Second Attempt: Apples

[kind_to_all]

[ The scroll shows Fluttershy in her cottage, looking incredibly embarrassed. Behind her, the room is completely filled with apples, all the way to the ceiling. ]

Um... Applejack, I picked some of your apples for you... and brought them back here. [ For some reason. And it's something of a hike from the orchard to the cottage. ]

Would somepony mind helping me move them to the barn? Even if it's only a few? I'm-- really sorry to be a bother.

[ The agitated pony looks fretfully around her cluttered cottage, trying to think of something else to say. ] Um... that's all... I ... [ and switches to private. ]


[ To Lyra and the Twilights, she adds: ] Could I... talk to you sometime? Not that it's a rush. Whenever you're free.

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[kind_to_all]

Thanks, um... Fluttershy. [ One of these days, it won't be weird calling somepony else that. ]

I'll just... start gathering them outside.

[faunafriend]

Okay. I'll... go get the cart. [She had her hooves full of bird seed at the moment so some of the rabbits volunteered to bring the cart over for her.]

[kind_to_all]

[ Fluttershy started loading apples into the cart. ] Thank you. I really appreciate it.

[ She watches after the animals that go with her other self. A few stay behind and also help load apples. ] Oh! Thank you, friends.

[faunafriend]

So um... [Fluttershy can't help becoming curious realizing how many apples there are to load.] What gave you the idea to pick apples?

[kind_to_all]

It... wasn't really my idea. [ Fluttershy goes pink and looks down at the floor. ] I kind of picked them in my sleep.

[faunafriend]

Oh my. You sleepwalk? I... don't think that has ever happened to me before. Have you been sleepwalking since you were a filly?

[kind_to_all]

It hadn't happened to me before, either. [ Fluttershy sighs. ] I think we're the same pony other than everything that happened after Twilight's coronation. In my world, there was an accident involving Twilight's magic, and... I think that's why I did it.

[ She hurriedly goes back to loading apples so that she doesn't have to look her double in the eyes. ]

[faunafriend]

Oh dear! There was an accident? What happened?