"Well, I don't know about you, but my stomach is starting to growl. What do you say we stop for the night and get a campsite set up?" Pipp suggested.
"Yep, I'm definitely getting on the hungry side myself," Sunset replied. "You think we've come far enough for the night?"
"Definitely. If we get an early enough start, we'll be there by early afternoon tomorrow. So let's start looking for a clearing," Pipp suggested.
The sequoia trees making up this forest made Sunset feel quite tiny. It also made it feel like they hadn't come as far as they really had. But according to Pipp, Sunny and Izzy had made the trek in just over a day's time, with stopping to eat and get enough sleep.
A quarter of a mile later, they came up to a small clearing off to the left of the somewhat beaten path,
"Yeah, I think this looks pretty good. What do you think? You're the camper," Pipp asked Sunset after looking it over for a few moments.
"Yep. Enough space for two tents and a fire ring. Let's get to it," Sunset replied, unhitching from the cart after pulling it just far enough off the road to not block the path. Once they had a fire ring arranged, and kindling gathered, Sunset lit up her horn, and after a momentary flash at the tip, a fire sparked to life in the kindling.
"Wow. Well, that's one way to go about it," Pipp said with a smile as she began to go through their food supplies.
For her part, Sunset got out the tents, poles, footprints, stakes, and the rain fly for each, and began putting up the tents diagonal from each other, and facing the fire. After she had both tents up and adequately sheltered from the elements, she returned to the cart to grab the two tightly-packed sleeping bags, depositing one in each tent, along with a portable battery to charge their phones overnight. By the time their sleeping arrangements were all set and ready to go, Pipp was ready with dinner fireside.
"Fresh campfire haycakes, hot off the flames," Pipp announced, passing Sunset a plate, who took it in her magical grasp. "So, you've clearly done that a time or two," she finished, motioning to the pair of tents.
"Camping trips were common with my friends back in the mirror world. Setting up camp is pretty second nature to me by now," Sunset said, before taking a bite. "And you seem to know good haycakes."
"Camping staple, or so I'm told. I never really camped before I met Sunny and the others, but I did do a vlog on quick and easy camping foods for my outdoors-y fans," Pipp replied before taking another bite.
"I'm looking forward to seeing your setup, you know, how you stream, and how often you plan in advance," Sunset said, taking another bite.
"I do my shorter vlogs right on my phone. I try to stream games once or twice a week."
"Heh, now we're talking. Gaming was my main avenue, got up to over five hundred thousand subs before I came back here. I gave the channel to a friend when it was clear I'd be coming back here."
"It must be so weird," Pipp began, swallowing her bite of hay cakes. "Coming back to a wildly different Equestria, but that's also so much closer to the world you just came from."
"Tell me about it, I've stopped trying to wrap my mind around it for now. Hope there's plenty of distractions in Zephyr Heights," Sunset replied.
"We've definitely got you covered there. Absolutely no shortage of things to do in our city."
"I wonder how much of it I'll recognize. I mean, um..." Sunset trailed off.
"Yeah, I know about Sunny's research, how ZH used to be a unicorn city untold moons ago. You're... You're not angry about that, are you?" Pipp asked, a twinge of nervousness in her voice.
Sunset immediately shook her head.
"Absolutely not. I don't hold the ponies of today responsible for the actions of the generations that came before. What happened happened. I just can't even, you know, imagine things getting so bad, that unrest or civil war would break out like that, after everything that Princess Twilight and her friends did. But I suppose Discord's message was right; every generation has the responsibility of taking up the mantle of friendship and carrying it forward."
Pipp nodded.
"At least we're doing that here and now. For what it's worth, I hope you can find your place here."
Sunset smiled at her.
"Yeah, me too."
I like it! Short but sweet!
Hope everything's okay with your pet though, if you're in a vet's office...
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My mom's dog. Still being looked at.
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Aww, hope the doggy's okay!
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He's 10 years old, so it's probably age related.
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I know how that feels, my mom's oldest dog is getting up in years, she's already beginning to lose her sight...
How long before Sunset Shimmer's joining one of Pip's gaming streams? You know she's gonna sooner or later.
Well, there's very little she can do about it even if it did trouble her. It's their world and she's just immigrated to it.
great chapter
It’s odd who’s moving the Sun and Moon then? Like since magic is back won’t things that were meant for magic start operating again?
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Sun, moon, and weather are natural again, since the sacrifice of Luna, Spike, and Flurry.
Again, very good job on the exchange, characterizations and future chapter set-up. Very much enjoyed seeing Sunset putting her camping experience to good use here as well as Pipp's haycakes and the discussions concerning the human world AND how much things have changed in Equestria over the centuries and the responsibility of maintaining unity. As for Sunset's place, well, she's certainly got the abilities and experience to do well in most fields, but I have a hunch that she would do her best as a teacher to the other unicorns. And, yeah, Sunset getting in on one of Pipp's gaming streams should be entertaining as well.
VERY certainly looking forward to more of this.
And, yeah, I can understand concerning your mother's dog and hope things go well on that front (as well as most other fronts, but you get the idea)
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It is an octothorpe, but I did point out "back in my day"
So it looks like Sunset and pipp are on there way to Zephyr Heights but they had to stop because it was night time so they decided to camp out and it was a pretty nice conversation between those two and how Sunset would love to do game streaming I wish I could do something like that but I don't have the time but anyway this was really nice I wonder what they're going to do in Zephyr Heights I guess we'll find out next time
I'm not sure if that vlog you made counts pipp.
Tell me about it, and with no way of going back at all either.
Yep, apart of myself still wonders why hasbro did that for the G5 movie.
For half a million subscribers not to provoke any significant reaction from Pipp it means pegasus population alone must be in the hundreds of millions. There must be hundreds of multiple hundreds of thousands of ponies pegasus cities around. Zephyr Hights needs to be the capital toa huge kingdom/Empire.
Certain modern behaviors really break down when you try to directly transport them to smaller settings, unfortunately.
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What about that amulet Celestia and Luna made for Twilight? Could she have made a machine or maybe a clock that used the amulet to run the day/night cycle?
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That was for Twilight. The 'past' events of Frozen North took place well after Twilight's reign.
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So did Celestia and Luna take the amulet back? Why? Was it destroyed? Was Flurry Heart the one doing the job without it? How?
It makes sense that Twilight made a clock or something powered by the amulet so they didn't have to come out of retirement just to keep the day cycle going.
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Flurry stayed in the Crystal Empire. I never named a successor to Twilight. I'd assume Luster, perhaps.
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I definitely believe Brony Notion’s (Sawtooth Waves) theory on that clock is correct
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I hope I'm not the only one hoping that we might get an episode about that, because that would be really awesome. Or at least a fanfic. It's a good theory.
I think I like the way you write Pipp better than canon Pipp.
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Take this spam garbage somewhere else. Beat it.
So much yes, I was having a discussion a while back with my mom who is a active member on several boards and committees at our church. Anyways, the discussion was about this exact topic and I was bothered by the idea that the youngest generations should be made to feel guilty about the sins of their great-great-great grandparents by example. Doing better should be enough, be it cleaning up a past mess or reaching out and learning from those who lived it. Shaming and grudge-based guilt-trips do absolutely nothing, if anything they just cause more harm.