I like the sky. It’s not just because I love flying or because it made me famous, either. I just think it’s really pretty. It’s especially pretty at night with all of the stars and the big glowing moon. Earlier today I went to Twilight’s huge crystal library tree thing to look for something fun and adventurous to get back into reading. Something like Daring Do. I don’t really get the whole decimal system, and I couldn’t find Spike or Twilight, so after wandering around a bit a really colourful book about space caught my eye. It was a kid’s book, technically, but I can’t understand all the complicated science stuff in any of Twilight’s textbooks, so it was perfect.
I must have been lost in the pictures of the planets, stars, galaxies, and simple explanations for a good hour or two before I was interrupted. I threw myself over the pages when Twilight asked me what I was reading. I wasn’t ashamed or anything, just surprised. She was really busy with something, but she stopped whatever it was to talk to me.
That’s the sad thing now. She’s so involved with being a princess that doesn’t talk to herself anymore. She doesn’t talk to herself through me about her crazy chemistry experiments, because I don’t think she’s done any at least since I came back, and probably not for a long time before then. Today, though, I saw a little bit of something I haven’t seen in over two years. She smiled and talked excitedly with big bright eyes just like I remember when she saw the page I was on about different types of stars. It made me smile, too. She was glad to see that I considered expanding my taste beyond fictional adventure novels, especially to books about science. I told her that I thought it didn’t really qualify as a real science book, but she said that science isn’t all about filling a whiteboard with complicated equations. I guess I’m a bit of a beginner scientist now.
Twilight wondered if I would be interested in another book about astronomy, and after about one entire second of consideration, five of them floated off the shelves in her freaky purple magic cloud. They were a bit more advanced than the one I had, but she was confident that I could understand them if I tried. I stayed in the library a little bit longer to finish off a chapter of the one I was reading, then I checked out all the books she recommended. Being off weather duty for the weekend, the only thing I really felt like doing when I got home was to get a start on them, so I did.
As I was reading, I remembered a certain quirk I found out about the one who had given them to me. Before I left, I knew Twilight could be found every Sunday night without fail in a particular field a little outside Ponyville with a telescope and notebook. She never told anypony she went out there, except for possibly Spike (who would never spill someone else’s secret), but I spied her doing it ever since she came to Ponyville. I’m not creepy or anything, I just like to fly at night sometimes. It’s in my nature to prank my friends and razz them around a bit whenever I see a good opportunity, but it never occurred to me to swoop down to give her a noogie or a good scare when she was doing her space stuff. She always looked so captivated and focussed on her work. Sometimes I would sit on a cloud and watch her. Maybe she’s the one that inspired my own affection for all those lights in the sky.
Perhaps she’d like some company out there. There’s nopony in the local area she really knows that has a keen interest for science stuff, especially not space science stuff. I wonder if she’d object to having me there with her for a night? Maybe she’ll talk through me to herself, and maybe I’ll actually understand some of what she’s saying this time. I’m a beginner scientist, after all.