twilightpony | The Hair Master

My spring harvest of lilac writing quills has begun. Yes, I have once again become one with a writing desk. Maybe this time I should set aside some of my nicer primaries for special occasions... or maybe not. What if using your own flight feathers as quills is a social faux pas? Rarity would know. Well, faux pas or not, I'm putting these feathers to good use.

I did see Rarity today, although I didn't ask her the quill question. The Carousel Boutique was closed and I had to pound hard on the door to get her to come down and let me in. You see, Rarity is shedding too. She's keeping mostly to one room, far away from her dresses and bolts of cloth, in an effort to avoid getting hair all over them and all over the boutique. Since everypony else is molting too, the boutique is closed until spring molt has ended. You can't have a parade of shedding ponies trying on all Rarity's creations and carpeting everything with whispy hair! Well, you could, but Rarity will have none of that.

I was there to see if Rarity wanted to collect some of my winter coat to make some more needle felted dolls. Yes, she did! She had forgotten all about doing that last year, but since I brought it up, she was all hot to trot. She brushed out quite a bit of lilac insulating hair from my coat and we managed to coax it all into a cloth bag for easy retrieval. Then I returned the favor and she had a second bag of fine white hair to work on. I let myself out as she got going with her felting tool. She was in the zone. I don't think she noticed I'd left.