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@@Gloomfury Glacier and Shamrock continued walking. The residential district had ended and they were now in one full of shops and cafés. A strong aroma of coffee wafted around the streets. They were a few ponies on the streets here and they were walking around at a hurried pace. As she looked at the buildings, she saw one with a large sign that said "The Royal Oak". On closer inspection, it turned out to be one of the pubs that Shamrock was interested in. "Are you going in?" she asked.

@@Gloomfury (No worries.) Glacier smiled as Shamrock recalled the story of how she met her father. "That's a little bit odd," Glacier said. "Your father helped you get away from starvation whereas I helped my father by going ​into starvation. And thanks for being concerned for me." Glacier looked into Shamrock's eyes. "It's nice to have more than one pony who's alive care about my wellbeing."

@ Listening to Nova's story about his adventure bored Glacier. She knew what adventuring was a jumping off of a cloud certainly wasn't it. 'That's not an adventure. Any pony given a spell that lets them walk on clouds can do that. It's an extreme sport at a push," she thought. Given her current well being and the fact she was still feeling a little queasy, Glacier was in no mood to incite a row. The best she could manage to air her views was a grunt and a shrug. Whilst shrugging, she could see that Nova had pulled up a second chair and had moved to it. She slowly wormed towards it and pulled herself onto it. She then curled back into a ball. 'I hate this thing. I need to get off as soon as possible. I don't care if we get hijacked or we crash, I just need to get back on the ground.'

@ "So you're one of the fastest ponies around?" ​ Glacier replied. "That's pretty useful. And about this past spent adventuring, what sort of places have you been to? Manehatten and Appaloosa aren't particularly adventurous." Glacier began to feel dizzy again so she got off of the chair and rolled into a ball on the ground. She kept her eyes and closed and groaned slightly. "Have you got any tips on how to get rid of this sickness?" Glacier asked. "I'm stuck on this airship now and I may as well make the trip as tolerable as possible."

@@Gloomfury "I know it's not healthy," Glacier replied with a blunt tone. "But neither is starvation. I only eat poisonous berries when there is no other alternative. And I know that I can't go around eating any thing I find. Before I started living in the Everfree, I spent a long time reading up on the uses of plants, how to identify a safe and unsafe fruits and mushrooms and about the creatures I was likely to face. And there's no need to worry about teaching me how to cook. I enjoy living wild."

@@Gloomfury Glacier nodded. "Onions are good," Glacier replied. "But I'm usually not too fussy over what I eat. It's only really swee things that I can eat and I prefer to keep things simple. If you gave me a potato, I'd quite happily take a bite out of it, even if it's raw. Heck, I've eaten things that are poisonous on countless occasions."

@@Gloomfury "I've always known I've never been a fan of sweet things," Glacier explained. "Even as a young filly, I was never of fan of sugary things. The only reason I've tried alcohol is because my father gave me a small bit of cider when I turned 18. And whilst, as you said, there are different things that can happen when drunk, I'd rather not take the chance. As much as death is an inevitability, it is not my job to bring it to ponies I've never met."

@@Gloomfury Following Shamrock's example, Glacier put the ice cream cone into her mouth, chewed it and swallowed. "No, I have had alcohol before," Glacier replied. "It wasn't bad but it wasn't that great either. Besides, I don't particularly like the idea of it. If I get violent when I have alcohol, then it's not going to be a pretty sight. I don't mind going to the pub with you but I won't be drinking anything. There's probably a clean stream somewhere I can drink from."

Glacier stared intently as Shamrock gave her guidance. She followed behind whilst licking her ice cream. Despite her new approach, Glacier still shook at the sweetness of the food. "I can't really say that iced cream has been a particularly enjoyable experience," she said. "Are all of the iced creams like this? If so, I don't think they're for me. What are we going to do after we've finished?"

@@Gloomfury Glacier took the ice cream to her mouth and took a large bite out the top. As she chewed it, her face puckered and she shook her head rapidly. "Gah!" she exclaimed once she had swallowed her mouthful of ice cream. "It's so sweet! It's like biting into a lemon dipped in honey! I'll try and finish it though. It would be wrong if I didn't." Glacier took another bite of ice cream and again her lips puckered.

@@Gloomfury Glacier's eyes scanned the menu at the ice cream stand. There were certain flavours that she recognised from things she'd previously eaten like strawberrt, vanilla and mint.. Also, there were wonderous flavours that Glacier had never heard of like cookie, fudge and cheesecake. "Why would anypony want a dessert that tastes of cheese?" Glacier asked. "You must have to really love cheese to have it as a dessert. In terms of what I'd like, I don't see blueberry on there so I'll just have a vanilla flavour, if I may."

@@Gloomfury Glacier shook her head. "This isn't about skill or talent," Glacier said. "When I get hit and attacked, something happens that I don't have control over. My survival instincts kick and I just go completely berserk. I become completely engrossed in the violence that I don't stop untill either the opponents die or I do. I don't want to fight you because that instinct will come out and I won't be concerned with the rules of boxing, my instincts will leave me tearing flesh from the bone and puncturing organs to ensure I'm the last pony standing. And that's not something I need to put you through."

@@Gloomfury "That's pretty impressive," Glacier replied. "Taking Changelings on at a melee combat is usually a bad idea. I suppose given that you're likely both accurate and powerful with your blows, it probably didn't take much effort to put them down." Glacier stooped her head and frowned. "I wish I could duel with you but I'd probably end up seriously wounding you or hurting you."

@@Gloomfury "I've always respected Changelings," Glacier said. "Everypony seems to hate them just because of the whole Canterlot invasion thing which, if anything, was a perfect display of how not to do an invasion. But anyway, I reckon it'd be fun to learn how to do Changeling magic. I ought to pick up a book on it sometime."

@@Gloomfury Glacier managed to control her urge to growl and step away when Shamrock moved closer to her side. "My favourite animal would probably be the pipstrelle," Glacier announced. "It's a type of bat that has a really small and fuzzy brown bod but a big wingspan in relation. It's either that or the Changeling."

@@Gloomfury "I suppose you could walk a little closer," Glacier said. "And yes, I'd recommend you do give sleeping outside a chance. Everything is more fun in night time. All the bats and owl come out to play and ne'er-do-wells plot villainous schemes under the inky cloak of darkness. But that's enough of that. Can we leave quickly, please? It's starting to get a little too cramped for my liking."

@ Glacier wasn't quite sure why the pony in front of her wanted to talk. So far all she'd done was use up a paper towel and disrupt the pony's cruise by vomiting off the ship. Groggily, she walked towards a recliner and sat on it. "My name's Glacier," she said with her eyes closed on her hooves on her head. "Glacier Shard. What about you?"

@@Gloomfury Glacier shook her head. "I'm afraid I won't be able to do that," Glacier replied. "I find it easier to get to sleep on grass and dirt than in a bed and the feeling of the night air running over me is really relaxing. And I'll be fine sleeping by the woods. I'm incredibly easy to wake so should anything try and hurt me, they'll find it won't be as easy as they thought."

@ Glacier took the paper towel from Blast's hoof. She ran it around her mouth until she found the "small something"and rubbed ferociously. When she felt she had finished, she held it out in front of her. "Can I keep the napkin?" she asked. "I've got a terrible feeling it won't be the last time I need it." An ache shot through Glacier's belly as she stumbled to her hooves, causing her to wince slightly.

@ (Glacier's a mare, by the way.) Glacier took a shaky step back from the edge of the ship. She was still pale and was now slightly drained of energy. Slowly, she turned to face a scarlet pony who had started to talk to her. "No, everything's fine," Glacier said sarcastically, a minute remnant of vomit still on her muzzle. "I'm just, you know, vomiting off the side of a large airship into some otherwise pristine oceans." Gently dropping to the ground with her hooves round her stomach, Glacier began to think. 'Oh... how can I be feling like this? I'm never usually this sick and it can't be something I ate. I must be air sick or something.'

@@Gloomfury "I'll keep it in mind," Glacier. "But on your question about where I'm staying, I haven't picked a spot yet. I was thinking I'd go near the forest from earlier. Although there weren't many wild animals there, I did see a lot of berry bushes and it's likely there will be a pond or stream that I can drink from. Why were you asking?"