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// 44. 'The Most Interesting Mare in the World' abandoned fic 
// Story: Fuzzy Fluffy Fables 
// by Fuzzyfurvert 
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Thunder rumbled outside the Golden Oaks Ponyville Public Library.  Rain drummed heavily against the trunk and through the leaves, forming rivulets that wove along the great tree’s bark to puddle in the grass below.  Inside the library however, it was as calm and dry as a library could be while hosting six ponies and one dragon that were caught in the initial downpour.

“Hey, I said I was sorry, ok?”  Rainbow Dash eyed Rarity as the unicorn toweled herself off with a huff.  “How was I supposed to know you were on your way home from the spa at the exact moment I was guiding in the storm?  It was an urgent order from up top.  If you want to blame somepony, blame the Mayor!”

“I’m not blaming anypony.”  Rarity finished drying her face and proceeded to wrap her towel around her head to soak up the water from her thick locks.  “I was simply wondering out loud why a huge raincloud might suddenly appear and release its cargo all over this side of town just after I had my mane styled.”

“She’s miffed more about her hair RD, rather than the rain.”  Applejack chuckled as she hung her hat by the door and took the towel offered to her.  “Ah like a good shower after a long day at market myself.  Ah just was expectin’ to take one at home.”

“I certainly wasn’t expecting it either.  It was so sudden and scary, like that runaway thunderstorm that came in from the Everfree Forest a few months ago - oh, thank you Spike.”  Fluttershy smiled at the young dragon as he passed her a fluffy towel.

“You’re welcome!  At this rate we’re going to have to start using the dish towels in the kitchen.  Good thing my scales air dry so quickly, huh?”

“Oh yes.  You are lucky that you dry off so quickly.”  Fluttershy nodded and and started to wrap the towel around her long tail.  “With manes like ours, getting them dry can be quite the chore.  My hair usually takes at least an hour or two to dry completely.”

“Good!”  Rainbow Dash grinned.  “It should take about an hour for that cloud to empty all its water into the Ponyville pond.  We just hang out here until then and everything will be fine.” 

Spike chuckled as the mares around him groaned in unison.  He held out his last towel to Rainbow Dash when the door to the library’s small kitchen burst open and an oddly dry pink blur bounded into the center of the room.

Pinkie Pie slammed on the brakes hard enough to make her body vibrate for a moment.  “Girls!  I have wonderful, fantastic, super awesomely duper news!  It was close, but I managed to save the cupcakes I was taking back to Sugar Cube Corner!  Sadly, the cardboard box didn’t make it.”  Pinkie sighed and hung her head, giving a moment of silence for the lost of the heroic box.  

“But,” Pinkie grinned, perking back up instantly, “that means we can eat them while we wait for the storm to pass!  Whoo-hoo!”

“And I can provide everypony with a hot cup of Canterlot Chamomile Tea.”  Twilight poked her head out from the kitchen, her own mane already wrapped in a fluffy towel.  “I got it fresh this morning!”