Cadence woke up early in the morning to find herself clinging to Eclipse like some sort of touch-starved person. Which she isn't. And she wasn't even a little sad when she pulled away from his very comfortable heat. Definitely not wishing she could stay in bed like this for the next 3 hours.
She got up and stretched, getting herself a glass of water before eating her usual bowl of cereal in the morning, taking only half an hour to eat, clean her teeth, work out, and shower.
She stepped out of the bathroom in just her towel, momentarily forgetting Eclipse was in the room, so she dropped the towel as she slipped on a plain black pair of underwear, like usual.
She heard a deep purr behind her, and she looked over her shoulder to see Eclipse awake, his eyes checking out every inch of available skin as he had a shit-eating grin that just screamed he liked what he saw.
She processed that, and she quickly covered her tits with her hands. "Look away, man!" She snapped, curling in on herself slightly, "I'm not an art piece."
"You do look like a pretty good canvas," Eclipse purred, covering his eyes with his hands, "A canvas I would love to make into a masterpiece."
Cadence huffed, her mind puzzling over what the hell Eclipse meant. She's not that white, is she? Sure, she's extremely pale in some places, but she never thought she was white enough to be mistaken for paper.
She put on her usual bra, a pretty purple lacy one with very slight push-up that she got when she was 15. So now this bra is getting real old, but because of her amazing taking care of it, it still looks quite nice.
She put on her usual black t-shirt, humming to herself as she grabbed a brush and started brushing her hair, starting at the top and brushing all the way down before repeating. She didn't really care if she ripped out some small hairs, it would grow back.
She looked back at Eclipse, who still had his eyes covered with a smirk. "Okay, dressed," She said, setting down the brush.
"Oh good, 'cause my mother is going to come looking for you," Eclipse replied.
Cadence looked confused as she asked, "How could you possibly know that?"
Moments later, there was a knocking on her door, and when she opened it, there stood Andromeda, crouching so she could be seen properly.
"Hello, Cadence! Happy waking!" She cooed, "I was wondering if we could hang out a bit today? I would just love to get to know you!"
Cadence blinked, shrugging as she said, "Okay."
"Perfect!" Andromeda trilled, scooping up Cadence and cradling her before starting to walk.
"H-hey wait, I'm not wearing any shoes! Or socks!" Cadence exclaimed, tensing as Andromeda carried her.
"Not to worry dear, you are very light, I can easily carry you. Goodness, you are almost as heavy as Lunelle!" Andromeda replied, relaxedly walking through the halls of the large space station.
"Okay, where are we going?" Cadence asked curiously, relaxing as she was carried like a child.
"Oh, just to my boys' room. I didn't come here in a ship, so I can only think to bring you to my precious babies' room!" Andromeda replied, eventually getting to Sun and Moon's room.
Andromeda sat down on the couch, Cadence in her lap. This isn't awkward at all.
"So, what are your names?" Andromeda asked, smiling down at Cadence.
"My... names?" She asked, looking confused.
"Yes! Your name, given name, and any other name you go by!" Andromeda explained patiently.
"Uh, I only have one name, and that's Cadence," She replied softly, tilting her head.
Andromeda stared at her blankly, tilting her head in return as she looked confused. "One... name?" She asked slowly, "Then... what does your mother call you?"
"Cadence," Cadence responds with a nod.
Andromeda processes that for a moment before giggling and shrugging. "Well, I shouldn't be surprised. Human culture is different from us Celestial Jesters," She chirped happily, "I'm surprised you only have one name, but I suppose that is to be expected."
Andromeda stroked Cadence's head happily, humming as she stared into space. The frills around her head glowed ever so softly, eyes flashing a very pale blue for a second.
Cadence looked a little confused at the attention, but just sat there quietly, relaxed.
"Well, I need to go dear. Sun wants to show me some delicious food he hasn't shown me yet," Andromeda said, setting Cadence aside on the couch. Andromeda got up, leaving the room.
Cadence looked shocked when Andromeda left her. Hey, now she can't leave! She isn't even wearing any socks!
She looked down over the edge of the couch, frowning at the floor.
She didn't trust that floor. She has never seen Sun, Moon, or Eclipse take off their shoes. She'd seen Eclipse's shoes by the door when he had come in and slept in her bed, but she'd never seen their feet before.
While she is one to always want to know a lot about alien species, she doesn't allow herself to wonder what their feet look like.
She's fucking sick and tired of how her sisters had teased her for liking feet.
She does not! She does not. And she hates it when people accuse her of liking feet.
There is a REASON she never ever ever draws feet in any of her drawings.
She shakes her head, getting rid of that random train of thought.
She contemplates getting off the couch, but she frowns as she sees the size difference.
With Celestial Jesters being a bigger species than humans, it makes sense for their furniture to be bigger as well. And the couch went up to her waist.
She sighed, shaking her head as she decided she would wait until someone could rescue her.
Even if she were to, theoretically, trust that floor, she wouldn't trust the floor of the wider ship.
She sat back on the couch, pulled out her phone, and started to draw another one of her many art projects on IbisPaint.
She hummed softly, slowly tracing the lines of a picture of something she drew earlier, a sort of practice drawing to try and better draw perspective on her bed.
After a couple minutes, her ears perked, and she looked up to see Lunelle's face peeking over the couch.
She smiled, waving at Lunelle.
Lunelle perked up, waving back excitedly before hopping up and climbing onto the couch, which was almost as tall as he was. Lunelle crawled over, a book in hand as he went and sat on her lap.
Cadence looked surprised, looking down at Lunelle with wide eyes as he sat back and opened his picture book, which seemed to be having a silly adventure with a young Celestial Jester with axolotl frizzles exploring some very bright orange environment.
She didn't understand the scripture, though. She can't read what it says.
She was surprised that Lunelle just plopped himself on her lap and resumed reading his picture book. She thought he would take a while to warm up to her, but here we are.
She exhaled softly, relaxing her arms as she resumed drawing.
Lunelle read silently, eyes slowly going over the symbols that seemed to be his language as he read the hard-backed picture book.
It was peaceful and silent as the two relaxed there.
It took almost an hour before any of the others came back to help Cadence get back to her room.