And, unlike those cliques, the changelings were apparently willing to push a bit further past her shyness to include her in whatever they were doing.
"No, Flake, that particular type of cave lichen isn't edible," Waterbug sighed in exasperation as Flake started scraping some of the glowing green substance off of the walls."
"But ponies eat this stuff," Flake responded, "I heard Vertex and Frons talking about it back at the hive."
"It's a mildly toxic hallucinogen with little nutritional value. If we feed this to Moonbeam, she's going to be tripping for days and end up hungrier than before she ate it. We need to gather the more stringy lichen."
"Are you sure? It doesn't glow nearly as much, and at least the stuff I've been gathering is green. Ponies eat green."
"Argh... Hey, Moonbeam, you do have at least some survival skills right? Either knowledge or spells that help you determine what is safe for you to eat?"
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"Ah, yes?" Moonbeam replied. "I mean, yes, I do. On both counts. Both knowledge and spells." She appreciated that the changelings were helping her gather more food for herself, but she kind of hoped that the other groups that were also doing so were more like Waterbug than Flake, as Waterbug was at least keeping the fact that she was a pony and not a changeling in mind. She wasn't sure what changelings ate, and given their prominent fangs, she wasn't sure that she wanted to know. Not that ponies couldn't eat meat, far from it, but few chose to do so, and even then it tended to be more because of health reasons due to either living or working in high altitude conditions where the air was naturally harder to breathe.
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Her diet back when she was attending Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns had included far more fish, poultry, and squirrel than she was strictly comfortable with. Give her a lowland diet any day, with plenty of grains, fruits, veggies, and maybe the occasional serving of pork, ham, or bacon. Because at least pigs weren't cute! Oh those poor campus squirrels...
"So which of these lichen are safe for you to eat?"
"I bet it's the green ones!" Flake interjected. "They have a nice healthy glow!"
"Actually, Waterbug is right about those," Moonbeam pointed out, then hastily spoke up again as Flake deflated. "Although they do have some medicinal uses! I just wouldn't want to eat any of it unless I needed to, and even then only in very small amounts," she elaborated while holding her forehooves so close together in front of her as to almost be touching.
"Oh," Flake shook off his despondency, dumped his bucket, and then started scraping the stringy lichen into it.
Only to have Waterbug knock the bucket out of his hooves.
"Dumb-ass! Clean the bucket and your hooves first!"
"AAHHH! DON'T LICK THEM lichen CLEAN, YOU IDIOT!"
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unicorns can actuallty eatr meat safelty if they want hence fish , or even squirrels , or pigs.
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Untitled Part 97
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