#fenixtj

"Actually" Clem ponders "Once we'ree in the Dreaming I... mm hold still, please, Salma. Do you trust me?"

She looks up at Clementine, and then over to Ellie. She... does not look sure.

Ellie is hugging the kitten like she half-expects to lose her.

And back to Clem. "Yes."

Clem says "Dandy and.. oh shoot. " A sigh "Guess it'll be up to me then. " A nod

When the food is ready, Clem hands the basket to Salma "You hold this"

Agnes left it on the step out side

Ellie has gone very quiet. Ramona might be a touch squashed.

And Clem begins to.. act like a horse, and flap her arms up and down

Pert blinks

And Clem keeps it up up and down back and forth

Until...suddenly she's expanding, shifting...

and a great mare with blue wings stands before them

"Oh," Pert smiles "SHe'll fly you by the sky trod, girls. YOu're going flying. Let's get the saddle pack on her"

Ellie STARES.

"Guess i better get it, you girls seem a bit distracted" Pert saddles Clem up

"I don't think you're supposed to RIDE on a CHIEFTAIN."

Awed, and intimidated.

"Just a piggy back ride only with a horse..." Clem the pegasus mare says "With wings" She adds. Holy shit she talks

Salma squeaks.

which.. shouldn't be weird on top of everything but she just became every pre teen girl's second most popular friend/pet

"...Tonto gives piggyback rides."

"Tonto only THINKS he's the chieftain..."

She turns back to where the kinain was helping with their stuff. "Miss Pert? Please try the cookies. I swear, cross my heart they're..." Stumbling over her pooka tongue. "Probably no bueno. But you might like them anyways, and I don't want anyone to think they were a trick and throw them away."

"You know something girls, I will, and I might even visit you two." A firm nod

"Up to you, Pert. I know the farm was your haven but if you feel the need to see the world again" Clem the winged steed says "So be it. In fact, given your background you might be of use to the girls in other ways"

"Rosa and Maria made them. They're boggans."

She's less stiff, now her voice just sounds tired.

"Ive had their food before" clem adds "it's really good, pert."

Pert helps the girls onto the back of Clem

"They're teaching me to make alfajores even though it's too much work." A nod.

"Salma is very clever, she can learn anything."

"Bye girls, I enjoyed meeting you" Pert waves and steps back "And you're both very sweet"

Salma strokes the back of the pegasus marveling at how the edges of the feathered wings feel - then blushes and stops, pulling back her hands. "Oh, los siento..." One does not PET the Chief...

"It was nice to meet you, too."

CLem chuckle wickers "It's fine."

"And off..we.. GO!" Into the air , the flapping of wings, the rush.. the terror of a kitten that may either hide with the food or in Ellie's blouse

Salma's welcome to visit is lost in the rush of wings, but she does wave down at Miss Pert until the kinain is out of sight.

Ellie hunkers down. And if there are tears on her face now, she can blame them on the sky and the wind.

And they rise, into Iowa skies... then suddenly, they're on Silver... silver and blue...

the adventures in the dreaming are hard to recall... but when the girls return to the city... they are sure they saw something..amazing. .and there's a sense of beauty and wonder

And arm around Ellie, to steady herself. "Is this how birds travel the trods?"

"It must be." She assures.

Clem has to be careful as she circles "Mortals about.. if I get seen like this... or you do while on me..."

Fortunately, they evade and... she transforms to HERSELF

LEading the girls on her shoulders or around her waist perhaps

Saddles at her feet

"Ramona, please don't run away..."

"I am sorry, I should have checked the basket..."