“Well.. should be interesting once she does get here,” Ocean mused aloud, looking to Pyrite and Wave both. “So, eating. Lot more complicated than it should be without hands, I’ll admit. Also, Wave? What do you think of our choices for names anyways, hmm?”

Pyrite managed to cut eggs with her fork, something that felt far more difficult than it should have been. “It’s just as complicated with hands, we’ve just had the chance to master it already. It wasn’t that long ago I was watching a toddler slowly progress through that process. Sounds like Fast has had plenty of similar experiences. Should be a well suited teacher, I hope.”

Wave looked between the two. "I'm proud that you picked a name so quickly. I mean, I did too, but I think I was just remembering an old name more than making up a whole new one, so that's pretty cool." She set a fork down on the table. "For now, how about we go over forks and things. Even I can show that."

Nodding, Ocean fumbled with her own for a few moments before setting it down. “Yeah, that sounds great… this is perhaps a tad bit awkward, I’ll admit. I’m just glad that there aren’t too many others around to watch us make fools of ourselves,” she weakly chuckled.

“I’ve been fond of the word pyrite for quite some time. It sounds super smart and sophisticated, and cool. But it’s also known as ‘Fool’s Gold’, something that feels quite appropriate for me after all the mistakes I’ve made along the way. I do strive to learn from my mistakes, though, and strictly make new and different ones,” Pyrite said with a laugh. “So, teach us the way of the fork, then, great sensei Wave Swimmer.~” She tried twirling her fork, causing it to simply clatter to the table, before picking it up again.

Time passed by, with rewards coming in the form of getting food into their new snouts when they worked the forks properly. Just learning the musculature of their new limbs was vital, though when they didn't think too hard on it, their legs did seem to want to go where they wanted to go, following their urges subconsciously, but that wasn't good enough for eating or other fine gestures. Their steps were about as clumsy as they started, but they reached at least a passable level of food dexterity.

Ocean let out a sigh, looking at her now empty plate as she tried to lick some of the various crumbs off her snout, a byproduct of her clumsy eating. “So… that went a bit better than I’d hoped. I wonder if these things can grip anything, hmm,” she mused, trailing off as she looked at her wings for a few moments. “Thanks, Wave, that helped a lot, but it’s just one thing of many. Let’s try to,” she paused, eyes crossing.

“Try to what?” Pyrite asked, looking to Ocean curiously, wondering what that expression was meant to convey. As she waited for an answer she licked her own snout clean.

“Make it to a bathroom?” Ocean nervously replied, weakly chuckling. “It seems that it’s all of the basic things that are the hardest to do, huh?”

Wave flushed with a giggle at the personal nature of the problem, but she didn't seem actually put off by it. She lifted into the air and zipped at Ocean. "I'll get you there in a jiffy, just let me get a grip." She grabbed up Ocean in her hooves. "Be right back!" Her weight did pull down at Wave, but not beyond her means, just slowing down her flying a little.

Pyrite strolled after them, as smoothly as she could manage, figuring she should probably try to go next. “It’s strange to think that’s going to be in some sense ‘new’ for each of us within such a short time.”

Ocean found herself giggling a bit at the impromptu method of transportation. “This is pretty fun! Makes me wanna learn how to fly even sooner, Wave,” she remarked, watching Pyrite do her best to keep up without losing her balance. “For once, you get to carry me~” The moment Wave got her to the room, Ocean managed to stumble her way to the bathroom, the door closing behind her quickly.

Wave parked herself just outside the door to let Ocean take care of business, and talked loudly as she did so. "I'm not really flying, not like you will be. I just kind of swim through the air. It's different I would think. I don't have wings. I don't flap." She spotted Pyrite approaching along slowly and flew over to give a hand, er, hoof.

“Thanks, but I think I’ve got this,” Pyrite declined politely, but still took the chance to nuzzle Wave while she was close. “Oh. Ocean! Don’t forget to wipe. Front to back! It’s important, I think.”

“Awkward enough without commentary!” Ocean’s muffled voice came from the bathroom before she reappeared a minute or three later, shaking her head. “Okay, that was a new experience that I hope gets easier. But, Wave? Swimming through air is a tad close to flying, I’d imagine. But, when I can fly, I’ll bring you up and you can tell me how it differs?” she amusedly offered.

Pyrite promptly slipped in after Ocean was done, ready to do her own business.

Spike wandered past on some business or another and chuckled on the way. "Only in this house…" He said nothing else and was gone as quickly as he arrived.

Wave peered after the dragon a moment before looking to Ocean. "Oh come on, I'm just floating here." She waved her hooves down at her torso, which floated serenely in the air. "That can't be the same thing, can it?"

Shrugging, Ocean nuzzled her before leaning down and looking underneath Wave. “I see air under you, so… I doubt it’s the exact same thing, but still a bit close to some degree?” Grinning a bit mischieviously, Ocean blew a raspberry against Wave’s belly.

Wave flinched at the last minute in surprise, but it was far too late to avoid having a snout pressed against her scales. She didn't have an actual belly button, but the sensation of having a raspberry blown on her was enough to dissolve into gales of laughter. She flopped to the ground, her floating disrupted entirely in helpless twitches.

Giggling, Ocean continued her pursuit, at least until she lost her balance and fell down next to Wave rather awkwardly, giggling herself. “That was fun! Not to mention that I like your laugh, I’m gonna have to do that again sometime~” Ocean flopped her head onto Wave’s belly, smiling at her.

Pyrite could be heard flushing and washing her hooves. “What am I being left out of now?” she called out before finally emerging.

Wave hooked one leg around Ocean and held out another to Pyrite. "You aren't being left out of anything, unless you want a turn torturing me like a not-nice, uh, herd sister? Marefriend! Yes, marefriend is right. We're all marefriends." She looked happier with that being firmly settled.

“One word… raspberry~” Ocean replied, giggling a bit more as she wrapped a hoof around Wave as well, holding one out hoof to Pyrite as well. “A group of marefriends, hmm? Sounds good to me, Pyrite is pretty hot for a pony, and Wave, you’re just right~” she cheesily spoke.

“Why thank you, Ocean,~” Pyrite replied, before turning on Wave with a devious grin. “And thank you for the invitation, Wave.~” She swiftly leaned in and started nibbling Wave’s neck rapidly, knowing many found that tickling, and moved one hoof in to Wave’s side to try tickling her there.

As the group fell into giggles and playing, a pony landed on the balcony and entered only to almost trip over the group gathered there. "What the? What are you all doing here?" asked Rainbow Dash with a bemused expression before pointing at Wave. "Aren't you one of those Siren things? Twilight mentioned fighting a bunch of you once."

Ocean’s head perked up and looked towards Rainbow curiously, her giggles slowly dying out. “We’re staying here for now? And Wave isn’t a ‘Siren thing’ she’s a Siren,” she clarified, wondering what brought Dash here. “You’re Jake’s friend, Rainbow Dash, yeah?” Ocean asked, although she already knew the answer.

“Also, learning how to be mares. Please forgive us a few missteps, as the hooves are freshly minted,” Pyrite said as she disentangled herself, before quickly introducing herself and her two friends.

Rainbow blinked owlishly. "Freshly minted?"

Wave squeezed both of her marefriends. "They just became mares, and now we're all marefriends."

Rainbow gave a little nod, barely stifling a giggle. "Well, I don't want to get in between good marefriends. I'll just be moseying along now…" She looked towards Ocean. "Did you see Jake? He's late to a game."

Ocean sorted herself out a bit and hummed thoughtfully, wings twitching a bit. “He left sometime after he finished breakfast, I believe. Haven’t seen him since though. I don’t think he mentioned where he was going though.”

“What sort of game?” Pyrite queried, perking up a bit.

Rainbow rolled a hoof slowly in a circle, gesturing here and there. "Just a little game of hoofball, but he knows what's in for him when he's late. He's probably in trouble, again. I swear, that guy is a magnet for trouble, but he always gets out of it, eventually. I better go check on him. Later!" She dashed, living up to her name, and left little more than a rainbow streak behind her.

“Huh,” Ocean muttered as she watched the streak Rainbow left behind. “She really is fast. So…” she turned back to Wave and Pyrite in amusement. “What should the three of us do, you think? Sounded like Fast Change is gonna be busy for a bit, and I’m not averse to, oh, learning all of Pyrite’s ticklish spots or something equally fun~”

Pyrite’s interest had waned when ‘hoofball’ was named as the game, but the mention of her ticklish spots got her alert again. She tried to ward them off with her hooves, looking nervous even as she said, “Fair’s fair I guess, but...  how about something else?”

Wave wriggled out from under them. "Actually… It may not be as fun, but Twilight has a lot of books, I mean, a lot." She spread her hooves wide. "I want to poke through them, see what she has about sirens, maybe learn more about Equestria today? I mean, I'll look really stupid if I keep, you know, assuming it's the same as back in my day."

“Sounds like a good and smart idea, really. We can read until lunch, or Fast Change arrives to help out?” Ocean offered up. “Reading with hooves will be a bit tricky, but I’m sure we can manage, and learning more about Equestria would be good for all three of us,” she admitted, getting to her hooves carefully.

“Oh, Spiiike!~” Pyrite called out as she started toward the door. “Maybe they have a ‘Dummy’s Guide to Unicorn Horns’ or something. I’ll trust you two to learn the common lore, while I focus on getting this thingy figured out.”

Spike poked his head in as if summoned. "Huh? You're not Twilight." He pointed a claw at Pyrite. "Only Twilight and Rarity get to call me that way. Anyway,I'm already here, so what's up?

Wave quickly answered with a grin. "We were hoping for the help of a skilled librarian assistant."

Correct words spoken, Spike beamed. "You've come to the best one!" After hearing what was desired, he turned to leave, but paused. "You two want anything?"

“I guess some basics on flight on top of Equestrian stuff would be useful, I’m assuming there’s more to flight than just flapping your wings,” Ocean remarked with an amused giggle. “Thanks a lot, Spike.”

“For future reference, how would you like me to call you, Spike?” Pyrite asked, head quirked.

"Hey, Spike. Excuse me, Spike, almost anything but 'Oh Spiiike'. Only Twilight uses that really." He made a dismissive gesture before looking back at Ocean. "I humbly suggest against it. Twilight read a bunch of flying books and it put her back like three weeks. Physical stuff is better learned doing than reading about it."

Ocean nodded. “Okay then, if you say so, I’ll agree with that. Um,” she paused, blushing a bit in embarrassment. “There wouldn’t happen to be any books on mare biology? Pyrite and I could probably use that knowledge, too.”

Spike looked baffled by the request before his scales turned colors. "Um, sure thing!" And he fled before more questions could be asked of him or any explanations given for why he needed that particular book.

Wave watched him flee then pointed into a quiet study with a table. "Let's have a seat while he looks." Not that she seemed to actually 'sit' so much as lie down on things.

“I’m thinking I’ll go with ‘Oh great Spike, draconic lord of literature, we humbly invoke thy name!’ next time,” Pyrite mused, before strolling to the table. “Anyways… hopefully whatever book he finds for me will demystify some of that weird arcane jargon that was in the other book… though, I’m sure I won’t fully grasp any of it until I can get this thing lit up.” She tapped her horn, then shuddered a bit.

“Guessing you shouldn’t go tapping that horn of yours, hmm?” Ocean asked, following after Wave into the study, a bit more sure on her hooves. “And I’m finally starting to get the feeling for these things. It’s like… two limbs that were numb my entire life that I’m just getting used to feeling,” Ocean tacked on, letting her wings move around a bit before tucking them back in.

“It’s fine it’s- mmmm..~” Pyrite said as she rubbed the appendage in question, getting a bit of a spaced out look before she blushed and quickly put her hoof down. “I’ll uh… maybe I’ll let one of you check that out later.~”