"Excuse me, I need to use the little filly's room."
"Gotcha, Cotton." Sunny saw Aqua smirk. "Good luck!" The filly called out.
Cotton shook her head as she walked out of the common room
Sunny turned back to the filly. "You seem to have quite a unique group surrounding you."
Said filly turned to the yellow pegasus and tilted her head. "Huh?"
"Both Cotton Ball and Solid Phalanx."
An expression of understanding blossomed on the filly. "Oh. yeah..." Aqua smirked and spoke smugly, "They're pretty cool, but I'm cooler. They just want to be around me."
Sunny giggled. "Perhaps... perhaps they are trying to siphon off this so-called coolness you supposedly exude."
The filly sat back and crossed her hooves as she pouted. "Hey! I'll have you know my coolness is one hundred percent real."
Leaning in, Sunny dramatically peered around the blue filly. "Are you sure? I cannot see it about you. I cannot hear nor smell it. To me, it does not seem like you have it."
Aqua scoffed and looked up at Sunny. "That's what you think. You just can't fathom it." She pointed her nose to the sky and spoke through her nose, "It's simply beyond you."
Sunny hummed. "Are you sure you are not simply imagining things?"
The filly blew a raspberry. "Oh, I know for a fact that I'm not. When you imagine things, you can alter them." The filly lost a bit of her confidence. "Mostly, at least."
The yellow mare tilted her head. "And how do you know so much about imagining things, little Aqua?"
Aqua began to scuff the floor with a hoof. "Well, you know how I liked to draw..." She began to mumble to herself, "Not like it's useful anymore."
"I do not believe I have said I am sorry about that..."
"It's not like it's your fault. Just unfortunate is all..."
Sunny looked down. And yet it was I who brought you to the orphanage...
Aqua shook her head. "Anyway, drawing involves a lot of thinking and, of course, creativity. Sure, you can paint a landscape, but where's the fun in that? That's all so boring. Why not create a landscape instead?" She emphasized the word create.
Raising her eyebrows, Sunny gave a go-on motion with a hoof. "Oh? Can you do me a favour of creating one in your mind?"
Aqua put a hoof to her chin and looked up. "Oh yeah... Hm... Let's start with an idea. So let's go with some mountains... Hm. Maybe add in a floating island. Let's have some rivers running off that island. There's probably some magic that transports the water back up, so you don't gotta think about it. Though, there's a certain want," Aqua glanced at Sunny, "Almost need, to when making a landscape, to make it realistic..." The filly shrugged. "Well, relatively realistic. If something exists, it's fun to write a reason for it... Like, take this floating island... Let's say it was magically locked in place thousands of years ago after... let's say some massive flood came about. And if you don't know, water isn't really good for a house. So, this wizard decides to lift it and coincidentally, most of the ground around it. But there's a problem. The flood doesn't drain. In fact, it just settles in the now-missing land and made a minor sea below the island. So we can add in a large body of water below. Now, let's take the mountains from earlier and surround that water." Aqua leaned back and spread her front hooves out above her with a smile. "Boom. You have an interesting-looking landscape. Took like maybe five minutes to think up."
Sunny, with high eyebrows, rapped her hooves against each other in appreciation. "Impressive... I believe you have argued for the existence of your imagination successfully..."
Aqua rubbed the back of her head and she laid back down. "Y-yeah... I'm cool like that."
Sunny glanced up upon hearing hooves approaching. Turning, she spotted Cotton returning. She also saw the clock behind her and mentally sighed. Time to go. "Welcome back, Cotton Ball.
Cotton spoke up upon getting close. "What'd I miss?"
Sunny looked at the filly. "Little Aqua here designed a landscape in her head."
Cotton's eyes grew wide in addition to a smile. "Did you, now?"
Aqua nodded. "Yeah. It's a cool idea and all. Now I wanna draw it..." The filly looked at her hooves, scuffing the floor once more.
"You should share and describe it to Cotton Ball. However, I am afraid to say I have to go." Sunny got to her hooves.
"Aw. Alright then and will do..." The filly nodded in the direction of the larger pegasus. "Thanks for stoppin' by, Sunny. Have a good one."
"And the same to the both of you. I hope you two have a good day." Walking towards the front desk to sign out, she heard the filly begin describing a beautiful landscape.
"So, I was talking about this one floating island I made up..."