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Applebloom hated the snow.

Applebloom hated Hearth's Warming; she hated the holidays. For good reason. She was practically always by herself during them. She hated how alone she had felt when her siblings would leave for work for the long duration of a week or two. How scary winter truly was; the snow.

Especially this particular Hearth's Warming.

Because she didn't build a snowmare and there was one looking through her window.

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Chapter 3 (hurrhurr yeh wip.)

I'm not used to bringing holiday cheer, so instead I bring you, a tid late, some holiday fear.

:twilightsmile: Enjoy! :twilightsmile:

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How'd you make the k in dark upside down and backwards?

so... the cmc shit was just made up? Interesting.

The dreadful word chilled me even further in my contemplative silence. The long trek back from the station was a quiet one. The road home, while usually bridled with nonsensical gossip and unwanted sibling-squabbling, was empty.

What word?

I sighed quietly through my nose as I moved to let the door fall back, shut thudthud.

That doesn’t sound good.

I didn't expect an answer, nor did I want one. It undoubtedly came. "Applebloom, Applebloom, may I warm by your fire?" I don't respond as I felt my heart hammer in the back of my throat. I struggled to choke down my sudden fear. Its voice was as if ice itself; broken, shrill, familiar. It sounded almost exactly like I'd imagined Sweetie Belle's voice to sound like, "it is so very, very cold in the snow," and I hated it.

Run

The spoiled lady. I give her one last pet as I tossed the empty bag over to the other end of the room, its previous contents now quickly being devoured by the bitch.

What did the dog ever do to her?

Off white on white, the silhouette would have been missed had it not moved to look right back at me.

I’m moving.

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"Spoiled Lady" could just be an affectionate pet name, and, being a (presumably) unsprayed female dog, Winona is, technically, a bitch. :twilightsmile:

This was the time for our family to be together, for us to be together! It was really the only time we could be. Applejack and Big Mac didn't need to go to Manehatten for business, they didn't need to have had left me here. By myself—with the dog— alone. Last year was different. Back when everything was good and nice and Granny hadn't gone someplace better, wherever that was.

It would make more sense if you said “they didn’t need to leave me here” instead. The “have had” thing doesn’t make a lot of sense in this sentence’s context.

The empty house groaned with what seemed every other-other step. I wasn't particularly fond of that either.

Every other-other step?

I'd winced as I'd drewn blood from the bite; a little bit harder than I'd realized.

Might wanna get that fixed.

My right foreleg stepped on the concrete porch of our home; it crunched softly as I stepped in the-the snow --a sense of wrong dawned on me. What felt like spiders crawling under my hide, scrambled all over my body when I'd frozen still. My eyes lowered downward, my breath hitched in the back of my throat as I noticed I'd stepped in a hoofprint. A hoofprint of... offwhite snow.

I'd glanced around and to my horror, three others were near in a way only a quadruped could have made. A formation that stated out that where I'd stood, someone else did too. I swallowed a build-up of saliva as I peered downward at the four blotches that damn-near scared me speechless.

As Big Mac would say, “Nnope”.

I'd just noticed the dog had gone after something, but it was too late to have tried and stopped her. I couldn't find my voice as Winona barked loudly off in the distance; it wasn't long until I had tried my damndest to make out her form as she faded off in the white not a moment after.

Nothing better happen to Winona.

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