Pinkie Pie
Twitch

I stare at my tail, trying to desperately understand what it was trying to tell me.

Twilight has attempted to understand why my sense worked and in the end gave up. I suspect that the signals must seem completely random to her and just accepting it was probably the easiest to accept mentally.

Me, on the other hoof, have had multiple years to try and work out the signals and I have mapped most of them to certain actions with about a 97% accuracy rate.
So when a series of twitches start occurring that I do not recognise, I get very cautious.

I don't think Fluttershy has noticed yet and I plan to keep it that way, usually I try to broadcast them to help ponies but I'd rather not cause panic until I can understand it.

Pushing out the thoughts of vague future seering, I decide to mull the information we'd acquired in my head.

Cheese said that the town was called Tailfrost, I'd never been myself as it isn't the easiest to visit, and if we were to hike over it would take a few weeks, apparently the town is self-sustaining and hasn't made any paths through the mountain range.

I ponder for a moment and then turn towards Fluttershy "How do you think she knew about that filly?"

Fluttershy, having been staring out of the carriage window, turns her attention towards me with a quizzical look and asks "What do you mean?"

I lean forward in my seat and motion my hoof in the vague shape of Equestria and point at where the town in question was, "Tailfrost is here right? In middle of the northern mountain ranges and according to Cheesy, basically a rigorous hike through frozen mountains to arrive, and from what we can tell the only ponies that probably that can get in and out on a daily basis is the pegasus mailponies or an exceptionally powerful unicorn with teleportation, which from what Twilight had told us this Blue with neither. Maybe somepony had managed to send a letter via the mail service but that'd require knowledge in how to contact Blue, which seems unlikely. So back to my original question, how did Blue know that the filly needed… help?"

I watch as Fluttershy blinks her eyes for a moment as she seems to catch up with my fast talking, and after about a minute of silence, says "umm… maybe the family sent a letter to someone else and then Blue heard it from them?"

I tap my hoof on my chin for a moment and say "Maybe, but that still implies that the family knows her aaaannd that leaves an avenue for her to be traced, if something that revealing existed I'd wager the princess wouldn't need our help."

"I can't think of anything then Pinkie, I'm sorry, maybe we should mention it to Twilight and the others, they might know" Fluttershy responds with a downcast look.

I shake my head "I am not sure either Flutters, it's not your fault. Just something that was bothering me, maybe there's a source of information about ponies that I'm missing out on!"

The conversation goes to silence after my last statement and I am sat left pondering for the rest of the journey

I watch the carriage driver manage to make her way up about half-way up Canterlot mountain but as the slope gets somewhat steeper, he then stops the cart and hooks it into the carriage assistance line that runs above the path.

This makes me fight the impulse to jump out of the window to hop along aside the cart on the way up as my legs were starting to feel the strain but I look up at the newly installed neon yellow sign mounted to the inside of the door strictly prohibiting such an action, I wouldn't be as offended but marked under the main words contains the phrase "Especially you Pinkie!"

I try to keep my attention anywhere but the ever-so tantalising window and turn my head towards the other window, catching Fluttershy cautiously keeping an eye on me, and look out into the distance.

I ask, still looking over the landscape "Do you think she means it to be harmful?"

"Who?" Fluttershy answers behind me.

"Blue, it feels like she's making a mistake over maliciousness. Maybe she just thinks she's bringing joy to the families."

"Maybe, but… with what the Princess told us, even if she has the best of intentions, what she is doing is cruel, turning the loved ones into puppets of what their loved ones once were. The princess might just want to talk to her, show her the harm she is doing."

I turn to Fluttershy and nod, "I hope that she'll understand, and then maybe we can give her some very late birthday parties when she stops being silly. She's missed so many."

Fluttershy returns an unsure smile

We watch the cart make its way in front of the guest quarters and as we arrive, we see that Twilight and Rarity are waiting for us.

"Hi girls! How was the trip?" Twilight greets us with.

"It was good, the weather was lovely…" I hear Fluttershy start saying while I direct my attention to the Cart driver and fork out the bits from my mane, intentionally ensuring to give a twenty-five percent tip to ensure less tense bookings in the future.

By the time I had managed to make my way back to the trio, Fluttershy had finished regaling the duo with the basic points of the trip and we started walking back into the guest rooms that Celestia had organised for us. I'd heard that Twilight's family had offered to home us for the period but as we'd by coming in and out as a group of six, Twilight decided it wouldn't be practical but promised to visit them afterward.

As we enter the great marble halls, and pass by the solar guard stationed there, Fluttershy speaks up "Oh, on our way back Pinkie had a question that we thought you might have an answer to."

Twilight and Rarity turn their attention to me.

"Yeah, Flutters told you about the filly in Tailfrost right? I was having a few thoughts about how this Blue knew."

Twilight seems to ponder about it but Rarity speaks first "Sad case, if I remember correctly, cancer so young just isn't right."

We all turn our attention towards Rarity as Fluttershy says "Umm, I don't remember mentioning her having cancer. How did you know?"

Rarity starts to look bashful and says "Oh, it's a tad morbid really but I read through the obituaries in the daily Equestria Newspaper, I like to make sure my friends and family are still okay, and this particular one caught my eye because of the age, it was so close to Sweeties"

Twilight nods her head and we start walking again, "Okay, I wonder if that's how Blue is finding out where to go then. Maybe we should arrange a trip to this town and see if there are any leads for us to follow. Rarity, is there any chance you could start writing down any deaths that are either accidental or sickness related?"

"I certainly can, but I don't relish having to memorise them" Rarity returns.
"Good thinking Pinkie, I'd hadn't even thought about that, this might be the opening we need to capture her" Twilight says, directing her attention to me.

I nod but nearly trip as I feel a brief shake in my right hind leg but I manage to mask it judging by the rest of the groups reactions

Fluttershy speaks up, as we get to the corridor containing the six rooms that had been designated to us, "When do Rainbow and Applejack arrive?"

"Two hours, if they managed to catch the train though dealing with Trixie might make them miss it" Rarity says with an eye roll.

"Still can't believe that Trixie went to the same school as you Twilight, and knew this Blue, seems like the type of thing a writer would do to avoid having to write any new characters."

"What?" Twilight, Rarity and Fluttershy all say.

I shrug.

Twilight shakes off her reaction to me and says "Well, it's not like we knew much about Trixie and it doesn't shock me she had at least gone to a school dedicated to the study of magic, even if she doesn't seem to have an aptitude for the actual arcane. From what Blue's mother had said, Blue wasn't that skilled in the magic department either, more just knew how to apply for medical purposes, maybe they related over that."

The hallway falls to silence as we all are left to ponder in silence.

Flutter breaks the quiet and says "I hope this isn't rude. But I'd like to go to my room for a bit, fairly tired after the cart journey."

"No problem Darling, I could go for some beauty sleep myself and with our wait for the rest of our troupe, we won't be able to do much anyhow. I'll alert the guard to wake us when they arrive."

I nod, the tiredness off everything seeping into my hooves.

We all split apart and I find myself going into the lavish room, I put my saddlebag onto a random tabletop and jump on the bed as I feel the pillow poof under my weight.

Feeling my eyelids grow heavy, I try to drift off into a comfortable sleep.

Twitch

Damn.

Author's Note

And I managed to finally pump this chapter out, and all with pinkie done, have managed to complete all mane 6's perspectives.

Sorry for the delays, Moved house recently and hard to get into the mood to write.