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?

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[zebrarhyme_everytime]

A secret that must be confessed
Is my success at the karaoke contest.

[stalksindarkness]

Hehee.

Good one.

Are you the only Zebra around here?

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

As far as I see, or have been given to know
I'm the only one you'll see, wherever you go.
Zebras rarely wander so far
As to be seen where ponies are.

[stalksindarkness]

Oh.

I guess that means there aren't any lions around either?

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Nowhere near here will a lion roar.
Though in the forest you can find a manticore.

[stalksindarkness]

...I don't know what a Manticore is but I'd guess it's like a lion?

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

A lion body, wings like a bat.
A scorpion's tail to top all that.

[stalksindarkness]

[Someone he has to track down. Sounds like decent company.]

Can't be any crazier than what I look like, hm?

What's your name, Zebra? Mine is Shadow.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Zecora is my name.
Not one of great fame
Save for my stripes.
Unlike pony types.

[Zecora's seen weirder, so to his remarks regarding his appearance, she diplomatically declines to comment.]

[stalksindarkness]

Okay, cool.

You know any place a guy like me can get a bite to eat?

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

The Everfree Forest is unruled and wild
Seeking food from there will get nopony riled.
Stay on the fringes and take great care
To disturb none of the worse things living there.

[stalksindarkness]

Worse than a Manticore?

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

At least one dragon lives in there.
He once gave Spike an awful scare.

[stalksindarkness]

It's good then, that I can hide pretty well.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

A dragon's senses far exceed
A pony or griffon's. Like its greed.
Be careful as you stalk about
Lest you be cruelly found out.

[This is a heartfelt warning, not a threat or a disparagement... no matter how the zebra's ominous tones might make it sound.]