The Fire of Friendship
Feb. 27th, 2016 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilightponyToday is Hearth's Warming Day, which is a day for sharing good cheer and for getting to know your neighbors better. I helped Spike prepare a snack bar and an ad hoc lounge in the mane hall just inside the front door. On Hearth's Warming Day, ponies gather up their friends or family and go door to door visiting or they welcome ponies into their house, usually both. Often, ponies only go door to door for a few hours before they get tired of telling the same story over and over again. At that point they switch to receiving neighbors and hearing their stories.
Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo dropped in just before midday and we went out to visit the nearest neighbors while Spike continued to entertain ponies coming to the castle. We sang carols in doorways, and when we got invited in (some households made us sing more carols than others) we'd sit down to holiday treats and we'd tell our Hearth's Warming stories, tales from this year that were either happy or fun.
I chose to tell the happy tale of feeling warm and comforted while getting protected by a pegasus constellation in the far north and being led homeward, away from danger. Rarity also chose a happy story, that of making fabulous glittering winter cloaks for her friends. Rainbow Dash's story was about the fun she has playing Ring Fling with Applejack. Fluttershy shared how it's fun to have tea with Discord. Scootaloo's story was something about "hang time" on her scooter. I thought she'd go with 'happy' and say something about getting her cutie mark.
We visited maybe ten households, passed several ponies in costumes and then we split up to go back to our own homes to take our turn to entertain guests. Except Fluttershy. She went into my reading room, away from the crowds and relaxed with a good book and some soothing tea.
The small herds of ponies going door to door has thinned as Hearth's Warming Day draws to a close. Fluttershy has gone home, our supply of treats has been decimated, and Spike is nodding off between visitors. It's time to call it a day.
Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo dropped in just before midday and we went out to visit the nearest neighbors while Spike continued to entertain ponies coming to the castle. We sang carols in doorways, and when we got invited in (some households made us sing more carols than others) we'd sit down to holiday treats and we'd tell our Hearth's Warming stories, tales from this year that were either happy or fun.
I chose to tell the happy tale of feeling warm and comforted while getting protected by a pegasus constellation in the far north and being led homeward, away from danger. Rarity also chose a happy story, that of making fabulous glittering winter cloaks for her friends. Rainbow Dash's story was about the fun she has playing Ring Fling with Applejack. Fluttershy shared how it's fun to have tea with Discord. Scootaloo's story was something about "hang time" on her scooter. I thought she'd go with 'happy' and say something about getting her cutie mark.
We visited maybe ten households, passed several ponies in costumes and then we split up to go back to our own homes to take our turn to entertain guests. Except Fluttershy. She went into my reading room, away from the crowds and relaxed with a good book and some soothing tea.
The small herds of ponies going door to door has thinned as Hearth's Warming Day draws to a close. Fluttershy has gone home, our supply of treats has been decimated, and Spike is nodding off between visitors. It's time to call it a day.
