Creature Comforts

[twilightpony]

I spent most of the day sprawled out with a half dozen books on my little sandy patch in the east fields. It was sunny and warm with the occasional distracting butterfly and bird. I felt I could almost see the grass growing. I had my picnic blanket to keep the sand out of my books, but little bits of fluff would blow in every so often and settle in the windshadow they cast. Then I noticed an ant colony diligently excavating their tunnels, grain by grain. No way was I going to get any reading done. I went home.

When I got back, I found Rainbow Dash and Applejack in the mane hall playing Ring Fling. They were tied at four games a piece, best out of five. I pulled up a cushion and got back to reading while they fought it out point by point, best out of seven.

I forgot to notice who won. It was probably a tie.

We should really do this more often.

Comments

[flareblitzfury]

It seemed like it would be hard to read with sandy books, so I think it was a good call to go home.

Yeah, most likely it would be a tie, but probably in the hundreds, considering how long their competitions can go.

[twilightpony]

They're such competitive mares.

[flareblitzfury]

Indeed.

[algernon97]

It's always a pain to get something like sand stuck in a book.

That must be one huge hall to be able to play a game like that in it.

[twilightpony]

Yes, the hall is cavernous, like the castle. My friends tried to decorate it recently. That didn't work out so well. But eventually Rarity will put up some tapestries and I think we might try putting in our own stained glass windows.