She shrieks and giggles. "Ellie!"

"That's my name, yes."

She curls up calmly next to Ruby.

She curls up with her Ellie, yawning.

Nap time.

Ruby has so much fun with the telepathy over the next few weeks and then months, especially whenever they take practice flights up into ever increasing orbits.

Of course, as spring finals loom, they'll need to plan their summer moon trip properly...

Ruby's been steadily working on reducing the amount of sleep she needs, and is down to one night of sleepily cuddling a week, and has been working on food and water - she still can eat and drink, but she should be fine without for a month long moon trip, so they won't have to haul a month's worth of both up with them (something she's testing by skipping all that for the second to last month of school, keeping an eye on her weight throughout. She doesn't lose weight - or gain it, when she spends the next month experimentally eating whatever the hell she feels like). 

It'll still be a few days to the moon - it's about a hundred times past the highest they've gone, even if they time it for when the moon's a bit closer.

Ellie gets to the point of not needing to eat more quickly than Ruby, and cuts down to a similar amount of sleep. She also makes progress on teleportation, and on manipulating electronics. By the end of the semester, she's turning in assignments without touching the keyboard.

She's looking forward to the moon trip.

Ruby finishes the semester top of their class, throws a party for the assorted minor friends she's made, clears out the few things she'd actually been keeping in her dorm - mostly just enough to throw off suspicion for anyone who came by - spends a week ducking in and out of her foster dad's house, and then - 

'You ready to shoot for the moon?'

'I think I am, yeah.

Ruby sets a time to meet up for launch, and - 

Up up and away!

Extended zoomies.

Rockitties!

Even with their speed increases, flying for two-ish days straight is kind of boring. She spends a lot of it spiraling around Ellie, teasing her, sometimes straying off their path, staring at the stars.

'We gotta get faster,' she sends, wistfully. 'I want to touch the stars. Probably literally.'

'Of course you do,' she thinks fondly. 'We might need a new paradigm. That's a long trip, even at lightspeed.'

She loves Ellie.

'Yeah. And the teleports are still sight range... Dunno if zooming at faster than light speeds or some kind of interstellar teleport would work better.'

'I think a teleport with that sort of range would be more generally useful.'

'Definitely. And there's no stopping us, after all.'

'Not any force in this world.'

She laughs and picks up speed a little.

'Or in all the stars.'

Ellie does a little loop around Ruby, throwing off a trail of sparks.

Pretty!

Ruby grins, and settles in to coast to the moon.

Maybe next time she should bring an audio book. Or music.

Ellie settles into something like a trance state, letting time flow past like space.

And they eventually arrive.

Ruby promptly flops, groaning something about solid land.

Solid moon land.

Though Ellie is a bit tired as well.

Maybe they should weekly nap while watching the Earth before bouncing everywhere. Sounds nice right now...

Yeah...

Purr.

Snugs! Her purrs rumble deep in her chest, and she drifts off radiating fondness for Ellie.

When they wake: time to explore!