Book 1 - The Behemoth came to Canterlot

by Equimorto


World of Felt

Imagine for a moment, if you will, a box. It doesn't need to be a large box, or a small box, and the size doesn't actually matter at all relatively to what's out of the box. What matters is what's inside the box, and the relative size of that to the box. And that relative size is small. Things inside the box are small compared to the box itself. Most things, at least. What things?
What things are inside the box? Let's say stuffed toys. Or anything close enough to that. All different from each other and all similar in how they are. A couple of them are on fire. One of them is actually a crocodile and he barely fits in the box, which I suppose means the box now has an actual size. But you can pretend it's a dragon instead, or something smaller, or whatever you want. The point is it doesn't fit. But that's not the important part. So let's ignore it, and focus on the things that do fit.
And those things are, well, it doesn't actually matter too much what they are. Just that they're all similar. So as said we'll say they're stuffed toys. They could be dolls, or figures, or anything along those lines. Softer though, like stuffed toys are. Stuffed toys are probably the best analogy. And those things are alive. In a sense. In any sense. Any sense is equally valid in that sense. They're not less alive than the crocodile, or dragon or whatever you have there. They're not even necessarily differently alive.
But from this point of view, it doesn't matter. They are slow, weak, you could pick them up and tear them apart and they wouldn't be able to do anything. Much like how the crocodile could. The crocodile doesn't want to hurt them, though. It could, but it does not seem to want to. It's just there. Staying largely still. Maybe it's pretending to be a stuffed toy, maybe it's just watching those around it. The crocodile doesn't matter though, as long as it doesn't move.
That's the thing, really. Only the crocodile could matter, from this point of view. Only its actions. The stuffed toys? Those are insignificant. The ones on fire are annoying, yes, but you can just avoid those. All the other ones? Slow, soft, largely easy to tear apart if you put effort into it. Toys, yes, that's kind of the point. You could maybe see them as bugs, that might also be a working comparison. But bugs can run away, and the toys can't really do that. Not if you don't want them too. Point being it's easy to stop them or in general just do things to them, them being just stuffed toys and all.
That's kind of what things are like from that side. She can't really control it, either, but looking out that's about what she sees. The part of her looking out from above, the one that's kind of detached from the whole business going on. Things are like that to her.