//------------------------------// // Making Sense // Story: Through Those Eyes // by marcyfly //------------------------------// Making Sense The next morning, after sending Dinky off to school and finishing my morning mail route, I flew off to the Ponyville library to get more information. Not just out of a book, but out of a pony. Putting a hoof to the candle on the door, the smell of musty old books and sweet smelling potions filled my nose. The library was void of life, except for the cutest lil' pheonix sleeping in a nest of shredded book pages. "Hello?!" I called out in hopes of customer service. "Hello there Derp-y..." The voice started friendly but dropped off. "Um, heh, what are you looking for today?" said the voice that had yet to show its face. "Im looking for Twilight Sparkle, is she here?" I knew that she was the voice. I had the element of fake stupidity on my side, and I knew how to use it. The voice changed, it became deeper and gruffer. "Uh, no! She's not here! Come back later!" "Oh, okay!" I trotted over to the door and shut it, but not behind me. After said door was shut, my wings started to pump with stealth, despite my clumsiness. "Spike, is she gone?" said the original voice. "Wha-? I don't know, I'm taking a nap." said a voice similar to the one who answered the phone. "I don't see her. I think we're good." She came out from behind her bed, a few hairs out of place, a wide grin, and dilated eyes. "AH-HA! I KNEW IT!" I yelled as I shed my element of stealth. She screamed of shock. Not only was she caught red-hoofed of not once, but lying twice to a customer. I landed on the upper level of the library where Twilight was hiding behind her bed fort. "Wha-what are you talking about Derpy? We don't have any books on humans, or anything!" Her eyes shifted from side to side as she clenched her mouth. "Tell me. Where. They are. I might be clumsy, but I'm not stupid." I said as I approached the insane pony. "B-before, i show you, where they are, who told you about humans?" she asked "Why do you need to know? Shouldn't I be able to check out a book without being questioned?" "W-well yeah, but..." "But nothing. I know you're hiding something Twilight. Now let me see the book!" "Fine" she said in defeat. She got from behind the bed to a book shelf on the same floor. From looking at the titles, the books were about species other than ponies and local livestock grown in Equestria. Some of which I've never heard. "Here. Take it. You obviously know what you're doing." she said with utter defeat. This was very odd. I had seen the kind of fights Twilight would put up just to prove her point. She danger-proofed the entire town just to stop next Tuesday morning, cast a spell on the town just to have something to write about to the princess. But she wasn't going to to do such a thing to prevent me about learning from humans? "Uh, thanks? And, don't tell anypony about this." "And don't you go and showing somepony that book! I don't want everypony going human-crazy. I know Celestia will banish me, or put me in the dungeon, or puts me me in a dungeon to the place she banishes me?!" Her hair began to frizz and her eyes shrank. I backed out of the library as the mental unicorn rambled on to herself. I know that I'm not the brightest beam of Celestia's sun, but I'm smart enough to know that Twilight needed mental help. ~0~ When I got home, I went to the table of contents. It seemed pretty basic although it had more than I bargained for. Table of Contents Foreword 1: Anatomy 2: Life Cycle 3: Behavior 4: Reproduction 5: Life-style 6: History 7: Life-Time of Achievement 8: Language 9: Famous People 10: The Human Race Afterword Index ~0~ Some time passed before I had read every chapter twice, read through the index thoroughly, and studied the entire life of a human. But it took much longer for it to make sense. It was all so confusing, all the different muscles, the way they walked, and of course, how they sat. After I had read it over, I began to slowly piece more of the facts together, those none of those facts pointed to what was going on with my 'visions'. I called Lyra to see what else she knew. She said she'd come over. "So what are we looking at here?" she asked when she finally arrived. "Well, I was able to check out this book on humans that Twilight had. Iv'e alre-," "Wait, what?! How did you get this book? This is my favorite book on humans! When I went to check it out Twilight wouldn't let me!" "She let me check it out," I said. "But, if she didn't let you check it out, then how were you able to read it? You know Twilight wont let you read a book in the library unless you check it out." "Ol' Lyra's got a magic trick or two in her head. I may not be the Great and Powerful Trixie, but I know how to fool an egghead." "You stole it?!" "No, I simply borowed it when she wasn't looking." "So you stole it?" "Oh lighten up Derpy, besides, how did you convince her to give it up?! "I didn't convince her, although she was hesitant. She just said that 'I obviously know what I'm doing' then she let me have the book!" "Hm, thats strange. Anyways what don't you understand? I'm sure I can help. And once we know all we can, we can get to the bottom of this. Together."