“Thanks for the party, Pinkie Pie.”
“Oh, you’re welcome Kimono! I LOVE throwing parties for new ponies!” Pinkie Pie bounced beside Kimono as she walked home.
Kimono looked around. “You know, this Ponyville is much different than the one I came from.”
“I know!”
Kimono glanced at Pinkie Pie. “You’ve been?”
“I’ve been to all sorts of other Ponyvilles!”
Kimono laughed awkwardly. “That’s nice, Pinkie.”
They walked in silence for a few minutes. "So, why did you move here?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"You know Fluttershy?"
"KNOW her?! She's one of my best friends!"
"Well, she had mysteriously disappeared one day, and then not too long ago, we got a letter from her saying that this Ponyville wasn't bad. So I (and a few other ponies) decided to move here and check it out."
"Cool!"
Finally they got to Kimono’s house. The dark pink pony turned and faced Pinkie Pie. “Well, this is where we part ways.”
“Okie dokie lokie!”
Loki, the trickster god from Asgard, popped in upside-down. “You called again?”
Pinkie Pie giggled. “Silly Loki. You’ve got to learn the difference between ʻLokiʼ and ʻokie dokie lokie!’”
“I’ll try.” And with a SNAP, he was gone.
Kimono stared at the spot where Loki had been.
“Bye-bye!” Pinkie Pie said, and she bounced away.
Kimono shook her head and closed the door.
~~~
The bed rattled as Kimono flopped onto it.
“I don’t think I’ve eaten so much in my entire life!” she groaned.
She glanced lazily at the boxes by her closet. Better take care of those tomorrow, Kimono thought. She turned her gaze back to the ceiling. Maybe I should buy some new furniture… And before she knew it, Kimono fell asleep.
~~~
The next morning, after she ate, Kimono got to work on unpacking. She unpacked the dished, the bath stuff, and the rugs. She unpacked the things in the box labeled Décor, and she had a whole box devoted to paper lanterns. When Kimono got to the clothes box, she thought of something.
I should buy a kimono to celebrate moving here!
So Kimono finished unpacking and left her house. She wandered around Ponyville, trying to find the nearest clothing store, before she asked somepony.
“The Carousel Boutique,” a pony with an orange mane and yellow coat answered.
So Kimono headed off to the Carousel Boutique to buy a kimono. She kept staring and gawking at all the unicorns and pegasi around. “So many…” she said with awe in her voice.
~~~
Kimono finally managed to make it to the Boutique and pushed the door open. The bell rang, and a voice called out, “Just a minute!”
A white unicorn came out from the back room. “Hello. I don’t believe we’ve met. My name is Rarity.”
“How come you’re not pink and have rainbow hair?” Kimono blurted out.
“I beg your pardon?”
“Sorry. It’s just that there’s a unicorn where I come from named Rarity.”
“Well, that’s understandable.”
“You remind me of Rainbow Dash.”
Rarity was confused. "Why?"
"Well, you talk like her, and if I had to guess, you say darling a lot."
Rarity understood and didn't understand, and so decided to dismiss the comment. “What do you need?”
“I need a kimono.”
“A kimono? What’s a kimono?” Rarity asked.
“Wait… Don’t you have kimonos here?”
“No, I’m afraid not.”
Kimono fidgeted. “Are you sure this is the only clothing store here?”
“I would have heard about another one if another one existed.” The white pony paused. “I do carry catalogs for stores in Canterlot, Manehatten, all the large cities, really.”
“Wow, you have so many cities! At home, we only have three places.”
~~~
An hour later, Kimono tossed the last catalog onto the pile she had created. “Nothing.”
“I’m sorry, darling, that you couldn’t find anything.”
“It’s alright.” Kimono walked out the door. “Goodbye.”
“Goodbye.” As the door closed, Rarity realized something. “Wait! Come back!”