Snow Veil stopped at her door step. She was reflecting on the day’s events. She met two really nice ponies, of whom she considered her new friends. I mean, wouldn’t spending the whole day with them warrant that thought? Without knowing who she was they showed her compassion. They proved to Snow Veil that everypony won’t try to bring you down and turn you into a depressed, jaded pony. Something was nagging at her though. She felt like she knew Fluttershy already though. She just couldn’t put her hoof on it. Oh well, that was a problem for another day.
Snow veil quickly unlocked the door to her house and walked on in, still musing to herself about her three new friends. She was all bubbly and gitty on the inside but somehow managed to cover it all up and on the outside she just seemed as normal as ever. Almost as if nothing had ever happened. But oh how wrong all the other ponies were it that’s what they thought.
Once inside Snow Veil let out an exasperated sigh. To her it felt like a world of stress had been lifted off her shoulders. She closed the door and walked to her living room where she found a book and began to read. It helped her clear her mind, reading that is, and it was her favorite pastime. It was two in the afternoon.
Once Snow Veil finished her book, she rose from her cushion on the floor and looked at the time. It was nine in the evening. She decided she would just have some cereal for dinner tonight and head to bed. Therefore she did just that and within the hour, she was in bed and fast asleep.
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Snow Veil awoke early the next morning. “I think I’m going to surprise Pinkie today,” she thought. She still had six days before her leave was up. She quickly headed to the kitchen to have breakfast. She remembered the day before and thought about how hungry she was during the day. She was not going to go through that again.
“I’m going to treat myself today.” She thought. She started rummaging through all her drawers, bookshelves, and looking on the counters. “Ah Hah!” She exclaimed, almost loud enough for her neighbors to hear. Snow veil waltzed back into the kitchen with her prize, a dusty old tome that stated ‘Good Eats’ on the front cover in an outrageously large font. The lettering was a bright, shiny gold color, but the shine wasn’t coming out as the cover was covered in a profuse amount of dust. Snow Veil opened the book to the ‘Breakfast’ section and started skimming through all the recipes. She needed something that wasn’t too hard. Something that could be made quickly and without dirtying ever pot and pan in the kitchen. “An omelette you say. I’ll give that a shot.” She read out all the ingredients and the directions as she was gathering everything up. Once all the ingredients were on the counter she began. Within 35 minutes it had finished and she could dig in, which she did, without hesitation. When the omelette ceased to be she dropped her plate in the sink and headed to the bath.
She was in and out just as fast as the day before. She dried off, brushed her teeth, gave her mane a good brush and flip and everything was great. She headed off and left her key in the plant pot by her front door. Her destination was none other than Ponyville again.
She arrived in Ponyville in a little under fifteen minutes as Cloudsdale wasn’t too far away from the rural village. She landed in front of Fluttershy’s house and knocked on the door. Fluttershy opened the door and before she could get a word in Snow Veil began to unveil her plan to Fluttershy.
“Hey Fluttershy, I had an idea. Maybe you, me, and Applejack could throw a party for Pinkie today as thanks for making it possible to meet you and Applejack.” Right after Snow Veil finished, she realized that Fluttershy was in the process of cleaning up, like she was going somewhere and wanted to come home to a clean house.
“Oh, um, well, that’s a great idea and all, and it’s very nice but I have a spa appointment with Rarity today. You haven’t met Rarity yet have you? She’s the designer in town. We have weekly spa appointments that everypony just schedules things around.” Fluttershy got in close to Snow Veil and lifted her hoof up as if to tell a secret of some kind. “You see, whenever anyone messes with Rarity’s plans she throws a bit of a fit. She’s kind of a drama queen in that respect.” Fluttershy returned to normal and continued. “I’m really sorry I didn’t tell you.” And with that, Fluttershy closed the door to her house and started off down the path into town.
Snow Veil watched her friend walk off. Her ears were put back and she didn’t feel too well. She figured that she would just go read to get her mind off of it. Beyond that she didn’t quite know what she wanted to do. Her idea of throwing a party didn’t really go too well. Snow Veil left to the Library.
The library was a good five minute walk from Fluttershy’s house, well perhaps ten at the slow pace that Snow Veil was walking at. It was two stories and built into the trunk of a tree. When Snow Veil finally caught sight of it, she noticed an unreasonably large telescope protruding out from the side of the. “What is that?” she thought. “Does someone live there or is that there for everypony to use?” This telescope perplexed Snow Veil as she tried to remember back to the Cloudsdale library. She wondered if she had ever seen a telescope growing out from the side, and when she decided there wasn’t she wondered why such an under-developed village like Ponyville would cater to the stargazers. She figured that Cloudsdale would be better suited for the stargazers since they don’t really have any synthetic lights and that they are on the clouds, the only thing that really impedes the view of the cosmos. She approached the door and gave it three good knocks.
A lavender pony opened the door and poked her head out. “Why hello there.” Her smile was quite large, though it didn’t compete with Pinkie in the least. Her mane was a darker purple, darker than her coat, and it had a bright, pink stripe going through it. The stripe almost matched the color of Pinkie’s coat. “My name is Twilight, please come in, the library is open.” The door seemed to grow a purple translucent cloud as it opened wider to let Snow Veil in. Snow Veil took a better look at the librarian and almost did a face-hoof from the fact that she completely missed Twilight’s horn.
“A city with earth ponies, unicorns, and pegasi.” Snow Veil was trying to wrap her head around this concept since she was only used to Cloudsdale and the only ponies there were pegasi. Anypony else would just fall right through the clouds.
Snow Veil entered the library and was quite underwhelmed with the amount of books there were. “I guess a city of this size doesn’t need that many books…” Once fully inside Snow Veil turned around and closed the door behind her. Twilight was sitting at a desk taking notes from a rather large book. Snow Veil thought nothing of that after the initial notice and went to look at the comedy section. She really needed something to get her out of the dumps she was trudging through at the moment. She found the comedy section and was looking through all the books, minding her own business, trapped in her own little world. She nearly jumped when she felt something poke her in the side. She was even more surprised when she saw the small, purple, scaly, reptilian creature before her. She had never heard of dragons.
“Hey, I’m Spike. Do you need any help finding anything?”
“No thank you, I’m just browsing.” And with that Spike walked off to a hole in the wall. Snow Veil entered her small bubble of isolation again. She looked back at the shelf and began looking at all the books. She found one, took it from the shelf and began reading. The smell of coffee permeated through the air.
About twenty minutes after Snow Veil started reading Twilight had finished her notes. She walked over to Snow Veil, pulled up a cushion, and began talking.
“I’m so sorry; I forgot to ask your name earlier.”
“Oh it’s no problem. My name is Snow Veil.” Snow Veil said. She looked up from her book and gave a small smile, trying to make Twilight feel better.
“I’m here to study friendship and I don’t even ask the name of the new pony that walks right through the door.” Twilight sighed and looked back up and apologized again.
“Really, don’t worry about it,” Snow Veil said reassuringly. “I don’t have one question though. Why is there a telescope here? Is it for everypony?”
“Oh no,” Twilight replied. “I live here on the second floor with Spike.” Almost like a cue, Spike exited the kitchen with his mug of coffee and walked upstairs to the bedroom. “Princess Celestia sent me here to study friendship since I was isolated from children my age.” Twilight looked off to the side, “Though it was partially self inflicted.” She looked back to Snow Veil, “So I came here and the ponies let me stay here in the library.”
“Ah, because I was wondering why you have a telescope here and Cloudsdale doesn’t.”
“Yea, it’s my telescope. I love to look at the stars at night. They’re just so beautiful.”
Right after this a faint sound could be heard from outside. It almost sounded like a scream, and it seemed, almost, to be getting closer. Snow Veil and Twilight simultaneously looked in the direction of the sound just in time to see a bright blue mare fly clear through the wall. “That wall was at least two hooves thick” Snow Veil thought to herself. She looked back at the mare. The most noticeable part of her was her mane and tail. Both were colored like a rainbow. Her cutie mark matched her mane as it was a lightning bolt which was also rainbow in color. “I wonder if her main is dyed that color or if it’s just natural” Snow Veil thought. The new pegasus hit the bookshelf on the other side of the room and then fell to the ground. Recovery took a whole three seconds and the mare was on her feet again.
Twilight gave her a stern look. “Rainbow Dash! How many times have I told you to use the door like a regular pony?”
“A lot, but I need the newest Daring Do!” Rainbow Dash pleaded. “And I’m not a normal pony.” At this, Rainbow Dash gave a sly smile.
Twilight just shook her head. “That maybe true, but do you know how much those holes cost to fix? And I told you, the author of Daring Do doesn’t expect another book for AT LEAST three weeks.” Twilight was scolding Rainbow Dash like a parent would scold a filly who just messed up.
“Awww, that blows.” Rainbow just sat down and pouted for a bit.
The whole time Snow Veil was just sitting there, watching the whole scene unfold. Rainbow Dash quit her pouting when she saw Snow Veil. Seeing a pegasus she didn’t know, she introduced herself.
“Hey there, I’m Rainbow Dash. Who’re you?”
Suddenly it hit Snow Veil; this was the mare that led the weather team. It was because of her that Snow Veil was able to get to Ponyville the first day. Because of her that Snow Veil met Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Applejack, and now Twilight. Because of her that Snow Veil got a week off. It was all because of this rainbow-clad mare in front of her.
“My name is Snow Veil.” Was all Snow Veil could manage. She was still dumbstruck when Rainbow turned to leave. But before she could fly off Snow Veil got the rest of her thought out. “W-wait. Before you go, I want to thank you. For everything. Even if you don’t know what it is I’m thanking you for, thank you.”
Rainbow turned around, a quizzical look on her face. “Riiiight… Well you are right in that I don’t know what I’ve done. But whatever it was, you’re very welcome.” She smiled and flew away, right through the hole she had just made.
Twilight looked at Snow Veil with almost the same look that Rainbow Dash had. Snow Veil noticed Twilight’s look. “Man” Snow Veil thought, “I’ll have to explain everything to her…” Snow Veil fixed her seating position and looked back at Twilight. She motioned to Twilight’s cushion. This was going to take a while.
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“And that’s why I thanked Rainbow for everything.”
“I see, so it’s because of her you met your new friends.”
“Yep”
“Well you do realize that they are my friends too. I came to Ponyville when Nightmare Moon began her plan to cause an eternal night. I wasn’t here to meet new friends, but it kinda just happened. They helped me assimilate with the town and now I’m just as accepted as the next pony.”
At the mention of this Snow Veil smiled a little. She realized that through the four ponies she had met, everypony that arrives is able to conform to the town. And from the sound of it, Pinkie throws parties for any and every reason. Snow Veil was considering what a full time life in Ponyville would be like. Would it be expensive to move? Would there be any jobs she could get? These questions and more plagued Snow Veil’s mind. She pushed everything to the back of her head. She had made her decision. She had no friends in Cloudsdale, but she had five waiting here in Ponyville.
She looked to Twilight. “Are there any realtors around here? I would like to get a house.” Snow Veil was fully aware that she had just drastically changed the subject but she had one thing on her mind. She was going to move to Ponyville, as soon as possible.