Flux sits in the cell, depression lifting slightly to be replaced by boredom. Kat steps down from the stairs, still in her guard uniform. She looks around until her eyes lay upon Flux, confirming her fear.
"Flux!.. so you
really were arrested."
Flux looks up at Kat's exclamation, then looks back down in shame.
"Um... yes."
Kat walks over to the front of Flux's cell, then sits down on her rump there in front of the door. "Heh, never thought you'd have it in you Flux. I heard you made Glaive's leg bent the wrong way."
Flux winces as Kat repeats his crime to him.
"...yes. I, uh, broke his pastern..."
"it's always the quiet ones they say."
Flux fails to notice Kat's joking tone, starting to sink back into depression. Kat attempts to head it off.
"Aw.. come on Flux, it wasn't
that bad was it? I mean, sure, you suckerbucked his leg the other way and all that, but hey! I heard it was justified. Honor defended, nopony gets
really hurt. Plus it's just 2 months in Jail, could've been a lot worse. You know? Back from where I was from, something like this would get a pony's head hacked off repeatedly by a rusty axe, or maybe just a leg if lucky. Maybe starvation execution, nasty stuff.. buried alive.. yeah, it's a lot nicer here. Lots."
"It's... it's not the punishment. It's that I
wanted to hurt him. I... I could have found some other way to... to defend Stiletto's honor than to break his pastern like that..."
Kat sighs slightly as she looks at the miserable pony. "Flux. What's done is done, it's the past, woosh, gone. You could focus on now.. or what haven't happened yet. Seeing that you don't really have anything to focus about now, maybe it'll be nicer if you think what will you do when you're out."
Flux sighs heavily, knowing Kat is right.
"Um... Kat?"
"Yes? Flux?"
"Do... Stiletto and Glyph know I'm in here yet?"
"Glyph's still with Friesden.. so I don't think he knows yet.. but I think Stiletto have heard already."
"Um..." Flux considers how to ask his question.
"What's... um... how's she doing?"
Kat ponders for a small moment "Well.. can't say she's happy about it. But I think she have plans."
Flux looks a bit worried at that. "Uh... plans? They aren't... rash, are they?"
"Oh no no, well.. at least I hope not. Glyph probably wouldn't be doing anything while he's taking care of Friesden. I'm not so sure what will Stiletto be doing, but I guess it will have a lot of talking."
Flux breathes a sigh of relief. "I don't mind her trying to talk to ponies about anything, but I just don't want to see any of you end up in here for what I did."
"Oh don't worry about it Flux.. and if it helps, I'll be here with you for quite a while whether you like it or not!"
Flux smiles slightly. "Not that I don't enjoy your company, Kat, but don't you have other duties?"
Kat smiles and open up a wing, revealing a ring of keys under it "This
is my Duty Flux."
Flux chuckles at Kat. "So, uh... how's your day been? Um, apart from finding that I... was arrested."
Kat closes her wing back down again. "It's been pretty okay actually. Speaking of which, are you hungry yet Flux? Because I'll have to feed you too."
Flux opens his mouth to answer, but the growling of his stomach makes it obvious.
"Um... yes."
Kat smiles and gets back from her seat. "Alright, do you want anything specific?"
"Um... just some green apples, if that's alright."
Kat beams him a smile. "I'll see what I can find." Then leaves him be there to search for food. Flux decides to take Kat's advice and try to think of the future: what he'll do while in here and once he gets out.
"Compose, think, uh..." Flux looks around the empty dungeon. "...count bricks?"
Kat took a little while before she returns, with a saddlebag full of apples and another one full of carrots, along with bottles of drink neatly tucked away in her wings. "Lunch time!"
Flux can't help but smile as Kat returns. Even in the dim dungeon, she somehow brings some happiness and light. "Thanks, Kat. Uh, what drinks did you get?"
Kat sets the saddles down, then the bottles. "Cider!"
Flux settles down near the bars of his cell to enjoy lunch with Kat. "Sounds good to me."
Kat offer the bottle of cider to Flux and the saddle bag full of apples as well as she noms on her carrots. "Could've gone worse hmm?"
Flux takes a big bite out of an apple, enjoying the juicy crunch, and nods to Kat.
Kat had her lunch with Flux, sitting around nearby and talking to him to keep him sane. Hours passed and she's currently just sitting against the cell bars. Seriously something she would clearly not do with other prisoners, since Flux would easily be able to choke her to death or snatch away her weapons if he tried to. Flux lays next to the bars as well, happy to be next to Kat and deep in thought.
"Two months.. come to think of it, it's ain't that bad is it?"
"I guess not... boredom seems the biggest threat down here..." Flux sighs. "Though I doubt Virtue will sell the piccolo to a convicted felon..."
"She'd sell it to Stiletto or me though, right?"
"I guess? I didn't know you played, Kat."
"Played? Oh no no. I don't play.. maybe Stiletto. But you're not getting it Flux! I mean, we could buy it.. for you!"
Flux looks at Kat, confused for a moment, before what she's saying sinks in. His eyes go wide when it does.
"But... You don't need to do that for me! It's too expensive, I... I don't deserve to play it anymore, anyway..."
"Aw Flux, you're not going to hurt our little pony hearts by refusing our gifts are you?"
Flux looks at Kat, dumbfounded and jaw open, before chuckling and shaking his head. "That's just not fair, Kat."
Kat smiles innocently and giggles. "Whaat?"
Flux gently rubs her withers with a hoof, the bars preventing a proper nuzzle. "Heh, you know what."
Kat smiles from the rub, she doesn't seems to be alarmed from it "hmm? what?"
Flux continues rubbing her withers. "You know precisely what, you devious mare you."
That just made her giggle more. "Oh maybe.. maybe."