A Walk to Clear the Mind (Active/Open)

[cheerfulrainbow]

Character(s): Rainbow Dash and whoever shows up.
Content: RD goes wandering around the city, trying to find something to do.
Setting: City of Paixao proper.
Time: Week 37
Warnings: PONIES.

 Apparently, she was an oddity in the city to the adults, and a wonder to the kids. Some of which had come up to her and tried to grab at her mane and tail... the first time threw her off, making her jump into the air and fly above the crowds for a while. Now, she was getting used to random kids running up to her, and she didn't jump as much. Parents soon realized that the kids were trying to get at a strange looking pony, and kept them close.

Her journal still strung around her neck, she wandered, sometimes flying, getting an idea of the layout of the city, checking her map now and then. It at least gave her something to do, right?

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[fonflower]

Florian was exploring. At least, that's what he was calling it - really, he was just enjoying having the freedom to run around town. He'd been happily amused just inspecting the scenery at first, jumping around in the snow, watching the people go by... He'd eventually settled on attempting a snow sculpture, and had just been putting the finishing touches on a horribly deformed Florian-sized bird when he saw a rainbow walk by.

His first reaction was, of course, to...hide behind his snowcreature as the stranger passed by. And yet curiosity meant he couldn't help leaning out from behind it to stare.

[cheerfulrainbow]

Rainbow Dash kept walking, at least for a few more steps, until she felt the sensation that someone was watching her. And this was more than just the citizens giving her strange looks. Stretching her wings, she looked around to try to find who or what was staring at her. Noticing Florian's snow creature, she wandered over to look at it, then seeing him standing behind it. She stopped, tilting her head at him. He definitely wasn't from here.

"Hello?"

[fonflower]

He started to shrink farther behind his snowcreature when he noticed her coming closer, thinking Maybe I haven't been caught yet. The greeting pretty much killed that idea, though, and so he cautiously peeked out again from behind his safe zone. She looked friendly enough, at least...

"Hello."

[cheerfulrainbow]

She blinked at the kid who was still hiding behind the snowthing he created. What, did he think she was going to hurt him or something? She wouldn't do that.

"You can come out from behind here. I'm not that scary of a pony." Really, she wasn't.

[fonflower]

If asked why Florian was hiding, he honestly wouldn't be able to say. Force of habit, maybe. He came out as told, though, looking at her curiously.

"You're a pony? Are there scary ponies?"

[cheerfulrainbow]

She watched as the kid came out from behind the snow sculpture. Not a huge fan of people being afraid of her, it bothered her a bit that he had even done so in the first place. But, hey, apparently ponies weren't a normal sight here anyway.

"Yeah, I am. Four hooves and all that." She said with a smile. "I think some of my friends are around too, so you may see others." She paused for a moment, thinking for a second.

"As for scary ponies, I guess there are. But, they're not here."

[fonflower]

"That's good! I don't like scary."

Any tension he might still have had completely disappeared at the mention of a lack of scary ponies, and he smiled back at her. If she was friendly, maybe she'd be willing to play! That would be nice.

"Are there a lot of ponies where you're from? Do they all look like you? I really like your hair, I wish mine was rainbow too."

[cheerfulrainbow]

Wow, this kid had a lot of questions. Rainbow Dash was getting used to it though, considering ponies were an oddity here. She flicked her tail out of habit before shaking her head, making her mane move.

"There are a ton of ponies in Equestria, of course, I'm the coolest of them all!" She made a gesture with a hoof as she talked. "But, we all don't look the same, that'd be no fun. There are unicorns and other ponies too. Like my friend Rarity? She has a purple mane and tail. And Pinkie's are, well, pink!" She could go on forever, but stopped at a certain point.

[fonflower]

It was easy enough to believe she was the coolest, and Florian nodded excitedly along as she spoke.

"Unicorns? What kind of ponies are those?" He watched her hooves curiously, glancing down at his own hands and wondering vaguely what it would be like if he was a pony too. "Are there green ponies where in Equestria?"

[cheerfulrainbow]

"...Wait, you don't know what a unicorn is?" She stopped for a second, remembering she was in a place where people didn't seem to know what ponies were in general. "Anyway, imagine me, without wings, but with a horn, here." She used a hoof to point to where her forehead would be.

"Two of my good friends are unicorns: Rarity and Twilight Sparkle... I think Twilight's here still, actually. As for green ponies, there sure are! There are tons of different colored, and multi colored," She said this with a swish of her tail, "ponies at home."

[fonflower]

He brought a hand up to his head, sort of copying her gesture at the mention of horns, and - again - wondered what that would be like. "Do they ever get things stuck on their horns?" Hm. He kind of liked the idea of wings better.

"I'd like to see your home someday. I've never seen that many ponies before. Or that many colors. Mieu was only two colors." Here he waved his hands in a vague, explanatory motion.