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[lumberlady]

apology for to bother but

how do two leg people walk???

please send simple and clear advice

or VIDEO? 📷?

i watch human walking all i 's life but

is very more difficult than i expect...

requesting two leg person help!

please and thank you and gratitude

- KONOHA 🌳🍃

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[lumberlady]

[This is the very peculiar sound of a centaur-turned-human releasing a weird mix of a relieved sigh and a pleased sound and a little squeak all at once, toes curling in some weird happy reaction she doesn’t quite understand.]

S- Sensei must make a really good, romantic husband...

[A husband twice??? Two lucky people...]

[tigerpoet]

You're too kind. I do my best.

[Ranpo would agree, though. He says the sweetest things completely sincerely.]

[lumberlady]

[He does... which, she belatedly remembers, she has personal experience with now... eight million myriad of gods...

She’ll just. Peek at him through her fingers.]

If Sensei can carry me... can we go outside... ?

[tigerpoet]

Of course.

[Out they go! Get you some fresh air, Konoha.]

[lumberlady]

[She always feels a bit more energetic outside, she can't help it... and she starts kicking her feet a little bit, even though she's still holding tight to Atsushi.]

At least it's a nice day to fall on your face... and butt...

[tigerpoet]

That might be true, but I'd rather you didn't fall at all, at least while I can prevent it.

[He'll take care of her!]

[lumberlady]

W- Well, me too...

[But she still shyly points out towards the thicker grass of the side yard, flexing her toes curiously.]

But can we still practice over there where it's softer, just in case?

[tigerpoet]

[wow don't you trust him!!]

Alright, just in case.

[She's getting carried over to the thicker grass.]

[lumberlady]

[No she trusts him literally so much? Look, she's letting him carry her! Even after they did all sorts of lewd things???]

D- Don't put me down too fast, please- !

[She wants to try getting her feet under her! Her toes feel so weird... Look at how they wriggle? all separate like that?]

[tigerpoet]

Alright, slowly.

[Painstakingly, he starts to lower her down onto the grass, not letting go until it seems like she's stable on her feet.]

[lumberlady]

[Slowly helps her get her feet under her a bit more properly, feeling more steady about it... but she still grips tight to Atsushi’s forearms as she looks down at them, experimentally wriggling her toes as she exclaims,]

I can feel all the different grass blades... !

[Which, it’s not like she hasn’t known that, she’s felt them with her hand and skin before, just definitely not with feet.]

[tigerpoet]

They're a lot more sensitive than hooves, I'd imagine.

[He's never had hooves so he can't be sure, but he guesses that the difference is stark.]

[lumberlady]

[Konoha will assure him... it's very. Very stark. Not that this isn't obvious by all the strange expressions on her face as she tentatively takes some more steps, hanging onto his hands tightly just in case. Heel, ball, toe...]

I can't really feel anything with hooves... I mean, not unless something sharp pokes the middle part... and even then it's not anything like this...

[The entire sole was so soft???? And ticklish? She's holding back a laugh.]

It's more like... you feel the pressure of stepping? But not... the stepping...

[Did that make sense???]

[tigerpoet]

I think I understand. Like when something touches your fingernails, right?

[That's as close to hooves as humans have.]

[lumberlady]

Oh, yes- ! Exactly like that!

[She taps enthusiastically on her fingernails, then takes Atsushi's to tap on his so that it actually is something he'll feel.]

It's a good thing Sensei is here, haha... I definitely need Sensei's brains around...

[And his friendship, and his teaching, and his... help sometimes.]

[tigerpoet]

You're a very intelligent woman. I'm sure it won't be long until you don't need me at all.

[what's a self-esteem]

[lumberlady]

[Come on, Sensei! Humble is one thing, but- !]

Uh-uh, that's not true!

[Konoha seems sincere as usual when she shakes her head, still holding on to Atsushi's arms for support as she stumbles through some baby steps.]

Even if I stayed in Lunatia for years [the only way she imagined she'd have time to sit down and study things like she did here], there's no way I'd get smarter than Sensei... I'll keep coming to class forever!

[tigerpoet]

You're very kind... I'd be happy to have you in my class for that long.

[but she is smarter than she gives herself credit for!]

[lumberlady]

[At least she has a lot of emotional intelligence and simple common sense to make-up for her lack of innate book learning talents!]

I'll be in class as long as I'm here or Sensei is here! That's a promise!

[tigerpoet]

[Those are just as valuable!]

I hope I stay here at least as long as you do, then. Though I do hope you get to go home sooner rather than later.

[She wants to start a family, and she can't here.]

[lumberlady]

Mmm... Me, too...

[She knew well that not everyone wanted to go home. People like Atsushi, people like Matthias, who were dead in their worlds, and this was a second chance... people like Rey, like Doumeki, whose world discriminated against them or was full of bad memories...

But she did. She wanted to go home. She wanted to see her parents again, wanted to give Gonta a family...

So she had to stay positive. She would get home, she would, and when she did-]

Will Sensei miss me?

[tigerpoet]

Of course I will. I'll be happy for you getting to start a family of your own, but I'll still miss you.

[As he'd miss any of his friends who disappeared, even if they were better off at home.]

[lumberlady]

[Even just hearing someone else say "start a family" is enough to make her wriggle a bit, hands cupping her cheeks and momentarily stopping her attempts at walking to wobble in in place instead... before she holds out both her hands.]

Can I borrow Sensei's phone thing?

[tigerpoet]

Hm? Of course.

[He hands her his phone. ...Please don't go looking through the photos on there, there are some lewd selfies of him in a dress that he'd rather not share.]

[lumberlady]

[Thankfully, Konoha doesn't go into the photo gallery, instead just straight to the camera... one of the few features on the devices she has made sure to master.]

Okay... camera button... click the reverse arrow thing...

[Selfie mode activated... she holds out one hand to gesture Atsushi to come closer, holding the phone at arms length in the other.]

Come on, Sensei! It's a "Konoha is really short now and I have to teach her how to use human legs right" picture!