twilightpony | The Quiet Time

The weather ponies have cleared away all the clouds, giving us a beautiful, fresh washed day. I packed up my Whinnypiafficon and my game of Piaffle and trotted over to Fluttershy's place to see if I could invite myself over for tea and a few games of Piaffle.

At the present time she happens to be in a breather between early spring duties and when the spring broods start getting adventurous. In the early spring she is usually busy tending to critters that had had a rough hibernation or hadn't put on enough fat for the migration north. They have all checked out now, having benefited from Fluttershy's professional TLC. Those that had been flooded out of their homes a week ago have all gone back to their dens and stomping grounds now that the waters have receded. In a few weeks the spring babies will start to trickle in, and before long Fluttershy will be up to her withers in clumsy fledglings and whelplings in need of a boost or first aid.

Thus, my timing was good and Fluttershy was all for sipping tea in the sunshine over a nice quiet board game.

Last year she could boast of the kit her jackalope pair had produced, but this year the romance just isn't quite there. But the bunnies and jackalopes are enjoying the bushy areas that Fluttershy planted around her cottage. So we made ourselves comfortable in Fluttershy's garden, drank tea and placed letter tiles on the board while the jackalopes munched on willow trimmings nearby and watched the regular bunnies dash about with spring fever, leaping over each other and playing bunny tag.