's... She's not sure how to explain how it makes her feel, actually. It makes her chest feel all warm and bubbly, hearing her laugh like that. Like the way they used to riff off each other back at the barn, and yet altogether different at the same time.

Without really thinking about it, she changes. Like it's second nature. Suddenly Lapis isn't touching the floor anymore, because Peridot is in her larger true dragon sized form now. She's basically Bismuth sized now. She keeps holding the other gem up, and blinks at her smugly.

Peridot shapeshifts, Lapis makes a "Whoa!" sound, because this means she's being jostled around, and she's still getting used to the fact that she can't just simply escape any situation she needs to with wings she no longer has.

In the back of her head, she wonders if maybe she could learn teleportation.

Lapis looks down at Peridot. Her smug face isn't doing her any favours. And quite frankly, the sheer weirdness of it all? She's back to laughing, though she's also reclining a little more in Peridot's grip due to the fact she can't actually move this way or that without the risk of Peridot actually dropping her.

"Pffft! Haha! This is so stupid!"

She's definitely having a good time, though.

The dragon looks a bit indignant, mild annoyance flitting across their bond. "Hey! Can't you act at least a little bit impressed?" Peridot huffs indignantly, fluttering her wings. Lapis's uncontrollable amusement is hard to avoid being overtaken by, but her dragon sense of pride is every bit as difficult to quash.

The annoyance isn't even noted. Sorry, Peridot, it's just a drop in the bucket.

"I've been grabbed and lifted by a lot of Gems! I never thought I'd ever get-" She makes an ugly sounding snort. "Grabbed and lifted by you! A Peridot of all Gems!"

Peridot switches from holding Lapis over her head to holding her out in front of her by grasping her under the arms, like someone incorrectly lifting a cat.

"Wow. I thought you knew better than to estimate a gem's abilities based off of her cut," she sniffs, sticking her snout up and glancing sidelong at Lapis in what is clearly supposed to be a mockery of Pearl. The slight grin twitching at the corners of her mouth is telling, though.

"You're right. How very rude of me. Do you think they'll revoke my Star because of what I said? You won't tell them, will you?" She might be being held up, but it's actually not as uncomfortable as say, being held up by one arm. Still...

"So when do you plan on putting me down anyway?"

The dragon crinkles her snout thoughtfully.

"Um..."

She doesn't really. Want? To put Lapis down? But she's not really sure what she's doing standing with her out in the hall like this, either. She glances at the door leading back into her room, thinking of all her precious treasures stashed inside. Should she put...? Lapis? with the treasures? For protecting?

She zones out a second, trailing into silence as she stand there considering this.

Lapis waits. Politely, even!

But then Peridot doesn't make any show of wanting to put her down. And like this, it's a little bit awkward to poke her in the nose. That being said, she still uses her foot to nudge Peridot's middle.

"Peri?" She's ready to be put down!

With a start, getting nudged brings Peridot's attention back to the gem in her claws.

"...We're going back into my lair," she declares, trying to nudge the door back open with her tail. She still has not put Lapis down.

"Wow. At least put me down first." Lapis has had about enough manhandling as she's comfortable with now, and Peridot is gonna start straddling that line from good nature to annoyance. It was funny, but now she's done being carted around.

"Don't make me have to kick you."

She pauses again, ears twitching. Peridot makes a half motion towards putting her down, but falters, making an upset, growly whiny noise in her throat.

"I... Can't," she complains, sounding altogether embarrassed and apologetic.

"Why not?" Is the question, because naturally, Lapis super doesn't get it? Peridot picked her up and Peridot can put her back down, thanks.

"Because I don't want to," Peridot half snaps, half whines in a moment of total petulance.

"Yeah well you're not the one being held, so you don't get a say in it. Put me down, or I will make you." Isn't this originally what their little tiff had been about anyway? Not that Lapis had thought that Peridot lacked the ability to actually put her down, but here she, still dangling like an improperly held cat.

Peridot grumbles and lashes her tail, clearly at odds with herself over this.

After a moment, she turns Lapis around in her claws... and then grabs the scruff of her shirt in her teeth, leaving her dangling from her jaws, so she can use her front paws to get the door open and bustle inside. THEN she sets her down, and closes the door.

Compromise!

"Hey!"

It's too late. Everything happens very fast and the indignation of being ABSOLUTELY manhandled makes Lapis squawk in said indignation, and when she's set down, she gives another noise of protest and gives a hearty glare at the dragon.

"Wow, rude much?"

There's definitely annoyance coming over their bond.

Edited 2019-09-27 03:34 (UTC)

Peridot, turning back to face her, looks visibly taken aback when the annoyance lands, and she reacts to it with a hearty helping of shame. Her ears fold back, like a scolded dog, and she crouches low to the floor on all fours, so she's actually below Lapis's immediate eye level when she makes an apologetic gurgling noise. She's still blocking the door out, though.

"I'm so sorry, I don't know what came over me," she whines anxiously, swishing her tail.

Edited 2019-09-27 03:47 (UTC)

Lapis does make an annoyed noise, but that's about all she does before she reaches over to-

Boop the snoot.

"It's fine. Just don't do that again. It's fine for a bit but then it kinda starts to get too much?"

Peridot's snoot wrinkles a bit as it's booped, and she makes a light sneezy sounding noise. She doesn't protest, though, and just wiggles it for a second before resuming keeping her pitiful puppy-dog eyes on her bonded.

"I know, I should know better," she whines despairingly, kneading the edge of the carpet with her talons. Notably, she still hasn't changed back from being a quadruped yet, for whatever reason. Possibly this form just feels more natural to her, with the full moons out.