The wind goes the wrong direction when Derpy goes home. She has to fly through a rain cloud and she gets wet and that makes the wind worse and Derpy’s eyes are wet but she’s not sure if it’s the rain. Derpy sees shapes in the clouds when she’s flying and she goes by one pony on her way, and she imagines that she could fly up beside them and say hello and they might stop and say hello but she doesn’t say hello. She’s wet, and she wants to go home and the wind is blowing the wrong way. Derpy is excited to get home, but she doesn’t know why. She delivered a lot of mail.
Derpy pays attention to the sounds her wings make when she flies home. She thinks about what she might do. She could read a book, or write in her journal, or fly around forever if she wanted to until she has to wake up and go back and deliver mail. She feels like she is flying for a long time and she doesn’t want to do it anymore, but when she gets home she doesn’t know what else to do. She forgot to get a book she liked, and she picks up one that she has lying around but it doesn’t seem very good. Derpy reads The only thing about life in Ponyville is Derpy stops and puts the book down. Derpy’s head feels heavy and her legs feel like big floppy balloons with no air in them and she can’t hold her head up anymore. Derpy goes to bed to go to sleep to her head falling down and the pillow makes her eyes feel funny. She sniffles and sometimes she cries and she cries right now and it’s okay because her pillow is big and soft. She makes noises like she’s crying really hard because she is but she doesn’t want to. And then she falls asleep, and when she wakes up later she isn’t crying, and doesn’t feel like she wants to, but she thinks maybe it made her feel better.
After a little while, her tummy hurts again.