I actually stunned Dash! 'Course she'll never admit it, she's got a 'rep to maintain. Can't say I blame her.
Princess Twilight is busy looking through all my logs and is studying all the notes carefully. *study face*. She beckons me over with a couple hoof movements, and we start talking. Not as Princess and citizen, more like magic user to magic user. The talking is actually cool, and I can talk with someone who appreciates magic like I do. But still! I'm talking with somepony who used to be Celestia's student!
"I hear that you work as a book repairist in Ponyville" Twilight states.
"Yes Princess" I reply "Books that have seen better days apparently"
"It pay well?"
"It varies. If I succeed in repairing something that is a treasured family heirloom, well, the joy I get when I tell that pony family that I succeeded is the best feeling of all" I reply "I do try to keep the repair cost down as low as possible, and occasionally I will just repair the book free of charge"
Twilight nods.
"You were brought up well"
Looking up at the Princess, I tell her that I don't know who my biological parents are and that I was brought up in a foster family.
"I can see if I can dig up anything in the Canterlot Records later if you like"
"Wow. You stun me Princess... yes, I would like that"
She nods and we go back to discussing the finer points of my new spell. Debating this and that and coming up with refinements that make the spell more efficient on magical reserves and eliminating potential magic leaks. Later, Twilight calls for her friends to go get something to eat.
"Girls, go down and grab something to eat"
Twilight's friends thank her and head out. I nod.
"They are good friends Princess"
"Thank you Thunder." She replies
"Princess?"
I look up. Princess Celestia's here.
"May I ask who this stallion is?"
"He is Thunder Strike, a book repairist unicorn from the outskirts of Ponyville"
I present myself to Celestia and state my reasons for traveling to Canterlot. I also state the potential power of my new spell and the fact that I had realized that such a spell of this power should not be allowed to roam free around Equestria.
"Perhaps it would be better if we head to your study Twilight" Celestia pipes up.
"Yes, a good idea Celestia"
Twilight motions to me and Celestia. But before I can move a hoof, I find myself floating in another world. Seemingly standing on nothing, my nightmares to which I had forgotten from colthood suddenly seemed real. Being rejected by my parents when I finally found them was the most prominent.
No! This isn't my parents. They had a darn good reason for releasing me! This must be all inside my mind. I start fighting to return to the real Equestria. I shout out for Princess Luna, the one who stands duty at night, thinking this was her doing, but all I heard was an echo. I reach for magic in my horn, but it seems gone and dead, like it never existed. I shout out:
"If you think you can take control of my mind, whoever you are, get ready for a ride!"
The echo that bounces is creepier than before, but that doesn't disassure me. I want back to the real Equestria, not this depraved imitation of it! I focus, hard on an image of everything I cared for in Equestria. Cracks start to appear in the world.