After Day

"May I ask why the royal guard walked into my clinic and asked me to identify a fetus?"

"So, it's a fetus?"

I stared at Mayor Mare a bit dumbfounded. She seemed to pick up on my confusion.

"Please, don't ask me. I have no idea." Mare started running one hoof down the other as if recounting a list. "I got a letter this morning from Twilight Sparkle. She asked that I send some officers to the library. They reported that a subject was being moved to the hospital. Nopony could give me clear answer on what that subject was, so...."

I could understand the curiosity. Mysterious things involving the student of the Princess often devolved into half the town being on fire. "It's a fetus. Early enough along that it didn't even develop its magical core."

"So, the town's not in danger of being on fire? Not even half of it?"

Huh, great minds. "No."

"Good." Mare tapped her hoof for a moment. "So...."

"How?"

"Yes, how? And, from where?"

I resist the urge to roll my eyes. "There are several procedures for this sort of thing. Twilight Sparkle may handle pressure about as well as a landmine, but she's a brilliant mare. Learning one of the spells and performing it on herself sounds like something crazy enough for her to try."

"Really? I thought she was...."

"More responsible? So did I." Then again, she was here to learn about friendship, right? Only a matter of time before she would begin to dabble in the beneficial kind.

"Gay."

"Wha- huh?"

"I thought Ms. Sparkle was gay. I owe Raven a hundred bits."

Today was going to be a long day wasn't it?

[It's a coin flip every time. I can't do anything about the regression. I must push the other way.]