H-hi. My name is... Lily Pad. I've, um... I've read a lot of stories about people who get stuck on desert islands. I really like the one about the pirate girls who make friends with all the animals on the island, and then the animals help them rebuild their boat and escape. I guess I thought, if I were ever stuck on a desert island (o-or, I guess, a deserted island, since ours has a, erm, jungle) it would be something like that. This uh, this really isn't at all like the stories I'm used to.
Sunset Shimmer and me, we... we're not really sailors, and we certainly aren't pirates. We haven't made friends with any of the animals on the island, either. Also, in most stories about islands, the heroes get shipwrecked or stranded, but we have a good boat, and I guess, technically, we could leave whenever we wanted.
It's just that there's nowhere else to go.
Written for the 2024 Tropical Post-Apocalyptic Story Contest in the Island Group. For which, by my estimation, it was submitted about an hour too late. Oh well.