Cut from Upcoming Chapter

"The character and training, and therefore the expectations, of the Exploratory Service can perhaps be summed up thus: upon wakening to find herself face-to-face with one of the mythologae, her first question was not 'Are you a unicorn?', but rather, 'How come you're purple?'"

Comments

[FaceDeer]

And "where do you fit your brain, with eyes that big?"

[Cordial Nova]

3945069

Among the very long list of possible explanations I shall almost certainly not use is "The eyes of the species Equiparvus sapiens are actually derived from squid vision, and as such don't need eyeballs behind them."

(If this becomes anyone's involuntary headcanon, sorry in advance.)

[FaceDeer]

3945191 Well, something strange is clearly going on with those eyes given that the irises expand and contract just as dramatically as the pupils within them...

The human-turned-pony fanfic Oh To Be Old Again had the unfortunate protagonist discover that ponies had "eyeplates" instead of "eyeballs", and then he got thoroughly creeped out when he tried to imagine what sort of biological madness was going on inside his face whenever he glanced around.