At first, I thought a spell had been placed on her by Queen Chrysalis, because she didn't want me to rock the car, for we might swerve. Being an ancient zebra and all, she loved to drive a car out of the show. By show, I meant My Little Pony. However, when we got to the car park of the supermarket, she laughed and said she wasn't possessed by the Changeling queen after all. She got me a nice feast, ready for an adventure to Shin Falls. She also went to the Sugarcube Corner section and got a Lionheart Surprise - a chocolate caramel shortbread slice and some hot cocoa - specially made by Pinkie Pie and her real parents, Mr & Mrs Cake. I couldn't think of a better mentor to share it with.
On the way, we spotted a sign that read that the A9 was closed, but that was alright, because we were on our way to Lairg. We passed White Tail Woods, where Bambi stopped to wave at us, along with his friends Thumper and Flower, just like that moment during the song about Jess in the classic Postman Pat where Alf and Dorothy stopped what they're doing to wave at Jess and Pat as they passed by. We talked about how grown up I was understanding what Mum has taught me, all the metaphors I learned from Wild Congo and Wild Australia, our holiday in the Crystal Mountains where we saw an aggressive Snowgator and a polar bear with some new cubs, which we called Cleo and Fizz, and what Fluttershy's been up to with her support worker Meadow Sweet and how her daughter Gentle Glow gave Twilight Sparkle, Rarity and helpless Hairdorables dolls bad haircuts, to which she laughed and said I could be an awful comic when I wanted.
Next, since the weather was bad, we stopped to have our picnic near the woods in Everfree Forest. It was a gourmet delight, and the sausage rolls, Babybel and Twirls she got me were so nice. Zecora promised she'll take me and my friends on holiday to Australia next, where she'll show us the dream house I looked up online. We reminisced about the time she took me, Luke, Resus, Cleo and the Mane 6 to see the fireworks and have fish and chips while we watched them, and then I got severely drunk and overtired, blabbering nonsense while Cleo and Applejack began crying. Good times. Then there was the time she took me to see the Christmas lights, and said friends came along too, not to mention the fact that we were stuck in a freezing cold car while Zecora went to a friend of her's.
Zecora and I also talked about the classic TV show The Herbs, one I used to watch as a kid, when we saw two creatures that looked like the Chives on the side of a vegetable van. Left right left right left right left right left right! It was very soothing, according to Zecora....and very musical too. In my head I was thinking to myself: whoever knew an owl, lion and dog could sing, hoot, howl, bark and roar at the same time? She told me too that she had two younger cousins who lived with their mother in Africa, and love things like Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sonic The Hedgehog, Spider-Man and Batman.
We went for a little drive as we went home, spotting things like a waterfall and a duck swimming on a patch of water. It was when Zecora agreed to do things at my own pace since I got stressed last October. She was about to turn the wrong way then, and she laughed that she would adopt me as her daughter! Oh my god...
I have had enough after a long day, and Zecora congratulated me on being a good girl, growing up, being mature and displaying good manners. I tell her that I sometimes forget, and that's when I told my zebra friend something really important:
"Everybody has their own little piece of perfect inside."
I love this post, it's full of so much and I enjoyed the song.
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