“I love you,” Lyra said.

“I love you,” Octavia said.

They snogged.

“I’m sorry about how unfancy I’ve been recently,” Lyra said.

“It hasn’t been that bad.”

“No, seriously, I’m sorry. I’ll change. I mean I won’t change. I’ll act rich.”

“Lyra, it’s okay. I’m not thinking about ending our relationship.”

“But I’ve been terrible. I’ve been a terrible pony. I have been acting in a manner which is terrible.”

“You’ve been fine.”

“But you’ve been so unwaveringly fancy, especially all those times off-camera.”

“I don’t want you to act exactly like me. I love you because you’re Lyra, not because you’re me.”

“Are you sure I haven’t been terrible?”

“Yes.”

“So this was a short chapter.”

“What if some outside circumstance elongates it?”

“What are the chances of that?”

The door was knocked.

“I’ll get it,” Octavia said.

She did. There was nobody there, even after she turned her head left and right.

“Nopony,” said Octavia.

“That’s unusual.”

“What?” Octavia stepped outside a few steps, turned around, and saw Apple Bloom on her roof. “Was that knocking you? How did you get up there?”

“No. A ladder.”

Octavia went around a corner of her house, conveniently the correct one, and saw a retractable ladder leaning against the side of the house. The house is only one storey, so it’s not as bad as it sounds, but still.

“Who was it? And where did you get a ladder?”

“It was Scootaloo. And as for the ladder question, we got it from AJ.”

“And you carried it all the way here?”

“Yeah. We got a couple weird looks, but it went okay.”

“Where’s Scootaloo?”

“Ah dunno,” she lied.

“What’s the point of this? Why do you need to be here?”

“So many questions....”

“What’s the point of this? Why do you need to be here?”

So you can see where that went. In the meantime, here’s Fluttershy with the weather.

“It’s cloudy with a chance of pancakes hitting your face,” Fluttershy, in front of a greenscreen in a studio, said.

“Ah guess Ah should get down now,” Apple Bloom said. Just then, the ladder slipped, such that before it was like this: /|, and now it’s like this: _|.

“Er...” said Apple Bloom, “Help?”

Octavia put the ladder back up. It was a little tricky with quadrupedalness, but not that bad.

“Thanks.” Apple Bloom came down the ladder with hooves.

“What was the point of this?”

“So Ah could be a mane character again. With Zecora gone an’ Lahra’s place just temporary an’ unstable an’ stuff, it’s good enough ta be our Honda Opportunity ah the Week.”

“Okay... but then what was Scootaloo’s motivation? To annoy me?”

“Gave ‘er an apple.”

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