Sanity not included

• Job Finder -

'Finally,' I thought as I made it to the center of Ponyville. 'Takes so long to get here!' I headed over to the local postal office to see if any spots were open, the job

being familiar to me as I had ran a route back in Manehattan. As I walked in I was nearly flattened by a grey coated, yellow-maned pegasus flying out the door. "Woah! That

was close!" I said.

"Dude, you okay?" a grey pegasus mare with a purple and black mane and tail asked me.

"Yeah, I'm fine," I replied.

"You need to look when you enter the building, Ditzy gets a bit forgetful sometimes and ends up in a hurry."

"Ditzy?"

"Ditzy Doo, the grey pegasus that almost took you out," she explained.

"Oh, okay. I was wondering who that was."

"Yeah, anyways, my name is Star Shine and I work here. The blue brony over there," she pointed a hoof, "is Wavering Maelstrom." He shyly waved a hoof in my direction.

I waved a hoof back. "He okay?" I asked, wondering if I did something wrong.

"He's fine, just shy," she explained. " So what brings you to the Ponyville Postal Office?"

"I was looking for a job, I'm new in town and need some bits, my old job in Manehattan was a mailmare so I figured why not go with something that I was used to."

"Seems legit. So what kind of route did you have in mind?"

"I don't know, what routes do you have?"

"Well, lets check!" she said, leading me to the back of the building. "Somewhere around here..... Aha!" she said as she opened one of the many drawers. "Wow, we have one route for you. It goes by the library and Fluttershy's shack by the Everfree Forest," she said while pulling out a single file.

"Really? Here, let me see." I said, taking the file from her hoof. I studied the route, which went from the library, to Sugarcube Corner, to a cloud house, to Fluttershy's Cottage, to a few apartments near one of the night clubs. "Doesn't seem too bad, I'll take it."

"Are you sure? That's a pretty long route."

"Yeah, I need something to keep me occupied anyways."

"Alright, you can get started tomorrow. Be here at about 8:00 A.M"

"Will do."

"Wait! We actually have a package that needs to go to the library, think you can take it there?" She said, holding out a package.

"Sure." I took the package from her and noticed that her eyes were a pinkish - rose color.

" I like your eyes by the way."

"Th-Thanks."

"Yep. Bye"

"Goodbye."

I left the post office and took to the air. 'Now, to find the library,' I thought as I set out in a random direction.

* 30 minutes later *

'REALLY? It was right here the whole time?' I thought as I descended towards the door. I had managed to look everywhere except a fourth of a mile behind the post office, and

as my luck would have it, right where the library was. 'I'm such an idiot,' I berated myself as I went to knock on the door.

*SLAM* *THUNK* "OUCH! Celestia Damnit!" I cursed as the door made contact with my face.

"Oh! Are you okay?" a feminine voice asked.

"Yeah, I didn't need a face to function properly anyways," I said as I held my nose with my hoof.

"I'm so sorry! Here come inside so we can put some ice on that."

"Okay." I picked up the package and followed the mare into the library.

As we walked, I got a good look at her. She was a unicorn with a magenta coat and a dark blue mane and tail with a streak of pink and purple through it. She had purple eyes

and a star with sparkles cutie mark.

"So, I'm Twilight Sparkle, you are?" she said.

"Oh, I'm Brilliant Quill. Me and my friend are new in town and are staying with Calm Inferno."

"New in town? Where are you from?"

"We are from Manehattan, I got kicked out by my dad for not wanting to go into construction with him, and my friend decided to tag along and keep me safe."

"So how did you get here, train?"

"No, we walked through the Everfree Forest" I replied.

"Wow, how are you still alive? That's a very dangerous place."

"We almost didn't, there was a very hungry manticore that we lost by luck. Anyways, I have a package for you, I'm guessing," I said, grabbing the package from under

my wing and set it down in front of her, pulling out a clipboard and pen. "I just need you to sign here."

"Oh, it must be my new book!" She said, clapping her hooves together once and signing her name.

"Thank you!" I said as I took the clipboard back.

"So, how did you meet Calm Inferno?" I asked.

"Oh, I met him about a week after he arrived. He had no where to stay and was sleeping on a bench near the market," she said, setting the book and box to the side.

!~ Flashback ~!

* 8:30 P.M. November * !Twilight's P.O.V!

I was walking through the market after a party by Pinkie Pie had taken much longer than expected. I was ready to get home and get at least a few hours of rest before helping

Fluttershy with the animals the next morning. As I was awalking along, I heard the sound of teeth chattering. Looking around, I saw a figure curled up on a nearby bench,

shivering.

"Hey, are you alright?" I asked, putting a hoof on the pony's shoulder.

He looked up weakly "Y-yeah, I-i'll b-b-be f-f-fine," he said, shivering badly.

"Don't you have anywhere to stay?" I asked him.

"N-no, I-i g-g-got h-here about a w-week ago."

"Well, you can stay with me until you get your own home," I offered, holding a hoof out.

"T-thank you," he said, taking my hoof and standing up.

"I'm Twilight Sparkle, who are you?"

"C-calm Inferno"

"Lets get back to the library."

!~ Flashback end ~!

!My P.O.V!

"Wow," I said. "I didn't know he had it so bad. What would have happened if you hadn't found him?"

"I'd rather not think of it," she said, clearly uneasy about the subject.

"Okay. Well, its getting late, I should head back to Inferno's house."

"Bye!"

* 45 minutes later *

"I'm back!" I said, walking into the cottage.

"Welcome back!" Calm said.

"Yo," Crimson said.

"H-hi," a blue pony said.

"Oh! You're that one pony from the post office!"

"Yeah, I'm Wavering Maelstrom. Congrats on the job..." he said.

"Thanks! So what are you doing here?" I asked.

"I-I live here."

"What?"

"I'm Calm's brother...."

"Oh, that makes sense. You do look pretty similar." I said. 'D'oh,' I thought. "Well, I'm going to bed, night y'all."

"I think I'm gonna head that way too, night Calm, Wavering."

"Good night."

"Night!"

'Can't wait to get in bed,' I thought as I started to make my way up the stairs. 'I wonder what Inferno was going to say about the other bed.'

"Hey, Infern- OOF!" As I turned around to look at the general direction Inferno was in, and wound up faceplanting the whole way down.

"Oh my Celestia! Are you okay Brill?" Crimson asked.

"Oh yeah! Just peachy, you know, just faceplanted down a flight of stairs," I snarked.

"Hey, hey, don't bite my head off. Just asking."

"Sorry." I said, picking myself up off of the floor. "Let's just go to bed."

"Yeah."

"What. The . Buck," we said at the same time.

There were two beds, but one was half..... burnt?

"Guess we are sleeping on the same bed," I said.

"Good thing that we did this as foals."

"Doesn't hurt that its a king size." I added as I lay down.

"True, good night," she said, getting on the other side and curling up.

"Night."