"Orbit"
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Created on: Monday 11th of May 2020 02:07:01 AM CDT
Retrieved on: Friday 30 of October 2020 11:19:42 AM UTC


FractalFluff, January 27, 2014; 19:19 / FB 17019
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ORBIT

(Unmitigated hugbox.)

>Be Orbit!
>Be a wingie-friend!
>Be running round and round in your round pen.

>Man on the magic pictie-boxie said airplanes go fast to fly!
>Man on the pictie-boxie said that zoomy-rockets go spinny-spinny-spinny
>Round and round and round the world, and that's how they stay in the sky!

>If YOU go fast and go round and round and round and round
>Maybe you will go in the sky too!

>You've tried this before, and something always goes wrong.
>You've forgotten what, though.

>Now you feel spinny!
>Maybe the spinnies are taking you in the sky!
>Faster! FASTER!
>Your feet leave the ground!
>You did it!

>"AWBIT FWYYYIN!"

>Wait.
>You're not in the sky.
>You're still in your pen.
>Your room's just upsy-downsies.
>You still feel spinny
>Only now it's not fun.
>You want the floor back, please.
>"Fwoow?"
>You wave your leggies.
>"Why fwoow-fwend go way? Pweeze come back, fwoow!"
>The floor ignores your entreaties.
>Only one power in the universe can save you now.
>"Dadi!"
>"DADIIIIII!"

***

>Be Orbit's Dadi.
>Be picking her up off the floor of her pen, yet again,
>Turning her over and setting her back on her feet
>Steadying her
>Watching her stagger drunkenly towards her bed.
>In the middle of the pen, two feet away.
>Faceplanting three times on the way there.

>Wants to fly.
>Runs in a circle trying to achieve escape velocity
>Gets dizzy
>Falls over.
>Can't get up.
>Decides that gravity is broken or the floor hates her or whatever.
>Lies there screaming till you come over and fix it.
>She does this every other day.
>She's been doing this since she could walk.
>You must have picked her up and sorted her out hundreds
>No
>Thousands of times.
>She never learns.

>Her breeder called her Bubbles.
>But after the fifth time you found her on her back
>Legs waving at the ceiling
>Too dizzy to stagger
>All because she'd basically tried to run into space again
>You started calling her Orbit.

>She does this every other day.
>She's been doing this since she could walk.
>Thousands of times.
>She never learns.

>It never stops being funny.

>You wouldn't change her for the world.