It was quite a beautiful day indeed; I could hear all kinds of wildlife making their way through the forest to my left, and along my right was a clear, open plains with two rushing streams glinting in the middle of it. Across from this plains, incould see the silhouette of a little town in the distance.
I decided to stray off the path for a little while, and trotted cheerily onto the grass. It felt cool and calming beneath my hooves. I made my way over to the first of the sister streams, and carefully hopped over it. No problem. It didn't take me long to clear the second one, either. I began to feel a slight breeze, which dampened the effects of the sun on my back. Quite a beautiful day indeed.
The town was still in sight, and I could see little thatched cottages and townhomes, along with a gracious amount of ponies rambling along in the streets. It wasn't that little of a town after all... it was, in fact, rather an impressive size, especially considering it was in the middle of a great valley with the only water source being those two streams.
The plains ended abruptly, as I stepped hoof onto a tiled street, surrounded by conversing ponies on their ways to their next destinations. It made me smile; nothing was wrong or out-of-place. It was all right.
Now, I could vaguely remember a few things. I had been able to remember the town I'd grown up in easily - Saddlesburg, only thirteen thousand strides from Canterlot, the capital of Equestria. As I'd left Fluttershy's cottage, I'd even begun to remember a vacation that I had been on with my family to Surrania, another country just to the north of Equestria. It sure was cold there... I remember it bone-chillingly.
This town, though, gave me a few more blessed memories; the time I slipped and fell into a pond just outside of Saddlesburg... my graduation from upper school... even that time I threw an ice cream cone at my brother. Yes, I... I had had a brother. His name was... Thatcher? Tanner? I couldn't even remember my own brother's name.
I sighed, walking dejectedly further into the town. I gasped as another earth pony, about the same age as me, and a royal purple color, walked up alongside me and began a conversation.
"Hey, bro, what's got you down?" he asked me. I was shocked; he seemed genuinely concerned. That usually... ponies don't usually do that.
"I, um... I was just thinking," I replied, trying to retain a bit of joy from what I had lost with that thought.
"Well, you know, if there's anything that really worries you, you can talk to most anypony here. You seemed unfamiliar, so I came up to meet you." He held out his hoof. "My name's Blackberry. Nice to meet you."
"Yeah, um, thanks," I replied, shaking his hoof weakly. "You know, right now's not the best time. I'm sort of... contemplating few things."
He smiled, and put up his front right hoof. "I get it. I'll leave you alone, but, yeah, you should one talk to me if you're feeling upset. I like making new friends, and people say I'm a good pony to lean on."
I didn't smile back. I don't know what put menin such a bad mood, but I didn't want to talk to anypony. It made me kind of upset that I just walk into a town and some random pony I don't know walks up to me and tries to start a conversation. I groaned audibly.
"Okay, well, um... see you later then? Maybe?" the purple pony asked tentatively.
"Yeah, maybe, I guess, then. Maybe," I muttered, walking away from him. I left him while he was waking over to somepony he knew to say hello. I obviously didn't lower his mood. What, did I not matter enough to pour a little emotion into? Jeez.
I walked agitatedly through the town, looking left and right to the 'nice little' shops and the 'quaint, pretty' cafés. It angered me to see everything else working so smoothly while I alone was suffering. My stupid head and me.
"Hi, sir, I -"
"Stop! God! Leave me alone!" I nearly shouted, whipping my head around at the offender. It was a mare, a little smaller than me, wearing a fold-out hat and a cotton shirt with a company logo on it. She was using her magic to hold up a clipboard and pen, and her mouth was open, having been stopped mid-sentence by me.
I didn't care. I walked away angrily, leaving a crowd of scoffing ponies and a fazed unicorn in my wake. I didn't make much of a scene, and it certainly hadn't carried to the other partnofntown right after it had happened. I still had to work my way through the crowds; nopony parted for me. I didn't get any special attention.
Well, I should have. I mean, I was taller than most of the other ponies, and I - you know - was angry. At things. I groaned again in frustation as I walked aimlessly around the village. What was I supposed to be doing? Where should I go?
I snorted and walked straight out of town, planning on returning to that one pony's house and demanding to know where I was.
Where was I?
Oh God, this is not good. I looked around me as by heart began beating quicker. I didn't remember where I was; I was just outside of a town, on a - a dirt road, and... I didn't know where I was! I began to sweat nervously. I turned on my heel and nearly galloped into the town, trying to -
Oh. I remember. I must have woken up in the town somewhere, and just forgot about it. A little voice in the back of my head told me that this wouldn't be that last time that would happen. Not in this lifetime. At least I woke up in a town this time and not in a cave. I scoffed at myself, walking slowly through the town. Who does that, anyways?
But me waking up in an inn or something doesn't explain much: like why was I bandaged? Where was I going when I left the town? I needed answers. I scanned the crowd for a familiar face, but I just couldn't pick one out of my memory.
I sighed, and turned back to walk out of the town once more. Maybe I would find my answers somewhere along this winding dirt road.