A Simple Soul

The room is quiet, so quiet that if you dropped a pen it could've been heard considering the tension between me and the lavender mare sitting in front of me. We stare at each other for an uncomfortable amount of time, Twilight seemingly having difficulty with her breathing as I lean back crossing my arms over each other. The only thing that softens the tension is the sound of a tea kettle boiling in the kitchen of her tree house, both Barb and Spike decided to make us some tea and went out to get some crumpets from a local baking company. Once the water finished boiling both Barb and Spike came walking into the room, Barb holding the tea kettle while Spike held two tea cups and saucers as he placed one to both Twilight and I, following close with Barb serving both of us some steaming water into each of our tea cups. Spike pulled out three different boxes of tea and placed them in front of us. The tea flavors come in a variety of colors, types, and each having different health qualities.

After enough silence but before the water gets cold both Twilight and I graciously thank our assistance, Spike wrapping his arms around the lavender mare Twilight taking this gesture to heart as she leans her head against the dragon's. Barb and I on the other hand get a bit more physical as she turns my chair around gently sitting on my lap as she wraps her arms around me hugging me while I sit down, my arms moving around her back as I went to go hug the dragoness. After both Twilight and I explained what happened between the both of us they both felt our pain, it affected Barb just a bit more than Spike as I can hear her whimpering in my ear. It's bad enough that I told her, I saw in my vision both her and Spike's deaths, but if it hurt anyone at all it hurt me more seeing her get amputated in front of me made me hold her even tighter. Barb gently holding my head as I could hear Twilight whispering to Spike, at first I thought she was talking about how 'intimate' both Barb and I are getting with each other but in reality she was comforting Spike as the teenage dragon himself was tearing up. I don't understand what the fuck happened, was it some sort of premonition or just another one of my episodes and even if it was how did Twilight see it? So much is going through my head and I just want to go through the day without having to go through any kind of hassle with anypony.

After awhile of being comforted by both Twilight and I, both Spike and Barb pull apart from us as they both stand a side. Spike leaning against the wall while Barb would sit on a chair next to him, turning my chair back around towards Twilight the lavender mare scooting her chair closer to the table. Both of us grab a box of tea opening it before pulling a small tea bag from the box, I unwrap it from it's plastic wrapping before grabbing the string gently placing the tea bag part of the string into the warm water, Twilight using her magic to get it all out of the way. Grabbing a small spoon I gently use it to push the tea bag down into the water, smiling as I see the water slowly turning from clear into a light purple color since it was lavender colored. Once we both stirring our tea bags in our tea cups of warm water, we both pull out the tea bags out of the cups putting them side before hearing Twilight asking.

"Honey?"

She asks, seeing a small jar of honey levitating in front of me, and seeing a light purple aura around it telling me that she is using her magic to keep it up like that. I stare at it for a moment, still really mesmerised from how magic works in Equestria but I wasn't going to keep the mare waiting plus magic must take a lot of effort to wield. Nodding I take the small jar off her magic as I pull it back down on the table gently stirring the small spoon that comes with the jar before gently pouring a generous amount of honey into my tea cup before using my first spoon to gently stir the honey into the tea. I watch the inside of the tea cup as the honey slowly dissolves into the water, hearing a soft giggle coming from Twilight hearing a sip coming from her as I look up seeing a smile coming from the mare.

"You like your tea sweet huh?"

"Yeah heh… I hate anything bitter… except for cranberry juice, I like cranberry juice… and the occasional black berry, although those are more tart then bitter."

I explain going on a tangent as I once again hear Twilight giggling, it was weird we're both getting along with each other regardless of what we both saw in our episodes. I take a sip of my tea, tasting how sweet I made the tea taste as I gently hiss from the sweetness of the honey counters any kind of lavender flavor, but it's a waste of good tea. Anyway, after all that laughter over sweetened tea and how much of a sugar addict I am we both finally discuss a matter of 'business', and by business I mean both checking on her cooperation of the Summer Sun Celebration and to see if she could possibly help us locate the rest of our ponies. But first, she brings up the vision we both had as she comes with a theoretical explanation.

"From what happened in how visions, I assume you must think we're all vicious."

"What? No not at all… on the contrary I believe you along with the equine's-."

I said before being cut off from Spike clearing his throat, looking over to him he points at himself. Feeling excluded from the overall count of my explanation as I nod clearing my own throat before continuing.

"- and Spike, I thought all of you found me…"

"Vicious?"

Twilight said finishing my sentence with a word that I was either struggling to say or didn't think it was the correct word to use as I continue.

"Vicious, monster, freak… alien, you name it."

I said taking another sip of my sweet tea holding back a hiss before grabbing a crumpet from the small basket on the table as I gently break it in half seeing how soft they are in the side before taking a bit of butter from a container grabbing the knife and gently spreading it on the side of the crumpet before taking a bite. I smile, loving how the butter made the crumpet unleash its flavor, thinking I was hogging the butter knife I spread some on the other half before placing the butter knife down. Soon after Twilight does the same as she uses her magic to spread some butter on her crumpet not breaking it half however as she takes a generous bite out of her pastry. After swallowing the piece in her mouth, clearing her throat a bit she explains.

"I didn't call you 'alien' because you look like one, I called you that because… well you're relatively new to Equestria, I or even anypony don't know what to expect from you. Like…"

She said before using her magic once again this time my hand is covered in her aura as she pulls my hand up, turning it from side to side as she inspect it for a moment before asking.

"What are these? They look like Spike's claws expect yours around covered with scales and your claws are much shorter than Spike's."

"Yeah… except mine are called hands."

"Hands… wow."

I hear her say, becoming quite fascinated with my hand as she inspects it a bit longer. I hear both Spike and Barb gently chuckling under their breath before hearing Spike say."

"There she goes again."

"Again with what?"

I ask the dragon, genuinely concerned about my hand at this point. Was she going to cut it off? Cut a finger off? Make me do 'things' to her? I feel a shiver going down my spine just the thought of doing something like that made feel weird, not in the homosexual kind of weird but that weird sense you get from someone being forward with you after just meeting for like two seconds. Yeah that kind of weird, but luckily Spike reassures me that wasn't the case as he explains.

"Twilight's the type, where if she meets something or someone new she has to do an inspection. And when she discovers something she's never heard of before, she asks about seventy three more questions before getting all the information she needs. Just like how she was when she first came here, nothing but studying, reading books, and keeping herself secluded at all times. Lucky for her she made a good amount of friends after realizing-"

Spike was then cut off from the sound of Twilight gasping in shock, her eyes staring down at me. At first I thought my zipper was down and she saw something she knows she shouldn't have seen, well without asking that is. But after looking at her eyes, redirecting them towards my vest as she sees the sun pin gently lifting my vest a bit so she can take a good look at it.

"Oh this? Yeah, the princess's orders were to wear-"

"Wait! Princess? As in Princess Celestia?!?"

She said her face now in shock, her magic letting go of my hand as it drops on the table. I nod at her shocked question as I'm now genuinely confused at this moment, what's so shocking about me knowing the princess? I mean sure, me a human her a pony that's pretty weird but other than that, what's so shocking about it? After just sitting there with a shocked expression on her face, I turn to both Barb and Spike as now Spike too is shocked at this revelation as I scoff leaning back against the chair before asking.

"Yeah, Princess Celestia told me to check up on the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration…. And also make a couple of friends there and there too."

"You too?"

"What?"

I said, now I'm the one with the shocked expression on my face as I look up at Twilight before she sits back down on her chair, her horn lighting up again before seeing what looks to be a crown slowly levitating towards the both of us setting it down on the table. I look at it for a moment, it looks exactly like the crown Twilight wore in our vision. Except it's missing the purple star like gem on the top of it as I stare at the crown for a moment, before I can say anything Twilight explains why she was forced to come here, to Ponyville.

"Not only was I tasked with breaking out of my shell and trying to making friends. I had a personal task, with finding the Elements of Harmony."

"Okay, but what are…"

"The Elements of Harmony?"

"Yeah, those what are they exactly?"

I said having absolutely no idea of what she was talking about, this also makes Twilight shocked over not knowing what the 'Elements Of Harmony' are. Jeez for a relatively smart pony she sure gets shocked a lot. Probably wasn't the best choice of words but you know what I mean. She gets shocked a lot. Using her magic once again she pulls a book out of her library before dropping it in front of me, the huge title saying 'History Of Equestria' as I see the purple aura opening the book before flipping page after page after page, before stopping at one particular section. A picture of two ponies standing side by side, each other, the other page has a passage to which I read out loud.

"Long ago, two regal sisters who ruled together created harmony for all the land, the eldest used her unicorn powers to raise the sun at dawn; the younger brought out the moon to begin the night. their subjects, the ponies, played in the day but shunned the night and slept through it, which made the younger unicorn grow bitter, eventually refusing to lower the moon to make way for the dawn. Her bitterness transformed her into a wicked mare of darkness: Nightmare Moon. The elder sister reluctantly harnessed the power of the Elements of Harmony and banished her in the moon for a thousand years, maintaining harmony in Equestria by taking responsibility for both sun and moon. It's said that on the longest day of the thousandth year, marks the return of Nightmare Moon."

After reading the passage I lean back against my chair, rendering everything that I just read. Reminding me of what 'he' said before looking up at Twilight, staring at the crown on the table then hearing her sigh in disappointment.

"The girls and I have been looking for the elements for days, zero luck and one injured pony. So yeah those are the Elements of Harmony."

She said resting her head against her hoofs, I have no many different questions running through my head. Like, where does it say they're hidden? What do they look like? Who are the 'girls'? And who's the pony with the injury? All these questions sadly won't get answered because I feel something tapping my shoulder as I look over, Barb looking back at me as she points at her wrist indicating that we're losing time and we need to ask about her part of the preparations. Now remembering why we're here in the first place, I look at Twilight seeing her still looking a bit sad as I clear my throat.

"Uhh.. listen I'm not the type to ruin a sad moment, but I was wondering if you could help us locate a specific group of ponies…"

I said before looking at Barb as she shows the lavender unicorn a few sheets of paper with names of specific ponies and what they have to do with the upcoming festival. Twilight by using her magic lifts the papers up to her face as she nods, she then pulls out a few small yellow post-it notes and a quill as she is writing down on the small pieces of paper I notice something with my peripheral vision. Seeing both Spike and Barb talking to each other as the male dragon leans against her chair, hearing her giggle at him like some high school girl. I smile at how cute Barb looks like when she's having a crush on Spike, I can tell by the way she is positioned to the way she looks up at the male dragon.

I must have gotten lost staring at both teenage dragons talking to one another that I don't hear or see Twilight trying to get my attention, it's only having letting out a sigh and turning my head around, seeing the lavender looking back at me with waiting eyes as I shake my head back to reality before apologizing.

"Sorry… got lost in a train of thought."

"It's okay, I do that a lot too, sometimes I lose myself when I'm trying to remember things like what I ate today, the friends I've made today and- wait Spike what time is it?"

She said asking her assistant what the time is at this moment, seeing Spike go from suave and slick to flustered and shaky as he tries to catch his balance again. I along with Twilight and Barb chuckle at how flustered the teenage dragon got as he turns his head around taking a look at the time as he said.

"It's exactly ten minutes to two."

After saying that I see the lavender mare's eyes shot wide open, her horn glowing once again as she disappears out of nowhere leaving traces of sparkles behind. Both Barb and I have no idea what's going on but Spike knew exactly what is happening at this time as he walks towards the door Twilight appearing once again near the door as she uses her magic to twist the doorknob and swing the door open before saying, all at once.

"ListenasmuchasIwouldliketotalkbothSpikeandIarereallylategettingtoameetingwiththemayorIllletyouknowifIgetanyinformationabouttheentertainmentforthefestival."

She said as both Barb and I look at her, it's kind of hard to understand what she said all of a sudden but before we could even try and decode what she told us her horn once again starts to glow. Then out of nowhere we both are lifted up off the floor before being launched out of her tree house, I was going to ask her where we could locate some of the ponies we are looking for. But then Barb burps out flames before all of the post-it notes she was writing on appears in front of her, grabbing in her claws she looks at it then hearing Twilight yell.

"Alltheinformationyouneedareonthesepostiynotesokaybye!"

She said watching both her and Spike walking away from her tree house, losing them in the distance as I turn my attention back to Barb chuckling.

"She… is one weird pony."

"How much do you want to bet there's somepony out there that's weirder than her?"

She said looking at me with a coy smile and a competitive look in her eyes as I smirk at her before saying.

"Fifty bits, bragging rights and-"

"One free song."

"You've lost your fucken mind!"

"What you scared of losing, I didn't know humans were such chickens."

She said and after standing back up on her two feet she then starts to use both her arms to create wings before flapping her arms like a bird, clucking like a chicken as she bobs her head up and down acting like she is pecking corn off the floor. I knew this was a way to peer pressure me into doing the bet as I groan in frustration knowing if I don't say anything she won't stop clucking like a chicken.

"Fine!... One free song."

"Yay! Deal!"

She said raising a hand up so we can both shake on it, I stare at her hand before extending my hand out gripping hers as we both shake on it. After discussing back and forth about what I should do and when I should do it, we began our journey as Barb looks down at one of the post-it notes before she looks around, eventually she starts to walk towards one direction so I follow her as we make our way towards our first or technically our second stop.

"If she wrote these directions correctly, our destination should be right… here"

Barb said as she stops walking, while following her through town thinking I was really only going to get met with rocks, chains and whips, now turned into open hooves and smiles. I know I said this already, but it's nice to finally be a part of this loving and caring community even if there's the occasional madogging glares and down grading comments from the locals. After following Barb through town, we both stand in front of an arc before looking up seeing a sign above the arc that says 'Sweet Apple Acres' which is our next stop for preparation check. We both walk into Sweet Apple Acres, being met with huge land going for miles and from a distance we see apple trees that also go for miles, spotting some earth ponies working out in the apple fields while others work on a barn as a group of ponies try to lift a wall up with a pulley and rope. Using their teeth to pull on the rope as the wall for the side of the barn lifts up off the floor, Barb and I stand back while they work as we continue to walk further into the farm taking a look around as I ask Barb.

"So, who are we looking for this time?"

"Uhh well…"

She said as she goes back to the piece of paper, dragging her finger across the paper as if she has some struggle reading a book and she needed to use her finger to keep track.

"Ahh here it is, we're looking for a pony named… Applejack."

"Applejack… like the cereal?"

"What?"

"Nevermind."

I said, chuckling at the thought of having Applejacks when I was younger. And the thought of a pony named Applejack made me chuckle like if someone told me a very corny joke but I still chuckle because for some reason I still find it kinda funny. As we took a look around the farm, I noticed along with some of the working ponies there were younger ponies playing around with each other. I smile watching them playing around, seeing them have no worries in their lives and enjoying their lives to the fullest, as I watch them playing I notice a much smaller ponys’ crawling around the farm area. Interacting with the farmer ponies, looking no younger than a few months judging from how her vocabulary consists of babbling and giggling. I chuckle watch the young pony crawling around, that is until I heard someone yell out.

"Watch out!"

I hear before seeing some of the farmer ponies letting go of the rope to the wall of the barn, causing the rope to shoot up towards the pulley that held up the wall up from falling down. Before anypony could react the wall starts to tilt to the side. It wouldn't be a problem if no pony was standing near the direction that the wall was about to fall in. But no, the smaller pony crawls towards the other ponies, seeing the shadow of the wall hovering over the little pony. I panicked seeing no pony was going to help her out, Barb saw this and before she could stop me I quickly ran towards the filly dragging my feet against the dirt before scooping her into my arms, before the wall even managed to hit is I raise my right hand up towards it, looking away while holding the filly in my arm. I couldn't tell if the wall actually squished us to death but I do hear the sounds of gasps around where we both are. After taking a few minutes to recollect my breaths that was taken from me after doing that stunt I look up noticing a bright violet aura around my hand along with the wall holding up it at an awkward angle. Looking around I notice some hooves standing closely towards the wall as one pony leans down seeing both me and the small filly in my arm as I am holding up the wall before it completely crushes us. After the pony noticed us, he stood up straight yelling out to the others that we are okay as they came quickly to our aid hearing somepony yell.

"Pull!"

Before slowly seeing the wall moving up away from us, after the ponies got a strong grip onto the rope that's holding up the wall I let my arm rest the violet glow fading away as I pant softly sitting up now having a better grip on the filly in my arms as I look down. It stares up at me with the cutest of curiosity, trying to make out what I was as it tilts its head I smile at it gently wiggling my finger against it's belly as I hear her giggling. The other ponies notice how friendly I was towards the filly as they all smile hearing her giggling let them know she's in safe hands, or hooves if we're talking about them soon the wholesome moment was cut short as I hear somepony yelling in a very southern accent.

"What in tarnation is goin on out here!?!"

When I hear the very angry southern gal my head shoots up, seeing an orange mare trotting over towards the huge group of ponies are huddling around us. Having a farmer's hat on her head with a blonde mane that's braided up with a nice red ribbon that keeps the braids from coming undone. The mare trotts up in front of me staring at me with her emerald green eyes looking quite pissed as she sees some sort of creature bothering her place of work, standing up, I look down at the orange mare as she looks back up at me sitting on her rump she stares up at me with a very interrogating look on her face. The little filly in my arms starts to tug on my hand, tugging on my thumb as I take my eyes off of the orange mare and to the small pony in my arms seeing her holding my thumb like some sort of children's toy. Chuckling I took my thumb off her grip and instead would gently tickle her belly, hearing her giggle as she starts tossing and turning in my arms. The crowd of ponies surrounding both me and the orange mare couldn't help by awe at how cute it is to see the small pony giggling in my arms. There are two things that are telling me, maybe I should give the child back to whoever she belongs to. The first hint was feeling Barb gently placing her hand on my shoulder when I turn my head away from the filly looking at Barb she would point her head towards the right of her which them leads me to the second hint when I start to feel a small tug against my pants leg, looking down I see a bright yellow mare looking up at me having a scarf in her hoof which probably belongs to the filly in my arms, which then also telling me that this little filly belongs to the mare who was just tugging against my pants. Nodding I get on one knee, turning towards the mare as I gently place the mare on to the floor in front of her as the small filly starts to crawl over towards her mother. Smiling as I see both a mother and her child reunite, even though technically she wasn't lost but it's nice to see a mother caring for her child, once the filly was in the hooves of her mother seeing her nuzzling her cheek gently the mare looks up at me with a smile on her face.

"Thank ya, kind sir… I couldn't imagine what would happen to my little bundle of joy."

She said as she gently wraps the red plaited scarf around her neck, forming it into a nice little bow as she looks up at her mother smiling before looking over at me. I smile at the filly as she uses her hoof to wave at me before hearing say.

"Thank ye."

She said, causing both her mother a few ponies to surround them both. Something told me that those are her first words, and once they heard her repeating herself, everypony around both her and the mother gasp happily. I smile before standing up on my own two feet, Barb gently leaning against my shoulder looking at me with those 'see, what did I tell you' eyes. I look back at her as I smile, after all the wholesomeness that has happened we both walk towards the orange mare as we explain ourselves on why we are here in the first place.

"Uhh.. I personally would like to apologise for any disturbance that I might have caused at your place of work. My name is Zach, this is my assistant Barb, we both were sent by the princess to check up on your part of the preparations for the upcoming Summer Sun Celebration."

I said Barb standing next to me as she waves at the orange mare in front of us. She continues to stare at us, still feeling a bit uneasy about us standing and disturbing her work environment. And before she could say anything, she notices my vest full of pins one standing out over the others and that was the sun sun pin as she trots towards the both of us, her expression changing from serious to a complete three sixty as she springs up into a joyful expression.

"Well shoot! Why did ya say so!?!"

She said with a bright smile on her face, before I can take a sigh of relief I feel the mare grabbing my hand with her hoof as she holds onto it with a strong grip before violently shaking my arm. I shake a bit as Barb sees this all going down before giggling on how humorous this is, yeah very funny Barb you try having you whole fucken arm violently shaken seeing how you like it. Anyway after almost breaking my, which is sad seeing as I'm not even thin enough to be considered being starved to death the orange mare let go of my hand before introducing hers.

"Where are my manners mah names’ Applejack, next in line to be the proud owner of this here farm. Allow me to give you a grant tour of our proud family farm."

"Oh, that won't be necessary we're just here to-."

"Oh come on! It's the least I can do for doing something this heroic."

She said using her head to point towards the mother and filly, I smile sheepishly as I gently scratch the back of my head feeling a bit embarrassed over being labeled as 'hero' over something anyone could do. Before I can answer Applejack and her offer to give both Barb and I a tour of the apple family farm somepony from the huge crowd yells out.

"How about he stays for supper!?!"

Once everypony heard that idea they all nod and agree that both Barb and I are staying for 'supper' or dinner in simpler terms. Man is it hard to understand Southerners, I sigh as I just accept their invitation Applejack taking my hand dragging me with her. Unfortunately Barb wasn't going to join us as I look over seeing her getting dragged by a few mares taking her away from me, I see her looking back at me wondering what I was going to do. I just mouth at her 'I don't know' as she was dragged away, now alone with the orange mare she began the tour with an apple tree, not just one apple tree however as behind the tree that one tree was thousands soon thousands of other apple trees. I know I've seen the orchard on our way here but that was just a few trees’ this is the real deal as Applejack explains.

"Here's where it all begins, each tree is taken care of by every member of the apple family. Once, picking season begins we start bucking each and every tree until we get each and every apple."

"What if there's a bruised apple?"

"We dig it into the soil as compost."

"What if there's worms in one of the apples?"

"We just leave it alone."

She says rapidly answering every question I asked her, seeing that bright smile on her face before she one again drags me by the hand as she leads me towards another barn apart from the one we just came from. Walking up to it I pool full of apples, which is connected to a huge wheel that takes the now pre soaked apples, the wheel takes them for a small ride up then down to a second pool on the other side, it's like a ferris wheel for apples as the orange mare explains.

"See this here contraption, this nitty machine right here helps us clean each apple that has been picked by our buckers so that way we have more ponies working out in the field. We only have one pony workin' here and whoever is workin' then takes the washed apples to either our juice compressor or a separate basket for either delivery or in this case our upcoming-"

Applejack is then interrupted by somepony screaming in the barn as both her and I turn our heads, seeing bunches of apples falling to the ground before seeing a yellow mare falling to the floor hearing her groan in pain as her red mane is now soaked. I look at Applejack seeing her looking furious as she yells out.

"Apple Bloom! What did I say about improvising the cleaning system!?!"

She yells, the yellow mare looking up and both her and me standing next to her. Staring at me with her orange colored eyes as she stands up on her all fours her bow drooping down barely staying in her mane as she stays quiet. Something tells me that she must be shy around others, or in this case a completely different species like myself, stating the obvious like an idiot as Applejack yells at her again.

"Well? What do you have to say for yourself?"

She said looking at her as she just stays quiet, cross my arms as I too stood quiet not wanting to get on her bad side after just meeting her not too long ago. Before Applejack could scream at her again, I walk up the yellow mare she appears to be the same age as Applejack judging by her height as I get on one knee. Carefully and gently I pull her bow out of her mane, helping on drying her mane as I gently twist her locks without hurting her scalp. Getting as dry as possible I let it go before gently helping her tie the bow back in her mane, smiling as I did all that. It didn't look nice but at least it wasn't all droopy, throughout me doing all that neither her nor Applejack say anything as I finish fixing her mane before saying.

"It's nice to meet you Apple Bloom…"

I said as I extend my hand out to her, she stares at it with confusion wondering what she should do before looking back up at me as I give her a friendly smile.

"...my name is Zachary."

I said introducing myself to Apple Bloom, she however didn't feel comfortable talking with me as she trots away from me and out of the barn. Applejack, tries to stop her from leaving the barn, but she slips away from her grip and trots out of the barn. I see her trotting away into a nearby house, slamming the door behind her as it can be heard from where both Applejack and I are. Applejack looking at me as I have the facial expression of being hurt, kind of believing that I might have scared her or something of that extent. However the orange mare reasures me that wasn't the case as she explains, in a rather mysterious format.

"I apologise, she's been a bit… sad lately, I don't understand myself."

She said sniffing a bit before using her hoof to wipe her nose a bit. I look down at Applejack as she too looks a bit distraught about her younger sister being a bit depressed or something around that line. But I can't help but wonder why she is that way in the first place? I guess you can say some kind of dad instinct turned itself on in my consciousness, and now I have to figure out why she is looking so sad. But first I make sure that there's no hard feels between me and what happened earlier, my arm wrapping around Applejack's back pulling her closer as I smile down at her.

"It's okay, I guess we'll just have to find out one way or another."

"Yeah… I guess we do."

She said smiling up at me as she leans up gently nuzzling my cheek with her snoot, this caught me off guard as it wasn't really a surprise because I remembered back at the castle I used to get this kind of affection from the princess. But it's kind of odd for somepony like herself to do this to someone who she just met, however I don't say anything and just allow it. Not for the affectionate, but because for some reason these ponies have such soft coats that I have to feel them against my cheeks. God it's so soft, I can cuddle with one of them and just take a big old nap. Anyway, Applejack stands back up on all four hooves after giving me enough nuzzles as I stand back up myself, dusting off all the dirt off my pants before hearing her say.

"Come on, let's get ya ready for supper… sugar cube."