Spike sat opposite Artemis, eyeing the human suspiciously. Like twilight he noticed that he noticed that Artemis walked bipedal like him, however the thing he noticed most was the human's hands. The only creature he noticed before with hands like that, at least a creature with any real sentience was a dragon. This had spike worried, after his last experience with dragons, he knew that they mostly thought only for themselves and the harm of others.
Spike left the human gawking around at the inside of the library, and expressed his fears to twilight, who was busy making tea for all of them.
“Oh you little worry wart, he was staying with the princess’s. I’m pretty sure if he was a dragon spy they would of noticed.”
“Besides,” she said in a hushed tone so Artemis wouldn’t hear. “He’s soft and flabby, not scaly like you, and have you ever noticed a dragon so amazed by a library?”
She quickly added, “Besides you?” as he went to indicate himself.
“You’re probably right Twilight, and he is kinda funny looking.” Spike exclaimed, the loud part coming out of his mouth a little too loudly.
As they entered the living room again, twilight hovering a pot of steaming tea and a plate of biscuits to the table, Artemis gave spike a grin.
“Ahh you heard that last part?” Spike said shamefully.
“It’s alright” answered Artemis “I’m just amazed to be in equestria, and besides, I know you can act first and think later spike.”
“A bit like Rainbow Dash i guess.” Artemis continued thoughtfully.
“About that” Twilight interjected, pausing only to pour herself, spike and her guest a cup of tea and to take a sip of her own. “How exactly do you know about us?”
“The princesses weren’t exactly clear with all the details. All I had been told was to expect a guest, that the guest was a human and not from around here, a list of certain, ‘requirements’, shall I say, that you were to be kept secret, at least this morning anyway. Which reminds me I need to open up soon. And that you seemed to know certain things about us already.”
After twilight had finished talking, Artemis sat drinking his tea carefully, it was bitter and he wasn’t used to the taste, but he did so not to offend his pony host. He thought quickly on about to respond.
“I’m not sure how much I can tell twilight, Like you I was told to be careful about what I said to anypony. Although I would imagine you, as the favourite student of Celestia.” Spike glared at him as he made this error.
“Um princess Celestia I mean, I would imagine you wouldn’t count as just anypony”
Twilight just smiled a bit at the compliment, and a small blush reddened her violet cheeks.
“But the story is complex, and may not be believable, Although I guess if anypony would believe me, it would be you.”
All through the speaking, Artemis couldn’t quite believe how easily he was finding it to substitute pony terms for his own.
“Anyway,” Artemis continued, “You need to open the library and it may take a while to explain.”
“hmm” “You may be right Artemis, but I’m sure Spike can handle on his own for a while. In any case, lets show you to where you will be staying for now.”
Twilight headed up the stairs that lead to the balcony where her bed lay within the tree, Artemis wondered for a second if he would be staying up there with her, but halfway up the stairs, twilight pressed what seemed to simply be a knot in the wood and a door in the side of the wall opened up.
Behind the door lay a spacious room, that was bright and airy, if a bit on the small side. At first it looked like the only source of light was a lamp in the ceiling, however twilight went over to a circular shape in the wood, pressing her front right whoove to the circular shape, she stated.
“Here’s a window in case you need it, hopefully everything is suitable for you.”
I examined the room, and nodded readily.
“Good,” Twilight said, smiling honestly, now for the rest of the morning I think we should discuss how you know so much about us.” Looking at me carefully, studying me it seemed, “I’ll do my best to understand, and believe you. This afternoon we can see my friends, after all there are some supplies we still need to get you” Twilights horn glowed purple as she summoned a list through the door from downstairs.
Twilight consulted the list for a minute “Hmm lets see, we still need to get you some clothes, so I think Rarity should be the first stop, give her time to take some measurements and whip something up for tomorrow at least.”
“Next on the list is some food, I’ve heard from the princess’s that you’re an omnivore, well we don’t eat meat, and It also says you can't eat things like hay, So I guess we should go visit The apple’s stall in town, that means meeting my friend Applejack. We should also pick up some foods to provide things like iron so we can quickly visit the other stalls. Although not for too long, we won’t have too much time left and we don’t want to cause too much of a stir.”
After studying the list a little more, “That should be enough for today, no doubt you will run into my other friends out and about, and word won’t take long to spread and they will probably come see you here soon anyway.”
After hearing about how much stuff they had to buy, Artemis spoke up “Um, Im grateful for the help, but it’s not as if I have any money to pay for those things, and I can hardly expect you to pay.”
“Not to worry” Twilight explained cheerfully. “The princess’s sent some money to tide us over for now, as I said, and it shouldn’t take long to find you some way to earn some bits.”
“But anyway...” She said grabbing my arm with her right foreleg and dragging me down back to the living room. “Let’s discuss where your from and how you know us.”