December 9
I kept on waking up in the night and just looking around to make sure I was safe. In the sky you could fly away anywhere and hide easily if you had to but not as easily on the ground and for the first time I felt like my apartment was kind of confining. I could go out a window and fly away if I had to, but I couldn't leave Meghan and Aric behind.
But then I'd hear Mister Salvatore's radio talking quietly in the hallway outside, or Miss Cherilyn would shift in her seat, and that made me feel a lot safer. I even opened the door a little bit one time when it was quiet, and I could just see her leaning against the counter in the kitchen, keeping watch on the balcony in case the bad guy tried to get in there.
Meghan wasn't sleeping very well, either. She woke up a couple of times when I was awake, and I'm sure she'd woken up some times when I hadn't, too. And I really felt bad for Aric, 'cause he was in the other room and he didn't have a mattress or anypony sleeping with him and so he was probably pretty lonely. I could go to my window and fly to his and hopefully he'd open it but then Meghan would be alone 'cause she couldn't follow me.
When it was finally faintly light outside I finally got up 'cause I just couldn't sleep any more, and woke up Meghan, too, so that she wouldn't wake up to find me gone and get scared. And then the two of us went out into the living room and said good morning to Miss Cherilyn and I wanted to talk to her more but it wasn't smart to distract guards when they were doing their duty.
But then she asked me how I'd slept, and so I told her that I hadn't slept well at all and she said she was sorry for scaring us like that last night but Mister Salvatore had been worried about the tiny possibility that whoever had done it was on the run and might find himself here and think to escape by breaking into an apartment and if he was athletic enough he could get up to the third floor balcony, or else he could force his way into the building through the front door and then he could have found my apartment that way.
She said that it had worried both of them that it had happened so close in what was supposed to be a safe part of town, and that the police didn't have any idea who'd done it yet, or why.
And so I nuzzled her hip, and then Meghan asked if she wanted some breakfast, 'cause we'd been planning to make a quiche and we still could, and she thought that that sounded really good.
So me and Meghan got out the quiche ingredients and started making it. Meghan had to look at her portable telephone to get the recipe, 'cause she didn't know it from memory, and pretty soon we had a mixing bowl full of quiche ingredients.
After we'd poured it into the shells—we had enough for two whole quiches—there wasn't a lot to do while we waited for it to cook. We washed the dishes and then Meghan said that she was going to go wake Aric up and told me to guard the stove.
There wasn't much guarding to do, 'cause all the quiches had to do was sit there until the timer dinged, and then Meghan was gonna pull them out since I didn't have a hot pad that I could hold in my mouth, and I'd burn myself if I grabbed the tray with just my lips. So I asked Miss Cherilyn how dangerous Kalamazoo was, and she said that it was pretty safe, because even though there had been nineteen murders so far that was a higher than normal number because of the Uber driver and the man who had driven his truck over a bunch of bicyclists, and normally it was not so many. That still seemed like a lot to me, and she said that it was. Then she told me that Mister Salvatore would tell me if I asked that it was complicated and there were a lot of reasons but in her opinion the biggest factor was the number of guns and how there weren't enough effective regulations on them, and she said that she feared that now that there were lots more Republicans who had been elected that they'd try to weaken gun laws, because that was what the people who voted for them wanted them to do. And she said that she wished that some of the Senators had had to deal with the aftermath of a shooting and then maybe they'd think twice before trying to weaken the laws.
Then she sighed and said that it maybe wasn't a good thing to talk about first thing in the morning and she was just a little bit grumpy 'cause she'd been about to go to sleep when Mister Salvatore had called her and she hadn't had time to put on clothes.
I was kind of curious how he had had time and she said that she thought he might sleep in his clothes. Then she put her hand over her mouth and said that that had been a mean thing to say and it probably wasn't true.
I didn't think it was, 'cause both Meghan and Aric's clothes were pretty rumpled from them sleeping in them and Mister Salvatore's clothes always looked neat, even when he had to wake us up in the middle of the night so we could get on or off a train.
Aric went right into the bathroom and Meghan looked through the porthole and into the oven, which had a little light so that you could see the food better. And then she went into the living room and sat on the futon and watched the birds flying around the feeder. There weren't very many seeds left for them so I'd have to put more in today or else they'd go hungry, but since there was still some food left I wanted to wait until the flock had left, 'cause I didn't want to scare them off.
When the quiches were done they had to sit on the counter a little bit to cool them off so that we could eat them and that was kind of frustrating 'cause they smelled so good. Even Miss Cherilyn kept looking over at them and I could tell that she wanted a piece. We had plenty to share, and she deserved it after being up all night and making sure that we stayed safe.
Once it was cool, we all had some and after she'd eaten her piece she went out in the hallway and sent Mister Salvatore in so that he could have breakfast, and I noticed that despite having stayed up all night he still looked pretty alert.
He said that he'd been keeping in touch with the detectives on the case and it now appeared to have been a robbery gone wrong and they thought that the suspects had fled in a vehicle, although they weren't certain of that yet. And he said that now that it was daytime there wasn't as much risk as there had been last night but he still wanted to be cautious, and he said that maybe the best thing for us to do today was go somewhere and do something fun while things settled down here. And I thought that was a good idea, even though we'd been planning to watch Lord of the Rings today. We could do that later when it was safe.
So we had to decide where to go and Mister Salvatore thought that somewhere touristy with lots and lots of people would be good, and he said that there was a big Christmas store in Frankenmuth that might be fun to visit.
Aric didn't like that idea all that much, 'cause he thought that there would be too many people there who were all celebrating Christmas early, but he couldn't think of anyplace that was better. And he said that maybe we ought to just drive around and find something that looked interesting on our way and not have a plan at all.
Then I got to thinking that maybe I didn't really want to be cooped up in my apartment or in Winston today, and I thought I'd like to go somewhere that was outdoors where I could fly around some and stretch my wings, and play in the snow some. And Meghan said that wherever we went she was going to want a nap at some point today, 'cause she hadn't slept well last night.
Aric finally said that we could decide on the road but he wanted to go back to his house and get some clean clothes, and Meghan said that she did, too. So we all went down to Winston and Aric started it and then got out and swept off the windows and then scraped away at the ice that was under the snow, and Meghan helped him. And I felt a little bit better now that I was outside, 'cause I could look around for bad people and avoid them.
So we drove over to his house and went inside and decided that we might as well take a shower while we figured out where we wanted to go, but none of us really had any good ideas. And that helped us relax some although we were all still a bit sleepy and then Meghan said that maybe we ought to take a nap first. Aric said he wished that she'd thought of that before we'd taken the shower, 'cause I was all wet and it took me a while to dry off, especially with my winter coat, so I said that I'd stay above the covers so I wouldn't get them wet.
The two of them curled up in bed with Meghan in the middle and I squeezed in against the wall and she put her arm over my back.
It didn't take too long to fall asleep, 'cause Aric's room was familiar and safe, although I did think for a minute that maybe the bad guys might come here but it was just a passing thought and I put it out of my mind and closed my eyes and just focused on Meghan's arm around me and the sounds of her and Aric breathing and moving around a little bit as they got comfortable.
I could have told them that napping doesn't always work as well as a good night's sleep, and even though we were all tired I don't think we slept all that much. It was hard to be sure, 'cause the sun was blocked by the snowclouds that were still sprinkling a little bit of snow down, but I didn't feel all that much more rested when I woke back up.
I was dryer, though, so I guess I'd slept long enough that all the water on my back and sides had mostly evaporated. I was still damp on my belly and under my wings, 'cause that hadn't been able to evaporate.
Me moving around woke up Meghan and then Aric woke up, too, and we all decided that sleeping wasn't working but since the three of us were in bed together and all of us were naked that we might as well have some fun especially since we hadn't had a chance to last night or this morning, and then we all cuddled for a bit and then dozed back off for a little while.
When I woke up again I got out of bed and I sent a telegram to Mister Salvatore to see if they'd caught the bad guys yet and he said that they hadn't but they were working very hard to find them. And he said that he was talking to the Kalamazoo Police Department to see if he could get a patrol car to stay near my apartment which would help discourage any bad people from coming over there. He said that they were a bit reluctant because all their policemen were busy right now but he was sure that he could wear them down and get what he wanted.
Then he asked me if we'd decided to go somewhere and I told him that right now we were still at Aric's house but we were thinking of going to Taco Bell. That wasn't entirely true, 'cause I was probably the only one thinking it but I was sure that I could convince Meghan and Aric that it was the best place to have lunch.
And I did—they both agreed to it, and so after they got dressed we got back in Winston and drove off to Taco Bell, and we could have gotten the food in the truck but we decided to go inside instead.
While we were eating, Aric said that since we were already going west, we could go to South Haven, but the beach wasn't as fun when it was cold and snowy and neither of us really wanted to. We were having a hard time coming up with a plan although I guess if we spent long enough not having one than we wouldn't need one, 'cause the day would be over.
Aric said that we could go to Grand Rapids, and maybe there was something to do there and he looked at his portable telephone and then said that Donald Trump was having a rally there tonight and maybe we could go and protest and if we got arrested Mister Salvatore would bail us out. I thought that was a bad idea, and I said that Cayenne had gotten banned from anything political after she'd gotten arrested at a rally and I didn't want that to happen to me, especially because it would probably disappoint Mister Salvatore.
He said that if we weren't going to do that than we should go the opposite way and we could go to Schoolcraft and visit B & G Outlet which had lots of fun things that were cheap, and it was near the railroad tracks so if we heard a train we could flash it and if we got in trouble for that Mister Salvatore would bail us out.
Meghan said that that was a really dumb idea, and Aric said that he knew it was but she'd promised that if he did, she would, and she said that that was yesterday and she hadn't been serious.
He said that they'd never expect it in the wintertime and she admitted that that was probably true, but she wasn't going to stand in a parking lot and do it.
Aric said that there probably wouldn’t be any trains anyways.
So once we were done eating we got back in Winston and drove down to Schoolcraft, and I knew the way pretty well, 'cause of flying over it. And that was near where I'd gotten into a train for my ride, and it made my foreleg kinda itchy thinking about it.
The store didn't look like that much from outside, but once we got inside I could see why Aric liked it, 'cause they had all sorts of tools and he was really happy when I started asking him what they were and what they were for. Some of them I knew because they looked like the tools the wainwright had and some of them were like I'd used when I helped him fix Winston, but there were a lot more that I didn't know at all. He said that proper mechanics needed all of them, which seemed like it would be a really big investment to me. And he told me that a proper mechanic might have a hundred thousand dollars worth of tools, which was a lot. I was glad that I could just move around clouds with my hooves and wings.
They also had tarps and ropes and wheels and gloves and presses and vices and all sorts of things and he said that some of it was cheap Chinese junk and other stuff looked like things that they had gotten because it wouldn't sell anywhere else, and they even had some used things that you could buy cheaply like binders for papers and big cups that were called steins and were for beer. He said in Germany they had fancy lids and they were all painted like a fresco. I thought that the ones they had were really nice, though.
It wasn't the kind of store that I normally would have wanted to visit, but I was learning a lot from being there.
Aric had been wrong about the trains, too—while we were in the store, two of them had gone by, but he didn't rush out into the parking lot to go flash them, and Meghan didn't, either.
So I thought that maybe we weren't going to and he'd just been pulling Meghan's tail, until he was done looking around and explaining things to me and then he said that we ought to go find somewhere a little bit deserted and make a train engineer's day.
Meghan said that they'd be looking at him, too, and he said that maybe it would be a girl engineer and that was what she wanted to see.
She said it was cold outside and that any woman would only feel a little bit of pity and she said that she couldn't believe that she was thinking about doing this sober.
Then Aric said that was a good point and maybe the smart thing to do would be have dinner first and have a few drinks with dinner, and Meghan said it was going to take more than a few.
So we drove back to Kalamazoo and went to Olde Peninsula for dinner, 'cause it was really good and the beer was really good, too, and Meghan did have a few beers and so did I, but Aric only had one 'cause he had to drive us around afterwards. And then we got back in Winston and went to the parking lot that was by the bridge over the river and waited for a while but there weren't any trains and we got bored of waiting after a while, so Aric said that we'd go to another one of his favorite spots to see trains go by, which was on Cork Street.
There wasn't anyplace to park, so we had to just drive back and forth and wait for a train to come. And while we were circling around he told us about the time he'd had to stop there to wait for a train on a winter night that was a lot like tonight, and he said that he'd stopped his car which was a Buick Roadmaster that he had owned before Winston, and that when the train was crossing he'd seen an ambulance coming down the road and it had gotten to the tracks just when the train had finally passed and when it hit the rails it bounced all the snow off of it. And he'd jumped back in his car to see where it was going but by the time he got to the top of the hill it was gone and he'd never figured out where it went because the only thing there was the cemetery.
We didn't see or hear any trains there, either, and Aric was kind of disappointed and finally Meghan said that we might as well go home because she really had to pee and I did, too. I'd been thinking of just asking him to stop long enough for me to get out, 'cause there were lots of trees around that I could use, but if we were going home I could wait.
And we had to decide where to go home, and Aric said that if my helpers weren't still guarding my apartment he'd rather go there, but if they were he wanted to go to his house because he was a little bit nervous around them. I didn't think that he should be, 'cause they were so nice, and they wanted to make sure that I stayed safe.
So sent a telegram to Mister Salvatore and he said that starting tomorrow there would be a police car patrolling the complex and he was also having an alarm installed on the balcony door and the front door just in case, and it was something that he should have done sooner.
And then he said that he wanted me to stay at the hotel tonight and he would make arrangements to get me a room, so all I would have to do was go to the front door and ask for a key and they'd give it to me. So I told Aric and we went to the hotel and the man at the front desk was really nice and friendly and promised to get us anything that we needed.
Aric thought that maybe this was his way of apologizing, 'cause when we opened the door to the room it was really nice—it had a big bed in it and there was also a Jacuzzi bathtub and we were on the top floor which meant that we had a really good view of the city. Meghan said she thought it was one of the nicest rooms in the hotel besides the honeymoon suite, and all we were really missing was the mirrors on the ceiling and the heart-shaped bed.
Then Meghan told Aric how me and her had been planning to spend the day at the hotel during mid-terms but it hadn't worked out then but she was happy that it was working out now, even if it had kind of ruined our plans to watch Lord of the Rings.
So we filled up the Jacuzzi and it was big enough for all three of us, and we relaxed in it and had sex in it and then relaxed some more and used up all the towels drying off and Meghan also helped dry me off with the hairdryer that they had clipped to the wall, and then we relaxed on the bed for a little bit until Aric decided that it would be fun to have a pillow fight, and he was doing pretty well until the two of us ganged up on him and beat him into submission.
Then we all went to the window and looked out over Kalamazoo and watched the cars driving along below us and a few people who were out on the street and we also saw a long freight train passing by. Since none of us were wearing clothes, Meghan said that that counted as flashing the train, and Aric said that he didn't think that the engineer had seen us at all, but had to admit that he might have.
And then we all got in bed together and me and Meghan ganged up on Aric again, but he didn't mind at all, and it was really nice to have such a big bed that we didn't have to be careful not to fall out of it.
Found some minor proofreading errors.
recipe
Missing letter.
Make it plural.
Not sure if that's an error or if SG just thinks of the place as home at this point.
On a lighter note…
It's like how the Royal Guards all look the same. FBI magic!
See? Told you. Magic.
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Proofreading errors corrected; thank you! (I blame gDocs for not putting more red underlines in )
Oh yeah, totally. FBI agents are magic.
Eric confirmed for Admiral Biscuit.
And maybe the girlfriend beside him too, if she didn't also need to flash.
Silver Glow and Eric are bad influences.
Christening dat jacuzzi.
Argh, Sonny's reaction to this whole thing is a perfect demonstration of the kind of intensely poor estimation of risk that is the root cause of the entire political mess we're in now. One human guy from a different school gets shot and now a third story off-campus apartment is unsafe for a pony?
All I can say is "Silver, if this is going to bother you, don't EVER go to Ponyville" You'll plotz (roughly, fall over dead from the shock)
And then SG is going to forget about the alarm on the balcony door when she goes flying.
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I think it was more because it happened near SG's new apartment in what is supposed to be a safe neighborhood.
Not being even in the same country, I hope this one is resolved quickly, as some of them can take weeks.
Best i can thnk of in local town was a couple years back when a car with expected criminals in was herded into the ministores carpark the other end of town, because although there was a small road behind that, it was a 12 foot drop down, and the other side was a massive stone built warehouse, which the police used for a back stop when shooting them. Unfortunately, the council decided they wanted slum clearence money, so that warehouse got demolished, the rubble flattened, then left to grow weeds, bushes and trees, even though its next to car parks and theres always spaces needed.
Never a good idea to break into a tool shed. You might not like how so many of those tools can be accidentally applied.
Nineteen what? Murders this year?
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But Ponyville is a tiny peaceful farming village; what could ever happen there?
I'm not sure if this is an error or I'm just reading it wrong.
7939341 You're not alone - that sentence tripped me up, too.
Not really seeing how staking out SG's apartment then having her go out with her friends works for Mr. Salvatore.
I could see an unofficial house arrest / lockdown and a LOTR marathon instead.
What? Really?
No replies, likes OR dislikes?
I thought I made a valid observation.
7939090 Neither am I... but I'm sure once everyone started talking about wanting to try I'd still drop that bomb on them and walk away.
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Silver Glow is an alien from another planet/universe, visiting the United States... Politically, she's something of an ambassador representing Equestria. You can pretty well bet the US feds would be showing some professional paranoia.
This is classic worst-case thinking. This sort of thinking leads to paranoia. Also, Miss Silver Glow really loves run-on sentences.
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I shall quote Teal'c of Chulak as he sums up how I feel about your comment:
This chapter got me so riled up that I had to comment before finishing it. When I finished the chapter and read the comments, you already said it. This might interest you:
The Authoress Lenore Skenazy finds the ruining of childhood from overprotective paranoia so repugnant that she started a blog about it:
Free-Range Kids
This all does make me wonder how much her handlers know of Silver's sex life (I was going to say romantic life but I'm not sure if it is in quite the same way as the culture she's living in would, she obviously cares for Aric and Meghan but I don't think she thinks of them beyond friends). I don't think she's specifically told them about it although they are presumably briefed on pony culture and can probably guess she'd hook up with someone although two people might come as more of a surprise, it might depend on what other ponies have done.
19 what? I can guess, but you still should precise that.
Yeah shop setups are expensive. My school has single pieces of equipment that cost that much.
decide
7941923 Oh yes, I would seriously like to see their reaction to that. Though being feds, i.e. police officers that probably have some investigation experience, I would be surprised if they at least didn't already suspect. Silver's private life, however, is probably not their business unless it affects her safety.
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She does. They're kinda cute. Somehow.
Though if I'm honest, I expect better from a university student. But it doesn't bother me in this story though, because cuteness,
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True, although she's seen it before.
Mostly Aric. Silver Glow's a good pony, and if you tell her something's against the rules she probably won't do it. Probably.
Or course!
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Mister Salvatore's job, at least when it comes to protecting Silver Glow, is to overreact.
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Real monsters are a different thing from human monsters. Real monsters, ponies know how to deal with, at least for the most part. (Which mostly involves running away and then maybe coming up with a plan once you're safe.)
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Possibly . . .
Yeah, it's supposed to be in a good neighborhood, as was the one on Western.
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As I recall, it took them a couple of months to get both of the suspects. I think they got one pretty quick, and knew who the other one was but couldn't find him straightaway.
Yeah, pretty much every tool I own can be used to inflict bodily harm if it comes to that. Mostly bludgeoning, since most of my tools qualify as blunt objects, but I've also got a few that are pretty stabby.
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Correct. And two of them were multiple murders (the Uber shooter, and the guy that ran over the bicyclists).
Exactly! The ponies there are probably all bored most of the time because nothing ever happens in Ponyville.
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No, it's an error.
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Yeah, it should have said her apartment/his house.
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The thing that they were the most worried about at first was two men, on the run, on foot, while there was a manhunt going on, maybe attempting to break into an apartment so that they'd have some place to hide for a while. He believes (and was ultimately correct) that the two suspects were fleeing, and not a danger at all in a public place, since that's what they'd try to avoid. SIlver and company wouldn't have been happy at all with a lockdown and would have demanded to leave eventually, and Mister Salvatore may not have the authority to actually make Silver Glow stay (or for that matter, the ability, since she can just fly away and he can't really catch her if she does).
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Yeah, they've got a role kind of like the Secret Service, in a way--make sure that nothing bad happens to the pony they're watching, and if you have to be overly paranoid sometimes or maybe break a few rules that's okay as long as the pony is okay in the end.
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Yeah; however, sometimes during the event it's probably smarter to have a little bit of worst-case thinking. It's only really problematic when it starts to rule your life--when you start to think that you can't go out at all because something bad will happen, or whatever. Had Mister Salvatore been so paranoid that they locked her down in the apartment, or put a 24/7 guard outside her door for the rest of her stay on Earth, or anything like that, yeah. But one day, when you've got two murderers on the loose in Kalamazoo, and you don't know why, or where they are, or pretty much anything else about them . . . it was kind of the same case with the Uber shooter, although they figured that she was on campus and campus police would be on the lookout for the guy.
Yes, she does.
There's a suitable amount of protectiveness, I think. I mean, you don't want your kids to just be entirely free-ranging, with you having no idea where they are or what they're doing, but you also don't want to be hovering over them all the time either. When I was a kid, my brother and I kind of had free range of town, but we weren't allowed to go outside town and we had to be back for dinner. And when we did misbehave, we lost some of our priveledges for a while.
I realize it's not quite the same situation with Silver Glow, since of course she's legally an adult, but at the same time she's not used to everything on Earth and her instincts might not be good enough to avoid someone who has murder in his heart.
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Well, they don't know any specifics, but they do know that she spends a lot of time over at Aric's house, and they also probably knew that she had a lot of sleepovers with Meghan, especially over the summer, and they'd assume that she's hooking up with one or both of them.
Regarding what other ponies have done, there's Cayenne. And she's probably not the first nympho pony that has been in the program, either. What would be more worrying, and what the helpers probably are watching out for, is a pony who might try to hook up with something that's not human (like an IRL horse).
Their guidance on the matter is probably 'don't interfere unless there's a problem.'
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Nineteen murders. I've fixed it in the text.
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Probably the most expensive single piece of equipment we have in the shop is the alignment machine; that was probably $40,000. I'm not sure how many dollars worth of tools I own personally, but it's a lot. Likely around $100k, if I had to replace everything.
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Yeah; they're not paranoid enough to set up cameras in her apartment or stake out Aric's house, but they'd be fairly certain what's going on.
Exactly. She's an adult, so if she wants to have sex with her friends that's her business. If, somehow, it gets dangerous, they'll step in (say, she breaks up with someone and they don't take it well), but otherwise it's not something that they would even try to control.
Maybe because she's usually cheerful and optimistic?
Well, English isn't her first language, so she can be excused for not completely understanding how sentence structure works in English. And anyways, it's her journal, not an essay.
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Correction made; thank you!
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And they are likely glad for that. Meanwhile Cayenne's know WAY more then they ever wanted to.
"I need to requisition the biggest butterfly net we have, STAT!"
First human visitor.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! WHY ARE YOU NOT RUNNING?! A GIANT MONSTER IS COMING!"
Townponies.
"Oh, that? It's just the bi-weekly monster attack. Just stay out of its way and the Princess and her friends will deal with it."
Spooked pony no abandon her friends!
So cute how safe having them around makes her. She really trusts them.
Even more d'awwwww, not wanting Meghan to wake up alone and get scared.
And pony makes sure to show how much she appreciates what they do for her. Pony nuzzles make it all worth it.
Any murders would be a lot for a pony. Even most crazed, uber-powerful world conquerors to be don't go that far. (Though Sombra.......)
No, no, dealing with it would not work. Not even BEING the victims of a mass shooting attempt made any GOP senators budge an inch on gun control.
"Porthole" silly nautical pony.
Pony rewards her servants with nuzzles and noms. Is there any doubt why they will soon rule?
No, no, just draving around randomly is a bad idea, better off knowing where pony is. Plus... I hate doing that.
Pony like wide open fields of view.
Damp pony, sadly, not as snuggly as dry pone.
You get that pony protection right NOW!
When are you not thinking of going to Taco Bell? But, we do see her hidden "I shall rule you all!' side coming out in times of stress, knowing her slaves will bow to her will and take her where she wishes to go.
Aric just wants the chance to be bailed out of jail by a fed, so has to find something just illegal enough to get them arrested, but minor enough he can get a free pass on it by her handlers.
And here we see the 'grease monkey' in their natural environment, the tool store.
And SIlver is just never not happy and finding something to love about every situation.
Aric, let me quote Nash from What the Fuck is Wrong With You "Unless they very specifically ask you first, nobody wants to see your penis!"
All of outdoors is your potty. #ponyperks
Pony wisdom, no be nervous around my federal agents, they just want to protect me like good servants.
Treat the pony, get her a nice hotel room.
So, how bad did he strongarm the hotel staff to make sure they bent over backwards to treat like the highest of VIP's? Cuase, damn..also... got them the penthouse, nice.
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Oh yeah, they totally do. They even had to take her to the sex toy company to have her junk molded . . . they’re totally getting first pick at pony next year.
The funny thing too is that it’s not always obvious by appearance what’s a monster and what’s not--the Ponyvillians probably know, but a human wouldn’t . . . human goes over to Fluttershy’s, Discord answers, human freaks out. . . .
Herd instincts. It’s safer with friends, and you always want to make sure that your friends are safe and comfortable.
Comfort of friends is always important. Last time she spent the night snuggling with Peggy.
Pony nuzzles are totally worth it. No question.
There are probably some ponies who struggle with the relationship between them and their helpers, but I think for the most part they would be good matches, and the ponies would be suitable grateful for all the help.
I feel like sometimes that’s toned down for the show (for obvious reasons), and realistically, some of the villains would have killed ponies. Sombra almost certainly did, Chrysalis probably did, some of the monsters would have (how many stone pony statues are there in the Everfree; and are the stone pony statues we see around carved from rock, or something else?), and presumably ponies also die in the line of duty. Silver Glow’s mentioned it happening to ponies on weather patrol and sailors.
Yeah, very much true. Which makes it all the more deliciously ironic that it was under Trump that bump stocks got banned.
She’s not entirely wrong.
Cynically, we’d fk it up, and they’d give up on us.
But they would be great rulers, no question. And the benefits of such overlords!
Mr. Salvatore wouldn’t like the driving around randomly idea, that’s for sure. I do like driving around randomly, although I don’t do it as much as I used to. Just not enough free time.
Well, yeah; her normal home is the sky and next to the ocean; both of those tend to be open.
The one downside to all that fur.
That’s the kind of thing that’s always touchy when something bad happens--politically, the police commissioner has to put all his men on the case until they determine that the murder suspect isn’t still roaming Kalamzoo looking for more people to kill (especially coming on the heels of the Uber murders) . . . but he’s also got other duties that need to be filled. Odds are that the police car is going to have the least competent desk jockey in it, but just the car with a uniformed officer is going to be a good deterrent for anybody who’s thinking of doing something dumb.
She always wants to go to Taco Bell. In the future, all restaurants are Taco Bell. And yeah, whenever they’re trying to cheer her up, a meal at Taco Bell is a good way to do it.
I got to say, if I had the opportunity to break the law and know that a fed would bail me out, I’d take that opportunity.
Sea story time! A theatre group I worked with got the opportunity to work with a local police department, doing a training exercise. The cops figured--rightly--that all cops would think and act alike, whereas a random assortment of stunt people would be entirely unpredictable. We took turns being a bad guy or innocent bystanders, and our weapons were actual guns with 1/4 load paint rounds in them (so we did have to wear protective gear). In a nutshell, more than once I got to shoot at cops with there being no consequences. It was an absolute blast! Even though I got wasted by a four-man team, got gunned down after I got flanked, and also got used as a human shield by one of my friends (I was legit trying not to laugh). And it was also awesome to listen to the trainer--one time, Diane hid behind a tree and the cop wouldn’t come out from behind the door of his car, so the trainer turned to her and said, “start shooting civilians, see what he does.” She did that, and he didn’t come out, so he suggested that she charge at him to see how he’d react.
Or the toy store, as many of us call it.
I do have many happy memories of that store, and I still have (and use) several tools that came from there.
Practically everything she does is new and interesting, so yeah, fun times! And a chance to look at more tools than she’s ever seen, and a guide to explain things to her.
Very true, even if it is a girl train driver.
I mean, that can work for humans, too.
Ponies probably don’t have the mistrust of authority figures that a lot of Americans do.
Pretty much. It’ll make her feel better about not being able to go back to the apartment, and it’ll make Mr. Salvatore happy to know that she’s somewhere that has decent security.
I assume he did it like any FBI agent would--he didn’t ask them, he told them. “I have a pony and two of her friends who will be guests at your hotel tonight and they will have the best room you have available and they will be given anything that they ask for.”
And I’ll be honest, my experience at nice hotels is that the hotel staff does tend to be nice and polite and willing to cater to all reasonable requests.
In general federal agents don't usually think much about gun laws because they don't apply to them.
We got into a big discussion at Thanksgiving and my friend's dad was a little confused and just kinda chuckled when my stepdouche went on the whole "protection from the government" thing and went "mine is fully auto and I've got a vest" basically.
And still run out into the parking lot like the Snap-On guy was an ice cream truck and the mechanic was a kid with a tenner.
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Yeah, that’s fair.
I’ve often pointed this out to some of my friends who are of the opinion that having a gun keeps them safe from the gumment . . . the gumment can send more and more agents, or use larger and larger weapons if they really want to get you. No matter how good you are with your AR-15, you’re no match for a drone strike if you really piss the wrong agency off.
I don’t know what you’re talking about.
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Also tanks and bombs if there's enough of you to warrant it.
Most people don't realize the only thing keeping them alive is that they aren't worth killing, and some of them are dumb enough to try to change that calculus to their detriment.
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Yeah, that's it exactly. Think about someone that the US really, really wants to take care of, like Osama. That he was in a foreign country and we needed to get in and out without hurting anybody else added to the challenge, but it was taken care of.
Back when those geniuses captured that forest service building in Oregon or whatever it was, I understand why the government didn't want to drone strike them . . . but I would have laughed if they had.
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Of course the easiest counter to this is idea the fact that we've pulled out of both Vietnam and Afghanistan. Besides, those drones have pilots and need fuel. They have to touch the ground at some point. Also, is the government gonna drone strike a city block and all the people inside. Are they gonna level the suburbs to get someone. At some point, they need boots on the ground.
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Well, maybe. A few historical examples in the US come to mind--we usually did have boots on the ground, but then we didn't have drones when they happened. Like, whether or not you believe that the Feds were in the right to burn Mt. Caramel in Waco, TX it's an actual fact that as a result of their actions, 28 presumably innocent children were killed.
Also, since I've written this story, the US did drone strike Qasem Soleimani, and I think there's a couple more cases where we got individuals with drones.