The next chapter of Dogged Determination... · 4:22pm Mar 21st, 2017
Both Conifer and his singing came to an abrupt halt. Shēdo too, halted, and she peered ahead, trying to figure out what she was looking at in the clearing ahead. It was puzzling, and she had no idea what it might be. It was gleaming white and it looked a bit like a chair or a throne. The zebra colt laughed, but it did nothing to ease Shēdo’s growing tension.
“It’s a very public toilet!” Conifer announced in a loud voice.
What? Head tilting, Shēdo had no idea what a ‘toilet’ was. “Whassat?”
“It’s a toilet. The seat part is a bowl full of water and you sit on it so you can poop in it.”
“Why you poop in water?” Shēdo asked.
“Well… why… I don’t know,” Conifer replied. “Sanitation, I guess? Keeping things clean. When you are done, you flush away your business.”
“Pooping in water keeps things clean?” Shēdo was very confused now, and if this was civilisation, she wanted no part of it. “How do drink water if there is poop in it?”
“Well, you don’t drink from a toilet, it’s for pooping and peeing.” Conifer turned his head and looked up at Shēdo’s hulking form just behind him.
“That’s dumb!” Shēdo threw out both paws in disgust and then stared at the toilet. “Water kept in clean place and you no drink, you poop in it? That just dumb! Shēdo not too smart, but Shēdo knows that she don’t poop in her drinking water! Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!”
“Well, I… uh, suppose there is a different perspective at work.” Conifer’s face contorted in confusion and once more, his head turned, this time towards the very public toilet up ahead in the middle of the clearing. “Anyhow, we should take advantage of the sanitation services being provided.”
“You gonna poop in that?” Shēdo asked.
Looking a little guilty, Conifer nodded. “Yes. That is what one does with toilets. It isn’t often that I get a chance to indulge in proper sanitation practices.”
“Why don’t we drink out of it instead?”
“Eeew! That’s yucky! You don’t drink from toilets!”
“You no poop in clean water.”
The zebra colt let out an exasperated sigh and then began to creep closer, puzzled by the appearance of a toilet out in the middle of nowhere. Of course, this was Equestria, which was full of strange things, including two sapient beings debating the merits of pooping versus drinking from a toilet.
Turn back now if surrealism is not your cup of tentacles.
Any cup of tentacles branded with the Kudzu seal is a cup of tentacles worth drinking.
It's a trap..?
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Crap trap?
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Tentacles down your throat..?
Much like habilius ficus, or the Convenient House Tree, the Everfree Forest also includes several lesser-known species such as the labillo boscus or the Sink-Bush, and the cultis herba or the Tufted Toilet Grass Clump (normally found near a collection of soft-leaved plants of various varieties).
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You are closer and yet farther away from the truth than you realise.