For the record, she wasn't impressed by the Queen Rap Battle

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

[Look, it's a zebra! Zecora has unrolled a scroll in her home as a thought occurred to her -- an important one, since a cauldron in the back is belching thick green clouds of something she isn't paying attention to.]

Newponies and old alike
A thought strikes me that I dislike.
A curiosity I present to those
Trapped by changelings. This question I pose
Concerns your health and how you fare
In the days since the invasion scare.
Is anypony feeling unwell
In unusual ways, if you can tell?

Comments

[der_vogelfanger]

As smart as...?

[Papageno looks faintly horrified. This is the man pony who caught a bird in a net, trapped it in his room, and "tamed" it to give to Nephenee. True, he'd barely had to do anything because the bird had acted weirdly like it wanted to be around him...no. No, it couldn't be true.] Then how come they don't talk, huh?

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Have you ever heard an animal speak?
That is the difference you seek.

[Well, that and animals are happy to be pets, even ones like otters and seals (which do not fly). But Zecora doesn't realize animals aren't like that on other worlds.]

[der_vogelfanger]

But animals don't speak. That's why they're animals and I'm a man.

[Said the pretty pony.]

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

This is the point I sought to make.
What knowledge from that will you take?

[der_vogelfanger]

But they don't talk here either...?

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

[Zecora nods quietly, waiting for him to put the knowledge all together. Come on, you can do it...]

[der_vogelfanger]

But...they understand? [He doesn't sound convinced.]

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

As readily as you or I.
If you doubt me, give it a try!

[der_vogelfanger]

I hope they didn't always, or I've been putting people in cages for years.

I guess I can try.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

The birds on your world might not be the same.
If true, you would deserve no blame.

[der_vogelfanger]

I hope so. I really hope so.

Okay, I'll go try now. Thank you, zebra.