Twilight sighed, opened her star covered journal to a blank page, and stared at it for a little while. Soon her train of thought flowed onto the page courtesy of a pen coated in the purple aura of her magic.
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He’s an alright guy, Alex I mean. Rainbow’s right though about Alex being cool, but he can also be clever and intelligent. I wonder how he can do both. Actually, I think she knows a lot more about him then she lets on. Nopony’s talking about him like she is, but it isn’t too important right now.
Our idea was a total disaster today. Alex tried to tell me it was a long shot after the fiftieth failed message but I wouldn’t accept it. Now I see just how juvenile I was acting. I mean I was acting worse than Fluttershy was last week, claiming she was going to get the southern birds. It took four of us to just keep her indoors and explain to her Winter Wrap-Up doesn’t exist here. I mean, I explained that at the end of last month for pony’s sake. Did anypony actually listen to me?
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Twilight groaned. “All I’d like is for somepony to listen to me and not hear just what they want. Just once, I mean is that so hard to ask?”
Rarity gazed over to her roommate appraisingly. “Twilight, everypony only listens to the finer points of what you say because you tend to explain every detail of everything. I can’t exactly say for certain that’s exactly what everypony thinks, but I’d like to think that’s what everypony tries to do.”
“But that means that some details might end up being missed and someponies need to hear everything or they don’t know what’s going wrong. Rainbow Dash is a perfect example, she listens enough to get the idea but then she’s off in her own little world where she thinks everything’s cool.”
“But you can’t change that dear, just try to avoid too much detail next time you want to explain things.”
“Well, at least Alex listens to everything.”
“That’s the spirit Twilight.”
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I tried to explain magic to Alex a few times after dinner and he didn’t quite get it, but each time he seemed to understand it better. I just don’t think he can answer my questions without a better grasp of magic and I’m teaching at a snail’s pace. If he was a unicorn, and still had his knowledge of this world then it would be easier, but I don’t even know if there were spells in Canterlot that could change a pony, or in this case human, into a different species.
It’s a wonderful idea but if I was going to teach another unicorn, especially a stallion, somepony could take it the wrong way.
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Twilight took a quick glance back to the fashionista before returning to her journal.
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At least Alex isn’t a pony so it doesn’t seem as weird to talk to him about how things work in Equestria.