Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2016 15:55:29 GMT -6
PONYVILLE MARKETPLACE - 1:21 p.m. She had always heard that, once you retire, it's important to keep yourself busy. Not that Bon Bon was retired—she was young still, had plenty of years of hard work running a profitable café and candy shop ahead of her. Sweetie Drops, on the other hand, was retired. She was no longer an active agent, the file was stamped and put away along with that of every other former Sweetie Drops. However, that part of her still had to keep busy. The intelligence was clear. The local odds-and-ends store, Nooks and Needs, had an artifact of great power in it. How it had come to be there, why, and whether the proprietor knew what was in his possession were all unknown. She wasn't under a direct order, per se, to pursue this matter. An inactive agent couldn't be ordered. But she was the only one in Ponyville with this information, and if she just happened to be in the right place at the right time... it could be nice to go a little above her civic duties to serve Crown and Country again, right? The dossier she had received on the object was already destroyed, of course. It self-destructed. But she reviewed its contents in her memory as she walked up to the front door of the shop, a big ol' smile on her face and a saddlebag jingling with bits at her side. A little "open" sign dangled in the glass, so she knocked twice and opened the door straight away. A bell dinged overhead. "Hello~?" she called out, looking for signs of life. She was as mellow as ever as she stepped through, seeming to gawk at all the little curiosities and knick-knacks surrounding her—but really her eyes were tracking the layout, looking for the potential exits. "Sorry if I'm interrupting! Could I get a hoof with something, mister shopkeeper? ...Are you, uh, in here?" |