“There is a substantial reward for any information leading to his capture.” The pegasus says.
“Hmm, and this is it as far as a reward goes?” Joyride says looking at the flier, “Guards patrolling the skies, with magical armor no less, going around handing out flies about a missing foal. And I doubt you are the only one. Surely you can pay more than this.”
“I’m afraid I don’t control the payment, miss.”
“Well can I talk to that person then? Maybe they could pay me more to learn about this little boy.”
“You can tell me, and I’ll make sure it gets to him.”
“On second thought.” Joyride says, folding up the flier and pushing it down the front of the pegasus’ armor, “I think I might have been mistaken. I don’t think I saw anything.”
Joyride starts to walk away, but the pegasus blocks her and says, “Ma’am, you are going to have to come with me for questioning.”
“Oh no, please don’t hurt me.” Joyride says flatly, before a bright flash fills the area. When the light fades the scene doesn’t look much different, except neither of them are talking. The pegasus just suddenly takes off, and Joyride says, “Okay lil’ perv, you can come out now.”
Emerald pops out of the bushes, and asks what she did to the pegasus.
“Nothing permanent. He’ll just wake up down the road assuming he had a daydream and will think nothing of it.”
Emerald asks if she would have really turned him in.
“Nah, not for that amount of money. Hope probably wouldn’t have liked me very much after that, and she doesn’t seem like the kind of pony to me who’d be into hate-fucking. I wanted to see how badly those soldiers wanted to find you, mostly. His reaction tells me that he is probably one of a few groups of ponies looking for you. Be on guard, lil’ perv.”
Scared, Emerald asks if they are close to Whitherwater.
“Another two days, maybe three at this pace.”
What does Emerald do?
——
Inventory & Spells - http://pastebin.com/D5PzFgGv