I Was Up Before The Dawn
Jul. 31st, 2016 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilightponyI successfully napped my way to the predawn peak of shooting star activity and woke up to a meteor party! They're small and faint meteors, but I saw quite a few zipping around, sometimes one every two minutes! Twice I saw a shooting star with a persistent tail, or it may have been the same one twice. Either way, that made my night. The Crystal Heart lights had faded away hours earlier, but I could still feel a faint, lingering echo of the excitement of the crystal ponies. I suspect that that was a factor in my enjoyment of the meteor shower.
Spike arrived back without incident. He knew we were champing at the bit to find out which city was chosen as having put on the best show of the festival, so he let us stew for a while. Finally he told us: it was Cloudsdale in first, Canterlot as runner up and Manehattan coming in third. I'm happy that I had decided to go to the Cloudsdale performance.
Spike was carrying one of those cloth bags with his likeness embroidered on it, the ones the crystal ponies fill with gems intended for his train ride lunch or snack. I could hear two rocks knocking together in it so I asked him what he'd kept this time. Turns out it was a small yellow diamond and a black opal. The diamond I get, but the opal, sure it's beautiful with its flashes of red, green and yellow, but it's just glass. Because it's amorphous, not crystalline, Spike says it's going to be harder to grow, but he's keen to try. He's going to grow it in a water bath and the tricky part is keeping the water content down in the stone. Too much water content and it will crack when he's finished growing it and he takes it out. Does that matter? Do the cracks change the flavor? I assume Spike going to eat his gem collection after he's fattened them up.
That sounded monstrous. OK, not fattened, but grown to prize picking size. There, that sounds awkward, but better.
Still, glass? Fancy glass, but still glass. Maybe I could write to Dragon Lord Ember and ask her if opal tastes better than a glass jar. Or maybe that would be insulting. I'll ask Spike instead.
Spike arrived back without incident. He knew we were champing at the bit to find out which city was chosen as having put on the best show of the festival, so he let us stew for a while. Finally he told us: it was Cloudsdale in first, Canterlot as runner up and Manehattan coming in third. I'm happy that I had decided to go to the Cloudsdale performance.
Spike was carrying one of those cloth bags with his likeness embroidered on it, the ones the crystal ponies fill with gems intended for his train ride lunch or snack. I could hear two rocks knocking together in it so I asked him what he'd kept this time. Turns out it was a small yellow diamond and a black opal. The diamond I get, but the opal, sure it's beautiful with its flashes of red, green and yellow, but it's just glass. Because it's amorphous, not crystalline, Spike says it's going to be harder to grow, but he's keen to try. He's going to grow it in a water bath and the tricky part is keeping the water content down in the stone. Too much water content and it will crack when he's finished growing it and he takes it out. Does that matter? Do the cracks change the flavor? I assume Spike going to eat his gem collection after he's fattened them up.
That sounded monstrous. OK, not fattened, but grown to prize picking size. There, that sounds awkward, but better.
Still, glass? Fancy glass, but still glass. Maybe I could write to Dragon Lord Ember and ask her if opal tastes better than a glass jar. Or maybe that would be insulting. I'll ask Spike instead.
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Date: 2016-08-01 02:01 am (UTC)And I wonder that too!
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Date: 2016-08-01 09:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-02 12:23 am (UTC)