My new home lie on the outskirts of the village. I am happy with it, at least it isn’t close to the Everfree forest. What I saw as a small villa is apparently still fairly large, compared with what I had been used to. Maybe there are advantages with living in a small village like Ponyvuille I had forgotten to take into account, or if I had simply ignored them due to my youthful ignorance.
I had a large kitchen on the ground floor, along with a mares’ room, shower and a living room. There are several small bed rooms on the upper floor, not just the one I had expected. I even have a basement, where I can store food and other items for later use. Since it is mine, I have no further worry about debts at this time.
What I need now, it to keep my kitchen stocked with food, basically. I have a bed, with all the required attires, along with clothes I may rarely to never use. There are even a sparse set of furniture. Table and shares in the dining doom and the living room, aside from the one bed in the one bed room I had chosen to sleep in. Then a few book cases for the few books I brought with me. Finally, I do have a small desk, I placed it in a bed room, to the side of where I sleep.
For now, I can actually use an entire bed room as a makeshift wardrobe, the luxury of it all. Maybe I need to send a greeting to my old friends, telling them the fortune of my choice? That is for later, I have plenty to do, aside from grocery shopping, that is. The one thing feeling most urgent is to see Rarity in her utter gloss Boutique. I had been told she actually makes her clothes from scratch, everything from designs and fabric, to the work in creating the ensamble. I can’t recall seeing the likes where I came from.
Where I had expected boring wall papers, I found expensive and exclusive wodden panels on the walls. Then there are stone tiles in the hall, sure to stand up to any mistreatment from dirty hooves in fall and boots in winter. Most floors was still beach wood, which should stand up to any every day use I could put them through, even with a few friends coming over, if and when I was to pick them up. I guess I would still like to have a few friends. I am not a loner or hermit, am I.
There is the porch on the front, nothing much, but it is there and it is mine. That is what makes me happy. I also have a small yard, mainly on the back of the house. Just green grasses, no flowers or anything, but it is my yard to do with as I please. I am a mare in my own right. Free to do what I want, so far as the law and local conventions would permit, that is. Guess I will simply have to get used to these. Not that I had a problem with the law before, why bother.
Maybe I should buy a pair of roses to side with the porch. I like the green grasses the way they are on the back, though I could have some fun with gardening, I guess. Though I wouldn’t really care for apple trees, I could buy all the apples I want from the Apples on the other side of town, after all. From what I had heard, they are apparently the best.
Thankfully, it isn’t too far down to town, since Ponyville didn’t seem to have cabs, or any similar service available. Maybe it is tradition amongst rural Earth Ponies, but I am not one, I am after all a Unicorn from the big city.
What had also surprised me, is the level of sophistication of the villagers of Ponyville. Not only did they have a Boutique, but there is a SPA and a Café. Aside from that, there apparently are a few nation wide celebrities around.
Who had not heard of Princess Twilight Sparkle, or Rarity’s Boutique. Missing Rainbow Dash is just impossible, she seems to be everywhere at once, doing every impossibility there is, starting with the Rainboom.
In the end, I had realised I was to see Pinkie Pie, the party Pony in person, she had decided on throwing me a personal Welcome to Ponyville Party. Naturally, I had to go. I just had not realised the seriousness in her party, would she really pick me up, just to make me be on her party for me?