Derpy led Vinyl and Octavia down the hill towards the windmill manufacturing facility. The other ponies passed on by going to wherever their destination was for the morning. The gardens in pony’s yards had bright colors of tulips, roses, and lavender. They passed a store that had a neon sandwich sign on the front.
“Those sandwiches smell pretty good don’t you think?” Vinyl said.
“I could eat three of them.” Derpy replied.
Those sandwiches do smell pretty good. Great, now I’m hungry. Octavia thought to herself.
At the bottom of the hill there was a curve in the street. It went back up on the other side which is the way Derpy went. She continued up the hill until a big building appeared on the left of Octavia’s vision. Ponies came in and out of a big space in the front of the building. Inside Octavia could see lots of machinery and ponies walking around.
“Here goes nothing.” Derpy murmured.
She walked to a door that had a sign above it which read “Visitors” in big bold letters. Derpy pulled open the door and walked inside followed by Vinyl and Octavia. There was a few chairs that looked like they were suited for a waiting room at a dentist's office and a desk where a mare was sitting.
Derpy walked up to the desk and said, “Hi… I was wondering how I could get in contact with the chief engineer of the windmills?”
“Oh, you must mean Hole Tosses. Yes, here, just let me pull up his info.”
The mare clicked around on the computer for a minute or two until she found all the information that they were looking for.
“Okay, I’ll write this down for you.”
She pulled out a piece of paper and a pen. The mare wrote down some information and handed it to Derpy.
“Thank you.” Derpy called as she left the building with Vinyl and Octavia.
Once they had made it a little ways away from the manufacturing center Derpy looked at the note.
“Okay, it says here a phone number and a house address where he apparently takes job requests. Thank goodness that he takes those job requests or else this would be a lot harder.”
“Now we should go back home and think of a plan for what to do.” Octavia said stubbornly.
“Fine, I think that maybe you’re right about being a little cautious this time Octavia. He is the chief engineer after all.” Derpy said winking at Octavia.
Why is she winking at me? Oh right, we’re not supposed to talk about the agency in public. Derpy really saved me that time. I’m not sure if any of that other stuff I said counts so hopefully I don’t get kidnapped and have my memory erased. I don’t think that counts, I didn’t say anything about the agency, I just got very dangerously close to saying something about it.
They passed the main entrance to Canterlot where outside they could see trees and grass. Once they finally made it back to their house they had walked quite a distance.
“My legs are killing me!” Vinyl groaned.
“You could sure say that again.” Derpy complained.
“You guys really need to get out more if that short walk is killing you.” Octavia responded.