“GIRLS!” interrupted Twilight Sparkle, who had just arrived at Sweet Apple Acres.

Rainbow Dash and Applejack stopped arguing right away!

“The house is for Fluttershy and Lonesome Knight,” explained Twilight to the other two mares.

“Wait a minute!” she said. “Where is Fluttershy?!” she asked, because she couldn’t find me.

“Hi, everypony!” I called as loudly as I could, and everypony looked up at me.

“You’re flying!” cried Rainbow Dash, both surprised and proud for me.

“Oh—my—goodness!” I cried, equally surprised, because I really was flying!

“Well, I’ll be…!” gasped Applejack, who also saw me flying.

I descended slowly, and when I touched the ground, I introduced myself boldly to Applejack.

“Hello,” I told her. “My name is Fluttershy.”

“And my name’s Applejack,” she answered.

I told her why Rainbow Dash and I had come to stop her from cutting the apple trees down:

I’m all in favor of a new house, and I know full well that building a house entails cutting some trees down, but it’s wrong to neglect the well-being of any of the animals who’ve gotten to those trees first! The trees are their homes! We should never take their homes away from them without permission or compensation.

Author's Note

Fluttershy is much less shy now, and that’s why she manages to give Applejack a lecture on being considerate to non-pony animals.