03 Apple Strudel

[downtoearthpony]

Part A | Action | In and around 337 Brady Street[It's early afternoon in Mayfield, and Applejack has been walking around town during the morning, only now just returning to her current residence, and noticing the little red flag on the mailbox sticking up. Always willing to be a helpful mare, she opens it up and carefully pulls the letters out with

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[rapier_ex]

Doesn't the town usually assign you a job? Though, if you're a woman, I guess not always...

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[downtoearthpony]

Well, for some reason most of the town seems to think Ah'm some sort of dog, so Ah didn't start off with a job.

It's a little weird, to be honest, Ah mean, where Ah come from, ponies keep dogs as pets and here Ah am, being treated as a pet by those drones...

[rapier_ex]

Some... sort of dog?

Wait, you're a pony? Like Rainbow Dash?

[downtoearthpony]

Oh, you know Dash?

...And kinda. Ah mean, we're from the same place and she's a good friend of mine, but she's a pegasus pony while Ah'm an earth pony.

[rapier_ex]

Which means... what, exactly?

[downtoearthpony]

Well, Ah guess you could think of each type having different abilities. Pegasus ponies can fly, walk on clouds and create certain weather effects like rain. Us earth ponies can't fly, but we're pretty strong and durable, let me tell you.

[rapier_ex]

Whoa, that's pretty amazing!

[downtoearthpony]

Ah guess it kinda is, if'n you're not use to it. It's so commonplace to where Ah'm from you hardly notice it. Like the ponies that can fly or the unicorn ponies that can use magic.

[rapier_ex]

I'm not used to ponies being like this at all, really...

[downtoearthpony]

Oh, yeah... Ah keep running into folks who say stuff like that... Seems most folks around here aren't use to us ponies from Equestria.

[rapier_ex]

So it's a whole world like that, huh? I can hardly imagine... But then again, I bet the concept of humans being a dominant species is pretty strange to you, too.

[downtoearthpony]

It is a little strange for me, but Ah'm doing my best to take it in stride. There's a lot of strange creatures where Ah'm from, so it's not too hard to imagine things like hue-mins existing. Though Ah don't think Ah've heard of anything like them before in Equestria.

Ah'm mostly surprised by how most hue-mins, no matter where they're from, say that most animals and ponies back home aren't intelligent or talkative.

[rapier_ex]

Maybe not talkative, but anyone who says that ponies and horses aren't intelligent obviously hasn't spent any time around them.

[downtoearthpony]

See, that's what Ah said once even! Animals where Ah'm from are pretty dang intelligent even if they don't speak, so Ah asked my house mate if maybe they were smart but no one really noticed it.

He said it wasn't the same, though.

[rapier_ex]

Well that's just dumb on his part.

[downtoearthpony]

Ah get the feeling it was more of something he really didn't know anything about or considered and just wanted to forget it. He can get a bit snippy at times, it seems.