...11.3k on the word count.
Unintended.
If the next update on anything is closer to 5000, I hope for a moment of understanding.
This may be the last update on Anchor Foal for this month: my next target is to catch up with Cerea, and you try catching up with a hard-galloping centaur who has a party looming on the horizon. I just realized that there was one more thing to establish with this story before May closed. And as the chapter title suggests, that's the fallout. Actions have consequences and when there's this many coops on the property, a corresponding number of chickens can come home to roost.
So let's leave Fleur and Fluttershy here for the month. There are other stories which need tending. And in the white space between chapters, it may be possible to find a moment of respite.
...for the characters.
The writer just did 11.3k.
Writer gonna slump over real good.