Thundering Cloud stared off into the countryside surrounding Bellbrooke. Whenever she stood upon Bellbrooke's walls, she always remembered her very first day of guard duty, and how she complained about receiving the rookie assignment when she'd returned to the barracks. Three years didn't do much to change her outlook on wall duty, but at least she'd made some friends who she can share small talk with whenever she was lucky enough to share a posting with them.

Today, however, she was by herself, and her eyes wandered up to the clouds for a few moments before her eyes returned to the road  leading into town.

Nope, still nothing.

She was about to start heading over to her next observation point when she heard the door guards speaking, and then a third voice. Curiously, she glanced down.

Was that unicorn always there? She wondered if she'd missed him approaching the town or not, but the guy was bright purple. He seemed harmless enough, though, and when the guards signalled for the gate to open, Cloud resumed her patrol on the wall. 

[i]Just another visitor from Equestria. Too clean to be anything else,[/i] she mused.