1) What? I don’t watch Doctor Who.

2) Bon-Bon: Enemy camp? Wha- What does that mean? Oh! But I bet Lyra would be interested in that last part!

Lyra: …

Bon-Bon: You get it? ‘Cause your music and… Ugh, what a face on you.

Lyra: I’m gonna bite you.

3) Bon-Bon: You’re getting colder.

1) Bon-Bon: Honestly, I don’t know whether to go along with this or stick to the truth. They’re both winding up pretty funny!

Lyra: It’s not the truth!

2) Well, a princess would have martial training, wouldn’t she? I’m sure she can do more than just toss a toy.

3) Bon-Bon: Not in the traditional sense, but going to go with a yes.

Lyra: What does that even mean?!

4) Speaking of things with cryptic meanings… You mean the Everfree Forest? What about it? There’s always things to beware from there.

5) It’s easy to focus on the bad in the world. I try to find something positive to think about instead! Like children learning! Or how happy everypony is on payday!

Of course, you could try to take up a cause and fight for change. But you shouldn’t feel like you have to. Those can be long battles that you may fight your whole life for and never win. It takes a special kind of pony to do that. Sorry to say that I’m not one of them.

1) Bon-Bon: You might say it found me.

Lyra: Don’t get sucked into this. It’s just another elaborate troll.

2) Working hard or hardly working?

3) Lyra: Oh! I put strawberry throat lozenges in a colta-cola once when I was sick! That was really good!

Bon-Bon: I don’t think that’s at all similar.

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Lyra: Bon-Bon, what do you call this?

Bon-Bon: Oh hey! I had forgot this was taken! Gosh, I don’t remember being so roughed up.

Lyra: No.

Bon-Bon: You know, we still had another two days before we reached civilization again?

Lyra: This is fake.

Bon-Bon: And even then we were far from out-of-the-woods.

Lyra: This is a mock up.

Bon-Bon: Ah memories.

Lyra: I refuse to believe this.

Bon-Bon: It was pretty unbelievable.

Lyra: Stop it!

Bon-Bon: Hmhmhm.

1) Bon-Bon: I don’t think so, I couldn’t really tell. They were wearing full body paint and some sort of multi-headed costume. Said they were some kind of mountain. Was supposed to be historical but I wasn’t really paying attention, to be honest. I think they liked human history, or something.

Lyra: I don’t have any pictures, but this should give you a general idea. I wasn’t originally going to wear the pants, but I kinda/sorta realized halfway through that I couldn’t reach back there.

Lyra: Also, Moon Shoes! Yes! We had those here too! As a heads up, you didn’t miss much. I tried a pair once. You have to land perfectly every time you jump. Got two good bounces and then twisted my ankle.

2) Interesting backgrounds, you say?

Glad your having fun and enjoying your co-workers!

3) I’m averaging around 0, outliers removed.

Why is find in quotation marks?

4) I guess that sometimes I’m… Well I’m not so sure about where I stand on a moral scale. Even as the societarian constructs they are, I don’t want to be viewed as amoral or evil.

1) Show? Oh, the cameras.

All you see is a small portion. Like a series of documentaries covering a single subject. Or a collection of reality television shows. There were facets of the very country you live in that you weren’t aware of. How do you expect to fully understand a world you can only see through a single lens?

2) Lyra: Mr. Cake liked my costume. No pony else seemed to get it. Which is… whatever. I rocked that [omitted].

Bon-Bon: There were a few ponies that knew who I was! One of them even stopped to tell me things about Joan of Arc that I didn’t know!

Lyra: You mean lecture you about things you didn’t care about.

Bon-Bon: She was fine.

Lyra: I do remember those commercials! They played them forever!

3) I complain a lot, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t play it.

4) Bon-Bon: I don’t remember you doing that. Maybe I blacked it out.

Lyra: Can’t imagine why.

1) We get along just fine, but I’m not supposed to spend much time with her. Tootsie’s mother hates me. She thinks I’m useless trash and doesn’t want me around her daughter.

Even though I know she wouldn’t show me the same courtesy, I try to respect her wishes. If nothing else, I don’t want Tootsie or Bon-Bon to wind up getting in trouble.

2) And you see how easy it is to not notice it? How easy it is to live your life completely unaware?

3) Bon-Bon: Lyra’s been helping me research for that. I’m trying to sprinkle in simple french words and phrases to really sell it.

Bon-Bon: “How are tu? J'adore your costume!”

Lyra: I loved it as much when I first played it as I do now. And I don’t really know what you mean, no.

4) I’m not too worried. I’ll still look awesome either way.

Uh… Good luck with that kilt, though.

5) Lyra: Milky Way.

Bon-Bon: Kit-Kat, I guess. I don’t really eat candy bars.

1) Bon-Bon: There’s nothing wrong with that. We’re all different.

Bon-Bon: Oh, that was a little before my time. I’m sure Cheerilee would know better. I have seen pictures, though. I can definitely tell you it happened.

2) I think autotuning has a place in, like, techno or similar styles of music. Outside of that you can tell what a minimally edited voice sounds like and autotuning comes off as so… unnatural. Detached.

1) Probably.

We’re a quiet, vegetarian species that mostly lives within our own borders, which just so happens to be largely docile forests and rolling, green hills. There are some intimidating species and climates out there.

2) Deflation implies a change in the economic value of money and goods. There really hasn’t been one here; things are just valued differently. That could change. There’s been talks for a while about altering the way our current legal tender works, but nothing has happened yet. At least as far as I know.

3) Exactly! What if those caverns were just mined out from a past civilization? Diamond Dogs couldn’t have done it; Griffon history began tracking the caverns before they ever ascended. Griffons and Dragons couldn’t have done it all, right? I mean, it’s all over the world!

4) Bon-Bon: Well- not that there’s anything wrong with it, dear. But I’m not really a wallflower myself. Lyra just tends to steal the show.

Bon-Bon: Largely novels by pony authors; I don’t think you’d know any of them. There’s this author, Anaphora Syntax, that writes these stories with similar themes. They all take place in popular religious settings, but from the view point of average folks. I’ve read a bunch of hers. The one I’m on right now- the perspective just changed for the third time. It’s been going down the line from mother to daughter. The second mother just died and her daughter, the new main character, hasn’t found out yet.

1) Well, you hadn’t posted anything slightly nsfw in a while. So I went ahead and followed! I would appreciate if you tagged anything involving depictions of intercourse or sexual anatomy with a nsfw tag so I don’t risk it popping up while Tootsie is in the room.

Other than that keep being your delightful self!

2) You don’t hug Bon-Bon as often.

3) I disagree with your interpretation, but I believe you’ve earned a hug for defending it.

4) I still say if there’s no cheese it’s not worth grilling. And I think you could pull off a kilt.

5) Bon-Bon: That’s very sweet, but I’ve just never had that natural charisma that Lyra has. Whenever she’s around I just, you know, sort of blend in.

Bon-Bon: Read. Plan out some possible recipes for when I have time to try them. Eat, of course. Some simple exercises. Check my email. But mostly read.

1) Oh, absolutely! Tots required listening.

2) Even twenty years ago? Well, I’m sure you’re not the only one that feels that way. One working theory is the rise and fall of renaissance-style movements. Current “modern music” as a classification beginning only after the end of he last musical renaissance, which itself would have taken place sometime around your 1950s-1980s. It’s all based on nothing more than opinion for now, though.

And of course, if somepony from your world’s distant past heard some 80’s metal they’d probably be all, “Da [omitted]-ith be this depravity inflected upon mine ears?” And then Lyra would have to smack them for speaking ill of Ratt’s Round and Round; one of my favorite songs.

3) Bon-Bon: Why thank you very much! I’m not used to anypony paying so much attention to me! Sweetie Drops is open from 9 to 9 so I would say twelve hours, but I don’t really work during that whole time. It’s just if anypony happens to drop in I’m there.

Bon-Bon: Well, as one can imagine Lyra has exposed me to all sorts of music. But I tend to like the lighter, more upbeat ones. There’s this one really good one that I listen to sometimes.

4) That’s pretty cool. Kinda like a resort?

But I didn’t know they built preplanned school house-style facilities. Figured that was just a rural thing. Converted churches and what-not.

Lyra: I really like jazz bass guitar, but for my every movement and speech, I think I’d go with the violin. Very wide range. Very powerful.

Bon-Bon: And what was it called again?

Lyra: Djembe drum but like I was saying that video I showed you isn’t how it’s traditionally played.

Bon-Bon: I still think it sounded cool and versatile.

Lyra: If we’re going by Peter and the Wolf itself (which is what I thought the question was originally asking), I think I’d pick the flute.

Bon-Bon: I’d like the main string section!

Lyra: And the video included is Disney’s Peter and the Wolf. I’d rather a version without the narrator past the introduction but this is the best I could find. Enjoy!

1) Princess Celestia, of course! After all, I owe her my life.

2) The original Rayman was pretty cool, but oh mare was it ever hard! I never played Oregon Trail, only Organ Trail. I did play SimFarm, though. That was way too confusing for how old I was at the time. Pretty sure it’d just bore me these days.

3) Bon-Bon: Usually somepony will buy their candy a month or so in advance, then eat it all, then buy some more, then possibly do it again before the holiday ends. And if that’s all I was supplying for, it wouldn’t be such a big deal. But while the holiday season is going on I still have my regulars like Pinkie Pie, the do-it-yourselfers, the arts and crafts crowd, parties, the odd order or two of considerable size. It adds up.

Bon-Bon: But yes, I work alone. As long as I can keep up with all the orders, which I can, there’s a lot more to be made without hiring help. It’s not like I supply candy to all of Equestria.

Bon-Bon: I’ve heard of the show, but I’m so busy I can’t keep up with my own shows, let alone start another.

1) Does The Incredible Machine count? Also, why did I think Sierra made Rayman?

2) Okay. Well, a foal got mad and spat in my face twice last Tuesday so if you’re trying to outdo me you’ve got an uphill battle if your chief complaint is wearing a suit.

3) I’m not contagious but I’m still pretty sick. Thanks! Bon-Bon made me some scrambled eggs for dinner. It’s not sitting on my stomach very well right now but that’s future Lyra’s problem.

4) Lyra: It was yesterday! Not as crazy as last year’s, though. There were so many explosions! But we had fun this year too.

Lyra: Today was Summer Wrap-Up, which I was well enough to participate in but sick enough to be exhausted now.

Bon-Bon: Are you kidding? This is when ponies start buying candy for Nightmare Night. If I only just began now I’d be dead-in-the-water by the time it comes around! Preparations for me begin at the start of August. Then I immediately have to begin working towards Hearth’s Warming. And by the start of December nearly all future chocolate production has to be for Hearts and Hooves.

Bon-Bon: My busiest time of the year is over half of the year. Time for relaxation and trying new recipes is long since over.

1) That’s one of the interesting things about humans! You’re, like, the single most varied species ever!

2) Ha ha! Always great to hear from you, Gilda! You keep tearing it up yourself!

3) You can’t crawl and hold things in your hands at the same time? That… sucks. I thought they were more dextrous than that.

4) Lyra: It’s a job, Strawberry. You’re not being punished. If you don’t like it, quit.

Lyra: Also, can you not? I hate that show.

Bon-Bon: I like it!