        She drank slowly, relishing the coolness of the water.  It certainly tasted pleasant, even though the wavelets were stirring up a little bit of sand.  The wells in Ponyville had a lot more minerals in them than this water.  She absently wondered if the creature had to take some kind of mineral supplements, like the ponies who lived in Appleoosa.  More likely, if its kind had lived here for a long time, it didn’t require them.