Page 1430 — Blood and Water
15th Sep 2020, 6:00 AM

I hate awkwardness and misunderstandings and cringe-inducing anxiety in drama. Which makes this scene hard to rewatch and parody, lemme tell ya.

Got another session of The Forgotten Ones up today! It has a change of scenery, shopping, and hunting down kidnappers!
Session 24 — Wolf Hunting: Podcast | Video

DM: Naturally, this accusation is a severe shock for everypony present.
Applejack: And Ah guess the rest of us will jus'… pretend this is news to us as well?
Princess Celestia: What exactly are you proposing we do, my dear student?
Twilight Sparkle: The only responsible thing for this situation! Arrest Cadance, call off the wedding, and investigate everything she's touched! I don't know yet if you're an imposter or just evil, but we need to get to the bottom of it as soon as possible!
Princess Cadance: Um… Er… <gasp!> Whyyy are you doing this to meee?
Twilight Sparkle: Here we go.
Shining Armor: Twilight, STOP! Everything you just said, there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for it! She's acting guarded because of stress from the wedding *and* the invasion *AND* Discord's escape! She's moving stealthily through Canterlot because we don't want to draw attention to her and get her ambushed! Cadance fired the bridesmaids because she realized they were only participating so they could meet royalty. So she replaced with with your trusted FRIENDS, who actually CARE.
Rainbow Dash: I don't!
Shining Armor: The old ones most likely skipped town out of shame! And that spell you saw was a HEALING spell, to deal with my terrible migraines from keeping the force field up!
Twilight Sparkle: <sigh> Typical. Because nothing could ever be wrong with *your* life, right?
(beat)
Twilight Sparkle: Ngh… Sorry… ^That just sorta... slipped...^
DM: Uhhh, timeout?
Princess Cadance: Yes.