Rarity has been running Carousel Boutique for a year and she’s decided its time to go on vacation and recharge her creative batteries. Hopefully the trip away will inspire new designs, help her to relax and most importantly of all, distract her from the overwhelming disaster that was her first year as a businesspony.
Unfortunately for the designer, her trip doesn’t go as smoothly as she’d planned.
Is there more?
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There will be more chapters to this story. I just have to write them first 😀
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Ok.
You know. So he can be late. For a very important date.
That, and I suppose for continuity's sake, setting up for that one scene early in "A Bird in the Hoof." (though I suppose that pocketwatch was silver, not gold)
But-but--Rarity's watch! Who's going to fix the watch? Why won't anyone think of the poor watches!?
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We do see Angel carrying a silver pocket watch with no engraved design. 😊 So, either Angel gets a different watch... or he has a collection of them... or this watch is transformed by magic?!
I'm glad somebody is worried about the watch getting repaired! It's a gift for Fluttershy!
Hmm, sounds like Indigo has her work cut out for her. Also, if Rarity has only been working her boutique for one year it seems this is set in the past, before Twilight showed up. Interesting.
...I wonder what's so important about this airship then...
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Indigo has an almost impossible task, and a ridiculous amount of pressure. And you're right, this story is set before the start of the series, before Twilight arrived in Ponyville.
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Maybe the bandits just enjoy restoring vintage aircraft?
And the tension mounts...
A remarkable story, so far, with too few reads.
Mm, yes, but I've figured out something specific about you, changeling. Or at least some like love-sensing creature, but changeling would still be my first guess.
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Sooner or later, everything is going to kick off!
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Thank you. I'm glad you're enjoying this story And the small number of read is understandable. I'm new here and I've not done much to draw attention. I'm sure it'll pick up slowly over time.
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There is something strange about Rook. Great detective work, but we'll have to wait and see if your prediction is correct. Rook certainly loves love and doesn't need to eat like Rarity... and has green magic... and a shape-shifting cloak...
Hmm....
I mean, seriously, it's almost like they don't want her to actually fix the airship.
Surprising, considering the lackluster personality of the sheriff--didn't seem like he would've had all that much to glean off of him.
It was that detail that actually got me first suspecting about Rook in the first place, honestly.
Hopefully neither, because I shudder to think what he plans to do with this bucket of bolts should Indigo succeed in getting it working to specifications.
Alright, this story remains interesting so far, here's hoping Indigo makes and/or Rarity and Rook manage to pull off a rescue in time.
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Thank you. I'm glad that you're still enjoying this story It doesn't sound like things will go well for Indigo if she doesn't complete her work or get rescued before the deadline!
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I think Red is more invested in the airship being repaired than Zap is... Zap seems pretty keen for Indigo to fail and face the consequences.
The sheriff loves abusing his power more than anything else. It probably isn't the best kind of love in the world... but it was substantial. And I'm very pleased that my foreshadowing wasn't too subtle or too obvious. I worry about that sort of detail.
Indigo is caught between the threat of death and the idea of bandits with a working gunship. Hopefully she'll find a third option.
If you seriously believe that, then you're more naive than I thought, Sapper. Why else do you think this lot are even so eager to have this flying bucket of bolts if not to go and attack something by bringing those very powerful weapons to bear on it?
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Sapper is a lot more naive than she first appeared. And I think she's projecting a lot onto the other bandits by assuming their motivations and attitudes are the same as her's. But... yeah, she's really overlooking the risk in giving a group of violent criminals a powerful and potentially unstoppable war machine.
Yup, that's our Rarity--judging by aesthetics before effectiveness, every time, all the time.
At least that means they'd probably be more or less a sitting duck once the authorities finally come after them, as they surely will eventually if they're allowed to get that far with whatever their plans are next.
And you believed him?
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Honestly, I'm proud of her for considering the effectiveness at all
Yep. As powerful and dangerous as the flying warship is, it's not going to last long against all of Equestria. The question is how much damage can they do before the authorities catch them?
Sapper was very desperately looking for a place to belong
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That appears to be the plan! Although 'plan' might be too grand a word.