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It's finally happened.

You knew this day was coming, and it's finally here. Try not to panic.

Fluttershy has discovered the turtleducks.

She is beginning to come to the conclusion that if there are familiar animals at Milliways, they must be hiding from all the weird ones - humans and houndeyes and miniature cyber-raptors and so on. But this species is very cute.

They don't understand her quite as well as Ponyville's animals do, but she doesn't really need them to. (And, she is very carefully not thinking, they aren't running away from her, either.) She's got a few slices of bread that she's breaking up and tossing to them, and that they understand very well.

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The Fool is ambling across the back wilds of the Bar when he spots Fluttershy and then the turtleducks. Bells ringing gently he heads over to them to inspect, not quite using his walking stick as he goes.

It's not often that Fluttershy encounters anypony who's got bell sounds following them. She kind of likes it, since it means that when this one arrives she's not startled. She is curious about the bells, though. And also about how a biped can walk with a limp like that.

He can walk very carefully. When he sees that he's been noticed, the Fool gives a bow to her with a tip of his hat. "Good ... time," he says, "M'lady and friends."

Well, yes, but he's only go two legs to work with in the first place! But in any case, it seems to be working for him.

Fluttershy bows back. Not as deeply as she does to Princess Celestia, but it seems more polite to return a bow than not. "Um, hello."

"Hello, do you mind if I sit?" He sits anyway. "You look like another pony I met around here. Bookish. Purple?"

It's not like Fluttershy could really stop him from sitting, even if she wanted to. He's bigger than she is, and probably stronger.

"Oh, w-well, that sounds like my friend Twilight."

It's probably good that he refers to her as 'bookish'. It means she probably hasn't gotten angry at him.

Oh she got very frustrated at him. But a lot of people do that with the Fool.

"Yes! That's her."

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Dixie's dipping her toes in the when she spots the tiny yellow pony. It's a sight that's entirely fresh to her, so she can't help but stare for a moment. It's such an entirely adorable picture.

It is, isn't it?

For the moment, at least, Fluttershy is too absorbed with the birds (or reptiles, or whatever) to notice a human looking at her.

That's all right, for now - Dixie's one to command attention, by hook or by crook, though.

Dixie's got a little handful of dried corn from the stables, the better to tempt both bird and pony closer. She starts humming, too, a soft, slow, quiet little ditty with artistic flair.

That is a nice melody. And it's certainly going to get Dixie noticed.

It'd probably be polite to greet somehuman who's coming to feed the birds nearby. (Of course the corn isn't for Fluttershy. Even the few ponies who keep that sort of thing around for more than bird food only eat it in emergencies. Not that emergencies come up very often.) "H-hello."

She's pretty quiet.

The pony's sudden - well, in Dixie's opinion - gift for gab surprises her, but she covers well. "Hello yourself, honey. C'mere, there's plenty to go around." She has a little picnic basket for lunch, and there's plenty of stuff worth sharing in there.

Amanda who was outside working out, notices a strange looking creature and as this is Milliways she gets closer as she watches.

At the moment, Fluttershy is too interested in the turtleducks to notice anyhuman who might be watching her. They are both adorable and not quite like anything she's seen, a combination that interests her quite a bit.

Which is not to say she won't notice if Amanda gets too close or makes noise.

Amanda is a professional thief she doesn't make noise unless she wants to and after a time she decides that since it is Milliways it's worth taking a chance that the creature might be intellegent, espeically since the pony's activities seem to be mirroring her own.

"Hello" she says in as nonthreatening tone as possible form a decent distance away.

Nonthreatening tones are good. Fluttershy appreciates nonthreatening tones. They don't startle her quite as much. Indeed, this one startles her hardly at all. Looking around, she spots the human who probably just spoke.

"Oh, um, hello."

[OOC: sorry for the delay I had family coming into town this weekend and had to prepare.]

"You can speak... great!" she says happily. Offering, "I'm Amanda" and she takes a seat nearby.

"Oh, well, can't everypony?" she asks. "I-I'm Fluttershy."

The creatures currently approaching along the lake's edge look rather like humans (and a dog), but they're as vividly and variously coloured as Fluttershy's own people. One humanoid is a tall, fit, young green male; the other is a female toddler almost the colour of the lighter-skinned humans (except for the hair). The dog is red and yellow, and very large, and his body language marks him as On Patrol.

The baby shrieks when she spots Fluttershy. "Pony!" she shouts, and runs toward her as fast as her little legs can carry her.

Pony, yes. But pony with wings, as she demonstrates when she's startled like this. It doesn't matter that the shouter looks like a foal, if a human one; Fluttershy's instinct is still to get out of reach.

Also, that is a very big dog. And dogs who are On Patrol don't always want to listen to her.

The dog is now running, with rather less effort, to keep up with the baby. This is his main focus, but he does spare Fluttershy a look which says Watch yourself. The boy is doing the same, minus the glaring.

"Pretty pony!" Ana starts jumping as she runs. There's no hope of her actually jumping high enough to catch the pegasus, but she's darn well going to try.

There's no way somepony like Fluttershy could misinterpret that kind of look. Probably nopony could. She'll definitely be watching herself, and not getting between a dog that big and its charge.

As much as she likes being called pretty, Fluttershy doesn't much want to be grabbed by a human foal. Plus the aforementioned dog. So she's going to be staying in the air for a bit. She does softly call, "Um, thank you." There's no need to be rude, after all.

The talking doesn't faze Ana. Animals talk on the vid files, after all.

"Pony?" she says plaintively.

"Frisket, at ease," Enzo says as he jogs up. Frisket snorts and flops down on his belly. Not like this one's a threat. Or a challenge.

Of course Fluttershy's no threat. That's written in every line of her body language.

But she's also not coming down, at least not just yet. Even if the foal is being plaintive and adorable and...

No. The Cutie Mark Crusaders were adorable, too, but they caused quite a bit of trouble before Fluttershy got them under control.

Still, it wouldn't hurt to apologize. "I'm sorry. Um, if I come down, you aren't going to grab, are you?"

Enzo has to strain to hear her, though the baby has no trouble at all.

"How do we pet, Ana?" Enzo prompts his niece when she doesn't answer right away.

"Gentle," Ana recites. "No pull, no grab."

"That's right. You'll be fine," he adds to the pony. "I'll try not to let her get overexcited."