It's been four months since everything happened, four months since Blake lost his friends, and four months since his new life began.

Is what Blake would've said like some dramatic narrator if he actually cared about such things. Blake was a simple man, he used logic and logic only. There's no point in dwelling over things like that, the past is in the past and there's nothing you can do about it, right..?

He was by far the most sensible, the most normal, and most logical person here. Aside from Joseph of course. Was he really that though? Who knows, but that's how he saw and thought of himself. Was it arrogant? Probably, yes. But did he care? No.

Blake stared down at the clipboard in his hooves as he sat down on the edge of the RVs entrance. Even before the event Blake always had a knack of sorts for organization and planning. It might not have been his one true calling or his "destiny" as someone like Bliss would say but he made do with it.

And look who finally decided to show up… Blake turned his attention to the truck that just pulled over, and out it came Adrian and Blake, just like he expected. Now, to just mark that one off…. Done… Took them long enough.

Well he definitely seems tired. How couldn't he be? Especially all that heavy lifting Bliss Flower and Alex wanted done for… Whatever reason. Blake didn't know, nor did he care. It's not his business so it didn't matter. He still could've helped them out though.

Blake tossed Adrian a water as he went ahead and sat down next to him. "Here."

"Thanks." Adrian quietly replied.

Blake and Adrian weren't really friends persay. I mean, they were. Kinda at least… Blake really wasn't clear with who he considered friends.

So… "I can see someone's got the hots for Sky, huh?" People were already easy to read for Blake, ponies even more so. Seriously, it's pretty hard to hide certain emotions when your ears shrivel up at the slightest thing.

The way Adrian immediately propped up probably didn't help much either, he even almost spat out his water. "W-Wha! No I don't!" Preposterous! Him having a thing for Sky, absolutely unbelievable!

That was a very, very funny joke… The way Blake just kept staring bullets at him though… Geez… Could he try to at least have a little fun every once and a while? "Okay maybe I do, just a little though…."

Really though, Adrian never understood Blake at all. He was just so weird. Like what was the point in prodding into his business like this? Seriously… "I mean, she is kinda cute."

Meanwhile Blake was just interested in how he felt about her, and Adrian in general. For his own personal "reasons."

Cute? Yes. Right age? Yup. There was just one problem… "She's just weird though."

Blake just looked at Adrian blankly, perplexed as ever. Sky, weird? Well uh… "Really…?"

"Yeah, have you seen her?"

Wearing no clothes 24/7, the way she talks, the way she acts. All pretty weird if you ask anybody here. But I guess when you hang around someone like Bliss for a couple months you kinda get used to it.

Well, if Sky's off the table then how about… Blake turned his attention to a certain black and purple mare in the distance, looked like she was messing or playing with Alex, it was hard to tell. "What about Bliss?"

That was most likely a stupid question but again Blake was just curious about Adrian.

Wait, wait, wait. Bliss…? Well… It wasn't like Adrian didn't like her, she was just. Let's just say he was "indifferent" to her. That's the easiest way to put it. Besides, "Isn't she underage?"

"No, I don't think so." Last time Blake checked she was an adult, though it probably didn't help that she wouldn't tell him her exact age. "It's a secret" in her words. Add that with the way she acted, and yeah…

Oh God, he could hear now. "I'm an adult, an adult I tell you!" Is probably what she'd say. Or something similar to that at least.

But, look who decided to join them. Speak of the devil… The same exact mare they were talking about not too long ago. Cloudy damned Skies.

"Hey, Adrian, Blake!" Sky waved happily at them with a smile. Looks like her mood didn't change. What a stupid thing to think, of course it didn't. "Whatcha doing?"

Adrian was going to speak up but Blake pointlessly interjected, for whatever reason. "Absolutely Nothing."

"Okay then…" Sky didn't really seem to notice Blake's "odd" behavior other than the slight curious head tilt, so that was "good" for him at least. "Well, it's almost dinner time. You gonna come?"

Oh, right… Dinner…. Blake and Adrian glanced at the sky, it was an easy way to tell the time if you didn't have a watch. Looked like the sun was gonna set soon.

"Yeah, we'll be there in a bit." Adrian replied.

The two watched as Cloudy Skies walked off with a slight nod and a bright smile. Giving them a brief moment of silence with each other.

But that was of course broken by what Blake said next. "If you like her so much, why don't you just stay?"

Wait, let him guess. "It's because of another one of your dumb rules, isn't it?"

Adrian looked down for a moment and went silent. With the only thing he said before that being a silent "Yeah…"

Blake knew that face. That was the "he was right" face.

Seriously… Blake never understood people like that, people who pointlessly tie themselves down, people like this. He was one to talk though, but still.

If you want something done, you do it. No matter what it is.

Whatever… He wasn't his therapist. Plus, he had things to do, like planning for that trip in a couple days. Blake got up without the two even saying a word to each other.

But before he did he looked at Adrian's folded wing for a moment. Looked like that had been bothering him for a while.

Then looked at his own. There were cuts on them, cuts that weren't there before.

It would be best not to tell anyone about those…

Author's Note

We're gonna switching perspectives alot so I can focus on characters other than Bliss.

This won't be in parts like Founders Of Alexandria, but arcs. This is the start of the first arc, the Golden Snake arc.

How many arcs will there be? Who knows... Probably not alot though.