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“That is quite a story!” Rarity stated, hearing Spike explain how he had helped Applejack take care of Twilight for all this time and how they had both come up with the desperate plan of climbing the ice walls.

Both he and Applejack had come up with that better story, as they didn’t like the truth very much.

“I really can’t thank you enough for what you have done for me.” Twilight said.

“Actually, you’ve thanked us more than enough.” Applejack replied. “I think there isn’t one time during the whole journey back that you haven’t thanked us. And we told you, we just did what anypony would have done.”

“I should have been there with you…” said Rainbow Dash, who had felt guilty since she had heard the story, as she was thinking she could have easily flown them out of the crevasse, or gone to seek help, ignoring the possibility she could have hurt one of her wing in the fall.

They all laughed. It was a mix of a relaxing laughter, because they were trying to get back to the normality, and a bit of relief laughter as it was feeling like things could have turned very badly in the end.

“I’m glad things turned out so well after all.” Fluttershy said with her gentle voice.

She had been scared from the moment they had begun to tell her the story and felt even more frightened that they had been in the crevasse as if she had been there herself. They were her friends, she would have missed them so much if something had happened that just thinking about it was making her cry.

Once again, they all laughed. It was just feeling great to be able to laugh like that, for no particular reason, just because they were alive, because they were together, and because everypony was happy.

And then, Twilight noticed that a mare she didn’t know was standing near her, looking at her with a strange expression on her face. There was something a bit creepy in the silent look of that mare, and that weird expression, but nothing threatening. Just weird.

“Can I do something for you?” asked Twilight, who was feeling in the mood of helping pretty much anypony.

The pony stayed silent. But her eyes frowned just a little bit.

“Come on dear.” Rarity said. “Don’t be shy, you can speak to her. You’ll find out our princess is quite open.”

But Rarity’s smile quickly disappeared as the mare still stayed silent, just looking at Twilight with that indescribable expression on her face.

“Are you going to talk or are you dumb or something?” very awkwardly and abruptly asked Rainbow Dash who wanted to hide that the mare’s behavior was creeping the hell out of her.

They all thought the pony was going to stay silent once again, but her mouth opened, only to say:

“Are you Twilight Sparkle?”

Twilight nodded.

“Yes, it’s me.”

The mare’s eyes frowned even more than before.

“I hate you.” She said. “I hate you more than you can imagine. I hate you with all I have. I hate everything you are, everything you represent. I…” the mare caught her breath, simmered down and finished by saying: “I just hate you.”

And as neither Twilight, nor any of Twilight’s friends was answering, the mare looked down and slowly walked out of the restaurant.

“Who the hell does she think she is?” asked Rainbow Dash, who was shocked by what she had just seen and heard.

“I do have to say, that behavior was very rude!” Rarity stated.

“Yup, I don’t know who that mare was, but she could use a lesson in respect.” Applejack confirmed.

“Who was she?” asked Fluttershy.

“Who cares?” replied Rainbow Dash. “It doesn’t matter. She is just some weirdo mare. That’s all. You can’t expect every pony in Equestria to like Twilight.”

“She was the bad apple in the basket.” explained Applejack, as she found the idea very convincing.

It was easy, it was convenient, and as none of them knew who that mare was, they agreed to forget about her and keep on laughing together.