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// Later that afternoon 
// Story: Discords renascent 
// by Vidhwansak 
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Later that afternoon




Vidhwansak sighed as she went about her work as a member of the weather patrol team today. Being the large, industrial city that Manehattan was, there were a lot of clouds needed to be made, gathered, injected with lots and lots of rain, and then finally placed into position, just to make some rain in this city. She groaned as she pushed a particularly large cloud by herself. As a filly, she always thought of clouds as little soft puffy marshmallows that one could eat. After finding out the reality behind a cloud, though, she knew them to be heavy (Especially when they were full of rain like this one) and not at all tasting like marshmallows. She remembered when she first licked one, curious to satisfy her mind and tongue. Said tongue tasted foul for a week before the taste went away, and she was not eager to do the same thing again, ever.

Suddenly, she heard the voice of another call out her name. She sighed, and turned around to meet another pegasus, female, with a long mane and equally long tail. Her coat was a warm, inviting orange while her mane was a wild pink, streaked with lines of purple every so often. Her cutie mark was that of a juice box, although what it was supposed to stand for, Vidhwansak never asked. She didn't really want to know, either. This pegasus got close, just a little too close for comfort to her. Unfortunately, this pony liked to be rather up close and personal during conversations, and had the same excitable personality as Gydina, with her own special...'Flare'. Backed up against a cloud, she gently pushed her back slightly, an action that caused the other pegasus to squeak. Frowning, Vidhwansak decided it was best just to get whatever the pegasus wanted from her over and done with. Dragging it out would only make the skittish pegasus in front of her even more annoying.

"What is it that you want, Cyper? You of all ponies should know that I'm on the weather patrol today. You are my supervisor, after all." Secretly, Vidhwansak wondered just how Cyper managed to get into such a position when the pegasus' thought process was clearly scrambled. The pegasus in question tilted her head slightly, smiled, and held out her hooves, which were holding out a box of doughnuts.

"I was feeling SO good today, so I went ahead and bought a WHOLE LOT of doughnuts in boxes! I got five more boxes for the rest of the weather patrol today, just in case they didn't have such a good nummy breakfast and were super SUPER hungry today and couldn't survive until lunch! Want one?!" Vidhwansak stared at Cyper for a good sixteen seconds, while the other pegasus was simply beaming happily at her. Slowly, Vidhwansak reached into the box, and took out one of the pastries, so not to offend Cyper. Cyper giggled joyfully for no reason, and started flying upside-down over to another cloud being pushed by other pegasai, probably with the intention of getting close and offering them doughnuts. 

"Bye bye Viddy, enjoy your doughnut!"

Shaking her head, Vidhwansak looked down at the doughnut she had been given. The 'breakfast' she had earlier with Gydina wasn't really that great of one, so why not eat the doughnut? Although it was full of sugar and calories as well as having been offered by a borderline insane supervisor, the pegasus knew she could fly off the fat and calories, and while Cyper wasn't the brightest pony around, she was genuinely kind in her offer, and wouldn't give her a poisoned doughnut. At least, Vidhwansak hoped it wasn't. So she took one tiny bite of the doughnut.

Immediately, the pegasus spat out the pieces of the doughnut she had just bit down on, and began rubbing her tongue rapidly with her left hoof. She breathed heavily as she looked down at the sugary demon in her right hoof, just begging to be eaten. This thing wasn't sugary...This doughnut was made entirely of sugar. How, Vidhwansak didn't know, but it was way too sweet for her to eat, not to mention the cavities she'd get if she took another bite. With regret, the pegasus let the 'doughnut' drop down from the sky, and saw parts of it flaking off. At least the 'doughnut' killed whatever appetite she had for food. Scowling up at the cloud she needed to move into position for the storm later tonight, she went back at the cloud with renewed energy, determined to get this cloud in before lunch, where, hopefully, Gydina didn't eat everything.



Gydina sighed happily as she read through the last of her tracked 'shipping' fiction stories. Oh, how she'd like to be swept off her hooves and be romantically taken away like a dream...Unfortunately, the only pony capable of doing that was the pegasus she lived with, and she doubted that Vidhwansak was going to do so. Rolling her eyes as she thought of her name, Gydina shut down the computer, and pulled her headphones over her ears, listening to a nice, long trance mix as she wondered what her next plan for today was. Looking up at the battered clock above her, she realized that the pegasus would be coming back home soon. Perhaps she'd appreciate a nice, warm meal. Looking through the refrigerator, the unicorn quickly got out what she needed, and began to make lunch, something that Vidhwansak told her time and again to never do unless she wanted food poisoning to end her life quickly. Gydina huffed. Her cooking wasn't that bad! The only reason she burned the last salad she made was because she tried to deep fry a cabbage. Unfortunately, for a full week, the apartment smelled like burnt cabbage, and to top it all off, the pegasus absolutely refused to eat what she made, instead, she threw it out and took Gydina out for dinner, where, as she remembered, was the 'proper way to make salad'. She huffed. 'C'mon, Viddy, Y'know I'm tryin'.' She thought idly to herself as she prepared a salad.