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- >"Mothpony?"
- >You stand in front of a bookcase, quietly skimming the titles for relevant topics.
- >'Magic and You.' 'The Art of Flight.' 'Ponynomicon.'
- >What?
- "That's what I said."
- >You continue scanning for books.
- >One jumps out at you.
- >'Plants, animals, and oddities of the Everfree.'
- >"Bullshit."
- >Stop.
- >Turn.
- >Look honestly surprised.
- >That's the first bad word you've heard any of these ponies say since you got here.
- "What?"
- >Twilight blushes.
- >"I, uh. Sorry. What I meant to say is that that's impossible."
- >You shake your head, pulling the book out of the shelf.
- "Not impossible, just unlikely. And it's true."
- >Twilight walks over to the shelf across from you and starts looking for a book.
- >"It's not that I don't want to believe you Anon, I do, but."
- >She pulls a book out with here damned telekinesis.
- >"But the implications of something like that would be ridiculous."
- >What implications.
- >It's a new species of pony, not a world-ending monster.
- "Uhh…"
- >She flips through the book until she finds the page she's looking for.
- >"Besides…"
- >She walks back over to you.
- >"They're just an old mare's tale."
- >She lifts the book for you to see.
- >The title on the page reads 'The Glow in the Woods."
- >You skim the page.
- >It looks like a story about a sailor who's ship wrecks on a beach near a forest, far from his home.
- >He has no idea where he is or how to get back to civilization.
- >After a few nights of wandering, he sees a glow in the forest.
- >Investigating the glow shows that it was a strange creature.
- >Like a "mix of a Moth and a beautiful mare…"
- >Huh.
- >You close the book and look down at Twilight.
- "Well she exists, her name is Sen, and she's currently at Sugercube Corner gorging herself on cake.
- >You look at the clock on the wall.
- >About 12:40
- "And she should be along shortly."
- >You go back to scanning the books.
- "In the mean time, I have another question for you."
- >"Shoot."
- >"Have you ever heard anything about a cave in the Everfree that doesn't look like a cave, emits beautiful music, and has a strange pretty object in it that might draw a pony to it?"
- >She closes her eyes and her mouth works like she's silently reading through a list.
- >It's… Kind of fascinating really, how she remembers things like that.
- >Her eyes open.
- >"No, but Equestria is full of strange, wild, and unexplained magics that could possibly do those things."
- >Well. That's not very helpful.
- >You were hoping for something more than that.
- >Suddenly you hear a knock on the door.
- >Twilight walks over and opens it to reveal a very tired looking Sen.
- >"Too. Much. Cake."
- >She stumbles into the library towards you then redirects to the couch.
- >Twilight looks like her brain just broke.
- >As Sen crawls onto the couch you wave a hand in front of Twilight.
- >She shakes her head and her eyes light up.
- "Told you."
- >Twilight immediately runs over to the couch, poking and prodding at Sen.
- >Sen just groans and rolls over.
- "Twilight, stop. There's a very good possibility that she just ate twenty three cakes."
- >Twilight stops poking Sen.
- >"Anon! Do you realize what this means?"
- >You stop for a second and think.
- "Yes. Yes I do."
- >Her eyes light up again.
- >"You do?"
- "Yes. It means I have a small fluffy pony who needs a friend. Who needs help getting back to her family. And I need your help to do that."
- >She stops, apparently thinking about what you just said.
- >She sighs, shaking her head.
- >"You're right Anon, She needs help."
- >Twilight looks up at you.
- >"And I'll do everything I can."
- >You smile and pat her on the head.
- "Thanks Twilight."
- >She smiles back, then turns and rushes off, returning with a pile of books.
- >"We need to get some info on the Everfree. Now I don't know much but these books…"
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