Rainbow has always said that she'd go anywhere with Applejack. This promise has led her to the Pies' rock farm as Applejack and the rest of the family go to support Macintosh during the Choosing Stone Ceremony.

But of course, there's more than just watching going on. On the rock farm, there's time to just... talk.

More of an experiment in dialogue-heavy chapters than anything else.
Written for AppleDash Contest 4 (family, a place outside of Ponyville).

Some might think that a pony without much to say doesn't have a lot going on in their minds. Those ponies would be wrong. In fact, it's usually the quiet ones that think the most.

Marble Pie thinks a lot. Most of the time, she thinks about rocks, and how scary everything else is.

Big MacIntosh thinks a lot. Most of the time, he thinks about apples, and how complicated everything else is.

Now, throughout the good times and the bad times of Hearth's Warming, they think about each other.

Ever since visiting the Pie farm, Big Macintosh has had rocks on his mind.

The latest episode just kind of demanded that I write this.

Thanks to Jordanis for the swift and grammatical editing!

Big Mac decides it's high time he went courting. Working on the Pie farm seems like a fine way to prove his worth and get to know Marble and her family. She's a pretty, demure little mare and she seems to like him. He does not foresee any major obstacles.

He did not foresee Limestone Pie.