//------------------------------// // Day 22-23, A New Home And A Grim Reminder. // Story: Quiet Days // by AlphaDidAlotOfThings //------------------------------// June 13th, 2015 Dear Journal, I found something today but to get to that I have to tell you about everything else that happened today. We finally reached our destination, it took several days but we finally did it. I'm gonna be honest and just say that's probably my fault since I made us stop so much, but hey who cares we're finally here. Where is here you ask? We found a little farm on a "countryside" it's not too far from town. There's a little blue house, not too big but not too small, a barn and a couple of pens. The barns a bit shabby but we could fix it up. (I think it got hit by the storm that crashed us.) So this is it, our new home. I feel like we're gonna love it here. There's some cows and some sheep here, some of them were out of their pens so we had to "wrangle" them back up before we went inside (What are we, cowboys?) Guess we'll have to fix the fences too. But after that we went inside and yeah this is pretty much just your average house, nothing too grand. This is the kinda place I would've loved to get for myself before all this happened. There's about like two bedrooms, one that kinda looks like a kids room and the other has two beds most likely meant for the parents. I went in the "master" bedroom to take a look at it and there was a framed photo on the end table… A family lived here… They had a life here… I didn't even realize it until now but I accepted this situation too quickly. This body, everyone disappearing, everything. I had my body stolen away from me, with even my damned gender and now my mom's gone too. The Event took everything away from us. I'm sorry… I promise we'll bring you back, all of you. Humanity isn't dead yet, we're still here. I just slid the picture under the bed for now, I don't want the others to see on the verge of tears over something like this. We'll use this place well, I swear it. Other than that, I helped John set up the solar panels here, there's no generator here so if something happens to those were fucked. We might have to make a run to Home Depot for that, they sell that kinda stuff right? We're just settling down so we didn't do a whole lot today. We'll be a whole lot more productive tomorrow. For a "radio" we've just been using one of those cb radios, those usually only cover about 20 or so miles which isn't exactly the best when we're probably the last people on earth and need to find survivors. No wonder John wasn't getting anything, why didn't he think of this himself? So I'm gonna get us a shortwave radio instead! According to this book those usually have ranges up to thousands of meters! And basically my plan for tomorrow is to build some kind of pseudo radio station! We'll need an antenna, a transmitter of some kind and all that good stuff! Alright, it's settled then! We'll get a generator and radio parts from home depot or wherever we need to go. We'll also need building materials to fix up this place a bit too… Then I'll try flying again, practicing galloping… And I can start working on my project! Tomorrow's gonna be quite the busy day. We took the bandages off of John's leg, it's way better now so he should be able to drive. We'll just need to help him get back on his hooves. (Oh god, I wrote hooves instead of feet.) What else to write about… What else… Oh yeah, aside from cows and the sheep there's chickens on this farm too, pens a little damaged but we can fix it of course. There's no horses here, but I did happen to see one on the way here. They unfortunately didn't turn into weirdly colored small ponies. Oh well… What the heck even are we then? I guess we're some kind of alien species with human sentience then… It's pretty surreal to see a horse next to, whatever we are. Welp, as always this is Emile, ta ta. Ponies… - Emile June 14th, 2015 Dear Journal, Okay, the first thing we did today was take a trip to Home Depot. It was just Me and John that went since he can drive now. Alyssa, and Minuette stayed home. We took Buddy for protection. No, I'm not starting to like that mutt he's just useful, that's all. Alyssa doesn't seem to like Minuette much, like she doesn't trust her or something. I hope she wasn't too mad about us leaving them alone together… We picked up building materials, paint, and a generator at Home Depot, they don't have radio parts though so we had to go to an electronics store for that. We took everything we could, with John's magic and the saddle bags we were able to get pretty much everything we needed. I got one extra thing for myself, a watering can! It's for the flowers. Still not telling you what the project is though… I wouldn't want to ruin the surprise Tehe~! (God, please don't let anyone see this…) First thing me and John did was set up the radio, we used a ladder that was left in the house to put the antenna on top of the roof. I almost fell but I managed to use my wings to glide down softly. And that is why I hate heights… I'm not too good at tech stuff but with John's help we did it. Ta-da, a fully functional better radio! Well, kinda we might need to do a few adjustments to it but we're almost done with it! After that we decided to work on fixing the farm. We all pitched in to help, we fixed up the fences a bit they have a coat of white, the barn has a coat of red…Boom! We should be able to fix this place up in no time flat. We got the help of two unicorns, one pegasus, one normal pony, and a dog that occasionally helps out from time to time! We're still on a roll! Alyssa's still having trouble doing things with her mouth and hooves though so I had to help her out a bit with that… Hehe… I tried flying again, this time on a nearby hill. I ran as fast as I could and…! Came tumbling down. Still can't fly. I'll just try again later. I've gotten galloping and cantering down at this point while Alyssas got trotting down and John can walk again! I also started work on my project secretly and planted a few seeds hopefully they'll grow… But overall, a pretty productive and busy day! Nothing else to report so as always this is Emile, bye bye! - Emile