Coffee Bean trying to figure out what's going on with these bovines: How'd he DO that???

Most of the scales that Coffee Bean tried to get in the jar fell apart before they could get in but she got some of them in a jar so Coffee counts that as a win to her. She couldn’t find a trail to follow (the scales just kinda ended up in a pile) so the searching was a bust. BUT! She got some cool things to show Canary when she gets back to their stand.

 

She starts heading back to the stand. Wandering around and looking at some other stands that were set up. She found one that sold really fresh fruits and got two apples. Both of them for Canary because she’s got to be hungry right about now. Another stand sold some really cool looking rocks and Coffee just couldn’t walk past it. So she got a cool looking blue rock. It had some red swirly pattern. 

 

After getting the rock (she should name it something… Jerry! No that's a terrible name for such a cool rock) Coffee spotted the bison from before looking at a stand selling… honey? Honey and flowers. She was just going to walk past him before he suddenly sneezed and turned… bright orange. Barely even a second later his shaggy coat was back to brown but…

 

What. 

 

What???

 

What wild magic was this? Can wild magic even change the color of your coat? Coffee knows for a fact that bison can’t change their fur color without the help of dyes. And it doesn’t even-

 

A bat pony bumps into her, stopping Coffee’s thoughts. She should probably get out of the line of ponies, huh. 

 

Walking away with even more questions than before Coffee decides to tell Canary about this when she gets to the stand. She flicks her tail (almost hitting somepony… opps), making sure that the apples were still good before trotting over to where they set up shop.

 

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Canary Bean flops on her side wings stretching out behind her as she dramatically sighs. She’s just so bored right now. Coffee said that she’d be back in about ten minutes but Canary is sure that it’s been about half an hour at this point. She’s been getting a little bit tired of ponies coming up and asking if she’s okay or if she was dead. Which, rude by the way. Can’t a pony dramatically flop on the ground sometimes?

 

Canary suddenly hears hoofs rapidly coming towards her and gets ready to calm down another pony that ‘no, I’m not dead I’m just really bored, therefore I’m being dramatic. I promise that I’m fine.’ 

 

She’s really tempted to just lay down and cause a sceen, but no one really ever wants to deal with those so she sits up. The sound of someone trotting still doesn’t slow down so she looks up and-

 

“Coffee!!!” Canary shouts six legs scrambling on the floor to get herself up faster. Once up from the floor Canary canters to Coffee stopping just before she runs into the earth pony. “What took you so loooong” 

 

“Hi, Canary. Yes, nice to see you too.” The words are coated in amusement. “I uh. Got distracted by a few things.” Coffee digs through the pouch that Canary convinced her to wear. “I got you apples and-” 

 

“APPLES!!!”

 

Canary snatches the apples that Coffee held up, sinking her teeth into one and sucking it dry of all its juices. She nibbles on it for a bit before putting it in the trash and starting to suck the juices out of the other apple. She didn’t even realize how hungry she was.

 

Coffee sighs, a smile on her face as she watches all of this happen within ten seconds. When Canary looks back at Coffee a bit sheepishly, Coffee opens her mouth to finish her sentence.

 

“AND I found this nice stand selling some cool rocks.” She holds out the blue and red rock to Canary. Canary just looks at it in confusion. “I also uh. Got distracted by a cow and a bison having an argument.”

 

“Oh really? What were they arguing about?” Canary moves towards the stand, still nibbling on her second apple. She sits down and motions for Coffee to do the same. Coffee moves towards Canary and sits next to her.

 

“I couldn’t really hear what they were arguing about but the thing is that when they left- and I was going to leave too promise- I saw some weird sparkles on the ground. I went to go look at it. Because maybe one of the bovines, like, dropped something. I’d have an excuse to talk to them if they did. But it wasn’t. Um.” Coffee pauses for a second, wording what she’s going to say next in her head. She starts to dig through her bag, looking for the jar with the fake scales. “It was these things that were making the sparkes. They’re really fragile and nothing like actual scales so I’ve just been calling them fakes scales.”

 

Canary looks at the jar. Poking it and looking over at Coffee. She looks like she’s trying to say more things so Canary leaves her questions til the end.

 

“I got them in a jar and when I was coming back to you I saw the same bison that was in the argument with the cow near a flower and honey stand. He must’ve like, sniffed the wrong flower or something because he sneeze. But, get this. When he sneezed his saggy brown coat turn bright orange for a second before turning back. It was so bazaar-”

 

“His coat changed color? Is he like- a changeling or something?” Canary asked. Coffee shrugged at her.

 

“Do changelings have scales? What would fragile scales even protect anyways?”

 

“Don’t some bugs have scales on their wings?”

 

“I- have no clue. How do you know that?”

 

“I heard someone talking about it once.”

 

“Huh.” Coffee scraped her hoof on the cave floor. “Want to find some more clues with me?”

 

“I’d love to! I was getting so bored, this has got to be better than guarding the rest of our stuff.”

 

“About guarding our stuff, do you think we could ask Moss to guard our stuff? I know that we could ask like, any of the other people but Moss is the only one I honestly trust to guard it and not take anything.”

 

Canary hummed and stood up (throwing away the apple core) “I’ll go ask them.”

 

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