A Life Lived in Hundreds

by Botched Lobotomy

1392

‘Here it is,’ said Twilight, opening the book. ‘Yep! Told you.’
Smith leaned over, cheek pressed up against her mare’s. ‘You did, at that.’
‘I knew there was something familiar about that hut.’
Smith’s ‘Mmhmm’ rumbled all the way through Twilight’s body. ‘Shame Pa tore it down.’
‘The ground’s still there. We could put down a plaque.’ She tried to ignore the way Smith was nibbling at her ear.
‘On good farmland!’
‘Mmyep. Their good farmland.’
‘Princess Celestia herself gave us that land.’
Twilight turned, and Smith could see the moment was over. ‘But she got it from the buffalo...’

Comments

[Bicyclette]

oof! and yeah, Smith's flashback and story in the canon was patterned off of American frontier settlers, and this is the other side of that. definitely more true to the patterns of human history than the stories humans tell themselves about themselves.