New Part Excerpt! · 5:37am Feb 15th, 2016
I'm trying my best to have a double release this week, since it's going to be extra intense. Here's a preview of what's to come:
The last thing she wanted was to relive the closest call she’d had this week, when Mosely had come dangerously close to figuring out Rarity’s plan. He’d found it suspicious from the beginning that a pony who’d so blatantly opted out of the production would come trotting back begging for a spot, but he hadn’t really shown it until a couple of days ago, right in the middle of a cast dinner. Rarity, perhaps against her better judgment, had chosen to go alongside Coco to ensure everything went without a hitch, but not even she could stop it.
An hour or so into the gathering, Rarity left for the restroom, and with no direct opposition in sight, Mosely made his move. With a quick grab of her hoof, he dragged her into an empty corner of the room before she realized what was happening.
“You know,” he whispered in her ear, “I’ve never been gladder fate chose you as our costume designer. I’ve heard plenty about that other mare’s skills, but really, I don’t trust her one bit.”
“She heard you needed help,” she’d responded. “You kept wondering how you were going to find a replacement for Suri once you fired her, and now you have your answer.”
“You really think she just came for that? If that’s the case, she sure picked a suspicious time to show up. You know there are ponies around who blame me for your accident. For all you know, she could regret not having taken the job. With all the attention you’ve been getting as of late, it wouldn’t be too unreasonable of an assumption to make.”
“But Rarity isn’t like that.”
“How many times have you met her? Two or three? Ponies have a way of deceiving you into thinking they’re somepony else.”
“I’ve seen that firsthoof,” Coco had replied. Just like you, Mosely.
“Well, I’ll be willing to give her the benefit of the doubt until she proves otherwise, for your sake at least. But what I can tell is that she wants to tear us apart. From there, you’d lose your position of safety within this play, and those above me would fire you on the spot. She pretends to care so she can leech off you. I’ve seen it before countless times, and I couldn’t do anything to prevent it. But you know I couldn’t let that happen to you, right? Losing a valuable employee and marefriend like you would be too much of a cost for any of us to bear.”
Too scared to even consider how much more he really knew, Coco merely nodded her head, focusing all her energy into making it look like she really agreed with him.
“I—I’ll be more careful around Rarity,” she’d told him.
“You know, with the way things are going, someday you might have to choose between the two of us. And I’m afraid that you may end up making a choice you’ll end up regretting.”
“I won’t. Because I know who my allies are.”
Everything in her was telling her to say something else, anything else that would convince him without making her stomach turn just thinking about it. Somehow, though, the lines still flowed out of her mouth.
“I wouldn’t give you up for anything or anypony, Mosely.”
Right as Rarity was exiting the restroom stall and making her way back into the main area, the first thing she saw was Coco leaning against a wall. Kissing Public Enemy Number One as if she’d never seen the darkness.
