♦ First Ensemble [video]

[fabularity]

No. No… No-ah, there we go! Diamonds always do the trick!

[And now that her Guide is properly accessorized (not that viewers can see anything but a unicorn and her fashionable little bag) the pony’s horn glows as she casts a spell on the communicator, holding it up in the air with telekinetic powers. There’s also a cat lazily stretching nearby, and

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[video]

[deconflagration]

Hey. Miss... Rarity. I think your friends are here, too.

[video] 1/2

[fabularity]

They are? Oh, these brutes will stop at nothing, will they?

[video]

[fabularity]

[... oh, you're not a pony, though.]

Oh, but you're quite the unique creature, are you not? Should I assume you're one of those critters Fluttershy takes under her wing?

[video]

[deconflagration]

[ He's a pony on the inside if you believe hard enough, squint and look at him just so. ]

Unique?

[ Immediately thinking she means his scar. Then realizes, yes, she's a pony. Of course he's unique. ]

I guess you could say that, if she takes humans under her wing. Not many humans where you come from?

[video]

[fabularity]

Humans? No, I don't believe so. As a matter of fact, I have never seen one of you before.

[video]

[deconflagration]

Oh. Well... there's a lot of us here. Most of the refugees are humans, I think, but there's a surprising amount of ponies here who can talk, just like you. There's also a talking wolf....

[video]

[fabularity]

A wolf? Oh, by the stars, have they no standards at all?

[video]

[deconflagration]

...Standards?

[video]

[fabularity]

Wolves are nasty, violent creatures! We cannot possibly coexist in peace!

[video]

[deconflagration]

Then you're obviously not trying hard enough. The wolf I met wasn't nasty. She wasn't violent, either.

[video]

[fabularity]

Not trying hard enough?

Not trying hard enough?

Are you out of your mind? Wolves eat tiny and delicate ponies such as moi!

[video]

[deconflagration]

Maybe in your world. But this one didn't. She was different. It's bad to lump an entire group together and slap the same label on them.

[video]

[fabularity]

Oh, excuse me for not trying to fraternize with wolves over tea as they try to dig their fangs into my fragile coat and serve me for a five o'clock snack.

[video]

[deconflagration]

Will you just listen to me? I'm telling you it's different here.

[video]

[fabularity]

And who's to say you are not aligned with wolves?

[video]

[deconflagration]

It isn't like wolves didn't kill and eat animals in my world. I'm sure they've killed their fair share of unsuspecting people in many of worlds. But I can bet it was because it was either that, or they'd end up dead from starvation.

Why are you so against the idea of trying to get along with creatures who don't look and act like you? Why can't you accept that there might be good and a sense of restraint in some wolves?