Cover Art #3 - Frozen Sunday Edition · 8:58pm Dec 11th, 2016
-20 degrees Celsius outside. Snow is falling. Windshields all up and down the lane are frosted over. The wind is cold, biting, and bitter enough to dry out your nostrils after a couple minutes outside.
Man, winter in Canada is a magical time of year.
At least there's new cover art to warm my heart!
Today's update will be for another TwiDash-oriented story, "That Dumb Flower." Enjoy!
“Hi, Rainbow,” Twilight breathed. She held a hoof over her chest, trying to catch her breath. Then, after sucking in a large gulp of air, a flurry of words flew from her mouth. “Listen, there’s something really important I need to ask you and I only have about thirty seconds to explain it before Pinkie goes crazy trying to find me so can you please, please, please do me a favour?”
“Sure?” Rainbow scratched the back of her neck, her eyes keeping a keen lookout for Fluttershy before returning to Twilight. “But I’m kinda waiting for Fluttershy to take some feed back her place. Can it wait for like ten minutes?” Her eyes fell to the extravagant flower nestled under Twilight’s wing. “And what’s with the flower? You’re not going all googly-eyed and sappy on me too, are you?”
“It can’t wait!” Twilight cried, dancing frantically on her hooves. “I’ve already wasted ten seconds just explaining that I need to explain something to you!”
“Okay, okay, sheesh.” Rainbow raised her hooves and sat on her haunches. “I’m all ears. Whaddya need, Twilight? It’s not another one of those experiment things again, is it?”
“Not at all! Well, kind of. Actually, here,” Twilight said, plucking the flower from under her wing in her mouth and passing it to Rainbow. Rainbow’s eyes widened as she felt the flower stem pressing into her mouth and Twilight’s cheeks brushing against hers.
Spitting the flower into her hooves, Rainbow fixed Twilight with an incredulous stare. “What’s the idea?” She looked from Twilight to the flower then back to Twilight. “The heck’s this for?”
“That’s the favour! I don’t have time to explain properly, but I need you to hold onto that until tonight.”
“What’s tonight?” Rainbow asked with an eyebrow raised.
“It’s our weekly reading night, remember?” Twilight bit her lip and looked over her shoulder with her jaw set, as if expecting something to crash into her at any moment.
“Oh yeah...” Rainbow trailed off, her gaze dropping to the flower in her hooves. Her brow furrowed as her eyes traced the patterns of the flower-shaped stamen. There was something particularly girly and almost romantic about it that made her stomach squirm. Her cheek tingled from where Twilight’s met it and her tail flicked. “Twilight, why d’you need me to—”
“I really can’t talk now, Rainbow,” Twilight said with a forced calm tone leveling her voice. “I’m already running late and Pinkie’s waiting for me at Sugarcube Corner. Just hang onto that flower and meet me at the castle tonight at the regular time, okay? I promise I’ll explain everything then and I’ll make this up to you.”
“Okay...” Rainbow answered slowly. She looked up with a frown. “But—”
“Thank you, Rainbow!” Twilight’s cheek met Rainbow’s again as she nuzzled the pegasus in thanks. She jumped to her hooves and spread her wings with a beaming smile. “I’ll see you tonight!”
Again, the fantastic work seen above and in my last two blogs has been done by Rossby Waves. If you want to check out more of his work, you can find it scattered around fimfic in the Quill and Blade universe stories and in some of the stories published by ZOMG. You can also send him a PM if you're interested in commissioning some Rossby art of your own!
Top quality. Would recommend.
Stay warm my frozen, winter people!
