After Pinkie leaves, we lock the house and leave.
“Storm, I won’t be able to come and help out from tonight until Monday. Is that all right?”
“Hm? That’s all right. It’s the weekend anyways. You should be hanging out with your friends, so don’t worry about it.”
“Huh? No, that’s not it…! It’s not like that. It’s just a personal errand, and I’ll be attending the club too! S-So you can come to the gym if anything comes up! I’m not going off to play because it’s the weekend, so please don’t misunderstand me.”
“…Huh?” Sweetie’s acting suspicious, and she looks very tense. I don’t really understand what she wants to say, but I guess she just means she can’t come over this weekend. “Okay. I’ll go to the gym if something comes up.”
“Yes, it will make me happy if you do so.” Sweetie looks relieved. And when she looks down, her face suddenly stiffens. “Storm, your hoof.”
“Hm?” Sweetie is staring at my left forehoof. Looking down at it, it’s bleeding. “Huh?” I pull up my sleeve. There is certainly blood there. “What’s this? Maybe I cut it while fixing something last night.” But it doesn’t hurt at all. There’s just a welt on there. The welt goes straight from my shoulder down to the hoof, and it looks kind of like a small snake running from my shoulder to my hoof. “Well, I don’t feel any pain, so it should go away quickly. Don’t worry, it’s nothing.”
“…Yes, if you say so.” Perhaps she’s feeling bad from seeing the blood, as Sweetie looks away and falls silent.