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// An interlude 
// Story: Long Way Around 
// by The unwatched 
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Long Way Around






An interlude




Grass looks the same most of the time. This is especially true when you’ve spent two days walking through it with not much else to look at. At least today I was woken by the sight of mountains in the distance. The sun’s light gleaming off of them. Before I had appeared here, it had been right in the middle of summer and it seemed to be the same here. The grass had been wet with dew most mornings and the grass still looked green and fresh,so I presumed that even the weather here was looked after now and again.

For a few moments I considered eating some grass to try and quieten by stomach but I quickly decided that I wasn’t going native quite yet. Instead I decided to walk barefoot through the grass and give my feet a bit of a rest. I began to walk in the general direction of where I last remembered the pegasi to have gone, using the mountains as a reference point. As long as I kept them on my right I knew that I was going in the generally correct direction.

As I walked my mind began to wonder, as it does. I thought about what might have happened if anyone had actually seen me. Maybe Celestia was wondering if I was the saviour of their world whose destiny it was to help stop an ancient evil. Probably not though, fan fics aren’t the best things to base assumptions on.

I then began to admire the actual world around me. The mountains piercing the earth filled the entire right side of my vision.They dominated the landscape and seemed slightly out of place when compared to the grassland around me. While the left was covered by grass and small bits of shrubbery shooting out of the ground. It does feel relaxing, walking through a land not knowing exactly where you’re going but instead just being able to think. I didn’t really care what I was thinking about instead I just waited for what came into my head.  I’d wanted to go walking in the hills before but it’s not something that I was ever able to do. Bit of a shame, but here I am, exploring a land that I haven’t seen before. It does make up for it.


Even though my feet were getting a rest, walking through the soft grass, my legs began to stiffen up after a few hours. So I decided to take a quick rest and look at the most prominent mountain beside me. I couldn’t actually see it but I presumed that there was a certain large city resting on the other side of it. The numerous holes that I could see riddling the mountainside seemed to reinforce this. No doubt that these were tunnels excavated throughout the centre of the mountain that allowed trains to travel through it.

I stayed there for a while, admiring the forces that must have created these mountains, before getting a bit bored and deciding to carry on.







The mountains began to recede behind me as I walked to what I presumed was a very distant river on the horizon. That was my next step. I noticed a few small disturbances on my left from a new set of mountains. I took that as a good sign and walked with the tunnel-ridden mountain behind me and the new set off to my left.

The sun was already beginning to get ready to set and so started into a jog. Skipping is apparently a more energy-efficient method of movement but the idea of skipping through a field didn’t really feel right, even considering where I was. So instead I just ran towards the sound of water that flowed over the open fields around me.

I was surprised that I hadn’t seen any more pegasi flying overhead considering how close to the capital I was. That was probably for the best though, considering that if anyone did fly overhead then there wouldn’t be anywhere to hide.  So I just ran like humans were designed to. My feet made an almost soundless crunch underneath as I steadily jogged forward. I was diverting a bit from my original idea of keeping the sun directly behind me, but it was necessary to reach my destination.

Over my ragged breathing I began to once again hear the sound of running water. By now I was getting pretty tired and could taste a slight metallic taste in my mouth. Running towards the sound I found a much larger than expected river. The size of it did explain why I had heard it so long before actually seeing it. By now the sun had already set and the river seemed almost perfectly black in the night.

I collapsed on the river bank and lay there, trying to get my breath back. I’d probably been jogging for about an hour or more, a pretty rare feat for me. I stayed there for a while before going up to the river and relieving myself. I then walked a bit further upstream, I wasn’t going Bear Grylls style just yet.


With the night sky above me, that I was beginning to call my own, and the sound of the river beside me; I quickly drifted off to sleep.  



Note: Next chapter should be longer than this