Chapter 4: That’s racist!
Robert woke up covered in sweat. He had dreamed with the voice again, but he still didn’t understand what it said. He had apparently slept the entire day and night, as it was morning again. He felt very tired, but he didn’t feel pain as he got up. He found that he didn’t have bandages in the chest anymore. ‘What did they do while I was sleeping?’. He dressed up with his curtain-skirt and went to the ground floor. He noticed that most of his wounds have totally healed while he slept ‘I don’t know how to explain this, so it must have been magic... I still can’t talk, though’. He almost stepped on a bunny, but he noticed it just in time to stop. ‘Is this guy going to start talking too?’
The white bunny stared at Robert with a serious face and made a gesture with it’s paw that meant “I’m watching you”. ‘FINALLY, AN ANIMAL THAT DOES NOT TALK! It’s still more intelligent and... humanized that Earth bunnies, but beggars can’t be choosers’ Robert happily thought. He walked past the bunny, ignoring its antics, looking for ponies. He didn’t have to search for long, as he found Fluttershy sleeping on the couch. ‘So the colorful pony woman sleeps in the couch while I sleep in the bed... If it weren’t for the circumstances my manliness would feel really hurt... I hope they found my things, I miss my underwear’. He gently shook Fluttershy’s shoulder until she woke up. When she saw him looming over her she squealed and covered her head with her hooves. After a whole minute she looked at him and managed to talk.
“Sorry, I wasn’t expecting to see you, and you are so big and scary...”
‘Wait, they live in a place with dragons, gorilla dogs and who knows what else and she thinks I am scary?!’ he managed to hide his frustration behind a smile. He saw his paper, which had few blank spaces left, on the table and pointed to the drawing of his clothes and weapons.
“Oh, that... Well... You were asleep so...” she moved her lips but no sound could be heard.
‘This is both adorable and annoying’ he cleared his throat, which was a bad idea because doing it was really painful.
“Oh... Hm... Sorry... I meant that you were asleep so Twilight...” she did the same thing.
Five minutes later he managed to extract all the information he wanted from her. His things were in Ponyville’s library, he had guessed that was the town’s name. He had been healed by Twilight with magic, which made him feel tired because it used his own energy reserves. However, she hadn’t healed his throat because doing it wrong could let him mute forever.
‘Alright, time to consider my options. A: I can run to that library, grab my rifle and get the hell out of here before they begin with the vivisection. B: Go crazy because nothing is making sense. C: Be a good boy until I can properly communicate.’ He chose option C and pointed to the drawing again.
“Twilight will come back a bit later. Then I will ask her to bring anything you want”.
‘But I want my things now!’ he thought, then he realized that the pegasus had been peacefully sleeping until he woke her up, scared her and forced her to satisfy his curiosity. He managed to wrap his curtain around his waist so it wouldn’t fall over and then he lifted Fluttershy. She made a faint squeal and began trembling. Robert was surprised by how light she was. Given the size and body structure, he had estimated between 60 and 80 kilograms. The pony he was carrying weighed less than forty. ‘Maybe flying ponies have hollow bones or something...’
He soon arrived at the bedroom and placed the still trembling pony on the bed. She opened her eyes when she realized where she was.
“No, please, you are my guest. It would be unkind of me to sleep while you are awake”.
Robert would have none of that, so he tucked her in, closed the remaining curtain and left.
“Hm... Okay... Thanks” she said while she yawned.
‘Yes, go to sleep so I have a free hand to explore the place now that I am fully healed’.
He searched for his things all over the cottage, but he didn’t find them. He was surprised by the amount of critters he found, all of them apparently unable to speak. They weren’t afraid of him, so he guessed they were pets and that he shouldn’t mistreat them. The abundance of nest boxes and feeders confirmed his idea.
He also found many tools identical to the ones used by humans, like a sewing kit and cutlery.
‘How do they handle all these things? With their mouths? Ew, everything must be covered with dried saliva’.
He soon found that there was nothing else he could do to spend his time until something happened, so he decided to explore the surroundings. He was about to see if chickens could talk when he heard the unmistakable sound of his rifle being fired less than a kilometer away. He immediately ran to the source of the noise, mentally cursing everything.
“SPIKE! I told you NOT to touch it! It could be dangerous!”
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”
Twilight and Spike were covering in fear behind one of the many huge artifacts in the library’s basement. Robert’s rifle was laying on the floor a few meters away. Twilight managed to calm herself enough to notice that the artifact, after making the painfully loud noise, had tore a hole in a wall. She approached the hole and noticed something inside of it, so she extracted it with her magic. She found a few small fragments of steel buried about 20 centimeters in the ground.
“Spike! That thing just pierced the entire wall! You could have killed somepony! Don’t touch anything that belongs to the alien!”
“So now he is an alien, uh? You laughed at me when I called him that!”
“That was before I examined these things. There is nothing like this in Equestria."
“So are you going to send a letter to the Princess now, as I told you to do since I first saw him?”
“Not yet, we can’t discard the possibility of him being a strange creature from a distant land. First, we are going to see Zecora, maybe she knows something about him. If she doesn’t I promise I’ll write that letter”.
“So, what are we going to do with all these things?”
“I’m going to put them in a place where nopony can find them by mistake, they are just too dangerous”.
Twenty minutes later she had locked everything but the clothes in a magically sealed chest. It took her more than Spike would have wanted, as she insisted in making a checklist of everything she placed in the chest, spending many minutes in making up names for the mysterious artifacts.
As soon as Twilight finished the sealing spell they heard a mare shout “The horror, the horror!”, followed by many screams of fear.
“What is going on out there?” asked Twilight. “Another bunny stampede?”
‘Robert, you are such a genius’ was all he could think when the ponies panicked at his sight. ‘I hope they don’t have a police force, I don’t want to receive a beating from these alien ponies. Now, where is the library?’. He wandered through the streets for a few minutes until a pink pony suddenly appeared in front of him.
“Hello! My name is Pinkie Pie” the pony spoke with a happy voice, “I’ve never seen something like you. What’s your name? What are you? Do you like parties? I sure love parties! I know, I could throw a welcome party for you! Why are you wearing one of Fluttershy’s curtains? How do you stand on two feet without a tail? Why do you have so little hair?”
He covered Pinkie’s mouth with his right hand, making her barrage of questions stop before it overloaded his brain. Then he drew a book in the dirt with a finger and let Pinkie talk again.
“A book? You can’t make a party with books, you silly! Oh, wait, maybe you can! We should go to the library and ask Twilight if there are book parties! Follow me!”
Pinkie Pie began bouncing down the street, so Robert followed her. They approached a huge tree with windows and a balcony. A pink pony with a blonde mane saw Robert and shouted “The horror, the horror!”, then she fainted. Many ponies became aware of his presence after the shouting and ran away, screaming. Pinkie seemed to ignore them as she approached the door. She was about to knock when it abruptly opened, almost hitting her in the muzzle.
“Pinkie, what is going on?” Twilight asked as she left the tree.
“I don’t know. I was just walking when I found this strange bald monkey and then he asked me to have a book party so I told him that you sure would know if there are book parties and then-”
“What are you doing here? You weren’t supposed to leave Fluttershy’s cottage! You are causing panic!” Twilight said to Robert, ignoring Pinkie.
Robert just pointed at his curtain-skirt with a frown and crossed his arms above his chest.
“See? I told you we should have left the clothes at Fluttershy’s! But noooo, you had to examine them” said Spike with an annoyed tone.
“I did it in the name of science!”
Twilight and Spike began arguing, while Pinkie still talked about book parties. Robert circled them and went inside the library. ‘An entire library inside a living tree? How is it even possible?’ he thought, but he forgot about it when he finally found his clothes near the entrance. He dropped the curtain and happily dressed. He had specially missed the boots, as running bare-footed from Fluttershy’s cottage to the library had been a painful experience. When he was fully dressed he remembered why he had come in the first place. He could smell gunpowder in the air, so he deduced that the rifle had been fired inside the building. He looked around trying to find it, and then he noticed Twilight, who was staring him with a serious expression.
“What am I going to do with you? For all I know, ponies may be assembling a mob to drive you off, torches and pitchforks included. I’m going to explain everything to the Mayor so she can calm everypony down before the worst happens. Spike, Pinkie Pie, watch over him and don’t let him abandon the library”. Both of them did a salute, Spike serious and Pinkie trying not to laugh.
As soon as Twilight left Pinkie asked Spike to tell her everything he knew about their new bald friend. Robert began looking for the rest of his belongings while the attention wasn’t focused on him. He didn’t find anything in the ground floor, so he went upstairs and began inspecting the first floor. He was opening a drawer in a bedroom when he heard a strange sound. It was very faint at first, but it quickly increased its intensity. He looked through the window and saw a weird rainbow crossing the sky and closing the distance with him. The rainbow broke through the window before Robert could take cover, hitting him in the chest and knocking him down. The hit knocked the wind out of him, so he instinctively rolled to position himself over his aggressor. He saw a female blue pony with a rainbow-colored mane between his legs, trying to hit him with her hooves while shouting.
“You think you can come here, scare everypony and steal whatever you want! Not on my watch!” she said.
Robert found himself able to overcome the pony’s physical strength, so he pinned her hooves down with one arm and the head with the other. Her wings, however, were stronger than his legs and managed to unbalance him with a few powerful beatings. The pony took the chance to free herself from him and buck him in the chest, making him fall backwards. Robert was surprised by how weak the impact was, a pony from Earth may have killed him with that kind of hit. He thought that maybe these ponies were to ponies from Earth what humans were to chimpanzees, so they were a lot weaker to compensate the superior intelligence. With that in mind he quickly got up while the pony prepared to buck him again. He jumped sideways to avoid the attack and left the room. He heard the pony’s wings behind him so he closed the door and barricaded it with a chair. He wiped the sweat from his forehead with relief, only to see Spike and Pinkie staring at him.
“What are you doing?” asked Pinkie.
“Pinkie Pie?! Is that you? Open the door!” a voice said from the locked room.
“Rainbow Dash? What are you doing here?” asked Spike.
“No time to answer! That monster locked me here and must be still in the library! We must find it before it escapes!”
Spike tried to open the door, but Robert grabbed him by the tail and lifted him to his eye level.
“Hey! Drop me!” he complained.
“What is going on out there?” asked Rainbow Dash.
“Why don’t you come and see it?” asked Pinkie.
“Because I can’t go out!”
“Can’t you leave through the window?”
“I...” the sound of wings beating could be heard by Robert, Spike and Pinkie.
Robert dropped Spike carefully and grabbed the chair and wielded it like a weapon. A few seconds later the flying rainbow came into the library and tried to hit Robert again, but this time he used the chair as a baseball bat and hit his opponent with it. The chair shattered and the pegasus was diverted to the wall by the force of the impact. Robert dropped the remains and grabbed another chair, the last one in the corridor. Rainbow Dash slowly got on her hooves again, disorientated after hitting her head with the wall.
“What are you two doing?!” Pinkie managed to say, “why are you fighting?!”
“Monster... Dangerous... Protect Ponyville” mumbled Rainbow Dash.
She tried to hit Robert with her fore hooves, but she only managed to graze his legs. He decided that hitting her again would be a bad idea, so he dropped the chair and took a few steps away from the pony.
“Dashie, stop it! He’s not bad, see?” said Pinkie.
“But he... Panic in the streets... Twilight’s room... With a chair...” complained Rainbow Dash.
“You should rest for a while, you hit your head hard and you aren’t making sense” said Spike, “we will tell you about him when you recover”.
Rainbow nodded and fell to the ground, either asleep or unconscious. Spike brought a pillow and put it under her head, then he rubbed his temple.
“Let me guess, she attacked you without provocation, right?” he asked Robert, who nodded in response. “You shouldn’t have hit her so hard, though”.
Robert shrugged, ‘this place is more dangerous than I expected, at least I’m stronger than these ponies’.
“What were you doing in Twilight’s room?” asked Pinkie, “there are no party books there”.
He used one of the broken remains of the chair as a fake rifle, then covered his ears. Both Pinkie and Spike looked at him with confusion, until the latter realised what Robert meant.
“Twilight locked your things in a chest. You will have to wait until she comes back, her spell won’t let us open it”.
Robert crossed his arms over his chest and frowned, ‘first they manipulate my weapons without my consent and manage to fire my rifle and now they don’t let me recover them. Great, just great. I’m going to, I’m going to... Shit, literally’. He had seen a toilet in the bathroom while he was looking for his possessions, so he had decided it was about time he pooped in a real toilet. It was, after all, one of the things he had missed the most since he left Earth.
When he left the bathroom and went downstairs he found that Twilight was already back. She, Spike and Pinkie were sitting around a table.
“Pinkie, for the last time, he does not want to have a book party!” said the unicorn with frustration.
“...Then why didn’t he tell me?”
“Because he can’t talk!”
“Oooooh”
Twilight didn’t notice Robert sitting in the couch next to her as she spoke with Pinkie, so he clapped his hands once, startling her.
“When did you...?” she shook her head, “the Mayor has managed to calm everypony down. However, you won’t leave the library until we decide what to do with you”.
Robert frowned.
“You must understand. Nopony has ever seen something like you, so they are frightened. Moreover, the more we know about you, the more dangerous you seem. Will you stay here for a few hours so I can go to Zecora’s and ask her if she knows anything about you?”
‘How can I convince her of the futility of her plan? It’s not like that “Zecora” is going to know anything’ he thought.
He tried with gestures, but it was useless. Drawing didn’t help, either. He ended up writing curses all over the paper.
“That’s mean! Why would you write that?” asked Pinkie Pie.
They all looked at her, dumbfounded.
“Pinkie... You can read what he’s writing?” managed to ask Twilight.
“Of course I can, silly filly!”
“But, but... Where did you learn to read something like that?!”
“Well, duh, my parents taught me! They said it was ‘ye olde writing’ that ponies used before”.
“Wha- how- AAAARGH” shouted Twilight, frustrated by Pinkie’s explanations . “If ponies wrote like that before, how is it that I’ve never read about it during my studies while your parents have?”
“Because they are Amish!” Pinkie answered, a bit angry.
Twilight raised a hoof and opened her mouth to reply, then she closed it and lowered the hoof.
“Pinkie Pie, you are SO random. At least now we’ll be able to properly communicate”.
“FINALLY” wrote Robert, “don’t try to learn anything about me from people here, it’s useless.”
Pinkie began reading aloud Robert’s messages. At first, his terrible calligraphy forced the pink pony to read slowly, most of the time mistaking words. Due to that he began writing slower, trying to make himself understandable. It was a slow method of communication, as they all had to wait until Robert finished writing, but it was much more effective than gesturing.
“I came here because I heard one of my weapons being used. They need constant supervision from someone who knows what he’s doing, so give them to me before something bad happens”.
“I can’t do that, for all we know you could use them to hurt ponies”.
Robert hit the table with a fist, startling the ponies, but he remained calm enough to continue writing.
“My name is Robert Eisenfaust, I am a human from planet Earth.”
“Earth as in ground, floor?”
“Exactly. My ship crashed on your world a week ago. I am the last survivor of my crew. I come in peace to...”
“Equestria” said Pinkie before Robert wrote the question.
“...Equestria. I can’t leave your planet, as I can’t repair and drive my ship alone. I will answer your questions now”.
“Well... That’s a lot to take in, Robert” said Twilight, “first, when did you learn to speak Equestrian?”
“Where did you learn to speak English? The language you call Equestrian is the same I speak since I remember. I don’t know how it is possible for two separate worlds to have the same language”.
“What do you mean when you say that you are from other world?”
“You know what stars are, don’t you?”
“Of course, they are the tiny lights that Princess Luna brings along with the Moon at night”
Robert facepalmed, ‘why couldn’t I land in a Star Wars world?’
“The sun is a star, it’s bigger because it’s very close to Equestria. I come from another world that orbits another star. Yes, planets orbit stars, not the other way around”. he added the last phrase when Twilight gave him a weird look.
“That’s impossible, Princess Celestia makes the sun rise every day!”
“Who are these princess? Are they your gods?”
“That is right, they are our beloved goddesses and rulers of Equestria”.
“Goddesses as in immortal and all-powerful?”
“Well, I have never seen them use all their power, but they sure are immortal”.
“I will believe that when I see it. Let’s change the topic, I don’t want to speak / write about astronomy, religion and politics at the same time”.
“Hum... How is your world like?”
“It’s very similar to Equestria, but humans are the only intelligent species there. Many animals are identical in both worlds, but here you are all more intelligent than Earth ones. For example, I saw a bunny that was more intelligent that any non-human on Earth. We don’t have dragons, for us they are fictional creatures“.
“Are there ponies on Earth?”
“Yes, but they aren’t sentient” he decided that telling them about using horses for war, travelling, plowing fields, eating them, making glue and etcetera wasn’t a good idea.
“I would love to know more about your home, but we don’t have time. Why did you leave?”
“It was a mission. We were supposed to establish a human settlement wherever we landed, but we failed. We were also trying to prove some theories regarding space travel”.
Twilight was also scribbling something on a piece of parchment, “more questions for later” she said when they asked her what it was.
“Now I want to know more about you. How old are you?”
“I’m 25 years old. We usually live about 80 years”.
“Are you a representative specimen of humanity?”
“What kind of question is that? Yes, I think I am. Most humans are physically weaker than me, though. My job requires me to be athletic”.
“Do you have any ability that ponies don’t?”
“I doubt it. Moreover, magic does not exist on Earth, so in any case you are the ones that have extra abilities”.
“A world without magic?” she shivered. “Next topic... What do you eat?”
“My species is omnivorous. We can’t digest some of the vegetables you ponies eat, but we eat meat”.
“That explains the fangs. What is-” she stopped asking when Robert began writing again.
“I’m really hungry, is there anything to eat here?”
“You don’t want to eat a pony, do you?” asked Pinkie when she finished reading.
“Vegetables are fine, as long as I know that I can eat them. I can’t digest grass and leaves, for example”.
“What about cakes? Can you eat pastries?” she asked with suppressed excitement.
“I can eat them and I like them... It is weird when you read my answers to your own questions, if someone is snooping he may think you are crazy”.
Twilight remembered what Dash told her about Pinkie and her imaginary friends, so she decided to change the subject.
“Robert, I must tell you that eating meat is going to be near impossible. However, Fluttershy may have meat substitutes that you can eat. She usually deals with carnivores so you should ask her”.
“That’s good. Now, I must stress how important it is for me to recover my possessions. Or, if I can’t have them, let me at least go back to Fluttershy’s house. There I will probably be safe when things begin exploding”. He maintained a serious frown, if they discovered his lie he may lose their trust.
“... You are kidding, right?”
He shook his head. Twilight began doubting, she had witnessed one of his artifacts in action and she didn’t know what the others could do. After a few seconds she gave up.
“Follow me, I will let you check them. But if you do something that looks dangerous I will take them off of you”.
Robert nodded and followed Twilight. She opened a door that lead downstairs, to the library’s basement. It was only one room filled with strange machines and laboratory instruments. She stopped in front of a wooden and metal chest, ‘it looks like the chests of Zelda’s games’ thought Robert. Her horn glowed and the chest opened itself. He slowly grabbed his rifle and removed the magazine, then he switched the safety on. He did the same with his pistol and Matheus’ rifle. He showed Twilight a bullet.
“What is that thing?”
He looked around and noticed a small hole in a wall. He pointed the bullet and the hole alternatively. He gave the bullet to Twilight, who grabbed it with her magic. While she was inspecting it he took his technoglove and hid it in one of his pockets.
“How does these... weapons work?” she asked, but he made a “later” gesture.
He placed the weapons inside the chest and took the bag with all the food. ‘The astronaut food will keep me healthy until I learn what I can eat safely’ he thought. He also took two walkie talkies, as he thought they might be useful to show that not everything he carried was meant to kill things. He was surprised to find that he hadn’t let them behind with the rest of useless things when Matheus killed himself.
“What is in there?” Robert answered with an “eating” gesture. “And those black things?” he made the same “later” gesture, “OK, I’m going to close it now”.
They both left the basement after Twilight finished channeling the locking spell. Pinkie Pie had decided to invite Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack and, by Robert’s demand, Lyra to the “Welcome to Ponyville slumber party” she had decided to throw for Robert that night.
“Should we write to Princess Celestia now?” asked Spike.
“I don’t want to bother her. We will learn more about him and then I will send her a complete report” answered Twilight.
Robert spent the rest of the morning until lunchtime learning to write in Equestrian with Twilight’s help while Pinkie Pie and Spike played with the walkie-talkies. He wanted to be able to write and read as ponies did. They were eating when Rainbow Dash showed up, fully recovered. Twilight quickly explained everything to her. The pegasus was a bit stubborn at first, refusing to believe that he came from another world,but after a few minutes she accepted Robert’s story and apologized for attacking him. Robert apologized back for hitting her too hard, but she told him not to worry. Twilight invited her to have lunch and Pinkie invited her to the party. After they ate she left to “continue her training”, which meant she wanted to take a nap, and Pinkie went to invite everypony else and work on the party preparations. Robert and Twilight continued with Equestrian writing the until the evening without interruptions, but the constant stream of Pinkie Pie nonsense that came from the walkie talkie that Spike held gave Robert a powerful headache that made him regret giving the pink pony such an artifact. When he finished his lesson he could slowly read and write like a small foal. Twilight thought that he could reach an acceptable level with two or three lessons more.
Pinkie Pie appeared and arranged everything for the party. Lyra and Fluttershy arrived shortly after she finished and were delighted to see that they could communicate with Robert thanks to the party pony.
Rarity arrived fashionably late, and she was more surprised by Robert’s clothing than himself. They both “talked” for awhile and Rarity immediately liked him after hearing that humans were almost always clothed. She was already planning to design clothes for him when Applejack appeared.
“Howdy girls! Pinkie told me she was preparing a party for a newcomer. Who’s the... What the hay is that?!” she said, staring at Robert.
“Pinkie, you forgot to tell Applejack that the party wasn’t for a pony?” asked Twilight.
“Oopsie!”
After they explained her everything she quickly overcame the shock and befriended Robert. Rainbow Dash showed up a few minutes later and the slumber party officially began.
Robert learned a lot about Equestria and the ponies, he was really surprised when they told him about other sentient species such as gryphons and minotaurs. When they told him about the Elements of Harmony and some of their adventures he gave up trying to rationalize anything else and decided to just accept it all, including the cutie marks and how they managed to hold things with their hooves. He noticed that Lyra didn’t know much more than him about the other ponies, as she didn’t belong to their group. She told them about her own friends, like her roommate Bon Bon.
“Your roommate? I thought you two were...” began Rainbow Dash.
“We’re not lesbians!” replied Lyra, “I don’t know where that rumour started, but it’s false”.
Robert took that chance to ask them something that had been bothering him for awhile.
“Where are the male ponies? I haven’t seen any,” read Pinkie when he asked her.
“Well, Ponyville is sort of famous for having a large proportion of mares. Many colts have special talents that don’t have high demand on small towns, so they move to the big cities. There are many small villages in Equestria whose only males are the police officers and some farmers”, Twilight answered.
“So the cutie mark you acquire is determined by your gender?”
“The short answer is ‘yes’. The long one is that we don’t know, as cutie marks seem to obey some kind of magic that nopony really understands. Many ponies have tried to solve that mystery with no real progress”.
“Twilight... What is a lesbian?” asked Spike.
“Well, uh... Hey! The book says we have to tell scary stories now!” she quickly said.
Twilight wanted them to follow all the steps in her “Slumber 101” book, but they convinced her to leave it in its shelf when she read an annex about drinking and kissing games when there were ponies of both genders present. Robert had never had a slumber party before, as it was a “girly thing”. When he was a boy sometimes he would have a sleepover at a friend’s house, but they usually played video games until their parents told them to sleep. There were moments when he felt as if he was out of place, but he wasn’t the only one, Spike had the same feeling. Due to that, Robert played with Spike like his father did with him when he was a child while the ponies dressed up, gossiped and played on their own. It was much easier for Robert to play with the dragon, as he was more similar to a human, and he refused to have his hairstyle changed or his beard of two weeks shaved (although he knew he really needed a haircut and shaving). After a while Robert found himself sword fighting with a broomstick against Spike, who was surprisingly skilled.
Before they went to sleep Robert asked some questions more.
“How old are you? You are adults, don’t you?” he wrote.
“We sure are. We’re all over 14, which is when ponies are considered adults” said Pinkie Pie, “we mature faster than humans, from what you’ve told us, but we also have a smaller lifespan, a pony older than 60 is really old. Why would you ask that?”
“Because this is the kind of party human girls love when they are young”.
“You’re just like gryphons, then” said Rainbow, laughing, “as soon as they are old enough to drink it’s as if there’s nothing else to do!”
They didn’t have enough beds for all of them, so Twilight brought sleeping bags for everypony. Robert had realized during the party how different ponies were, ‘what kind of human would have a party with an alien after meeting him? They are so friendly it’s almost scary’ he thought. He fell asleep surrounded by ponies with a smile on his face.