A Day in Glacial's Life

     Glacial was starting to regret her decision. As she stepped over a fallen tree branch, she looked up at the dark clouds. She should have remembered what Rainbow Dash had said. Now the other pegasi had whipped up a fierce thunderstorm, to windy to fly in, and Glacial was totally lost. On top of that, she had hit her wing in an attempt to escape the forest in the gale force winds. Her wing throbbing, she slid into a hallow tree. Glacial had never feared the Everfree forest until today. It was always a source of adventure when other ponies found it dark and depressing. But as she lay in the tree, shivering and wincing in pain, the darkness of the forest consumed her. When she played back the events of the day in her mind, she found all the flaws she had performed. First, she went to the forest alone. Second, she tried to fly in the storm. Third, she decided to go off the trail. And fourth, she didn't tell her friends where she was going. "they probably won't care!" she thought bitterly. They had so thoughtlessly ignored her earlier, that they would probably never come looking for her. Then she flinched. That as not something you say about friends that help you everyday, that care about you no matter what. As her eyes blurred with the tears about to spill, a cloaked figure hurried past. The figure stopped and peered at the shivering pegasi. "what  do we have here? a little pegasis, frozen with fear?" Glacial Break looked up to see Zecora, the zebra. "come young one, to my my home. The forest you won't have to roam." Glacial nodded with gratitude and rushed back to Zecora's hut with the zebra. "now small one, what is wrong? why were you out with winds so strong?" Glacial stared at the floor. "well my friends didn't seem to want to be near me..I wanted to show them i can go on adventures without them!" Zecora smiled gently "lets have an adventure of our own, so you wont have to go alone!" Glacial thought it was a grand idea, so she asked "what adventure can we go on?" Zecora thought for a moment. "in early spring this time of year, ingredients are everywhere!" glacial smiled. It didn't seem like that bad a job. "what shall we find?" "After thunderstorms, you see, lightning flowers bloom, get them for me!" Glacial was very grateful to the kind zebra, and she felt a sense of  purpose she had when she was writing for the newspaper, or doing her winter wrap up job. The kind of feeling that put her at ease. And as Zecora finished bandaging her wing, the rain stopped. The two of them laughed and ran into the forest. She felt like this only when she was with her friends, and she realized that somehow, Zecora had managed to make her way into the small list of people she called her friends in no time at all. It was something hard to do. She knew a lot of the ponies in Ponyville since they were foals, but so far only six, no seven, were her friends. it showed how straight forward and simple minded she really was, in fact she had no friends before Pinkie had thrown her that party. That one day had changed everything in her life. how she dressed, what her house looked like, even her personality.