1/2 >Winter. >Dry, powdery snow all around. >See fluffy ponies playing in snow. >Citizens of your town feed stray fluffies. >Fluffies don't spend as much time foraging as most strays. >Extra time is spent on playing. >Blue & white fluffy tumbles onto icy sidewalk. >Slides out of control. >Slides onto frozen puddle. >Ice breaks. >Shocker; fluffy pony does not drown. >Puddle is only inches deep...ice prevents fluffy face from going in. >Fluffy pony is puzzled at first. >Until ice cold water soaks through fluff. >Icy water hits belly & legs. >Fluffy pony begins crying and struggling. >"Owwwieee, owwwiieee! Wawer cowd! Owww! Pwease hewp!" >Can not escape ice. >Gently lift fluffy pony out of trouble. >Fluffy is shivering all over. >Feeling generous today. "Hey buddy, you better come inside my house until you dry off and warm up." >Looks up at you with big teary eyes. >"Make fwuffy wawm?" >Before you can answer, feel something bump your heel. >Three fluffy ponies are head butting you. >You're under attack.   2/2 >One speaks up; "Hooman munster give fwuffy back!" >Normally a fluffy pony making demands of a human deserves immediate painful death. >Like I said...you're feeling generous today. "I think this fluffy pony ought to come with me and get dry." >"No! Hooman munster wan' take fwuffy away!" "He'll be back, he just needs to get dry and warm up or he'll get sick." >Spokespony stamps her hooves in anger.  "No! Gif fwuffy back! Am smawty-fwiend! Am take cawe of fwuffy hewd!" >Herd?  There's only 4 of them, counting the one you're holding. "You choose; do you want to come warm up, or stay with your 'herd'?" >Fluffy pony obviously wants to get warm. >Fluffy pony is obviously scared of "smarty-friend". >Fluffy in your arms looks down at friends. >"Pwease fwuffy can go wif Mistew? Fwuffy get wawm?" >Leader snorts angrily. "No! You go 'way you no good fwuffy!" >Sad voiced, he answers "Fwuffy stay wif herd." >okay.jpg >You put him down, herd scampers away. >Snow sticking to wet underbelly of one. Later... >You see the "herd" poking a dead fluffy pony with their noses. >"Why fwuffy no wake up?" >It's the one from earlier, dead from hypothermia. >Stupid goddamn fluffy ponies. >Fuck it...you tried.