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- >The autumn air is crisp and a stiff breeze blows over your face
- >You shudder and tighten the long, wool item draped around your neck
- >That scarf that Fluttershy knit for you last Hearth's Warming was really coming in handy
- >A subdued kind of red, or burgundy or something
- >Rarity would lecture you if you'd ever think to bring it up
- >But you were smarter than that, these days at least
- >You'd come to Equestria two years ago, something about your perfect positioning and the energy generated by that jet liner slamming into the ocean
- >Twilight had explained it using some super complex formula that could have been from Stargate for how much you understood
- >All you got out of it was that you'd never fly Malasyian Airlines again
- >Why'd you parents wanted to go to China anyway?
- >But it could have been worse, you could be dead
- >And given that, wasn't Equestria a better choice?
- >It was now anyway
- >For the first few months it hadn't been too great
- >Every creature, pony or otherwise, shunned you for being so alien to them
- >Some kind of hairless ape-thing that just happened to have a resistence to magic and stood as tall as a bear?
- >Must have been really terrifying to them
- >After a few cold nights lurking around in the shadows and forests around their little city of Ponyville, you'd stumbled on a treehouse
- >The CMC's clubhouse of course
- >Well you figured no one would mind if you just spent the night...
- >It wasn't locked, so you crawled inside the little door
- >It wasn't nearly as cramped as you'd figured, and there was already a pile of blankets in there
- >They must have had a sleepover and not cleaned up or something
- >Oh well, you were never one to piss on what the gods delivered to you
- >Laying the small blankets out, you make a suitable sleeping mat, then pile the rest on top of you
- >As you fall asleep, you think to yourself how much warmer the nights would be now
- >A cannonball impact to your stomach wakes you up
- >The air is driven from your lungs and you dry heave at the sudden pain
- >"What are you doing in here, you...you monkey! Get out!"
- >That squeaky little hoarse voice...
- >Scootaloo?
- >Your eyes open a crack and you can make out a blur of orange and purple standing inches from your face, teeth bared and huffing
- >You push yourself up and pile the dozens of little blankets away from your body
- "You can have those, but I'm not leaving."
- >She bites down on your arm, hard enough to break the skin and stares up at you with fire in her eyes
- >"I said get out!"
- >You rise up to your full height, or as full as it could be inside the treehouse
- >There was something else in her eyes, besides anger and fear
- >Was that, embarresment?
- "You live here, don't you?"
- >Even in the faint moonlight streaming through the open window, you can see her start to tear up
- >"N-no! I was just coming back to get something I left here earlier! I-I'm sure my mom and dad are worried about me already!"
- >She backs up to the door, but doesn't leave
- >You turn and stare at the half moon hanging high among the stars
- "You know, I haven't got anyone either. And everyone here hates me. You at least have the other Crusaders."
- >She timidly walks over to the pile of blankets, pulling some over to you, one at a time
- >"I-I don't hate you..."
- >She shys back when you reach out a hand to her, dragging another blanket over
- >You retract your hand, gathering the blankets around your shoulders
- "Sorry for scaring you. And thanks."
- >You see her shrug as she curls up under the remainder of the blankets
- >"Sure whatever. Just...keep those weird hooves to yourself, okay?"
- >Well that was agreeable
- >A little less comfortable now, you laid back down and went to sleep
- >Maybe things wouldn't be so bad
- >Your reverie by a heavy impact to your gut
- >"Hey, watch where you're walking, ape!"
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