Post by cloudberry on Sept 24, 2012 9:51:30 GMT
They had chosen a calm and sunny day for their delivery. Of course, being a Pegasus that was as simple as looking at the weather schedule for the next week that was posted all over Cloudsdale, but even so, they could not have chosen a nicer day. The cloud herders had done a fantastic job and all that could be seen was the fluffiest small white clouds, framed by the deep blue sky of early autumn.
The soft breeze carrying them easily and safely down from Cloudsdale to Ponyville, all that Cloudberry had to worry about now was her ears falling off if her little cousin would not SHUT UP ALREADY!
Hurricane pouted. "Hey, be nice. It's my first time down to Ponyville!"
Cloudberry internally facehoofed, trying to keep calm. "And you promised to behave professionally. That means flying calmly in line, not flitting about and keeping the satchel nice and steady so the cookies don't..."
She realised she had been speaking to empty air. Far above her, the filly was chasing a small cloud, whirling around it with dizzying speed.
"Aah!" The baker gave her a panicked look as the filly's saddlebag tilted dangerously. "My meringues!"
A panicked dash and some pulled tail-hairs later, the little mare was again flying in line with her older cousin, pouting.
"Good. Now remember, when we come to Ponyville, you behave professionally. We are there on business after all."
"Yes, cousin." Hurricane shot her a grumpy look.
"It's an important meeting for me. Getting the Cakes to sell my macarons in their store is the first step in introducing my line of bakery to the Earth-pony audience... so please, just shut up and behave for once? For me?"
"Yes, cousin."
Cloudberry looked at her cousin doubtfully as they alighted in the middle of the town square.
"Good. Now let's walk carefully and..." - she interrupted herself quickly enough to catch the filly by her feathers before she could flit off to "inspect" the next thing she had seen - "oof! I was saying walk behind me! And don't make eye contact with anyone! I've heard the ponies in this town are all kind of weird and strange things happen practically every day!"
She looked around suspiciously, as if expecting a Canis Major to be running around the corner any second now. "Let's just go, deliver the cakes and be off again before anything happens. All right?"