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Those Distant Sisters CH09

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Ch9:

"Everypony up, NOW!" The azure mare threw herself about the library's bedroom, shaking everypony to wake them whether her call had awoken them or not. "We have got a serious problem!" Resonance bounced about the room with an energy rivaling Pinkie Pie after a day of cupcake baking, even going so far as waking Spike by flipping his entire bed over. The bleary-eyed whelp crawled from under the jumble of sheets and bedding, mumbling irately.

"Let me guess, something here is different then something where you came from? Ugh, I'm still gettin' used to Zecora, and she doesn't come in here and wake me up in the middle of the night!" Spike worked to repair his bedspread while he raved, ignoring the growing pandemonium around him. As he began to tuck his sheets back into place, weaving around Evanescence still sitting upright on the floor where she had planted herself immediately after coming in, unsure why her sister was so anxious. After a moment Resonance finally calmed enough to sit and explain.

"My husband is here." Resonance sat still in the middle of room, and a moment later nearly everypony berated her with questions – Who? You're married? How do you know? Where? You woke me up for this? Eventually she stood, raised a hoof, and tried to answer. "My husband, Sonority. I saw him crash, over in that forest over there, and plane crash bad? Can we go now, he could be hurt!" Ignoring numerous protests, Resonance stormed out of the library, seven mares in tow. Spike went back to bed.

As the crowd followed Resonance towards the Everfree forest, making progress despite numerous protests from Fluttershy and warnings from Twilight, a very different conversation took form in the back of the pack. Rainbow Dash was unused to being in the back of any pack, but kept her speed low so she could talk to Evanescence.

"I just can't imagine what it's like to be able to fly under your own power. I'm a pilot, we have the most freedom of anypony in all of Hearth, but it's just a totally different – I ride through the sky in a plane, you just go. Anytime, anyplace, I mean, you're flying right now!" Evanescence bounced along the path while she spoke, occasionally gaining enough height to be eye-to-eye with Rainbow Dash.

"Yeah, it's pretty cool being able to go anywhere anytime, but it's really nothing special around here. There's plenty of pegasus, and the unicorns and earth ponies around aren't jealous of us or anything. We aren't jealous of them either, we just all do our own thing. I'm sure being an earth pony has worked out pretty well for you so far, right?" Rainbow had never been known for eloquence, but she managed to get all the key points across.

"Yeah, it works, but I can't help but think that I would have been a pegasus if I had been born here. I mean, I was literally born to fly." Evanescence calmed her bouncing a bit, letting Dash pick up that she was genuinely annoyed at not being a pegasus.

"Oh yeah right, nopony's born to do anything. You gotta grow up first, get your cutie mark, find out what you're good at, then you know what you're born to do." Dash lowered herself to the floor, trotting alongside Evanescence and behind the other mares as they entered the Everfree. Evanescence looked at her – more specifically at her cutie mark – and began to survey the other mares in front of her. After a moment, she spoke again.

"Things are definitely different here. Your special talent doesn't even seem to matter honestly. I mean, you're all about speed right? So why are you a weathermare? That one over there…" Evanescence pointed a hoof at Rarity, trotting carefully in front of them, trying not to land in any mud puddles "… She's got some talent with gems, so why is she a dressmaker and not a jeweler? And Twilight runs a library, that's hardly super-magical. In fact, I think only the farmer and the vet over there have talents remotely related to their jobs." Dash thought about it for a moment. Sure they weren't doing the perfect jobs for their talent, but everypony used their special talent in their work, even Pinkie at the bakery. She looked back to the mare she was walking with, unsure what to say. "Thought so, you've never even considered it before have you?" Dash shook her head no. Evanescence sighed. "When I say I was born to fly, I mean it. Hearth is a small country, and we have too many ponies already. My parents only got a license to breed because the government said we needed more pilots."

"No way!" Dash exclaimed, earning the attention of Rarity and Fluttershy, who were walking just ahead. "You cannot be telling me some government told you what your special talent was gonna be before you were even born!" Dash and Rarity looked to Evanescence, incredulous. Fluttershy meeped.

"No, they just thought it was more likely. I mean, how about Applejack here? Every member of her family is apple something, apple farmer, apple baker, apple seller, if you needed something apple you'd go to that family, right? Well, my mom is a mechanic, and my dad's a pilot, so they thought their kid would be a pilot too." The answer seemed to satisfy Rarity and Fluttershy, who raced ahead to catch the increasingly distant Resonance and company. Dash stayed with Evanescence.

"Well, what about your sister? She's not a pilot." Dash said, sounding rather irate. Evanescence chuckled.

"Nopony knows what makes a musician. There are a few theories though – the one that makes the most sense to me at least has to do with unplanned children. I mean, nopony knew my mother would have twins, and besides, everypony loves a musician. It's a very celebrated profession in Hearth." Dash once again took to the air, leaving Evanescence to trot carefully through the mud puddles and other unpleasant things dotting what could less and less be called a 'path' through the Everfree. Ignoring the complaining sounds from up ahead (I'm not whining, I'm complaining.), Dash pushed on.

"Well, what about your sister's husband? What was he born to do?" Evanescence stopped dead in her tracks, forcing Dash to spin around in midair to hear her reply.

"I was born to fly. He was born for something else."
Totally finished writing this more than 4 minutes ago. Totally.

Gonna have to say it, I reserve the right to revise the wording in any chapter after the series is done. Especially this one. No story will change, but the wording in some places just bugs me.

Every chapter will appear here: [link]

MLP:FiM (C)HASBRO, Faust
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