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// Ch 6 
// Story: My Little Ball of Fire & Vengeance 
// by Scootaboom1 
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Amber Wood

The treehouse was far too old and fragile for me to use at the moment.

But if I was really in need of it I could make use of it.

Going further into the farm I came across the farm house, barn, and stable.

I saw the lights on in the house and decided that it would be best to not look through the windows for now.

Given that the farm was growing apples I could only assume that the orange earth pony lived here.

I decided to investigate the barn first.

Keeping to the shadows which was easier than it would have been if I had been covered in the cyan and magenta flames of my nirik form.

Entering the front door of the barn I saw that it was a pretty normal barn as far as I knew.

There were bails of hay scattered about the ground floor.

There were also various crates storing who knows what.

To the left there was a work station with all kinds of tools.

The loft looked to have crates of different kinds but I couldn't find a way up there to get a good look in the dark but I had no intention of igniting my nirik form here.

As I walked out of the barn I made sure to close the door behind me and looked to the house.

There was still some light but it seemed to have mostly gone dark.

Sneaking to the front porch I could see that the light was coming from a room further back in the house.

Staying next to the wall and under the windows I snuck by the left side of the house to the window with the light on.

The first sound that reached me was the sound of running water.

Laying under the window I heard the familiar voice of the orange earth pony named Applejack who had also fed me.

She must have been washing up after dinner.

Hearing heavy steps coming down from what I could only guess was a stair way of some way.

Applejack then spoke out, "Big Mac are Apple Bloom and Granny Smith in bed?"

A deep male which I could only imagine came from the so called Big Mac let out a simple, "Eeyup."

He seemed to be a stallion of few words and I could get behind something like that so I liked him already.

I almost thought that they were husband and wife with a child and elderly parent living with them.

Though I rememberer that my friend had mentioned that none of the main characters had romantic partners until the end of the series.

Meaning that they were probably siblings instead.

Applejack began to speak again and said, "Welp you can go on up to bed. I will finish washing up these before heading up to mine own."

Big Mac let out a eeyup and a series of heavy steps left and from the sound was heading up a flight of stairs.

Applejack hummed a small tune before the water was turned off and I heard light hoof steps before the light was turned off.

The hoof steps faded much quicker than those of Big Mac and I waited a short time to make sure that she would not suddenly come back.

While I did enter the barn without permission I was not about to do the same with their house.

Though I was curious about what they were keeping in the stable.

Walking up to the front door I heard snoring coming from inside.

The snores sounded like they were coming from relatively large creatures.

I tried to open the door gently but I could not open it.

I tried to use a bit more force when I heard someone say, "Hum. What was that sound?"

There was no way for the sound of the additional force to reach the house behind me.

Did someone or something live in the stable?

Were stables just another kind of house?

Will they think that I was trying to break into their house?

Regardless they were probably heading this way.

Running to the right I turned around the corner and hid on the left side of the stable.

After hearing what sounded like a cow bell I heard the distinct sound of a metal latch opening.

Shortly after a voice called out, "Mouriel, do you see anything out there?"

Given the mooing sound in the voice I could only assume that they were cows.

The voice of who I could only guess to be Muriel or perhaps it is Mouriel soon responded, "Must have just been a stray gust of wind from the Everfree Forest."

The idea seemed almost ridiculous to me but then I remembered that I was now in a magical world. Thus I really could not really blame them for it.

Muriel closed the door and I heard the latch shut it up tight.

I let out a breath that I not even realized that I was holding in.

I looked towards the back end of the stable and noticed thin beams of light coming out of small gaps in the wood work.

I decided to wait just in case they could see me through the gaps.

I heard the sound of voices from inside the stable but could not hear everything they were saying, but from the sound of it they were saying their goodnights.

Were the cows living in this stable farm hands because I remember milk being pretty common in my travels with Trixie.

That minotaur Iron Will had two pet goats who were well trained.

Could they be using goats milk for all of it?

Maybe?

Or perhaps cows sell their own milk as strange as that sounds?

Regardless if the orange earth pony and her family could afford to hire farm hands then they could probably afford having an extra kirin calf around, I think.

Though I would definitely be fine with helping out on the farm if they asked.

I made my way to the edge of the orchard and turned to my nirik form before I realized that I had forgotten where I slept the night before.

Sighing I asked myself, "Why do I do this to myself?"