Applejack is sitting against a tree in her family's orchard. She's just finished a long day of hard work tending the trees, and now she gets to relax in their shade for a little while, before she needs to head back inside and help Granny make supper.
The trees sway softly in the breeze, a few clouds drift lazily through the sky, and the afternoon sun hangs calmly above it all.
She lays her head back against the tree. Maybe she'll have a short nap, before she has to head inside.
There's a faint shimmery sound, and an unfamiliar looking creature with hairless tan skin and a long mane of reddish brown hair seems to undissolve into existence from a sparkly pink smoke.
They're wearing a loose slightly floaty garment, a little like what a dress might look like adapted for a non-pony body, made from a deep blue fabric with sparkly bits embedded so it vaguely resembles a night sky.
Sapphire looks around at her new surroundings. The colors seem more vibrant in a way she can't quite put her finger on. The apple trees look reassuringly normal though and the clouds and the...
Wait no the small bright orange animal with a cowboy hat on isn't normal, it looks a little like a horse but also not.
Apparently the Spirit is pushing her more on the whole different types of people thing than she expected, well the hat suggests they're a person at least. They seem to be napping though, that gives her a chance to think before saying anything. Is there anything she should do first? She briefly considers using her size difference power to be less intimidating but decides against it for now. They're lying down so it's hard to judge how tall they'll be once they get up.
"Hello?" she asks more than says; she's not sure whether to expect a shared language.
The creature looks towards her eyes and seems to smile. "I don't really know. I came from a really really long way away. A friend, well really a friend of a friend, thought that coming here would be good for me. Only, the thing is, they didn't tell me anything about where here is before sending me. So I'm very lost. That's mostly okay though, because I expected to be."
Well, that sounds odd, but she can probably help, at least.
"I see. Well, if you don't know where you are or where you're going, I suppose I could bring you to dinner, then introduce you to my friend Twilight? She might know what to do with you."
She turns in the direction of the Apple family home.
"Name's Applejack!"
And she'll politely not remark at what an odd-sounding name "Sapphire" is. Maybe it's short for something? Either way, Granny taught her better than to ask that sort of thing.
"It's nice to meet you. Are there other humans here, people like me, I mean?"
Sapphire will follow after and look ahead to see if she can tell whether she's going to be inconveniently tall for the doors and ceilings of where they're headed. She'll also look around some to see if there's anything else interesting.
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