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// Explanation frustration 
// Story: What the frick!?! "The book" 
// by Cool writer 
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	"Were the poles really necessary?" He asked, looked at each of the four poles his legs were individually tied to, just tight enough to leave him splayed out like a bear skin rug. "This is starting to feel like a se-TORTURE dungeon." He corrected himself. Was he gonna say... but they don't have those in Equestria... right? RIGHT???
"Then I guess we'll have to come up with a safe word." I evil-grinned at him. His tail immediately curled up protectively behind him.
"What's a safe word?" Lyra whispered in my ear.
"You don't wanna know." I replied.
"I need an adult." He said, in the most innocent sounding voice he could. I couldn't pass up the opportunity. It was just TOO GOOD! 
I walked up to him and whispered seductively: "I am an adult." He noticeably shivered.
"OK! That's enough of that!" He said, his voice cracking a bit. "I think we're done here." He said, tugging at the restraints.
"Not until you tell us what we want to hear."
"So, I tell you what you want to hear, and you let me go, and leave me alone?" He asked. I nod.
"Yes."
"We have a deal then."
"Yes."
He grinned. "You're a pretty mare, and everything's gonna be alright." he said to me. Then he turned to Lyra. "You're not a clutz, or stupid. You're smart and cunning as a fox. There, now untie me." He said, smugly.
"Yeah but that's-"
"What you want to hear." He said. "Something's troubling you, and you worried it'll go horribly wrong. You're also insecure about a number of things... and she's the same. Before you ask, I'm good at reading people, call it a gift, and you two are open books. Now, if you could untie me..." He nodded his head to one of the poles. "Unless you're going to go back on your word, which would cause me to be... less than agreeable, or cooperative." Lyra looked speechless back and forth between me and Bonbon.
"He's got a point." Bonbon said, as she moved to untie him.
"BUT WE DIDN'T GET ANSWERS!!!" Lyra shouted. Bonbon untied Arc, and he stood up.
"Thank you," He said. "Now if you excuse me-"
"I lost a whole night's sleep on thinking about this guy!" Lyra exclaimed.
"Oh my..." He said, in a voice that implied a dirt joke.
"Dang it George Stikay!" I said. He started laughing.
"Man I love DBZ abridged..." He sighed. My eyes bulged.
"I KNEW IT!!!" I cried. Pointing a hoof at him, I continued, "You're from my world!" He looked at me.
"I am not!" He retorted.
"Then how did you get that joke? Or the other one?" I asked, pressing closer to him.
"That... is an excellent question." He said. "I'll tell you what, I'll give you EVERY answer you're looking for, written down in a book..."
"THANK YOU!" I smiled, relieved.
"BUT, it'll be encrypted in ciphers." He said.
"How the hay are we supposed to figure that out???" I asked.
"Yeah!" Lyra exclaimed. "I'm not gonna spend time, guessing at your made up language."
"No, you're thinking of a code. Codes are where words are replaced with a code word. I'm putting it in ciphers. Ciphers have each letter replaced with another letter, or symbol, or number, but they always follow a pattern." He explained. His horn lit up, and a red tattered old book appeared, he gave it to Lyra. On it's cover, was the golden shape of a horse shoe, only instead of forming a "U" shape, it formed a "w" shape. She opened it, on the inside cover, it said "Property of" in a pretty hoof-written font, and it had no name below it, and on the page next to it, it said "Vol. 3" in the same font.
"This is a copy of my journal." He said. "I didn't quite perfect the process... but it's still mostly intact. But be gentle, that clone will fall apart very easily." He then turned to leave. "Have fun with that." He said, trotting out the door.