Darrus stood up for a moment so as to reposition where he was as AJ sat down, putting himself a little behind her and on the side of the shoulder she'd been rubbing earlier. Rolling his hooves as if to loosen them up in preparation of starting her massage, Darrus felt a bit disappointed to learn that the Zap Apples had already come and gone for the year as he was starting to become increasingly curious as to just how accurate Applejack's descriptions of the signs leading up them as well as the apples themselves were. Well... looked like he'd missed out...

Anyway, moving on Darrus began to use his hooves to work the muscles of AJ's shoulder, first trying to relieve her muscles of any tension they may have had and loosen her muscles up before putting a little bit more pressure on to try and assist with relieving any pain she may still have had lingering from her earlier arm wrastlin incident. Unlike Applejack who by her own word had little experience in massaging other ponies, Darrus seemed to have a much better idea of what he was doing, whether that be due to experience of giving massages himself or just picking up on what others did whenever he received one who could say. Either way, his hooves worked with some knowledge as he tried his best to make this pleasant for the mare.

"Interesting jobs..." Darrus echoed, keeping his eyes on what he was doing as he thought on her question, "Hmm... Well, as I mentioned before when we first met, most of the work I get is simple labor and junk. The kind of stuff where somepony might hire a walk in for some quick and cheap help in getting some hole dug into the ground. I doubt you'd find a story where I'm digging a ditch very interesting though unless I added in some buried treasure, so give me a sec...

"Oh! Have I ever mentioned that I'm a movie star?" Darrus eventually said after several seconds of thought, "Weeeeell... Maybe not a movie star really, but I was in a film once. At least I think I'm still in it. I was just an extra though for the back ground so it's not like I got to do or say anything. I made up for that by mugging for the camera like crazy every single chance I had though, and since nopony ever seemed to notice, care or say anything I guess it made it in to the film. Unless they cut my in post production or had things set up to keep everything in the background, like me, blurred, but honestly who would do such things to a face like this?

"What else... I sailed on a ship for a couple weeks over on the east coast. Was toying with the idea of maybe traveling to a different country once and at the time couldn't figure out how I'd afford or work my way onto an airship, so I signed up to work on a boat running up and down the coast with cargo to see if life out on the open water would suit me well enough to make the trip. I decided no after the second week, I wasn't huge on the lack of space on board and the constant rocking was kind of bugging me, but there was one moment that came out of it that I think was pretty cool.

"We were heading up north to drop off some stuff I forget for some company that I forget when... Well, you know how some sea life are supposed to jump up out of the water and alongside a ship when it's sailing? That happened a couple times with us, but once was weird. We'd taken a detour through deeper waters than was normal for use to get around some winds or something, I dunno, the captain just said we needed to change course for whatever reason, and while we were out there some kind of huge... thing started following us through the water. Most of us assumed it was a whale of some sort, but even a couple of the more veteran guys were a bit iffy about how accurate that was from the silhouette we kept seeing in the water. Just looked kinda funny for a whale... shape was kinda off, though I'm no expert.

"That's not the best part though," Darrus claimed, taking one of his hooves back so as to make a few gestures as he told his story to convey some excitement he felt over what he'd seen, "at one point, after it must have been following us for at least a half hour, it came closer to the surface and broke it with what we think was it's back. Like a hump or something. Was half the size of our ship and a weird purple color, and it made this kind of motion as if it was gonna rotate onto it's side in the water which caused our ship to lean some, I guess because its fin or whatever was right under us? Keep in mind I'm no expert.

"Anyway, I guess it changed it's mind for whatever reason and decided to sink back under. We lost track of it a few seconds later as it swam lower and after that we didn't see it again," he finished, resting his hoof that he'd pulled away onto AJ's other shoulder as he started to work the muscles of both to give her a better neck massage, "I'll admit that maybe my imagination has exaggerated some of that a touch, but I still think it was kinda cool. Still haven't really figured out what it might have been though.

"For something less fantastical and much much easier to believe, I once modeled for an art class," he informed with another grin, "... ****." he tagged on as a joke.

"So, do you have any crazy stor- Oh. Right. Element and all. Guess that was going to be a silly question. What about before you were one of them famous ponies with one of them famous necklaces? Did you ever get into any cool adventures back then too? How am I doing by the way? There any other spots where you feel stressed and could use a good rub?" Believe it or not, Darrus was not actually trying to make a funny here and was merely asking for serious, "Just say the word and I'll do what I can."