Post by Sky Blue on Jul 7, 2013 16:02:20 GMT -5
"... and that is the fourth reason why you're not allowed to trip over nice old crystal fillies," Cheerilee announces, frowning sternly at Diamond Tiara as, nearby, an elderly mare continues to grumble to herself. "Now, I don't want to have any more misbehaviours, or you'll get a week's detention. We are guests in the Crystal Empire and we will do our best to show how civilised and friendly we are in Ponyville !"
"Nawce t'fawnally see th'rest'a this place!" Apple Bloom says, as opposed to just the snowglobe stand at the train station. And... so far it actually hasn't been that interesting. She suspects Cheerilee might be deliberately keeping the foals from the COOL parts of the city.
As he ambles along, the school's star academic and socially awkward super nerd, Quasar, looks left and right curiously as he adjusts his glasses upon his nose. He is dressed in a new pressed suit with a bow tie, most likely something his mother bought for him for this special occasion. For the most part he has been quiet, his horn giving a little pulse here and there as he wrinkles his brow.
Thunderfire is trotting along somewhere in the group. "Clutz." he says to DT as he goes on past her to catch up near Q and Bloom. "This is boring. Can't we like meet Shining Armor or the Princess? Who cares that the citizens sparkle like diamonds." Indeed, one grumpy colt that was made to come by his parents.
"Thunderfire! Don't be so insensitive!" snaps Cheerilee, turning to frown over at the young colt, while Diamond Tiara sticks her tongue out at the earth pony. "Remember, our visit here is a special treat! We are here to learn more about other cultures and their lifestyles," she reminds Thunderfire with her usual, friendly smile, resuming a walking pace as they head past a priceless crystal antiques shop and over towards the sports stadium, over which a number of crystal pegasi are flying, engaged in some strange, no doubt crystal-based game. Crystal crystal.
"Ah wonder what a dragon could do in this place? It'd be lawk candyland," Apple Bloom says, watching the crystal ponies. "So, how come we don't see more crystal ponies back in Ponyville? Do they not wanna be with us'r somethin'?" Apple Bloom stops to stare at a crystal filly passing by. "At least they're purty."
"There is one crystal pony currently amongst us. Her name is Mimic and she is a very important diplomat on behalf of Princess Cadence," the nerd states as he continues to trot along next to Apple Bloom, giving her a smile. "Mother seems to think there is more to her than she lets on." As he takes a deep breath of the fresh air, he says, "I wish I was see through. I bet I could do some really fun things with refracting and reflecting of prismatic entropies."
Thunderfire sighs as the teacher scolds him and just listens to Bloom and Quasar as they talk. "If there are crystal poines, do you think there could be other crystal creatures?" he questions, "Like crystal dragons or crystal hounds or something. Couldn't you imagine if we saw a crystal dragon flying overhead?"
Cheerilee's all-solving answer to Apple Bloom's first, second, and third questions never leaves her lips, as Quasar jumps in with his own encyclopaedic knowledge on the subject. She gives a thankful nod to her star pupil, before replying, "Mostly, it's because the Crystal Empire has only very recently been open to the world. I've seen a couple at Ponyville train station before now. As for crystal animals, I'm afraid I don't know, Thunderfire." She turns to look at the colt, while they walk by yet more highly fragile and no doubt even more expensive objects. "In theory, there could be, but the Crystal Empire is still being studied by modern ponies."
"Oh man, kin y'all imagine what a crystal ferret would be lawk? Ah bet Bandit woulda *loved* this place!" Apple Bloom says enthusiastically and looks around, not really paying Cheerilee much mind. There's got to me some worthy way of spending money here. "Let's go shoppin'!" Apple Bloom says to Quasar and Thunderfire.
Apparently Sweetie Belle has caught up in the meantime. She's got a sizable cookie with her and she's smiling. "Crystal Berry cookies are awesome," she tells the others, blinking a bit as she looks around. "Rarity said everything here was super shiny, and she's not kidding. It's like everything everything. And not just the train station. Which we'd never seen before. Till today. No." Smooth.
"So... if they are made of crystal, does that mean they could break?" Thunder can't help but ask as he trots along with them. He gives Belle a glance, not really sharing the excitement, "If everything is crystal and see through, just how can ya get privacy around this place? Like you want everyone to be able to see when you goto the loo. Though... I guess if you are crystal then you are solid right? So you don't eat or anything. Just have to be sure not to fall and break yaself."
A hoof descends upon Apple Bloom's shoulder. "You're staying with the group until we're back in Ponyville, young missy," Cheerilee announces, giving her a stern look. "We will have a supervised tour of some of the shops for gifts before getting back on the train. But we are going to all stay in our group; if one of you were to get lost, we would be here for weeks!" And, as for Thunderfire... The teacher internally groans, then externally gives Quasar a 'help me' glance.
"Technically, the ponies can not actually break since they are still flesh. The term crystal pony is used for their exterior shine and crystal like appearance. It does not mean they are actually made of a hard substance. Otherwise, it would be impossible for their internal organs to function correctly such as proper blood flow and breathing. In fact, if they were made of crystal, they would suffer from asphyxia. It would be a terrible way to die. In fact, I assume it would be long and drawn out. The brain would be the first to go," he says as he adjusts his glasses. "You should ask a pony to touch them, in an appropriate place of course. You will see it's not a hard material." Quasar saves the day again with facts and science. "Hi Sweetie!"
Except Apple Bloom wasn't paying attention again. "Oooh, what if we were t'shawn a flashlawt into one'a them?" Apple Bloom says, "We should TOTALLY stay a nawt here so we kin shawn flashlawts at them!" Apple Bloom is such a fountain of great ideas!
Sweetie chews on the cookie she totally didn't sneak away from the group to buy. She hums a happy song, as she tries to catch up on the conversation. Her eyes sort of glaze over as Quasar shotguns out facts. She finds it hard to grasp a lot of information at once sometimes. "Uh, it's also kind of contagious. My sister said she was one for a while." She gassssssps, "Do you think we can get them to turn on the Crystal Heart? I want a picture of me all crystaled up!"
"Oh sure! Just walk up to one and ask. Yup! Can I touch you?" Thunder rolls his eyes with a shake of the head. He smirks at the idea Bloom has. "We can just play light tag. And why?" He glances at Sweetie. "What is so amazing about sparkling anyway?"
"Everypony, behave!" Cheerilee announces, stepping in front of the group and staring down the misbehavers. "We are NOT going to go around touching strangers. We are NOT playing light tag with the crystal ponies. We are NOT going to play around with important magical artifacts. And Thunderfire, at least TRY to enjoy this trip?"
Ears flattening back for a moment, Quasar drops his eyes down to the ground and scuffs a hoof quietly.
"Ah also wonder if we kin ever see th'palace," Apple Bloom says and then gasps, wandering off from the group again as she spots a shop. A crystal airship figure. Now *that* is a find!
"I know," Sweetie says. "I'll never be all glittery pretty like my sister was." Her lip pokes out and she sighs, looking sad as a little foal can while eating an oversized cookie.
Thunderfire sighs as he is once again called down. Looking over at Belle he smiles. "But you are prettier than your sister." There, he said it! "Only the grown-ups get to see the cool parts like the palace. We get all the dumb parts with history. Okay, its crystal... woopty doo... Can't we do something fun like swimming?"
"Apple Bloom, rejoin the group! Sweetie Belle, you are very pretty. Thunderfire, when we get back, you're getting a five hundred word essay on why it's not okay to be rude about another culture - especially while we're there - and, yes, we're going to see the palace. But you all have to be on your best behaviours. Okay?" Field trips. Oh Celestia. Why in Equestria does she ever think they're a good idea?
Quasar continues to trot along as Cheerilee's mane goes gray. He lets out a soft breath, then says, "How about if we all take a snack break Miss Cheerilee? That way, it will give us all a chance to sample the finer treats of the Crystal Empire and gives the other's a bit of a focus for a few minutes?"
Twist hasn't been lurking in the background. She joins the field by trotting up the sparkly road, except she's not trotting. She's shoving, dragging, and wrestling with a gleaming rainbow crystal heart bigger than she is, and amidst the grunts she explains, "Pbbbthorry Mipbbbth Cheerilee! I didn't mean to be ekpbbbthcupbbbthed tho long, but thipbbbth thigg ith HEAVY!" Every time she gives the heart a particularly hard shove, a peppermint falls out of her mane.
Apple Bloom is staring at the figurine. It's so pretty. Obviously it doesn't look anything like her designs for the Crusader, but it's so pretty, and it's an airship!
"I'm not super fantabulously, breath-takingly, stunningly beautiful, like my sister would say. But I bet I would be if I looked like a crystal pony. I hear it even magics up your mane." Sweetie sighs and continues moving on, though she does give a smile as she is told she's pretty.
Thunderfire looks at Quasar a moment. "Act like a colt, will ya! Nobody likes a smarty tart all the time." He rolls his eyes, noticing what Bloom is looking at. As it seems Twist is now here and up to something he bumps Bloom to get her to follow him to the shop. "Lets go buy it."
"Yes, that's a very good idea, Quasar," Cheerilee replies to her prize pupil, before calling out, "Okay, let's pause for a snack break for a few- Thunderfire! I've told you before to stop picking on Quasar! Do it again and you'll get detention! As I was saying, we're going to pause for a snack-" Then Twist appears. Cheerilee's jaw drops. Then her eye twitches. "... Twist, what is that?" she eventually manages, staring at the shimmering, rainbow-hued crystal heart.
Twist grooooooans as she digs in her back hooves, plants her front hooves against the giant (well, to a foal) crystal heart and pushes it with a loud scraping sound all the way up to Cheerilee. She collapses on top of it, panting heavily. Forelegs drape over the heart in a loving embrace, and she gives one of its facets a long, slow lick. "It'pbbbth DELIPBBBTHIOUPBBBTH."
Glancing back down at his hooves, Quasar scuffs his hoof in the ground again as Thunderfire calls him out. Even though Cheerilee compliments him, it hardly brings a smile to his muzzle as he waits for instruction or leadership to a certain booth.
Apple Bloom says, "Ah must make it mawn." She walks, zompony-like, into the shop then and there.
Sweetie_Belle chews on her crystalberry cookie a few moments more. She looks sidelong as Bloom and probably Thunderfire go toward a store or something. "Uhh..." she says, then again what can she say, she /does/ have a cookie. She gives Quasar a gentle patting on the shoulder to console him, "He doesn't mean it."
Thunderfire misses the scolding as he walks into the shop with Bloom. They blew up the spa! No telling what they will do in here.
At the moment, Apple Bloom and Thunderfire could be gunning down crystal ponies with a Pinkie cannon, and Cheerilee wouldn't notice. "Twist," she starts to ask, having a sneaky feeling won't like the answer, "Was that big delicious heart resting on a small pedestal at the base of the palace?"
As he settles himself into place like a dorky anchor, Quasar doesn't leave Cheerilee's side, even when Sweetie Belle gently pats him. "... I know," he whispers softly as he leans in against her. "They're gonna get in trouble. They never listen," he mutters under his breath.
Apple Bloom looks around the shop until she again finds the airship figurine, "Ah wonder if they take bits. Ah mean, they ARE supposed t'be Equestrian, rawt?" she asks.
"Ihf duffno," says Sweetie around the last bites of her CrystalBerry Cookie, "They seem to get away with a lot." SHe watches them a few long moments, blinking, then looks over at Twist, trying to see what's got the teacher in such a tiff.
Thunderfire shrugs his shoulders. "I don't know. Can ask them I guess," he tells Bloom, noticing something. Making a purchase of his own, he tucks it into his bag and waits for Bloom, rather oblivious to those outside.
Twist has drifted off into her own private reverie, rubbing her cheek against the crystal heart. "I DOO pbbbthub of deepbbbth hadda be rock caddy. I DOO id! We're dowdpbbbthreab frob da Chaopbbbth Laddpbbbth add dere'pbbbth two geologigal layerpbbbth ob jogolad left over frob Dipbbbthgord'th rule, wipbbbth a layer ob vanilla ipbbbthe greab in da middle. Every pbbbthbring for BILLEDIA ipbbbthe belt frob doze moudainpbbbth-" and she jabs a hoof towards the arctic peaks in the distance, "-hab wazhed pbbbthugar indo da groud wader to forb crypbbbthtal depopbbbthitpbbbth here."
Cheerilee feels a Tom-sized weight lift from her. "That's okay, Twist," she says, looking very much relieved. "You're just in time for a small break in our trip. We need to stay in this area, but you can explore the shops in pairs and get something to eat. I need to have a little sit down before we can continue." A little sit down. And a large vodka. "Apple Bloom and Thunderfire are a couple, Sweetie Belle and Quasar are a couple, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoo- put that back! - are a couple... hmm. Who would you like to pair up with, Twist? You can always join a pair to make a threesome."
Twist pushes up onto her forehooves on the crystal heart, tilting her head to one side (half a dozen shelled candies fall out of her mane and bounce off the heart) and giving Cheerilee a bewildered squint. "You're giddig, right?"
"How about if I partner with you Miss Cheerilee and Twist can partner with Sweetie Belle?" Quasar asks quietly as he gives another flick of his ears forward. "I suppose we can go over some of the mid-term grading together. I've put together a flow chart and a bell curve that you may be happy with."
PS - Far off in the distance, unjoined to the RP proper, Scootaloo was pretending to be an antelope.
"Nawce t'fawnally see th'rest'a this place!" Apple Bloom says, as opposed to just the snowglobe stand at the train station. And... so far it actually hasn't been that interesting. She suspects Cheerilee might be deliberately keeping the foals from the COOL parts of the city.
As he ambles along, the school's star academic and socially awkward super nerd, Quasar, looks left and right curiously as he adjusts his glasses upon his nose. He is dressed in a new pressed suit with a bow tie, most likely something his mother bought for him for this special occasion. For the most part he has been quiet, his horn giving a little pulse here and there as he wrinkles his brow.
Thunderfire is trotting along somewhere in the group. "Clutz." he says to DT as he goes on past her to catch up near Q and Bloom. "This is boring. Can't we like meet Shining Armor or the Princess? Who cares that the citizens sparkle like diamonds." Indeed, one grumpy colt that was made to come by his parents.
"Thunderfire! Don't be so insensitive!" snaps Cheerilee, turning to frown over at the young colt, while Diamond Tiara sticks her tongue out at the earth pony. "Remember, our visit here is a special treat! We are here to learn more about other cultures and their lifestyles," she reminds Thunderfire with her usual, friendly smile, resuming a walking pace as they head past a priceless crystal antiques shop and over towards the sports stadium, over which a number of crystal pegasi are flying, engaged in some strange, no doubt crystal-based game. Crystal crystal.
"Ah wonder what a dragon could do in this place? It'd be lawk candyland," Apple Bloom says, watching the crystal ponies. "So, how come we don't see more crystal ponies back in Ponyville? Do they not wanna be with us'r somethin'?" Apple Bloom stops to stare at a crystal filly passing by. "At least they're purty."
"There is one crystal pony currently amongst us. Her name is Mimic and she is a very important diplomat on behalf of Princess Cadence," the nerd states as he continues to trot along next to Apple Bloom, giving her a smile. "Mother seems to think there is more to her than she lets on." As he takes a deep breath of the fresh air, he says, "I wish I was see through. I bet I could do some really fun things with refracting and reflecting of prismatic entropies."
Thunderfire sighs as the teacher scolds him and just listens to Bloom and Quasar as they talk. "If there are crystal poines, do you think there could be other crystal creatures?" he questions, "Like crystal dragons or crystal hounds or something. Couldn't you imagine if we saw a crystal dragon flying overhead?"
Cheerilee's all-solving answer to Apple Bloom's first, second, and third questions never leaves her lips, as Quasar jumps in with his own encyclopaedic knowledge on the subject. She gives a thankful nod to her star pupil, before replying, "Mostly, it's because the Crystal Empire has only very recently been open to the world. I've seen a couple at Ponyville train station before now. As for crystal animals, I'm afraid I don't know, Thunderfire." She turns to look at the colt, while they walk by yet more highly fragile and no doubt even more expensive objects. "In theory, there could be, but the Crystal Empire is still being studied by modern ponies."
"Oh man, kin y'all imagine what a crystal ferret would be lawk? Ah bet Bandit woulda *loved* this place!" Apple Bloom says enthusiastically and looks around, not really paying Cheerilee much mind. There's got to me some worthy way of spending money here. "Let's go shoppin'!" Apple Bloom says to Quasar and Thunderfire.
Apparently Sweetie Belle has caught up in the meantime. She's got a sizable cookie with her and she's smiling. "Crystal Berry cookies are awesome," she tells the others, blinking a bit as she looks around. "Rarity said everything here was super shiny, and she's not kidding. It's like everything everything. And not just the train station. Which we'd never seen before. Till today. No." Smooth.
"So... if they are made of crystal, does that mean they could break?" Thunder can't help but ask as he trots along with them. He gives Belle a glance, not really sharing the excitement, "If everything is crystal and see through, just how can ya get privacy around this place? Like you want everyone to be able to see when you goto the loo. Though... I guess if you are crystal then you are solid right? So you don't eat or anything. Just have to be sure not to fall and break yaself."
A hoof descends upon Apple Bloom's shoulder. "You're staying with the group until we're back in Ponyville, young missy," Cheerilee announces, giving her a stern look. "We will have a supervised tour of some of the shops for gifts before getting back on the train. But we are going to all stay in our group; if one of you were to get lost, we would be here for weeks!" And, as for Thunderfire... The teacher internally groans, then externally gives Quasar a 'help me' glance.
"Technically, the ponies can not actually break since they are still flesh. The term crystal pony is used for their exterior shine and crystal like appearance. It does not mean they are actually made of a hard substance. Otherwise, it would be impossible for their internal organs to function correctly such as proper blood flow and breathing. In fact, if they were made of crystal, they would suffer from asphyxia. It would be a terrible way to die. In fact, I assume it would be long and drawn out. The brain would be the first to go," he says as he adjusts his glasses. "You should ask a pony to touch them, in an appropriate place of course. You will see it's not a hard material." Quasar saves the day again with facts and science. "Hi Sweetie!"
Except Apple Bloom wasn't paying attention again. "Oooh, what if we were t'shawn a flashlawt into one'a them?" Apple Bloom says, "We should TOTALLY stay a nawt here so we kin shawn flashlawts at them!" Apple Bloom is such a fountain of great ideas!
Sweetie chews on the cookie she totally didn't sneak away from the group to buy. She hums a happy song, as she tries to catch up on the conversation. Her eyes sort of glaze over as Quasar shotguns out facts. She finds it hard to grasp a lot of information at once sometimes. "Uh, it's also kind of contagious. My sister said she was one for a while." She gassssssps, "Do you think we can get them to turn on the Crystal Heart? I want a picture of me all crystaled up!"
"Oh sure! Just walk up to one and ask. Yup! Can I touch you?" Thunder rolls his eyes with a shake of the head. He smirks at the idea Bloom has. "We can just play light tag. And why?" He glances at Sweetie. "What is so amazing about sparkling anyway?"
"Everypony, behave!" Cheerilee announces, stepping in front of the group and staring down the misbehavers. "We are NOT going to go around touching strangers. We are NOT playing light tag with the crystal ponies. We are NOT going to play around with important magical artifacts. And Thunderfire, at least TRY to enjoy this trip?"
Ears flattening back for a moment, Quasar drops his eyes down to the ground and scuffs a hoof quietly.
"Ah also wonder if we kin ever see th'palace," Apple Bloom says and then gasps, wandering off from the group again as she spots a shop. A crystal airship figure. Now *that* is a find!
"I know," Sweetie says. "I'll never be all glittery pretty like my sister was." Her lip pokes out and she sighs, looking sad as a little foal can while eating an oversized cookie.
Thunderfire sighs as he is once again called down. Looking over at Belle he smiles. "But you are prettier than your sister." There, he said it! "Only the grown-ups get to see the cool parts like the palace. We get all the dumb parts with history. Okay, its crystal... woopty doo... Can't we do something fun like swimming?"
"Apple Bloom, rejoin the group! Sweetie Belle, you are very pretty. Thunderfire, when we get back, you're getting a five hundred word essay on why it's not okay to be rude about another culture - especially while we're there - and, yes, we're going to see the palace. But you all have to be on your best behaviours. Okay?" Field trips. Oh Celestia. Why in Equestria does she ever think they're a good idea?
Quasar continues to trot along as Cheerilee's mane goes gray. He lets out a soft breath, then says, "How about if we all take a snack break Miss Cheerilee? That way, it will give us all a chance to sample the finer treats of the Crystal Empire and gives the other's a bit of a focus for a few minutes?"
Twist hasn't been lurking in the background. She joins the field by trotting up the sparkly road, except she's not trotting. She's shoving, dragging, and wrestling with a gleaming rainbow crystal heart bigger than she is, and amidst the grunts she explains, "Pbbbthorry Mipbbbth Cheerilee! I didn't mean to be ekpbbbthcupbbbthed tho long, but thipbbbth thigg ith HEAVY!" Every time she gives the heart a particularly hard shove, a peppermint falls out of her mane.
Apple Bloom is staring at the figurine. It's so pretty. Obviously it doesn't look anything like her designs for the Crusader, but it's so pretty, and it's an airship!
"I'm not super fantabulously, breath-takingly, stunningly beautiful, like my sister would say. But I bet I would be if I looked like a crystal pony. I hear it even magics up your mane." Sweetie sighs and continues moving on, though she does give a smile as she is told she's pretty.
Thunderfire looks at Quasar a moment. "Act like a colt, will ya! Nobody likes a smarty tart all the time." He rolls his eyes, noticing what Bloom is looking at. As it seems Twist is now here and up to something he bumps Bloom to get her to follow him to the shop. "Lets go buy it."
"Yes, that's a very good idea, Quasar," Cheerilee replies to her prize pupil, before calling out, "Okay, let's pause for a snack break for a few- Thunderfire! I've told you before to stop picking on Quasar! Do it again and you'll get detention! As I was saying, we're going to pause for a snack-" Then Twist appears. Cheerilee's jaw drops. Then her eye twitches. "... Twist, what is that?" she eventually manages, staring at the shimmering, rainbow-hued crystal heart.
Twist grooooooans as she digs in her back hooves, plants her front hooves against the giant (well, to a foal) crystal heart and pushes it with a loud scraping sound all the way up to Cheerilee. She collapses on top of it, panting heavily. Forelegs drape over the heart in a loving embrace, and she gives one of its facets a long, slow lick. "It'pbbbth DELIPBBBTHIOUPBBBTH."
Glancing back down at his hooves, Quasar scuffs his hoof in the ground again as Thunderfire calls him out. Even though Cheerilee compliments him, it hardly brings a smile to his muzzle as he waits for instruction or leadership to a certain booth.
Apple Bloom says, "Ah must make it mawn." She walks, zompony-like, into the shop then and there.
Sweetie_Belle chews on her crystalberry cookie a few moments more. She looks sidelong as Bloom and probably Thunderfire go toward a store or something. "Uhh..." she says, then again what can she say, she /does/ have a cookie. She gives Quasar a gentle patting on the shoulder to console him, "He doesn't mean it."
Thunderfire misses the scolding as he walks into the shop with Bloom. They blew up the spa! No telling what they will do in here.
At the moment, Apple Bloom and Thunderfire could be gunning down crystal ponies with a Pinkie cannon, and Cheerilee wouldn't notice. "Twist," she starts to ask, having a sneaky feeling won't like the answer, "Was that big delicious heart resting on a small pedestal at the base of the palace?"
As he settles himself into place like a dorky anchor, Quasar doesn't leave Cheerilee's side, even when Sweetie Belle gently pats him. "... I know," he whispers softly as he leans in against her. "They're gonna get in trouble. They never listen," he mutters under his breath.
Apple Bloom looks around the shop until she again finds the airship figurine, "Ah wonder if they take bits. Ah mean, they ARE supposed t'be Equestrian, rawt?" she asks.
"Ihf duffno," says Sweetie around the last bites of her CrystalBerry Cookie, "They seem to get away with a lot." SHe watches them a few long moments, blinking, then looks over at Twist, trying to see what's got the teacher in such a tiff.
Thunderfire shrugs his shoulders. "I don't know. Can ask them I guess," he tells Bloom, noticing something. Making a purchase of his own, he tucks it into his bag and waits for Bloom, rather oblivious to those outside.
Twist has drifted off into her own private reverie, rubbing her cheek against the crystal heart. "I DOO pbbbthub of deepbbbth hadda be rock caddy. I DOO id! We're dowdpbbbthreab frob da Chaopbbbth Laddpbbbth add dere'pbbbth two geologigal layerpbbbth ob jogolad left over frob Dipbbbthgord'th rule, wipbbbth a layer ob vanilla ipbbbthe greab in da middle. Every pbbbthbring for BILLEDIA ipbbbthe belt frob doze moudainpbbbth-" and she jabs a hoof towards the arctic peaks in the distance, "-hab wazhed pbbbthugar indo da groud wader to forb crypbbbthtal depopbbbthitpbbbth here."
Cheerilee feels a Tom-sized weight lift from her. "That's okay, Twist," she says, looking very much relieved. "You're just in time for a small break in our trip. We need to stay in this area, but you can explore the shops in pairs and get something to eat. I need to have a little sit down before we can continue." A little sit down. And a large vodka. "Apple Bloom and Thunderfire are a couple, Sweetie Belle and Quasar are a couple, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoo- put that back! - are a couple... hmm. Who would you like to pair up with, Twist? You can always join a pair to make a threesome."
Twist pushes up onto her forehooves on the crystal heart, tilting her head to one side (half a dozen shelled candies fall out of her mane and bounce off the heart) and giving Cheerilee a bewildered squint. "You're giddig, right?"
"How about if I partner with you Miss Cheerilee and Twist can partner with Sweetie Belle?" Quasar asks quietly as he gives another flick of his ears forward. "I suppose we can go over some of the mid-term grading together. I've put together a flow chart and a bell curve that you may be happy with."
PS - Far off in the distance, unjoined to the RP proper, Scootaloo was pretending to be an antelope.