Izzy looks at Sunny on her right at the table…
Sunny magically floats her last chunk of French toast into her snout before munching down on the whole thing as she narrows her eyes.
Izzy turns her head left to Twinkle Shine…
Twinkle sits across the table from Sunny as she looks at the alicorn eating, “So uh, any idea why Twilight would be contacting me?”
Izzy turns to Sunny…
Sunny swallows and looks down at the table to float up her white coffee cup in a golden glow to her mouth, where the mug carefully moves back, and she takes another sip of her coffee. She swallows and sets the cup down before staring at Twinkle, “Well, the way Zipp talked, it seemed like she had some regrets, regarding this Cozy Glow filly she met earlier…” and frowning as her cup floats back down to the table.
Izzy turns to Twinkle…
“Well, yeah! Any idea what?” Twinkle says with open eyes from the front of an empty bowl of oatmeal and an empty glass that once contained berry juice beside it.
Izzy turns back to Sunny…
“Well, from the way Zipp was talking, it sounded like she wanted to know more? She said she never got the chance to learn why Cozy did what she did…” Sunny sighs, “I just don’t know how any of this could be important, two thousand years later?”
Izzy turns her head to Twinkle…
“Who knows, Sunny?” Twinkle lowers her gaze and widens her eyes, “I mean, the possibilities are really endless, when you think about it…”
“Yeah…” Sunny frowns, before a start, “Oh, love the new manecut!”
Twinkle smiles while playfully tilting her head to the left so her mane flows, “Thanks!” Took her long enough to notice! Twinkle thinks to herself…
“And uh, hey! You were hanging out with everypony, right?”
Twinkle straightens her neck and widens her eyes again as she scrunches her mouth, “I was?”
Sunny nods, “Well, of course! You have a walk-along with Hitch here in a bit, and I’m sure you and Izzy here have been doing all sorts of crafting and artistic activities?”
Twinkle narrows her mouth, “Uh, of course! She’s been teaching me uh, “she looks to her right at Izzy who’s currently staring at her with a scrunched mouth and wide red eyes, “birdhouse building skills! Yes!”
Izzy nods at the filly, “Yeah! I taught her all sorts of things!”
Sunny blinks at the unicorn, “Oh? Like what?”
Izzy turns her head to Sunny, wide-eyed, “I uh, well, I taught her how to saw with her hooves and how to place glue and uh, you know? Basic stuff!”
Twinkle nods at the alicorn, “Yeah! I don’t know anything advanced yet!”
Sunny turns to Twinkle and smiles, “Oh well, that’s okay!” she leans forward, “I mean, I’m sure you’re not gonna be the next Izzy Moonbow, or anything, but I’m sure you’ll make something neat! I can’t wait to see what sort of craftspony you become!”
Twinkle smiles nervously with wide eyes, “Right! Craftspony! I’m sure I’ll uh, make something really neat later? Yes!” as she smiles nervously and thinks to herself, This is why I smoked the roach before this happened!
Izzy widens her eyes and nods, “Um, absolutely! Yes!” before smiling anxiously…
Suddenly, Twinkle’s prayers are answered when there’s a knock on Izzy’s front door!
Izzy turns raises her head to look at the foyer in front of her and shouts to her front door beyond, “Who is it?”
She hears a stallion behind the door shout back, “It’s me, Hitch! Is Twinkle ready for her walk-along?”
Twinkle stares blankly forward, “Oh golly!”
<*****>
Twinkle brings her right forehoof to her mouth and takes another drag off the king joint and makes the cherry glow as she inhales.
Izzy sees the clock behind Twinkle and notes that it’s just after 2 PM. She looks down at Twinkle, “So uh, how did you come by all this devil weed again?”
Twinkle exhales smoke out the right side of her mouth, “Uh, you know, devil weed is illegal in Maretime Bay?”
Izzy widens her eyes as the filly purses her lips to take another drag, “Really? I didn’t know that!” she frowns, “Well, it’s perfectly legal here in Bridlewood and I know some pegasi smoke it?”
Twinkle grabs the joint with her right forehoof and raises it to signal the unicorn while softly blowing smoke out the front of her mouth. She nods, “Well, right! Anyway, I kinda did a weed dealer stallion a favor…” before smiling mischievously.
“Oh?” Izzy asks while raising her left eyebrow as she mentally makes the joint fly out of the filly’s hoof and towards her in the air…
Twinkle narrows her eyes, “Oh golly, let’s just say there’s not a whole lot of evidence against him anymore…” and giggles…
Izzy widens her eyes with the burning joint in her mouth, “When did you find the time to steal weed? Weren’t you with Hitch?”
Twinkle sighs as Izzy takes a hit off the roach, “You know, distracting him is actually pretty easy!” she widens her eyes, “I could do whatever I wanted in that station…”
Izzy exhales out the left side of her mouth as she stares down at the filly, “You’re a lot more crafty and resourceful than I thought, you little scamp!”
Twinkle gives a toothy grin, “Hey! That stallion shouldn’t even be locked up! I mean, “she leans forward intently, “he was gonna lose his shit, either way! Might as well get out early and give us some smoke, right?”
Izzy widens her red eyes while taking her second drag and then, the joint floats before her encased in a blue glow while she exhales smoke between the two ponies, “I uh, never thought about it, like that?”
Twinkle nods while Izzy forces the joint to float her way, “Right! So uh,” she widens her eyes, “why not?”
Izzy smiles and giggles, “Okay, but no more trying to take over Equestria!” while Twinkle clamps her mouth down on the joint and inhales while her eyes narrow.
Twinkle exhales smoke out the right side of her mouth and grins, “Oh, I wouldn’t dream of it! Honest!” before pursing her lips on the joint again and drawing once more, to make the cherry glow… The end soon starts to spark as she widens her eyes to it and grabs the carboard-tip with her right forehoof and quickly throws the roach into the glass ashtray on the table, to her right while leaning forward and looking over to exhale smoke between her and Izzy.
Izzy widens her eyes at the filly, “We really burned that one up, didn’t we?” she smiles, “You ready to go to the bookstore?”
Twinkle widens her eyes to the unicorn, “W-what?”
Izzy nods, “Remember when I said I wanted to take you to the bookstore?”
Twinkle widens her eyes, “You did?”
Izzy giggles, “Yeah, we have a stoned filly!”
Twinkle narrows her mouth and levels her ears, “N-no!”
Izzy grins and giggles, “Yup!”
Twinkle looks at Izzy and says, “Y-yeah, well you’re stoned too, so it doesn’t count!”
Izzy snickers, “Sure it does!”
“Does not!” the filly says emphatically!
“Wait!” Izzy narrows her eyes, “What were we talking about, again?”
Twinkle widens her eyes, “Uh, I forgot!” she shakes her head, “You know, you haven’t said that the last few times we’ve smoked?”
Izzy looks down at the filly with a frown, “Said what?”
Twinkle looks at Izzy’s chest floof, “Well, usually you say something like,” she continues in a squeaky voice while bobbing her head left and right, “‘Oh, I can’t believe I’m letting a filly smoke!’, or something,” she looks back up to the unicorn, “but you haven’t done that, recently?”
Izzy giggles, “Well, I guess I’m used to the dope-smoking pink pegasus filly, living in my house now!” She corrects her mouth, “Weren’t we about to do something, though?”
Twinkle raises her left eyebrow, “Bookstore?”
Izzy gives a wide-eyed start, “Oh! Right! That!”*
<*****>
Twinkle sits at the dinner table as a garlic hay-cake with syrup lowers onto her plate in a blue glow. She frowns at it, “Uh, garlic hay-cakes with syrup, Izzy?”
Izzy looks at Twinkle from the right, “What? It’s good!”
Twinkle looks back down at the hay-cake bleakly, “Um, sure!”
Izzy nods, “Try it!”
Twinkle stares down at the cake and gulps before muttering to herself, “Alright, guess we’ll give this a shot, huh?” and slowly picking up the strange morsel in her forehooves and tentatively taking a bite from it… Suddenly, her brown eyes widen as she begins to chew faster and then swallows before happily taking another bite!
Izzy smiles at the filly, “I knew that would work!” before looking forward as she smiles and then makes her horn and hay-cake on her plate, glow blue and the cake soon rises to her mouth so she can take a bite. Izzy finishes her bite by swallowing just as Twinkle is nearly halfway done on her voracious eating assault on her hay-cake when Izzy looks down and says, “Goodness, child!”
Twinkle finishes chewing a bite and swallows as she looks up at Izzy, “What? I like it!”
Izzy grins and giggles, “Yeah, this is almost as weird as your sudden interest in romance novels!”
Twinkle stares forward wide-eyed, “What? I like them!”
Izzy smiles and snickers as she shakes her head to make her long blue mane sway back and forth.
Twinkle just shrugs and begins hungrily munching on her hay-cake once more.
Izzy magically raises her food to her mouth for two more bites as it moves back and forth and her mouth chomps down.
This continues for a few more minutes before Twinkle finally chews her last bit and happily licks the sides, top, and bottom of her mouth with her tongue. She looks at Izzy, “That was really yummy! But uh, “she rubs her stomach, “I’m pretty full now and kinda tired after all the trotting around and shopping we did today! You sure spent a lot of time at the craft store, you know?”
Izzy smiles, “Sure! Go ahead and get ready for bed, sweetie!” Sweetie? Why am I calling her sweetie? Izzy thinks to herself.
Twinkle smiles as she bats her eyelashes and tilts her head to the left so her long-flowing mane falls down on her shoulder. “Could you hold me until I fall asleep, pwease?” before pouting curtly.
Izzy scrunches her mouth as she irks suddenly, “Uh, sure little one!” This is still cute, but it’s different with that manecut. It’s also a bit different in how she moves. Izzy notes to herself while watching this display of adorableness.
<*****>
Twinkle snuggles her beloved octopus, Fred to her chest as Izzy climbs in bed behind her and lovingly holds her in her forehooves. Twinkle opens her eyes as she holds Fred to her chin, and she can’t help but feel this is different somehow? The affection is still there and it’s still nice, but it somehow seems stronger and more vibrant now…
“I love you, Twinkle Shine!” Izzy sweetly says from behind…
As Twinkle snuggles deep into the covers, she says, “I love you too Izzy!”
Izzy lovingly kisses the back of the filly’s head before whispering, “Goodnight! Rest well!”
<*****>
Twinkle wakes up again on a slab inside the same blue atrium. She hears her voice say from outside, “Well well well! Seems you have the power to acquire evidence now, hmm?”
She rises to her hooves from the slab and looks up as she says, “What?”
“Oh, don’t be coy!” The voice teasingly replies, “You used your friendship with Hitch Trailblazer to steal weed! Surely you see what a useful tool this is?”
Twinkle lowers her nose, “I’m not like you!”
The other filly giggles, “You know, for not being like me, you sure are doing things a lot like I would do them!”
Twinkle exhales through her nostrils and begins to trot around the room, “Where are you?”
“Oh? Why would you want to find me, Cozy Glow?”
“Where are you?” Twinkle repeats herself as she walks around the room, and she soon sees a light coming from the upper side of a stone ramp on her right. She trots faster to turn and head up that ramp to emerge in a green field underneath a dark gloomy cloudy sky… She also sees a pink filly with neatly arranged bluish-white curls for a mane on the top of her head.
The other filly smiles, “Welcome, Cozy Glow!” as thunder booms in the sky and a small flash of lightning is seen behind her.
Twinkle leans towards the filly, “I’m not like you! I’m better!”
The filly bares her teeth, “Sure, Cozy Glow! Keep telling yourself that!”
Twinkle begins to gallop towards the filly as she fiercely shouts, “For the last time, I AM NOT COZY GLOW!!!!” She soon launches herself to take off with her wings and flies straight at the filly like an angry pink missile with her hooves in front of her, horseshoes bare! She screams in anger as she crashes into the other filly and arcs herself downward, so she smashes the other filly to the ground and she begins to violently hoof the face of this filly as red splatters erupt from the object of her attack and her long wavy mane flails wildly each time she brings her hoof down on the other filly’s face!
She finally stops and brings her forehooves to the dirt as she looks down and breathes heavily, in and out, and stares down at the small new hole she had just made in the dirt when she hears her own voice in the distance saying, “YES! That pisses you off, huh? Golly! Feels so good to get MAD after all that nothing, right?”
Twinkle raises her chin, “What do you want from me?”
The voice replies, “I want you to know who you are, Cozy Glow… I want you to understand what you’re supposed to do…”
Twinkle frowns in impudent rage as she shouts, “I’m not like you!”
<*****>
Twinkle wakes with a wide-eyed start and she feels the dried tears in her eyes as she clutches Fred close to her chest, while she’s firmly held in a blue unicorn’s embrace.
Izzy opens her eyes and holds the foal tightly, “You’re shaking! Are you alright?”
Twinkle vibrates in agitation as she frantically says, “Um, Izzy! S-smoke! Uh, now! P-please!”**
(To be continued…)