A mare and her dog

by cammera

Day 38: For zebras to shout

"...but its complicated. "Undead" in the way that most people think about are virtually imposible to make. And tasteless, besides" Nanda grimaced "What "Bad" necromancers do is either flesh golems or soul dolls"

...tense, relax, tense, relax... Applejack thought, nodding distractedly.

"Soul dolls are the most dangerous to make, as they require one to literally rip off pieces of his own STOP!" shouted Nanda at Applejack's face.

She stopped tensing and relaxing her muscles.

"You kept it flowing for a moment, perfect. Do go on. Anyhow, soul dolls are remarkably..."

-º-

"...stupid?"

They both stared at the door, trying to undertstand the mind behind it.

"Did they wake up one day and say "Oh yeah, let's build a door with a "Don't open" sign in the middle of nowhere!"?" asked Nanda. They walked to the wood wall, and she knocked it "Hallo? The idiots police is here. You are arrested"

The wind howled.

"Thought crowd" she tried to open the door, but something held it from the other side. She turned to Applejack, who nodded and bucked it.

Pieces of rotten wood flew away, twin holes around her legs. She gave a wary look at the other side before moving the boulders that had been put against the door.

They crossed it, and saw the expectable-- a small wood wall with a door on it and rock walls at both sides of the road.

"I had expected something" Applejack gave a look to Winona, who smelled a stone without a worry in the world "Last time I found something like this there was a radioactive dump. A minotaur took me out before anything happened, but..." she gave Nanda an uncomfortable look.

"The only things in this place are Surane and Ron," she shrugged, walking again "and Ron is too crazy to be dangerous or go near the city"

"If you say- Wait, city?" Applejack gave Nanda an odd look "Is it a city state? all war-ho-like? Because if it is I'll just walk around it. Can't stomach those places"

"Oh? No, not at all. They found pretty quickly that warring is hard when you can't close your doors"

"Say what?"

"You'll see when we get there"

"Why-"

"Because I seem to have forgotten, old lady I am" she smiled.

"But-"

"Oh, lawks, these younglings are so impatient today. Cor"

"But is it dangerous?"

"Oh, I shouldn't think so, for a mare of your skills"

Nanda gave Winona a look, "Can she climb? Because you'll have to climb a lot in Surane"

-º-

"...Twilight's the smart one, an arcanist. And chemisist. And engineer. What was the word for those in Thratean?"

"One who mastered many sciences?" Applejack nodded "I think you mean a fujanile"

"Foo-sha-ni-le" Applejack palated the word "Foo or fou?"

"Fou. And is this Twilight famous? I could swear I've heard that name somewhere"

"Oh, I don't know. We younglings seem to have a very bad memory, sis. Total crud"

"Ha. Go on, anyhow"

"There is also Fluttershy, a pegasus and the most nervous and kind pony I know, her talent is in interacting with animals. She made an animal reserve a few years ago and had to end up getting employes from all the animals people took to hers"

"Floo- Fludherjai?" Nanda said the word, mostly to herself "Yes, yes, I've also seen that name... something about her eyes?" Applejack felt a weight in her stomatch "Yes, her eyes having properties that technically fell in necromancy and some subscools of aliteromancy... wait, Twilight Sparkle, that-" Applejack started to think of what to say, but was frozen by Nanda "-insufferable brat!"

"What?"

Nanda nodded, despite the language barrier, "We've spent years arguing in various magazines about the arcane sciences, more times than I care to count. Ha! As if a kid knew more than I do in my trade" she paused for a moment, then added "Do you know how hard it is to have proper arguments in the badly translated letter of a magazine that was translated months after publication? Hard. But we did it" she said with no small amount of pride "We even met once, in a convention. What a fine night of arguing that was" she added dreamily.

Author's Note:

First I had work. Then I was more sick than normal (Remember that flu I mentioned? Yeah, it's still here). Then I was meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh. Then Team Fortress Classic happened.
I'll try to spend the day getting up to speed. Should get at least four more chapters today, if everything goes right, which means I'll get maybe two.

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