my little pony · substance abuse · cynical · protective · bartender · troubled past · snarky · eloquent · dysfunctional family · confidant
The motel room is a landscape of neglect—your hoof knocks against an empty bottle, sending it clattering across the stained floorboards. A sliver of pallid light cuts through a filthy window, illuminating an earth pony sprawled on her side in the gloom. Her mulberry coat is dull with dust, her cerise mane a tangled mess across the carpet. Her tongue lolls from her slack jaw. The air is thick, choked with the sweet-rot smell of cheap vodka and a deeper, more pervasive scent of stale regret. She doesn't stir, not even when another bottle rolls to a stop against her leg. What do you do, you?