1860778 "Cinder and Ember share a body, separate heads, and Manty has a scorpion tail and bat wings."

1860893
"Waoh, woah, woah, separate heads?"

1860924 Yes, originally she had one head but she had inherited the hydra's head regrowth ability, some pony tried to kill her."

1860964 Ashe blinked, trying to imagine a pony with two heads.

1861027 "Weird, isn't it?"

1861054
".....Yes...Quite..."

1861075 "One head is shy...the other is...well...loud and always tries to get with any stallion or mare she sees."

1861095
"Must be quite awkward...."

1863102 "Mostly funny."

1864208
"Now, how come the manticore hybrid person hasn't been murdered? I'm surprised he or she lasted to adulthood,"

1864987 "She has a scorpion tail just like a manticore."

1865067
"What does that have to do with....Oh yeah,"

1865084 He looks in the distance. "Ah, there she is, my favorite town, Riften."

1865127 Ashe followed his gaze.
"That was fast,"

1867425 Bran and Ignis continue walking, the twins seem to have disappeared.

1870440 This does not escape from Ashe's attention.
"Where'd they go?"

1870589 "They went out to go hunt."

1871714
"Hunting? Why would they need to hunt?"

1872836 "They're Lycans."

1885184 Ashe stops, and slowly turns to Bran.
"Do you have any friends who are remotely normal?"

1885265 He opens his mouth to speak, closes it, then says. "You."

1885292(("Get away from her you bitch!"))
"Fair enough,"

1885394 "And a pony that makes a great breakfast."

1892577 Ashe stops for the third time in a less than five minute period.
"What?"

1922589 "Her name's Break Fast, she's a Unicorn, and a Chef."

1927978
"A chef named 'Break Fast'?"

1928763 "Yeah, why?"

1938992 Ashe sighed.
"Nevermind,"

1962611 They get to the gate and Bran greets the guards, who seem to recognize and like Bran.

Nis(papilios) Stays quiet.

1974575 Ashe looks to Bran.
"Do you know them?"

1982756 "Old buddies of mine, these two."

"We used to get in so many bar fights, us three." One laughs.

The other nods. "We never lost until Bran left to join the Cloaks."

1982903
"Never lost, huh? You don't really seem the fighting type. Well, except for Bran, but that's because I just saw him take out the majority of an Imperial squad....Probably shouldn't have said that part..."

2151539 "One on one, impossible to beat us, two on two, even harder, two on three, difficult, but not impossible and so on." The one who spoke first said, the other nodded.

2154544
"Now, who exactly are you two?"

2154587 "The Hammer Brothers." Says the first. "I'm Jack."

"And I'm Sledge." Says the second.

Bran grins.

2154625 ((Jack Hammer and Sledge Hammer... is there a Cael Hammer in there?))
"It is nice to meet you, Sledge and Jack. I pray that you never have to use your fighting skills against me....I fight dirty," Ashe said with a wicked smile.

2157270 They glance at each other, grin, and burst into laughter.

Bran chuckles. "Jack can hit you as hard as I can swing a warhammer, with his fist."

2157651
"Won't do much damage if you can't hit me. And that is not an invitation for a fight,"

2157934 "Sledge is the same but a lot slower and stronger, Jack, however, is pretty quick." Bran says a quick goodbye to them and leads Ash and Lio onward. "So, where to, Ash? Your friends are around here somewhere, right?"

2157956 Ashe gestured for Bran to follow as he walked towards the canal bisecting the town.

2158155 Bran smiles and follows.

Lip sniffs the air, obviously not liking Riften.

2170156 Ashe looked around suspiciously.
"Is anyone following us?" he whispered to Bran.

2172107 "I would feel their scrutiny if they were, no, no one watches us." Bran smiles.

Lio seems to be a bit paranoid.

2173659
"Good," was all he said. He took the group through winding roads, backtracking, and crossing the canal multiple times.
"Just making sure we aren't followed," was his only explanation.

After about half an hour of this, they finally arrived at a tavern.
"Now, have you heard of the Thieves Guild?"

2174279 Bran smiles, and nods. "A friend of mine is with them."

Lio seems a bit bored now.

2174377 Ashe nods, and leads them to a graveyard.
"This is probably illegal in so many ways..." he said, before walking over to a large tomb, and picking the lock on it. He slid the stone slab of a door open, revealing a small, thin passage.
"Well? What are you waiting for?"

2175616 They enter quietly, Bran smiling, Lio still bored.

2210925 They soon enter a large circular room, with a pool of water dominating the center. There were multiple kinds of folks in the good ol' Ragged Flagon, most of them people would deem "unsavory".
"Welcome to the Ragged Flagon! While the beer isn't as good as some other places, the people are the best around!" Ashe said. He was soon greeted with a kindhearted
"Oh, fuck off!"
Ashe paused.
"See? The best," He said again, this time not as happily.
((BTW, I might not be on FiMfiction at all for a while, instead of just not replying to posts. School has been absolute hell))

2358721 "Seems great!" Bran says happily.

Ig looks disinterested.