{Open} Manehattan Blues

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Rainbow Dash tightened the coat she was wearing, slipping into a building where jazz slowly echoed through its dim expanse. Manehattan... She was definitely far from Ponyville... I miss it so much... I don't even know why I'm bothering to keep going on this stupid trip! I haven't found anything close to what I'm supposedly looking for, and all that's resulted from this, is leaving Braeburn's house in the middle of the night, and waking up to Vinyl Scratch after a party. Rainbow shook her head slowly, remembering Braeburn's kind words. All he ever did was try and help me, every second I stayed there, and I just blew him off without even a goodbye...

It was tearing her up inside. She couldn't think straight. "Ma'am?" Rainbow jumped a bit, and turned to see a stallion looking at her. "May I show you a table?" Dash blinked, before it registered in her head.

"U-Uh, yes, please." Rainbow Dash followed the waiter, before sitting down at a solitary white table, only lit with a candle. "Thanks..." He nodded, and clopped off, leaving her alone at the table. I know what you're thinking, Dash. Don't you dare buy a drink! You can't solve all your problems by drinking them away! Just, pay attention to the music, and try and figure out what's missing already, so I can go home. She had to scold herself. Dashie was losing it.

She didn't even want to be on this trip anymore. She wanted to go back to Ponyville, but she knew if she didn't find what this thing was, she'd just end up setting out again in similar fashion, with similar results. So, what now? What could she do? What was missing?!

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Rogue Moon hated this place. Manehatten, where her life of pain started. However, she came back but not to accept her past. She came back to pay a visit to her younger brother, Doctor High Hoof. It had been a nice visit and the two of them had fun together but it was hard for the dark blue mare to keep on ignoring the memories bubbling up because of this city. She never wanted to remember those days, why bother when she had a wonderful life now? So, to help suppress the memories, she decided to go to one of the many places in Manehatten where the jazz never stopped and the drinks were always aplenty. Drown her thoughts in music and drink.

The mare was shown to her table in a small corner and she promptly ordered a drink from the waiter. As Rogue waited for her drink, she gazed around the room with her amber/gold eyes, inspecting the other customers. There was a few couples and some business stallions, the only pony that stood out was a mare with a rainbow colored mane who sat all by her lonesome at a table like Moon's. Finally, after a few minutes, her drink arrived and she took a sip.

Time went by and she found her mind slipping into old memories, Rogue needed a distraction. Her best bet right now was going to talk to the rainbow mare. So, she grabbed the drink with one of her wings and trotted towards the other lonesome pony. "Hey, mind if I join you? Oh yeah, the name's Rogue Moon..."

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Dash slowly looked up at Rogue and simply shook her head. "I'm going to go ahead and stop you. I'm in the middle of an emotional breakdown. I've lost sight of who I really am. If you seriously think that sitting next to me right now is a good idea, then go ahead. Be crazy. Get yourself involved with a train wreck... I'm Rainbow Dash... Go ahead and sit down if you want. Or, you can leave me here. I won't hurt inside either way."

She didn't to be so rude and blunt, but she was tired. She was so tired of everything.