"Eating hearts... Eugh... That seems just wrong..." Scale shook his head and walked up to one of the frozen trees. "It's so... Wrong."
"I know, but about half the royal guards I know I e heard say they want to eat the heart of something..."equinox says, finishing filling the bag & putting it on the cart
"Huh... I'm not sure how I feel about that..." Scale shivers slightly. "Alright. Lets go, it's starting to get cold... C'mon." He set himself up on the cart.
"So I'm sticking with Chirpy since we haven't come up with anything else." Scale looks back at the bird sitting on the cart. "Can't hurt to have him around, right?"
"My gun literally shoots fire if I want it to..." Scale laughed and glanced ahead. "How far till the cave?"
"Oh yea... Well, lets get the bird to play lookout for us?" Chirpy shot upwards off the cart without a command of any kind, and quickly came back down, pointing a wing slightly to the west.
(You should've said "superfluous salute" then it would have an awesome word and an alliteration) "yep...", equinox replied
"You seem a bit out of it... Are you okay?" Scale looks at her, a bit of concern clear on his face. "You aren't sick or anything, right?"
*a while of walking later* "Hey... out of curiosity... Do you have a special somepony? Because, I don't want some crazed pegasus coming after me like "DUDE! You hurt my mare!" when this is over. would not be fun." Scale smiles sheepishly, trying to hide his actual intent of the question.
"Oh. Well. Why not? I'm sure you could have anypony you wanted." Scale smiled and looked at her. "Sorry. This is unprofessional of me."