October 25
When I woke up, I was stretched out on Aric's chest, and Meghan was curled up against the wall. I could feel Aric pressing up against me and I thought about waking him up the fun way, but then I thought that maybe Meghan would be mad.
I couldn't help teasing him a little bit, though, and when I started moving around, it woke up Meghan, and so I leaned over and kissed her good morning, and she started to work her way out of bed and that woke Aric up, and I had to get off him so that he could move over and let Meghan out of bed.
She went to the bathroom and Aric pulled the covers up over himself and said that he was going to sleep in some more because he was expecting a late night at the theatre tonight and probably for the next two weeks, and he wanted to get sleep while he could. He said that they were behind and he shouldn't have come to Durak last night but he had anyways. Then he said that he could go downstairs and get some coffee for us if we wanted, but I said that he should stay in bed.
He stayed awake while Meghan got dressed, and we both kissed him goodbye, and I almost went out the window before I remembered that Meghan couldn’t do that.
While we were walking back, I told Meghan that I'd thought about waking him up by mounting him, and she said that I should have, because she thought it would be really funny and it was every guy's dream anyways, and she was sure that it would make him really happy, and she admitted that she was kind of curious about how far you could go with a guy in the morning before you woke him up.
I said that I'd be disappointed if I didn't wake him up.
I told Meghan that I was going to fly around a little bit and then I would come over to her room for a shower, and so I went up to my room and had some hay and then filled up my camelback and put on my flight gear and went down to the boardwalk.
The grumpy man gave me permission to fly if I stayed low on this side of the 131 Highway, so I took off and flew along the treetops until I got to the Nature Center, and it felt like it had been so long since I went around my usual trail, I thought that I would do that. So when I got close, I flew out and over the river so that I wouldn't scare off the deer, and then I came over the trees and the deer looked up at me and then went back to grazing.
I landed on the trail and started trotting to stretch out my legs, and when I got to the top of the hill I broke into a canter on the descending trail. And I kept up my pace as I rounded the end of the trail, and then I galloped along the river, all the way to the junction, and then I slowed down to a trot to get back up to the top of the trail.
I trotted all the way around the trail once and then went back to a canter, and when I got back to the junction I took off and started flying through the trail in the woods, and to make it more fun I flew as close to trees as I could.
When I made it back around, I climbed out over the trees and flew back to campus, then landed on the boardwalk and went inside.
I stopped in my room long enough to take off my flight gear and then went down the hall to Meghan's room and knocked on her door quietly until she opened it. I nuzzled her hip and she petted my back even though I was covered in lather.
The two of us went into her shower, and I got in and turned it on while she got undressed, just so I could rinse myself off, and then she got in the shower with me.
We took turns washing each other, and then I got to pick out her clothes while she was drying off. So I found her a nice shirt and pants and a lacy pair of panties and a silky silver-grey bra, and then I brought it into the bathroom for her, and she said that she really liked my choices.
I should have brought my lab coat, but I had forgotten it in my room, so after she was dressed, we went to my room and got my lab supplies and then Meghan was helping me put my lab coat on when Peggy came back from the shower and she was surprised to see Meghan in our room. And Meghan said that she could go back out in the hall and wait while Peggy got dressed, but she said that she didn't care all that much.
All three of us went to breakfast together, and they had omelets, so I got one, and Meghan thought it looked really good so she got one, too.
After breakfast, I walked across campus to the science building and went downstairs to the lab. Professor Brown had us doing alchemical reactions under different temperatures and pressures and it was kind of complicated to set each experiment up and we had lots of data to record, so even though I couldn't use any of the potions, I had a lot of observing and recording to do, and that kept me busy for the class.
It was kind of frustrating in one gas experiment because it was hard to tell when everything had reacted since there wasn't any obvious change in the gas. Our temperature solution had changed colors so we knew that the reaction had happened, but our gas just stayed gas, and so I recorded a lot more just to make sure that it had reached a stable point and I wasn't missing anything. I knew that with clouds, sometimes it took a while before they started to do things like rain, and sometimes they were so stubborn that even when you jumped up and down on them they didn't change too quick.
Me and Lisa went to the lobby and I took off my saddlebags and set them on the table then took off my lab coat and put it in my saddlebags and rubbed my belly where the button had dug in. And I took off my sparkly scrunchy, too, and put it on my foreleg to keep it safe.
Then I got out my notebook and we went over the notes I'd taken, and I promised Lisa that I'd do all the calculations today and then give them to her tomorrow.
So I went back to my room and worked on calculations until lunchtime, then I packed up my books for astronomy. And when I got there they had leftovers from last night but since I'd liked what they had last night, I didn't mind having it again, even if the scrod was a little bit dryer than it had been.
Reese said that his parents had decided not to come out for Parent's Weekend after all, and Christine said that was because they didn't love him any more. She said that when he tried to go home for winter break, he'd find out that they'd turned his room into an office or something to prevent him from coming back, and they'd probably give him a horrible cot to sleep on or something, and they'd make sure that he had the coldest room in the house.
Sean said that when he'd gone to college, his parents had moved without telling him, so when he got home for winter break, they didn't live there anymore and he'd had to spend the whole winter break as the guest of Jehovah's Witnesses that tried to convert him.
And I said that sometimes when it was really stormy, my house drifted away while we were at school, and so me and my sister had to find it again after school. That was one of the problems with living in a cloudhouse; it wasn't always where it had been when you left it.
Well, it turned out that everyone else had been lying and I'd believed them, but cloudhouses did drift around, and there were a few young mares who hadn't gotten the knack of putting them in the right place so that they'd stay who had lost their homes at sea. And maybe somepony in Prance one day had found a new home that drifted in from the ocean.
I didn't remember until me and Anna were walking out of the dining hall to astronomy class that I was supposed to have sat with Leon and Trevor and Cedric. And I felt really bad about that, so I had to stop by their table to apologize to them.
Professor Miller told us more about black holes, and she said that we were going to talk about ones that were the same mass as the sun, and that later we'd talk about the supermassive ones. And she first had to tell us more about how space-time worked, and how you would see things if you rode along on a photon, which was a particle of light. And there were space-like intervals and time-like intervals which had to do with how far light particles moved and how far things physically traveled. And she also wanted to write down her equation in polar coordinates, too, so I was glad that I was figuring them out for math.
And it took her half the class to just explain all the math that we needed to know to begin understanding them, but that was important so that we'd be able to understand what happened near black holes. And she said that you couldn't actually test that inside the Schwarzschild radius, because it wasn't possible to see anything across it.
Then Professor Miller started telling us about the things that we could observe that demonstrated general relativity, and the closest thing that humans had found first was the planet Mercury, and they'd predicted another planet because of problems with Mercury's orbit. But there wasn't really one there after all, and it wasn't until Einstein figured out general relativity that it could be explained.
She didn't tell us how that helped people find black holes, 'cause I guess that was for the next class, but I could guess how it would, because the problem with black holes was that you couldn't see them but I bet that you could see things that orbited near them and you'd see if their orbits had problems.
Even though I should have been doing work, my wings were restless, and I decided that I'd be a bad pony and spend the rest of the afternoon flying, so I went back to my room and put away my astronomy things and I didn't normally fly in the afternoon so it took a few minutes to get permission to fly, and then I took off from the boardwalk and zoomed low over the quad, picking up enough altitude to just scrape over the top of Hoben.
I turned at the railroad tracks and followed them through town and then I decided when I got to the railroad intersection, I'd go south, just to see where the tracks went.
They wound through town, sometimes alongside a creek that I think was called Portage Creek, and I knew that I'd be coming to the trail through the woods that was by Meghan's uncle's house, and then I saw Meijer off to my right, which was near where the trail started.
I had to dive down some to get under the 94 Highway, and I went parallel to the tracks just in case a train was trying to sneak up on me. And then I kept heading south, and they turned and ran alongside a road for a little while, and then they got out of Kalamazoo and I followed them all the way to Schoolcraft, where they crossed another set of railroad tracks.
I looked up and down both sets of tracks but the ones I was following curved a little bit and I couldn't see all that far, so I got some more altitude and then I could see further, and I saw a train coming in my direction that was a few miles away.
And even though Aric said that I shouldn't, I knew that it had to be going back to Kalamazoo, because there was nowhere else it could go, so I circled around and waited for it to come under me.
It had to stop before it got to the train crossing, and I didn't know why until I heard a train horn off in the distance, and pretty soon a train loaded with stacked boxes roared by on the crossing track. And I watched it until it was past, then remembered that I was thinking of riding the train that was going back to Kalamazoo, so I flew down its length looking for a good place to land, and I finally found a gondola that was empty inside.
The train had started moving while I was looking, but it wasn’t going very fast, so I didn't have any trouble coming in for a landing. And at first it wasn’t too bad, but as the train got going faster and faster, it got really bumpy and I had a hard time staying on my hooves. Plus I was thinking about how what I was doing was against the rules, so I couldn't stick my head over the edge to see where we were, and I wasn't sure I could fly up fast enough to get clear of the box car that was behind my gondola. So mostly all I could see was the top halves of trees and then when we got closer to Kalamazoo, I started to see buildings, too.
I had paid enough attention on my flight over to know when we were passing under the 94 Highway, and I looked out the side a little bit after that, because I knew that we were passing through the little forest and there probably weren't going to be any people that could see me. But before I expected it, we went across a road and I was looking right through the windshield of a car that was waiting into the surprised face of the driver.
I was getting worried that the train would keep going fast and I couldn't get off, but then I started to hear a banging getting closer to me and I should have braced myself, because I got knocked off my hooves and got a scrape on my leg when my gondola slowed down all of a sudden. And it was a good thing that it had ends on it, because if I'd been standing closer to the front of the car, I might have rolled all the way off of it.
But the train started to slow down, and then I heard a constant thump-thump that was moving towards me, too, and I spread out my hooves and braced, and pointed myself at the front of the train, expecting to be thrown off my hooves again, but it was just the noise the train made as it went across the crossing in Kalamazoo that was right near the train station. And I thought that it was going slow enough now that I could fly out, so I went up and to the side, to make sure that I didn't get hit by the box car, and I got a little bit tumbled by the turbulence off of the box car but it wasn't even close to getting me.
Anybody who had been looking would have seen me fly out of the gondola, and I was already trying to think of an excuse in case Mister Salvatore or Miss Cherilyn found out, but I couldn't think of anything that was believable, so I thought I'd just have to admit that I'd been a bad pony and hope that they weren't too mad.
I hadn't been paying attention to time when I was on the train, but when I landed I looked down at my pilot's watch and saw that I'd missed dinner with my friends.
So I landed right by the dining hall and turned off my radio and blinking light and then went in to get some food. And I looked around for someone I could sit with and I finally saw Lisa and Jessica eating together so I sat down with them.
Lisa wanted to know what had happened to my leg, so I told her that I'd fallen down and she was satisfied with that. And then I asked Jessica if I could cheerlead, because I thought it would be fun, and she said that she'd have to ask their captain, but she thought it would be fun if I did, but she said that it wasn't easy and I'd have to practice a lot until I got it right.
I didn't mind practicing, and I thought it would be a lot of fun to know how to do human cheers.
I went back to my room, and Peggy wanted to know what I'd done to my leg, too, and so I told her the truth, and she said that I was an idiot, and I didn't think she was wrong. Especially since Aric had also told me the same thing. So I guess I'd got what I deserved.
And when I looked at my portable telephone, I saw that I'd gotten a message from Miss Cherilyn, and my ears fell, 'cause I thought that she had found out, and I didn't want to call her back but I had to, so I did and I told her that I was sorry and I wouldn’t do it again, and she had no idea what I was talking about, so I had to tell her, and she yelled at me a little and I deserved it. And then she said that the reason she was actually calling was to tell me that we would be leaving early Saturday morning to go see Gusty's play, and this time we'd be taking Sienna and we'd have Aquamarine with us and then pick up Cayenne in Chicago.
We'd be getting back home late on Sunday, so she said that I needed to make sure that I had all my homework done or to bring it with me, and then she told me not to do anything stupid like ride on trains again. And she got a little bit more sympathetic when I told her that I'd cut my leg and she asked if I needed a doctor to look at it and I didn't think that I did, 'cause it hadn't bled too much.
Peggy didn't have any homework that she had to do and I didn't, either, so she opened up our door and Ruth and Kat and Rebekka came over and we played euchre for a while, and me and Peggy came close to getting skunked one time, and Ruth was getting excited because she said that she wanted to see me gallop down the quad wearing pants.
I wasn't totally against the idea, and I told her as long as she rolled up the cuffs and let me wear a pair of pants that my tail would fit through, I'd do it, and she said that she was going to get some from her room, and I said that I'd only do it if we got skunked, and then I played both bowers to win us a game and stuck my tongue out at her.
When everyone had finally gone home, it was really relaxing to go to sleep in my own bed, and even though I missed snuggling and sex, I hadn't gotten as much sleep as I ought to have over the last few days, and I was asleep almost as soon as I lay down.
Silverglow is a version of Sweetie Bot?!
Nice train ride, Silver. I wouldn't have told anyone, but that's not in Silver's nature, so...there's that.
I would also miss snuggling and sex. Another nice entry!
So she's hitched a ride on a cargo train. Hobo Silver...
Some of these grammar mistakes are probably the -ING internet's fault. The computer decides you didn't really mean what you actually typed. You, poor human that you are, are too stupid to know what you actually meant. But. fear not for this is your lucky day! Being ever so much smarter than you the computer knows what you really meant & will put the right word in for you.
I HATE the -ING Internet. To be fair, the Internet had a rotten attitude towards me 1st.
¿Why not anchor the cloudhouses?
by mounting him
covered in lather
they didn't
Ah, Silver the rebel!
I love the idea of her getting a call from Miss Cherilyn and then her blabbing all her guilty secrets, these ponies are just to honest.
Having to find your house after to floats away is an interesting idea as well.
Oh, Silver. You're so smart, and yet so simple.
"Errrrrr... nothing."
I really thought she knew they were lying and was just playing along. And she simply exaggerated how far the cloud houses can drift.
I may have to get around to reading the single-digit chapters to see what sort of orientation the ponies received before arriving on Earth.
Something to the effect of " try not to get yourself killed around the following items:
Automobiles, locomotives, airplanes, helicopters, elevators, escalators, automatic doors, washing machines, dryers, electric wires, high voltage electric wires, radio towers, bears, dogs, chainsaws, snowblowers...."
She missed the "Toxic waste settling ponds" and "Automobile engine coolant" warning but didn't get harmful exposures in the earlier chapters.
I'm sure the humans got similar warnings appropriate for Equestria.
"Oooo! Pretty purple flowers!"
7824424 imagine her shoving it in her cut....
AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!
GOD that'd sting
I do love how Silver refers to chemistry and its accoutrements. To be fair, she does come from a world where alchemy's good for more than changing colors and poisoning people, so it makes sense that she'd think in those terms.
As for the black holes, just wait until she hears about Einstein lensing.
And college is the time to do stupid stuff, so I guess it's appropriate that Silver tried to be a hobo. Unwise, but appropriate.
Forget to comment on this last chapter, but my school totally increases the quality of the food for parents weekend.
I actually do get the coldest room when I visit. My parents have an outbuilding that I use but it doesn't have insulation so during the winter I rely on a mountain of blankets, a space heater, and a fire.
Man, Silver is so adorable.
Silver is The Littlest Peghobo?
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I don't think humans are allowed in Equestria without full time supervision due to inability to survive being randomly crushed by a piano.
"Can't I take a bath by myself?"
"No, there might be a gator in the tub."
"But there's nothing in there now"
"Of course not! It's not going to be there until it is there, duh"
Silver is lucky she wasn't killed. One shouldn't ever play around on trains.
Poor Silver the slack action can get pretty rough.
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She was hoping no one would ever find out.
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She is a good pony, after all. And good ponies admit when they've been bad ponies.
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And that wasn't even on her bucket list!
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Mostly, it's just me being a sloppy typist. Too early to tell if the new keyboard's helping. It's louder, so that's something.
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I assume that they have some technique to keep the cloudhouse somewhat in place; however, a strong enough storm and you have to choose between it blowing off and getting it back later, or having it completely destroyed by the storm.
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It probably makes the helpers' jobs that much easier. I'd assume that there are ponies who are better at deception than Silver Glow, but most of them are likely to be more honest with people that they trust than your average human.
I could see it happening, especially in regions where the weather isn't all that well-managed. Probably in more tame zones, they make sure that the houses stay put.
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Although show canon seems to strongly suggest if you say you're sorry, you're forgiven and don't go to pony prison. So she's very likely to confess at least to people she trusts. Maybe not to your average Joe on the street, though.
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Nope, she thought that they were telling the truth. I'd think with a good, strong storm, a cloudhouse could get pretty far away, especially if nobody was focusing on keeping it in position.
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It was never specified, although they would certainly get the major basics (like not walking out into traffic, not licking electrical outlets, etc.), and probably some region-specific guidance, as well. And they would have had a bunch of classes leading up to the exchange as well, for things like language, local customs, and so on.
For the settling ponds, that's probably a pegasus-specific thing that they should have thought of--most ponies wouldn't be jumping the fences at a quarry to get to the pond, but of course Silver Glow can just fly over. And who would expect for her to be working on a car?
"Okay, students, it's basically like Australia. Anything that you see is poisonous, venomous, magical, or all three. If you touch it, provoke it, or look at it, it will try to kill you and eat you. No matter how ridiculous a threat sounds, if your pony helpers say it's dangerous, it is. If you see ponies running and screaming, don't wait around to see what's chasing them; follow them to a place of safety."
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Although it might stop the bleeding. . . .
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In Equestria, chemistry and alchemy are pretty much interchangeable after all. Making a solution with water and salt is not that much different from making one with liquid rainbow and a pegasus feather.
That's the gravitational lensing, right?
I did some colossally stupid stuff in college. Oddly, most of it sobor. One thing I do not recommend is getting coated with liquid propane. That could have ended a lot worse than it did.
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Yeah, K did too. And for occasional special events . . . I think basically, whenever the students were about to mutiny.
I did when my parents lived in the thumb--the unheated basement. Always fun around Christmastime. (I still get the basement, but at their new house, it's heated).
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And the cutest, don't forget about that.
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It's likely that their helpers stay a lot closer than Silver's do. (Although a lot of times, Mister Salvatore and Miss Cherilyn are a lot closer than she thinks.)
The things that you assume you'll never have to worry about on Earth (I bet some people in Florida have been surprised by gators in their pools, though).
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Her one advantage that humans don't have is she can come down from the top and fly out that way, too, which at least eliminates one way that the train can kill her. But you're right, they're not toys and will kill you in a heartbeat.
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Yes, it can.
Silver is not very good at being a rebel, isn't she?
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"But was just a stampede of bunnies."
"This time! Next time it could be vorpal rabbits!"
The idea of not looking at the danger makes me think of Endermen from Minecraft. They're harmless, and will calmly wander around doing nothing except maybe picking up some random object and moving it. Unless you look directly at them. Then they get hyper aggressive and will teleport right to your face.
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She's about the worst rebel ever. She tends to admit right away when she's been bad.
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But was just a stampede of bunnies."
"This time! Next time it could be vorpal rabbits!"
The funny part is I keep thinking of all these movies that Silver Glow could watch and how the monsters in them would seem especially real to her . . . because in Equestria they are.
Pretty much the exact opposite is Weeping Angels--so what happens if you have an Enderman disguised as a Weeping Angel, or vice-versa?
That phone conversation must have been gold.
*picks up phone* "Miss Cherilyn speaking!"
"I'M SORRY I'LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN!!!"
"What...?"
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If lots of the ponies who are on the exchange program think like Silver Glow, you've got to figure that the helpers are getting this kind of confession all the time, even when they don't want to know.
The driver must have thought "How heavy are the pegasi so that they must transport one by a gondola rail car? With a blinking light on top?!
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Poor guy was probably so confused when he saw her peeking up over the edge of the gondola.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet)
Some people actually reported that they saw it. They apparently mistook a sunspot for a planet in transit.
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I can see that happening. I once saw a UFO, which turned out to be the combination of Jack Daniels and trying to focus on a star while drunk.
Interestingly, I spend about fifteen minutes watching it dart around the sky before I figured out what the actual reason was (which was when I tried to look at a different star and the same thing happened).
Pfffft, Mistress Silver hogging the good human pillows, leaving male-slave to use a regular one.
Silver on coming back into the room. "HEY! That's MY pillow!"
Silly pony teasing sleeping slave with nose tickles.
Okay, picking sex over flying, she is REALLY damn horny this morning.
Obey your mistress, let her give you both hot showers and let her deal with a cold one, she's used to it.
And Meghan is more and more embracing the freedom of being nakey and not caring. Silver may done her work a bit too well.
That bitten feather is just hanging on out of spite.
D'awwww good pony Mistress, letting her slaves have fun without her. They still don't fully get just how she sees sex as being nothing special and just some fun.
Ehhh, I wouldn't call Meghan and Aric cute, they have less chemistry then Silver and Aric do.
Well, yeah, not letting pony join the fun would upset her, but otherwise, well, go have fun! Meghan, remember this is the pony that actively tried to help get you laid by a real stallion.
Wait.... first flying, and now waffles? Just dismissing them as not as good as sex...... CHANGELING!!!!!!
Yeah, Peggy knows she's gotta be very clear with pony not to share certain details when asked for a general overview.
Yeah gone on long but going quick makes sense. It's like what's said about boot camp. "The days drag, but the weeks fly buy." Each day takes forver and feels like it will never end, but it all kind of blurs together into one rush of suffering and "Fuck this'
Silver, working in the tray cleaning room... is crap.
Oh no... Silver's getting existential again! Someone give her some solid, concrete math problems!
Okay, now she's onto how to use math she's learning to calculate random stuff about herself, good.
D'awwwww pony group shower FTW! Get them in there!
Yes Peggy, Pony Radar is always active and scanning.
Your ears just 'do whatever they want'? Like, they have minds of their own? Well, lots of jokes to be made here.
I'm with them on that dinner sounding like crap.
Damint Silver, pretty sure Meghan wanted to bring it up with Aric when/if she wanted to, not have you tell him she talked about banging him.
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"When a poofy pink pony come around and tells you it's time for your 'Welcome to Equestria Party" just accept it, go along with her, and do NOT try to figure out how she managed to fill a room with party supplies in the time it took you to blink, or anything about how she does anything, your sanity depends on it."
Aric, storing sleep does not work that way... and yet, never stops it from feeling like it works.
Well, can't not go have fun with Pony Mistress one last time before full crunch time hits.
Pffft, I want to see Meghan's face as she saw Silver jumping out the window. Silver totaly should do that, just for the lulz.
Meghan must pet pony, even sweaty pony.
Wow, now just copying everything Silver does, eh Meghan? Be glad you two are so adorable together, cuase otherwise, this could be creeping into stalker levels.
"Even though I couldn't use any of the potions" Just.. Silver.... YOU ARE TOO CUTE!
Well, Christine is a massive troll, but she really commits to going all out on her trolling at least.
Self mobile houses.... #pegaproblems.
Silly cute pony, derailing everyone elses trolling about things, with legit issues none of them could ever think of needing to deal with, but you do.
So, I get the houses getting pushed around... but if so, how do they stay in one peice through that much wind?
Yup, see, Silver is smart, knows you find a Black Hole by how things around it travel.
Bad pony, going flying.. naughty nuaghty. But, sometimes pony just has to fly.
Sneeaky trains, trying to sneak up on ponies, by being all loud and obvious.
And now very, very, VERY naughty little curious pony. And she's still being so cute about it!
Just do it, stick your head out and freak out everyone!
Like that dude in the car who is wondering what the the hell is in his coffee.
Hurt pony!? NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! Scramble the CDC, emergency response crews, Army, Air Force, everything!
But she learns how to tame that train and make it not knock her over again!
Silver, you know the drill, just give them sad pony eyes and say "I sowwy" and you can get out of ANYTHING!
Of course pony cheerleader would be fun!
Yeah... Peggy isn't wrong here, that was a dumb thing to do, but.. the fun kind of dumb.
Even when being naughty pony, she's to Lawful Good to keep it up and try to hide.
And gotta love having charges with such guilty conscience they blab anything even remotely wrong they did the moment you say 'Hi.' to them. Even if we all know this is really a multi layer act. Do this, so they see you as incapable of keeping up an act or hiding anything, to make them never catch on about your true purpose as an agent of the coming Cuddlequest!
What about other stupid stuff that's not like riding on trains? Can she do that?
Who wouldn't want to see pony run around in lounge pants?
Love her phrasing,and making clear, snuggling is just as fun and enjoyable for her as sex. ALL PONIES MUST BE SNUGGLED AT ALL TIMES!
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Poor Aric.
That’s when she should jump up on bed, fluff up her chest, and hold out her wings to make herself look bigger, scaring Aric away from her pillow.
See, she doesn’t always rate flying higher than anything else. Just most of the time.
Exactly! She spends so much time in cold rainshowers, she likes it . . . which, thinking on that, makes me wonder if weather pegasi tend to take colder showers than other ponies are comfortable with.
I disagree that Silver Glow has done her work too well.
I know, right? Dumb feather.
Exactly! It’s a fun way to bond with friends, so why should she be upset if two of her friends-with-benefits are also bonding with each other?
Yeah, that’s a fair point, but they are trying to make it work out.
And will probably continue with those efforts once Meghan gets to Equestria. “So maybe Stormbreaker wasn’t quite right for you, but there’s lots of choices here.”
I can say from personal experience that there are people in college that really don’t know where that line is. There are things that other people really don’t want to know.
Interestingly, as you get older things go faster and faster. It’s really weird.
Can agree. I’ve done KP for church dinners, and would not recommend. I suppose it’s not the worst thing; like if I had to choose between that or cleaning outhouses, I’d take dishwashing, but. . . .
“Distract her with math!”
One thing I learned from watching lots of Numberphile (before writing this story, actually) is that a lot of mathmeticians really get into math--which I suppose makes sense--so like I was watching one episode where they were talking about a certain type of prime, and the host said that after he’d figured out a few, he started to wonder if that would work in other bases, and as I recall eventually came to the conclusion that 101 is the only cyclops prime in binary, and then came up with a proof for why that would be so.
While of course not all humans are on board with the group showers (although who knows how many takers Silver would get if she made a campus-wide announcement), imagine the poor human in Equestria, especially in the beginning of the school year.
Embarassed human: Do you have any showers that aren’t group showers?
Honestly confused pony: No, why would you want that?
Yes, it is.
Your ears just 'do whatever they want'? Like, they have minds of their own? Well, lots of jokes to be made here.
I think that they do. There’s a name for it, like involuntary/voluntary muscles or something. Like how you can hold your breath, but when you stop consciously doing that, your body starts breathing for you again. I think that their ears and tails work like that, and that’s why ponies are so bad at poker.
I will say that the college dining hall never stooped quite as low as the boy scout camp where they tried to serve us raw chicken nuggets one day.
Also worth mention is that Kalamazoo College’s dining hall was always a buffet sort of setup (like Old Country Buffet or Golden Corral), so it could be what she’s not saying is that while they had the food she wanted, the other food they had to offer was burned pizza or pasta with no sauce or something like that.
Yes, she probably did.
Remember that scene in Terminator 3 where the doctor that had faced the Terminator in T2 was trying to explain to the girl how she’d think she might have seen things that couldn’t possibly be true? I’m getting vibes of that here; some Pinkie Party veteran with PTSD trying to explain things to a wet-behind-the-ears newbie.
Doesn’t it? I mean, I know you can build up a sleep deficit, so why can’t you at least bank some sleep before a time when you’re not going to be getting enough? It seems like it ought to work.
Or course not!
People just don’t get that pegasi do that. In my first story, which ended with Derpy jumping off a cloud, somebody said in the comments that he thought for a moment she was committing suicide . . . .
Sweaty pony isn’t quite as pleasant to pet as dry pony, but is still nice.
It’s not unreasonable to hope that behaving like a pony might turn her into a pony.
Yes, she does. That’s what makes her amazing.
Seriously, that’s a problem for them. “Where did the house go?”
We haven’t seen it on the show (as far as I know), but I bet some homes are tied to the ground with ropes.
Good design and proper building clouds, combined with pegasus magic.
There’s a great PBS video on that topic where one of the things travelling around the black hole is Rainbow Dash.
You can’t keep a pegapony grounded.
The thing that most people don’t appreciate is despite their size, they’re often not as loud as you’d expect them to be.
I’m being bad, but I’m also being adorable, so you can’t stop me.
That poor guy is probably going to spend the whole rest of his day in a complete daze just trying to process what he saw.
While it never came up in the story, I did mention in the comments a few times that there are emergency pony rescue crews ready with any resources that might be needed . . . for example, that consulting pony doctor from back when she got sick has a helicopter and pony surgery team on standby for whenever and wherever they’re needed in the midwest region. (Obviously, he spends most of his time teaching at a medical school or something like that, but when the call comes, he goes.)
You’ve only got to be knocked down once to know that when you hear a noise moving down the train in your direction, to brace yourself.
That’s pretty much how it works.
I know, right? Pony cheerleaders are adorable.
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Silver is exploring her boy side.
And I’m sure that Peggy, adrenaline junkie that she is, has done some pretty dumb stuff, too.
Which is another reason for her handlers to love her.
See, I don’t think that the cuddlequest is malicious or even particularly stealthy. Their brilliant, nigh-unstoppable plan, is to be cute and adorable and humans just can’t resist that.
I mean, if we want to split hairs, flying into storms that an airplane shouldn’t fly into might qualify as stupid, but Silver knows what she’s doing. And she’s generally got a good enough sense of self-preservation that she’s not going to try anything really dumb.
Having said that, she probably shouldn’t do other stupid stuff.
Everybody would want to see that.
Snuggling is as fun and enjoyable as sex, just in a different way. And yes, all ponies should be snuggled at all times.
Poor Silver. The guilt was just too much and she cracked under the strain.
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Mr. Salvatore has already figured out that ponies can’t lie worth st, which is why he taught them to play poker for money. He’s either a very bad man or a genius.
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He's a sadist saddled with a conscience and a leaning towards good and more-or-less-lawful. He has to get his kicks in ways that stay within his own rules. Thus his joy in all his little entertainments. They are affirming to multiple aspects of his personality, and thus are actually more satisfying than simple cruelty is to a real sadist, and than good deeds are to a boy scout.
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I don’t know if I’d consider him exactly a sadist, I don’t think he enjoys watching/making others suffer (unless they have it coming). I mean, even though it doesn’t make sense with the Dungeons and Dragons rules, I think he’s Chaotic Lawful.
He also absolutely would stop a bullet for Silver.
Professor Miller
Guile Check: CRIT FAIL
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Fixed, thank you!
Silver Glow really isn’t good at lying about things, especially not to her handlers.
"...and if you tell that to the young people today, they won't believe you..."
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I know, right?
Seriously, though, pegasi have to deal with some problems that their ground-bound cousins don't.