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// The Wind and the Sign 
// Story: Pieces of a Grey Cloud 
// by darf 
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When Derpy flies sometimes the wind goes in the right direction but lately it always goes in the wrong direction. When Derpy flies the wind goes the other way and it’s in her face and it makes it hard to fly and she wants to stop, but she can’t or her wings will go the other way and she will too and work is that way so she needs to keep going because she needs to go to work.

Derpy closes her eyes when the wind is really big and then she opens them again pretty quick with a tickle in her chest because she knows if she has them closed for too long she might run into somepony. Sometimes she does it when she thinks somepony is nearby and they might be going really fast and maybe hit her and that’s scary, and she worries about it and opens her eyes and looks sideways and has to turn her whole head that way, because she can’t see out of that eye very good, but nopony is ever there. And then she feels weird because sometimes she wishes there was. She squints and tries to read the sign in the distance, but it’s too far away.

Derpy thinks too much sometimes. She thinks about why she might close her eyes or why she might want somepony to go fast. She thinks about what she would look like if she got hit and then went up and sideways and then back down and she’d probably keep going until she hit the ground and that would hurt. Her wings feel prickly when she thinks about what would happen if they broke. Sometimes when she’s at home she touches them and feels how tiny the bones are and imagines if she pressed just a little bit harder how easy they would go snap and then she couldn’t fly, and she sticks her tongue out and presses down a little bit but doesn’t push all the way.

Derpy squints. She still can't read the sign. She wants to read it. She closes one eye, and it says Cloudsdale Gardens. She opens both her eyes and then she closes one and the sign says /~~~~\~~~/~~`~~~’~~~\. Derpy squints really hard and sees \l~~s~~l~C’~~|~~g. She doesn’t want to read the sign anymore. Her eyes hurt..

Sometimes Derpy wishes that when she wakes up in the morning, she could read the clock near her bed with both eyes and it won’t look funny. She dreams that one day she’ll get up and her headache will go away and she can see things right all the time.