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// It Can Be Said 
// Story: Broned 
// by xXQw3rtyXx 
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"Okay Eric, why don't you introduce yourself to the town," Twilight gestured me to the curtains, with a smile, of course. 
"I don't know, the people seem pretty nervous, Maybe we should do this tomor-"
"No, we do this now, or they will never get used to you. It's not easy to gather every single pony in Ponyville into one group."
"Ok fine,"

I took deep breathes, and walked through the curtains onto the stage of the theater where everypony was. They all looked at me in fear, some looked at me in disgust, other in just pure awe. 
There was a microphone on the stage. I proceeded to grab it.
"Erm.., uuhh.. Hi, everypony," sweat dripped down my neck. I was used to speaking in front of large crowds of people, but no ponies, this was a complete different story.
"My name's Eric, and, I, umm..."
A few ponies snickered, others, who seemingly feared me before began to sprout grins. 
Even I muttered some compromising jokes under my breath, but I pulled myself together.
"So, um, you all think I'm some mythical creature, right? One you've never, ever seen? Well I can tell you, I'm not. I'm just like any one of you."
A smartass pony from the crowd commented on that, "What do you mean, just like us? You're nothing like us."

I decided to ignore it, "I come from a world, a place just like yours, where you are mythical creatures to us. From where I come from, we didn't have unicorns or pegasi, you just came from a dream of some very creative imaginations. Now I can tell you, this place here is much better than ours, our corrupted governments, dirty, polluted air, I'm glad to be here, but I have no idea how. I'm lost, I'm confused, and I need help. I have friends and family back home, and I have no idea how to get there. I'm just like any of you, I have emotions, I have feelings, I have knowledge, and most of all, I am just a mortal."

I waited a couple seconds for that to sink in. I don't know how I did it. I wasn't one for speeches, much less oral representations. I don't even know how that all came from the top of my head. 

But it seemed to do the trick. All the ponies seemed to smile, or at least lose their fear of me. Some even clapped, which soon evolved into a standing ovation, or a pony equivalent to a standing ovation. I don't even know what it was for, I just gave a speech about myself.





According to Twilight, the date was fourth moon, whatever that meant. I didn't really understand how they measured date and time here in Equestria. I understand they do have the standard clock time, but months, years, even days were kind of fuzzy. I always thought a moon was a unit of time, not a way to measure it.

It's been three days since I gave that speech, and I've already made a couple friends outside of the Mane Six and Luna. Their names don't ring a bell in any side or background characters. Moonlight and Second Crescent, two brothers, dark colored ponies with deep navy blue eyes that were professionals in harvesting magic from the moon. Along with them, there were Sprinkletop, Saucyshot, Neolit, and Trina.

Except, I spent most of my time in a well lit secluded room in Canterlot castle. I was really just under inspection by Luna and Celestia, I think Celestia, I haven't seen her yet, but I treated this experience as if I were an exclusive member to the community.

Every morning, afternoon, and evening, I would get baked fish with bread and vegetables ranging from lettuce to carrots, in a box. It wasn't exactly au revoir, but it would have to do, as they had no idea what I ate, or how it was served.

The clock struck 6:00, and Luna entered the room with my box of food.
"How are you doing, Eric?"
"Fine, you?" 
"I'm great, heres your food, how do you feel about salmon?"
"Salmon, awesome," I said half-heartadly, "you know I eat my food of a plate, right? Just like you guys."
"Okay, duly noted," Luna 'floated' me the box of food, and left. 

All I had to do was read books from a shelf of books, but I was allowed to go out any time I wanted, but the only time I did was get lost in the corridors, and end up in Celestia's dorm, where I was busted by Flash Sentry. Oh the irony. I'm still allowed to leave, I just see no reason to. I can do all the exercise in this room, with this hugeass 15 pound book, and I could run around all I wanted to, it was a pretty big room. I also had access to the porch. I tried to avoid that porch, evil, daunting porch. I the only thought I had when I stood out there was when I would get back to my world, if my friends and family were okay. The sun also almost blinded me, so.

There was actually no rotation in Equestria. The sun didn't prance and move throughout the sky, it stayed in one area until nighttime came, and it slowly dipped down below the mountains.

I wondered, if Celestia and Luna were sister princesses for Equestria, do other portions of the planet get the sun and moon?

That's when it hit me,

I would write down a list of questions not answered on my planet in our fandom, and then get these answers out to everybody.

I grabbed the pad of paper and quill that was on my bedstand, and begin writing the question I just asked, and listed it as number 1.

"Okay, what next?" 

I left my dorm and wandered around the halls. One thing I noticed was the acrylic glasslike art in all the paintings. It wasn't like the paintings we had, or resembled any proportion. It was just a jumble of straight lines formed to make a pony or whatever. It was like glass cathedral art. I wrote this down as number 2.

"Interesting, interesting," I mumbled to myself I encountered a few royal guards on my walk, along with Owlsalicious, which meant Twilight was close. 

Something else also struck me, would it be possible for a human to compose magic? Of course this can't be answered simply by asking a question. I don't believe that it's possible, but if Twilight gave me a spell to temporarily make me a unicorn, or if Zecora administered a potion, I might just be able to be the first human to actually use real magic. 

A dark figure peeked around the corner of the hall. 

"Hello? Hey!" I tried to say hi to the pony, well, I thought it was a pony, it probably was, but I couldn't get a good look at it because it dashed away as soon as I opened my mouth. Of course, I chased after it like the idiot I am.
"Yo! Stop! I just wanna say hi! BRO CHILLAX!" My suspicions were confirmed, it was a dark colored pony, but I had never seen it on the show. From this angle, the cutie mark looked like an upside down rose with a grey petal, it had a metallic like mane that represented a dark silverish color, and its coat was an extremely dark grey, HTML color code #2E2E2E.

"Can you just stop for one second!" We were running straight past the bends to the mirror hall, which was a dead end, "stop, please!"

I was slowly gaining on this pony because humans generally run faster, but this was one helluva speedy one. 

Right before I cornered him at the largest mirror, he turned around. I got a good glimpse at his face, scarred, steely, yellowy eyes, but couldn't make out any features as I was blinded by a huge flash of rainbow light, and was thrown back with much force, and I think that every single mirror in the room broke. 

I couldn't get up, but I could clearly notice that the pony that I was chasing wasn't here any more. I lie on the ground, head pounding, ans possible massive blood loss at the consideration of the millions of shards of glass that just fell on me. Slowly my sight faded, and I fell asleep.