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// Stugiving Day 
// Story: Appledashery 
// by Just Essay 
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	Rainbow Dash was raised from the dead, one eyelid at a time.  A cold, cold gray world lingered all around her, pierced slowly by the golden rays of a warm sun.  Her limbs fidgeted, and she felt the loving, velvety embrace of her snug sleeping bag from all sides.  She opened her jaw to yawn, feeling the joints in her neck cracking with delicious little pops.

Then, there was a chuckling sound.

Rainbow Dash lifted her neck, squinting past cowlicked bangs.  In the morning light, she made out Stu Leaves as he rolled up his sleeping bag beside the smoldering remains of a dead campfire.

He glanced at her and chuckled some more.

"Mrmmmff..."  Rainbow blinked even more blearily.  She struggled with another yawn.  "Where's... Mmmmfljack....?"

"She went into the woods to do whatever it is that mares do behind closed doors," the stallion said.  "I'm about to make us some breakfast.  I figure we'll be ready to set off within the hour."

"Nnnngh..."  Rainbow rubbed her eyes, wings limp.  "Right... rightrightright.  Got it."

"Heh heh heh..."  Again, Stu chuckled.

Rainbow blinked, her brow furrowing.  She glanced at his chuckling figure, then at her body sitting up in the sleeping bag.  Suddenly, tiny invisible needles pierced her extremities, and she frowned.  "What did you hear...?"

"Hmmm?"  He glanced up and looked at her.  "Oh, nothing."

"What did you hear?!" Rainbow snarled.

"I-I've no idea what you're talking about."  Stu smiled and smiled some more.

Thwoooosh!  In one single leap, Rainbow was hovering in his face, both forelimbs raised.  "You were here the whole time as I woke up!  Now spit it out!"  She gnashed her teeth.  "I mean it, pal!"

"Wh-whoah!"  Stu fell on his haunches.  He stared up at her with wide eyes, shivering.  "You... y-you said nothing!  Honest!  It's j-just that—"

"It's just what?!"

He gulped.  "You... y-you snore..."  He smiled awkwardly.  "You snore a lot in your sleep.  I... I-I never figured somepony as tiny as you could make that much noise.  I thought it was silly, is all!"

"... ... ..."

"It's nothing to be ashamed of, Rainbow Dash!"

With a sigh, Rainbow slumped and pressed her hooves to the ground.  There was a slight tingle to her fetlocks, but she was too exhausted to register it at the moment.  "Forget about it," she muttered, trudging back to her sleeping bag.  "Forget I said anything..."

"Uhhhh... s-sure thing!" Stu chirped.  "Whatever makes you happy!  Heheheh..."

Rainbow Dash stood on her sleeping bag.  She teetered in place, running a hoof through her messed-up hair.  Her eyes blinked, and she squinted in thought.

"Wait..."  Her lips moved with each murmuring word.  "...at what point did I get inside the sleeping bag?"

She stood there by herself, tapping her chin in thought.