Her arm ached, and all she felt was pain when she looked at Rainbow. "...like I need your help..." Her pride was uncrushable, even as she was at one of her lowest points. Gilda looked at the soup. She needed to eat.

At that point Dash was about to explode, but she knew good and well that Pide was a big pill to swallow. "fine then, maybe you don't, maybe I should have left you out there." She stated, lightning piercing the sky followed by a massive boom emphasizing her point. "You could even make friends had you chosen to, and even though I still want to be, things can't go back unless you're willing to change as well." She stated, picking up the spoon and holding it to Gilda's beak. "Now eat, I even got some fish from Fluttershy." She knew Gilda would hate this, but she certainly couldn't feed herself without her talons.

Gilda shrunk a little, but didn't say anything. Then, Dash said she still wanted to be friends... Dash wanted her to change, though... Gilda thought back to their times in the Speedsters. It could never be like that again. These ponies had changed her. W-Why did she need to change just to compensate for that?

Gilda stared at the spoon, and then back to Rainbow. The look in that pegasus' eyes told her not to complain too much. Gilda huffed, and ate the soup off of the spoon. She obviously didn't look happy about being fed. It was decent soup, though.

Dash sighed a bit, she could tell what Gilda thought about just by looking at her. "Gilda I'm still me, just I love my friends okay? We kinda bonded after you left for that so call 'council'." She stated with a sight. "You never did tell me what that was about, still I don't see why you can't be a little nicer." She offered up as she scooped up another spoonful of the warm soup. "I do still want to be friends again though going around wowing the others and messing up the teachers like the old days."

Gilda looked away. She didn't want to talk about her family. Gilda opened her beak, and got more soup. She swallowed, listening to more of what Rainbow said. How could it be the same? How could they go back? She knew it wouldn't be long before Dash was wanting her to be buddies with all of her friends, and suddenly she'd be surrounded by dweebs... Still... "Maybe... I want things to go back to the way they were... B-But I'm not apologizing for anything!"

Rainbow sighed deeply at that, she knew her friend was going to be way to prideful for that, still she finished feeding her the soup and trotted over to the stairs. "Just... sleep on it Gilda, my friends have taught me nothing is set in stone, just call if you need me. I'm still that same light sleeper." She stated, flicking the cover over the firefly lamp and turning off the magic generator to the overhead light. "Night Feather Brain." She said as she closed her door, teasing her just like at flight camp all those years ago.

Gilda didn't say anything, until Dash teased her. "Night Skittles." She sat in bed, for a long while, before finally deciding to try to sleep. Part of her had to admit it was nice to have Dash back in her life... Her pride told her she needed to get out of here, soon.


Gilda's eyes snapped open. She had no idea what time it was. She didn't care. One thing screamed in her head. Gilda needed to find the bathroom, NOW! Gilda stumbled out of bed, and hobbled out of the room. Bathroom, bathroom, bathroom... Where was the bathroom?! Gilda clenched her teeth, looking around. Each room she looked into wasn't the bathroom. It had to be somewhere around here! She just h-had to, she had to... to...

Gilda shuddered, as the pressure on her bladder released. Urine trickled down her legs. She pissed herself... She had to clean it up. I-If Dash found her like this... Gilda couldn't imagine the embarrassment.

Dash had thought about what Gilda said for almost an hour after she went up stairs for the night. It was good to have her prior friend back and all, but what in the world could she do? Maybe if she sat down with her like Pinkie had with the Cakes that day? Either way it could wait until the morning and soon she'd slipped beneath the sheets and let her eyes drift closed, slowly sawing logs for the night.

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Unfortunately for Gilda Dash was indeed a light sleeper and the loud racket ha woken her up, making her take a glance at the clock, telling her that she had to be up in ten minutes any who. She slipped from her bed and trotted downstairs, swiing on the light. "Hey Gila what' with all the racke-" She stopped dead in her tracks at the sight she saw, her jaw dropped to the floor at the sight before her, there was Gilda, having wet herself like a chick!

She had to, sh-she had to... No... Gilda's eyes locked with Dash's. Oh no... It was that stupid party all over again. Those damn ponies, laughing... Gilda slowly backed away from Dash, looking almost scared, and definitely embarrassed.

Dash was about to laugh until she saw that look of terror in Gilda's eyes, and it made her let out a deep sigh, hiding the smallest of giggles though. She knew it was terror to, their was no denying that. "Okay Gilda, why don't you go lay back down? I'll clean this up and meet you there in a few." She stated as she jumped out the window, seemingly to go get some more cloud to clean up the mess with, but also something to help her swallow that huge pride pill too.