"This is shameful"
"I guess" Applejack shrugged, eating a dried apple.
"Weathered travelers, not only having this happen to us, but happen to us twice"
The dusk fell on them as the breeze moved them gently, the waterfall rumbling nearby.
"Want one?" Applejack offered a slice of apple to the bison that hung near them, his small hat miraculously still in place.
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"I can't be doing this at my age!" shouted Nanda, jumping out of a falling rock's way.
"You just catch him!" Applejack threw her lazo, missing the black-clad bison by a frog's hair.
"I'll kill myself!"
"Make sure you catch him before you do!"
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"It isn-"
"Its a MIRACLE!!" interrupted Jerry "Sent by GOD in answer to our PRAYERS!! A land of BOUNTY and MIRACLES!!" talked-shouted Jerry at their faces. He was one of those individuals whose inside voice switch is deep there, somewhere, not far from the "Run against a wall" and "Burn yourself" switches.
Applejack almost mentioned the essential arrogance of naming your god "God", but Nanda had advised her against it.
"Its a common forest! I lived there for thirty years, for gods'-"
"God's*" corrected Steps-In-Excrement. He had an uncanny ability to pronounce and hear punctuation, which from the state of his eyes seemed to stem from years upon years of reading without a pause. His expression was highly related to his name.
"-For gods' sake!"
A moment later, a pebble fell in Applejack's hat.
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"As in climbing-the-furniture crazy?" asked Applejack.
"Pretty much," nodded the pegasus "They escaped a few days ago, with the whole mess going on"
"You inflected the se;tu wrongly" droned Steps-in-Excrement "You need to say it for four fifths of a second if the next word starts in a o syllable"
"And you'll get the WRATH of GOD for this OFFENSE against His BELIEVERS!!" added Jerry, as one might talk about the weather.
"See? nutso. Oh," added the pegasus "and try not to break more bridges. It'll be hell to repair them as it is" he and the others took wing, lifting the three bisons with visible effort despite their number.
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"Oh for f*** sake!" cursed Steps-in-Excrement, covering his eyes with a leg and grabbing his hat with the other "Shut it down, lady!"
"I can't!" Applejack was using two hooves to grab the tree and other two in the rope, so her hat fell for a few centimeters before disappearing in a flash and appeared again in her head, from which it fell "Nanda, use an eagle or something!"
"Oh, yes, great idea! putting my mind in one of the most treacherous creatures you can find, surely it won't backfire!"
Winona yelped, trying to keep her mouth's hold in Applejack's rope against the rapids' strength and to avoid the bridge pieces at the same time. Unheard under the roaring water, the roots of the dead tree they all hung from started snapping, one by one.
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"Buajajajajaja!"
"Did he just pronounce "Buajaja"?" asked Applejack, clearly disturbed. "I don't like people who pronounce laughter. They are crazy"
"You and me both, sister" Nanda backed away from the bison slowly, not taking her eyes from him.
"Feel my beeeeeeeees!"
"Bees*" corrected Steps-in-Excrement.
"Beeeeeeeeees!" the black-dressed buffalo opened his box.
A thousand thousand bees escaped from it.
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"AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"HE SHOUTED*!" corrected Steps-in-Excrement without stopping his run.
"I TOLD YOU YOU IDIOT"
"TREACHOROUS BEES, BEGONE!" shouted beeson "OBEY YOUR MASTER!"
"YOU WILL BRING THE MOUNTAIN DOWN ON US YOU IDIOT! SHUT UP!"
"YOU ARE SHOUTING TOO, YOU IGNORANT PRIEST"
"NO I AM NOT"
"ALL OF YOU STOP SHOUTING!" shouted Nanda.
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"Finally" Applejack stepped out of the water and shook like a dog, drying herself. The bee swarm flew confusedly a few hundred meters up in the air, lacking a clear objective.
Beeson stepped out of the water, whispering to himself.
Three angry stares fell on him, and Applejack took a rope from her bags.