It was another week before the house was livable, as in with all the furniture and painted so Rarity wouldn’t have a heart attack very time she came over. The painting was the fun part. It had to be done first to avoid getting anything on the furniture and more often than not resulted in the ponies painting each other rather than the wall, yet even with all that going on, their teamwork got the house painted in two days.
But like I said, the furniture was a whole other story. Twilight had to cast her walk-on-clouds spell so she and Rarity cold even get to Cloudsdale where Snow Veil’s house was, then Rarity would tell Snow Veil what she should bring, and finally, when all the furniture was in the foyer of the old house, Rarity and Twilight teleported them all to the new house, along with all the furniture. They didn’t want to pay for a moving team. When they got back to the new house, they would all push everything into place, and when a piece of furniture was too large to fit through the door, Twilight or Rarity, whichever happened to be there, teleported it through to the other side.
Save for the furniture that was just brought in, The new house was a blank slate. There were a few photos that adorned the walls that were of Snow Veil and her late parents. Snow Veil didn’t have any flowers or any other kind of flora. She could go out and pick some, but that wasn’t going to happen. She wasn’t going to buy any either as she barely had the funds to sustain her for past a week.
The moment she finally ushered everyone out of her house it struck her. A job. She didn’t want to feel like a burden on the society, and even if she had her own money, she would still feel as if she was an anchor on Ponyville. “I’m a pegasus, perhaps a job as a mail mare would work. Or maybe an assistant of some kind. Pinkie is really nice, and so is Rarity.” She decided she would go for a position as a mail mare first. At daybreak of course.
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Snow Veil woke in the morning feeling refreshed and new. In fact, it was the best sleep she had ever gotten. Perhaps it was because she was closer to the ground. Either way she headed to the kitchen to fix herself some breakfast, which, of course, was a bowl of cereal. After that, her bath was next. She wasn’t running for record times today, therefore her bath took around 20 minutes. She got out and brushed her teeth. Everything was great and her day began.
She wanted to find Rainbow Dash first, as she never really left the weather team. Snow Veil did go back after her week off was up, though she figured she wasn’t going to be sticking around. She was like Fluttershy in that aspect, she didn’t really like flying if she could help it. After around thirty minutes of flying around she found Rainbow… and sure enough, she was sleeping. Snow Veil found another cloud nearby and moved it closer to Rainbow so she wouldn’t have to keep flying to stay up. Once by Rainbow, she called out.
“Rainbow Dash! Hey Rainbow Dash!” Rainbow woke with little more than a slight sigh
That was such a good dream too... Rainbow thought to herself. She looked up and around until she saw that it was Snow Veil who was calling her name. “Hey Snow Veil, what’s up?”
“Weeell I was wondering if I could drop from the weather team? But I wanted to ask you so you wouldn’t get all mad if I just don’t show up.”
“Oh, sure. That’s cool.”
“Really?! Thank you, thank you, thank you!” And with that, Snow Veil departed to the Ponyville branch of the post office to ask if they could take on one more.
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Snow Veil entered the post office. Quietly. She looked about for the pony in charge to ask for a job. After five grueling minutes she found the office of the head mailmare. She knocked on the door. She didn’t want to appear to be rude on her first impression.
“Come in.” Snow Veil walked into the office.
For it being a post office, the mailmare’s office was very tidy. There was more in the out-box than in the in-box. The computer was turned caddy-cornered in relation to the desk it was sitting on. The floor was recently vacuumed and the filing cabinets were all in order. It was almost perfect serenity in the room, save for the papers the mailmare was working with. They laid all haywire on the desk. But other than that it was perfect.
“Do you happen to have any job openings here?” Asked Snow Veil.
“Why yes we do. Most are for long distance delivery, like outgoing to Manehattan, Fillydelphia, or Canterlot.” Replied the mailmare.
“I’m not really keen on flying. I may be a pegasus, but I feel much more stable when I have solid ground under my hooves.” Snow Veil kinda laughed to herself at that confession. It was true. Ever since she learned to fly, she never really became proficient in it. Sure she could fly to the store or to a different district, but beyond that she didn’t really feel all that comfortable. She wanted solid ground in contact with at least one of her hooves all the time.
“Well, we do have an assistant position open at the moment. There happens to be a certain mare that is keen on breaking everything we have… I would love it if somepony could help her with that and prevent any more damage.” At the mention of destruction Snow Veil could guess exactly who the mailmare was talking about.
It’ll be a chance to make up for laughing at her Snow Veil thought. “I’ll help assist Ditzy.” Snow Veil said.
“Great.” The mailmare gave an ever-so-slight sigh of relief. “It would be even better if you could start immediately. Derpy is busy tearing up the sorting room in the back…”
At the sound of how the mailmare said Ditzy’s name it could be decided that she didn’t really care for the mare. Hiding her disgust at how the mailmare addressed Ditzy Snow Veil obliged. “Of course, if you would point me in the direction of the sorting room I’ll be off.”
The mailmare walked Snow Veil to the door of the office and pointed down the hall to a rather large, green, double door. “Right through those doors and you will be in the sorting room. Have fun.” There was a hint of jest in the mailmare’s voice right at the end. Snow Veil didn’t care though, she was going to help a pony in need.
Snow Veil started down the hall confidently, the situation couldn’t be as bad as the mailmare made it out to be right? Wrong. Snow Veil opened the double door at the end of the hall and the room’s state was that of a town a tornado had just plowed through. Ditzy had a worried look on her face, and for the record, so did Snow Veil. Snow Veil let the door close and she explored the room further. Packages and envelopes, both empty and sealed littered the floor. The chute that the envelopes traveled through were busted and bent, and with that sight, Snow Veil knew exactly what had happened. In the middle of all this disarray, sat Ditzy.
The poor ting that almost no clue what had happened. She was flying around, sorting the mail like she was supposed to, when suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her head and before she knew it, mail was flying everywhere. When she was falling to the ground she hit the empty boxes and the stack of large yellow envelopes and knocked them across the floor.
Snow Veil only chuckled to herself at the realization of what had happened. She began by confronting Ditzy, who by now was on the verge of tears after seeing the new pegasus enter the room.
“I-I’m trying my hardest. I-I swear. I just h-hit my head and,” making circles with her front hooves, “all this happened. P-please don’t fire me.” Ditzy was pleading between her sobs.
Snow Veil walked over and set down right next to Ditzy and put her front hoof around Ditzy’s shoulder. “Don’t worry about that. I’m here to give you a had with whatever you need help with.” With that Ditzy lightened up, wiped her eyes and caught her breath. Seeing this, Snow Veil smiled, then looked around the room and jokingly stated, “And right now, I think you would need some help cleaning this up.” Snow Veil looked back at Ditzy and they both giggled.
“Heh, heh, please.” Derpy replied
With that, they both stood up and started picking up the mail that littered the floor. Snow Veil flew up to the mail chute, turned it off, realigned it, and turned it back on. This is great. I could get used to this life. Snow Veil flew back to the ground and helped Ditzy clean up the rest of the mail.