The Drabble Bag

by TheVulpineHero1

Hidden In The Window Seat (Twilight/Rainbow Dash)

The aisle of the Canterlot libraries were almost mazelike, but Twilight knew them by heart. As she strolled to her favourite spot in the library, however, she found it taken; Rainbow Dash, sprawled in the window seat with a book as thick as her foreleg, opened her mouth to make an excuse. After a pause, she shut it again. Twilight smiled.

"Good spot, huh?"

"Not bad," the pegasus shrugged. "Could use cushions. Sit down, I wanna borrow your egghead brain for a second. This book's got hard words in it."

"What's it about?" Twilight asked, folding herself into the seat beside her friend. She felt the sun begin to warm her back.

"Nothin' too interesting," Dash replied evasively. "Just some boring old unicorn history book. Man, for such magic nerds, you unicorns do some crazy stuff from time to time."

"You're not kidding. Did I ever tell you about Isaac Hoofton? Stabbed himself in the eye with a bodkin and wriggled it around, to see if he'd go blind..."

Rainbow Dash's face lit up as Twilight began to explain some of the charming eccentricities of unicorn scholars. When the time came for them to leave, the book was long forgotten.

Author's Note:

This is another situation/location prompt I did on a whim. My creative process for this was just kinda blah, so I don't think it's especially good, but I like the image behind it. Also, Isaac Hoofton is an obvious pony equivalent for Isaac Newton, who did, reportedly, experiment with bodkins and his own eye sockets for reasons of questionable sanity. Personally, I can sort've imagine Dash and/or Pinkie enjoying that tale. Clocks in as exactly a drouble according to my wordcount.

Comments

[TheVulpineHero1]

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But, man. Chapter six is the most awful thing. Honestly, I hesitated before posting it, but hey. Everybody has their off days sometimes, and that happened to be one of mine. I'm glad at least somebody got some enjoyment out of it, though.

[TheVulpineHero1]

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I would, but I'm really, really unsure about using Trixie in anything longer than this, for much the same reason as I never feature Derpy in anything more than a cameo. They're such loved characters in fandom that people already have much more well-thought out ideas of how they should act than I do, and I fear I'm liable to draw flak if I don't follow those ideas. I don't touch Lyra for similar reasons. Sorry about that.

[Themaskedferret]

*Blink blink* I...wow..and I thought Kinsey was weird for shoving a toothbrush in his lower male anatomy to see what the experience would be like. *Grins* Interesting stuff, I could see this as a longer piece too.