Quarantine entry #38 - April 28

Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. Just look at the PM Trudeau, whose wife may have recovered from COVID-19 by now, and whose mother has just been diagnosed with it. Harsh, man! Real life is never pleasant, but, still, on the other hand, more people in the news are talking about the middle of May, (aka the next month) as the end of the lockdown/quarantine/self-isolation/etc. Will be interesting to see as to what will come down then. (In some news, the state of Texas intends to its’ self-isolation next week, aka the first week of May, but we will see if anything will come out of it.)

…In other news, no one is still certain if anything has happened to the great steersman, comrade Kim, the leader of North Korea, and no one is more worried than the south Koreans, since if anything goes wrong in the north, it will reach them first, whether it’s COVID-19, some sort of a North Korean civil war, or what else have you. The Chinese have already sent a medical team to North Korea, but so far there’s no information as to what has happened to them, because of course not.

Back in the U.S., people are continuing to fight with each other – see above, so everything is as usual. Ergo, here is a piece of my original fiction, this time – a MLP: FiM fic, because of yesterday’s discussion about the wild bovids, (maybe we will return to them later).

Enjoy:

"I must say, I must say," Rarity was telling Tempest Shadow now that the entire mess with the Shadow King was practically behind them, "your behavior in relation to that reject Yeti was quite wrong by Equestria's standards-"

"I know, I know," the morally ambiguous unicorn agreed, "it's just that since I found myself - as a filly - to be some sort of a variant Earth pony, I have handled it really badly-"

"Hm, you're rude, but you have a point," Rarity agreed, as she used her own magic to levitate Applejack's hat onto Tempest Shadow's head. "You do look like an Earth pony now under right circumstances-"

"Excuse me, Rarity," Applejack channeled her inner element of Honesty, "but this is my family's hat-"

"Yes, dear, but as the element of Generosity I just have to-"

As the Earth pony and the unicorn's conversation degraded into an argument of some sort, Tempest Shadow sheepishly looked at Rainbow Dash. "This, this, this," she muttered to the Pegasus. "I didn't mean for their discussion to go in this direction-"

"Meh, you're rude, but they're just being Rarity and AJ," Rainbow Dash replied dismissively, as she shoved the elements of Honesty and Generosity into a nearby closet. "This is just their public displays of affection. They are decisively above PG-13 rating, so out of the public eye they go!" She took a deep breath and looked around. Pinkie Pie was sitting alongside Gorthaur, (who should not have been in this story, but somehow snuck into it anyways) and examining the remaining bits and pieces of the Storm King's magics. On the other hoof, (but at the same time), the alicorn princess Twilight Sparkle was talking to a couple of out-of-Equestria tourists, (who got caught in the Storm King's takeover), wild cattle of some sort, (though not bison or yaks). The couple's teenage daughter was talking to Fluttershy about Equestria, and while the buttery-yellow Pegasus was somewhat uncomfortable in talking to a stranger, the other female was slowly winning her over.

"They're gayal, or mithung," Tempest Shadow, who was more travelled than the Mane 6 were, explained to the rainbow-maned (and tailed) Pegasus. "I think that they are related to the buffalo or something."

"Mmm," Rainbow Dash nodded sagely. "Got it. I just still think that we're missing someone-"

"Will someone break the spell upon us already!" the still-petrified princesses Celesia, Luna and Cadence called-out - telepathically - within their prison/display chamber, but no one was within reach...

The end?

…Well, this is it for now – see you all soon. All comments and criticisms are welcome!