Raindrops' Wrap Up

by Arkensaw Pinkerton

Chapter 12

"Pinkie", whoever she is, can stay in the bushes. Cocoa and explanations await you inside, and you waste no time following the little dragon into the library. As soon as you get in, he trundles off towards the kitchen and you get the chance to have a quick look around.

The library is pretty big, and more homely than you'd have thought. There's a fireplace with some big cushions beside it, a little desk for writing, and the genteel smell of quietly mouldering scrolls. You're no great reader, but this would still be a nice place to catch a quiet moment in future. You file that idea away in the back of your mind and start pulling the book out of your saddlebags and onto the table when you hear a shout from the library's kitchen.

"How do you take your cocoa?"

You let the book thud onto the table before shouting back.

"Dark, please! Not too much sugar."

"Really?" The dragon runs back into the main room for a second. "Because if you like it dark I like to add a little chilli. What do you think?"

"That sounds great!" you say with enthusiasm, and he nods and heads back into the kitchen. "Thanks so much for letting me in, uh..."

"Spike!" he shouts back. "What's your name?"

"Raindrops."

Spike walks back into the main room with two cups of cocoa on a tray, and you take the one closest to you. Spike eyes the book over as you take a long slurp.

" 'Amniomorphics'. That officially sounds creepy. This is Twilight's sort of thing for sure, Raindrops. Where did you find this?"

"It was on my steps, under the snow. It had a sort of white glow around it that was keeping the damp out."

"That's pretty weird. Do you think someone left it for you?"

You stop to think for a moment. That actually makes sense- that someone intended for you to find this thing. Why else would they leave it on your doorstep?

"I dunno," you say. "Maybe."

"Well, in any case, we need to get a unicorn who knows what she's taking about to look this thing over. Do you want to go fetch her or shall I?"

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Comments

[kingtwelvesixteen]

You are an adult pegasus with a job based on your athletic abilities, requiring you to get lots of exercise each day. Spike is a baby dragon-lizard who you are not entirely sure is warm-blooded, with a job based on reading books and staying indoors all day, and he also cannot fly.
Also, The ground is currently covered in snow, which would greatly slow and hinder anyone who needed to walk/trot through it.

It is obvious that you should be the one to get Twilight, just on the basis of pure practicality.

[TheRustyBucket]

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As a choice contrary to that.

Why waste energy on someone you just recently met? You're pretty sure this Winter Wrap-Up is gonna take a truckload of energy from you, so you'd better save it for something more productive. Plus, Spike's her assistant, not you, he should go get her

[Magatsu Orpheus]

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Seconded, since right now there's only one choice.

[Magatsu Orpheus]

Also,

Why should it only be one of you? It would be best for both of you if you had some company.