The Road Lonesome

A white unicorn mare sat back in a dining chair in the building known as the Carousel Boutique. Her mane brushed into beautiful curls of purple perfection. The mare sipped at a small cup filled with tea. She pored over several dress designs that she had drawn up. Creating the dress though, was her forte, and she was excellent at doing so.

A silvery white filly sat on a chair just on the other side of the very expensive table. Eating from a bowl of sugar cereal. She paused to look up at her sister, who was calmly relaxing in her chair.

The white unicorn moved the small stack of seven or so papers to one side. Then sipped her tea, and began to eat her breakfast. A pancake that was made with such finess that it would have seemed to be made by a professional cook.

She used a knife to seperate a piece and a fork to hold the piece in place. She then moved the piece into some syrup, then took care to chew the piece of pancake before swallowing it.

She then sipped the tea, repeating the cycle until she had finished he breakfast. The filly on the other hand was just eating slowly, savouring the sugary cereal.

It was usual for the two to just eat breakfast silently, there wasn't usually anything to talk about other than what Sweetie Belle was doing at school or new dress designs Rarity had drawn up, the occasional rise in the cost of certain things, nothing special.

Rarity collected her plate and cup with her magic and moved them to the sink. Sweetie Belle finished her cereal and let Rarity take the bowl and spoon.

A little while passed in the normal silence of the morning. Sweetie packed her lunch into her saddlebag and got ready to go off to the Ponyville schoolhouse. Rarity cleaned off the small amount of dishes that required the cycle of washing.

More time passed as Rarity brought Sweetie Belle to the door into and out of the Carousel Boutique and let her go off to school. She then went about her usual activitys of making dresses, tending to customers, drawing up designs, paying bills, and lazing about. The usual activitys for a fashion designer.

'I wonder what Twilight would be up to?' she thought.

Rarity had little time in the past weeks to go and see her friend Twilight or any of the others. This was not one of the times she had to go around to any of them. Slowly the alibaster unicorn traversed the steps to the top floor of the building which was her shop and her home.

She walked along the corridor and into her bedroom, she walked over to the desk and opened a drawer marked, 'Bills'. She removed six pages from the small drawer filled with paperwork and began to read through them.

Mainly they were invoices for the large amounts of material she ordered from different citys, but some were bills for things such as delivery of product cost of collection and things like that.

She sighed as she wrote out the cheques to each specific pony she owed, carefully writing each sum correctly to match each mathematic sum needed to be sent.

Some time passed as she wrote out the cheques carefully making sure that they were with the correct paperwork showing that the sum was paid in full and to the correct reciever.

She then placed the envelopes in a small tray labeled 'To Be Sent' The white unicorn then stood from the desk chair, left the decorated room and headed back to the first floor of the building.

She let out a small sigh and began to set out several display dresses, more new than the current ones, the 'so one day ago' dresses. Rarity sometimes wished to be able to leave the Carousel Boutique to some pony else so that she could do something more fun sometimes.

Sometimes.

The most relaxation she got in the current days were her trips to the spa with Fluttershy.

'Poor thing, last time i was able to get to the spa was about a month ago,' Rarity thought.

She shook the thoughts from her head, she'd have a free saturday this week, This week.

'Oh i wish it was friday so much," She thought.

Some days in the Boutique were a drag, especially on mondays, but at least it was summer. Rarity could go out every now and then in summer, unlike fall, spring or winter. Where she was usually doing some activity that prevented her from being able to elude her work and enjoy her life.

She finished setting up the display dresses and took a seat on one of the several chairs that littered the room. She let out a sigh. It was going to be a long week. She leaned back in her chair and put her hooves up on the small table for magazines.

The door bell chimed. Rarity looked at the customer and puting on her most welcoming smile. But dialing it down as not to try and seem too cheery, last time she did that she managed to make the customer a little uneasy.

Rarity sighed with relief when she saw that it wasn't in fact a customer. It was actually Twilight, the one pony that she'd wanted to see today.

"Hello Twilight," Rarity said, cheerily.

Twilight smiled and returned the greeting. She seemed to be rather happy today, not rushed, or over worked, just like the few days when she had free time. When her schedual allowed it.

Rarity shifted in her seat as Twilight looked about the Boutique for a moment.

"Rarity," The lavender unicorn began, "Do you have any raw diamonds?"

The fashion designer almost fell out of her chair at the question. Why in Equestria would she keep diamonds in such a terrible looking state? Rarity would much rather have cut them with her own magic, or used some Earthpony tools to cut the Diamonds if it would insure that they were in a better looking condition.

"Twilight, why would you ask that?" Rarity questioned.

"It's for a magical experiment, and i only need raw diamonds to do the experiment."

Rarity sighed quietly, she did have a couple raw diamonds, albeit because they looked rather fetching. Rarity had planned to put them on a 'alnatural' outfit, for some rather rich and eccentric pony.

"Yes i may have some in the back," Rarity said, softly, "Though it was rather hard to find ones of this specific shape, which is the reasone they have been kept 'raw'."

Twilight smiled.

"I only need two," She said, "It's a rather strange experiment, i require everything in an even set, or pairs."

Rarity grinned a little, it sounded to be another one of those experiments. Twilight had recently been doing little 'experiments' where she would either cause some massive cufuffle by doing something wrong to the extent it either made a massive bang sound that would deafen anypony within a twenty meter radius of the library or possibly make everything around the library warp and turn the opposite color of what it is.

"Is it going to be loud?" Rarity asked.

Twilight's expression turned to confusion.

"Um, i think it might, why?"

Rarity was sort of bored of the weekly days of working at the Boutique she had gone through, today she wasn't in the mood to sit on her rump and cater to picky customers all day. She was rather determined to get out of the expensive building.

"Because dear, it's rather dreary in here on Monday, i'd rather spend some time with you or some pony, just to get out of here today."

Twilight nodded.

"Okay, i suppose you could be able to help."

Rarity jumped up in excitment, her usual self was going to stay at the Boutique, and she'd go with Twilight to do some inane, possibly mad experiment.

"Oh good!" she jeered, "I'll go get those diamonds and we'll be right off."

Quickly the alabaster unicorn dashed off into the back room, quickly collecting a few raw diamonds. She felt rather happy that she was going to do something more fun than sit in a decorated room, that costed more bits to decorate than it looked.

She selected the two most 'well presented' raw pieces of pressurised carbon and removed them from the small box which she contained them in. Placing them each in a single decorated pouch.

She then reentered the main room, passing the pouch to Twilight and collecting up the 'closed' sign, placing it in the window. Rarity knew that some ponies would be rather dissapointed at the fact they were unable to enter the Boutique, but still, it was going to be a little less drab than the day Rarity was going to have. Albeit at the cost of certain ponies.

"Come on Twilight, let's be off," Rarity said, opening the door to allow Twilight to walk outside first.

The purple unicorn left the building and began to trot down the road, Rarity closed and locked the door into the Boutique. The Alabaster unicorn then moved quickly to catch up to the bookworm of a unicorn.

They had a short chat about what they had been doing in the past month, Rarity more or less wanted to just chat, she was happy to have at least another day off from the Boutique. She wished to bid the place farewell a while ago.

Although they were both paying fare enough attention to the road ahead a rather stoic pony bumped into Twilight. His hat covered his eyes some.

"Excuse me miss," He said, hanging his head a little.

The pony was obviously somewhere else in his mind.

"Don't worry about it sir," Twilight said through a light smile.

Quickly the stranger dark brown pony trotted off. Rarity and Twilight continued to walk down the road to the library.

It was oddly facinating to behold the tree structure, The magical carving of wood into such a large tree was a sight to behold. Even if one was not there when it was made the sight to be seen was spectacular.

The nearly ninety thousand tree was magnificent and breathtaking. It was a true victor of the tree's, a specimen that would have died long ago if the citizens of the town had not protected it how they did.

Initially it was just the oak on the other side of the river, any that passed the threshold of the river were thought rather brave at the time when Ponyville was forming first.

"So Rarity," Twilight began, opening the door into the library, and entering the threshold, "Why exactly are you so eager to help me with something like this?"

Rarity looked at her friend, one of the most magical ponies in all of Equestria and the student to the deity and ruler of the land.

"I don't like spending mondays in the Boutique, it's a bit drab after a while."

"Really? I thought that you of all ponies would love the Boutique."

Rarity shifted on her hooves, "Not quiet."

"Whatever do you mean?" Twilight questioned, setting down the small bag along with her saddle bags.

"Well every monday the customers are quiet picky, they like mistakes even less than on any other day," Rarity replied, mentally adding Damn between 'other' and 'any'.

"You sure it's not because you just don't like Mondays?"

'YES! BLOODY A-RIGHT!' Rarity shouted in her mind.

"Mondays are all well and good, but it's just, some ponies are just a bit grumpy."

Twilight quickly took the large raw diamonds out of their bag and put them in two stands around the room.

"I know, some of the ponies i get in this library are just so grumpy these days," Twilight replied.

Rarity sat down, on the floor. It had been clean thouroughly.

"Twilight dear, where in Equestria is Spike? usually he's falling over himself just trying to get my attention by now."

Twilight dinished adjusting the diamonds in their place and turned.

"I think he's out helping Fluttershy with something."

Rarity looked at Twilight with slight confusion. "You think?"

"What? I can't always keep track of the little barstard all the time you know."

Rarity snickered a little, "He's a little bit stupid if that's what you mean."

"Exactly."

Rarity shifted in her spot. She wasn't all to comfortable.

"So what's this experiment?" She asked.

"Um, turning books into living things i guess?" Twilight replied.

"How do you honestly not know what your doing?"

"What? I can't find what the spell actually does when i use it with this unless i do it."

"I'm going to sit over here," Rarity said, moving off behind the staircase.

A loud pop follow by a splat sound and a massive thoom was what marked Twilight's experiment complete.

Rarity looked out from behind the staircase, Twilight was colored pure black. She coughed out some smoke.

"Are you done?" Rarity asked nonchalant

"Don't you dare say that i messed this up."

"Messed what up?"

"Not a word."

"About what?"

"Not, One, Single, Celesita Damned word."