//------------------------------// // Chapter 10 // Story: New Beginnings // by Hiver //------------------------------// Day 96. Three months on this world. Almost a hundred days... and I think I'm starting to acclimatize. Walking on four hooves, lifting things with my mind and front hooves. Even then, Equestria is rather strange. For one thing, I have had a Princess drop by in my dreams a couple of times. First she was curious. Then I showed her some of Earth and experimented a bit. As it turns out, as long as she is in my head, it's a very lucid dream rather than the normal nonsense. Which meant that I could actually 'show' her Star Wars than simply give her a poorly told verbal story. I think I remembered the entire thing. It's funny, I would never be able to tell you on which side of Luke Leia stood during the escape from the Death Star in that corridor, but on the TV in my dreams, it played out perfectly. No, really. As Luna said, the memory is a funny thing. No, seriously, I couldn't remember what I had for breakfast some days. But apparently I could remember every single button on a console of the Galactica. Well, in a dream state with Luna's help at least. She makes really good popcorn, by the way, and I just realized I hang out what is effectively a goddess. Perhaps not with a capital G, but still. I'm pretty sure she would outrank the greek guys on Olymp- XXXXXXXXXX “Your tea, Page.” Silver Leaf said as she put the tray down on the table before using a hoof to put the cup down in front of me. I couldn't help but smile as I put the quill down and closed the journal. “Thank you, Silver.” I said before I raised an eyebrow at her expectant look. What exactly was she up to? That's not what I ordered. I took a sip and then blinked down at the tea in surprise. “...Cinnamon... cardamom... ginger? Is that clove? Mixed in with the black tea?” She nodded. “I looked into the blend you described to me... like a month ago? This is the best I came up with. What do you think, we might add it to the collection.” I took another sip. “It's nice. A bit strong... could do with milk and sugar. Or honey..” It helped if you didn't think about where they got their milk from. Here, cows were... employees. ...Crap, I'm thinking about it. Silver Leaf nodded slowly. “Yeah... I think I can see that. Want me to get a new one?” “No, no this is good. I'll just have some sugar. It's good as it is.” “I'll be right back!” Smiling, I shook my head and picked the quill back up, reopening the journal. That's one of the reasons I keep coming here that didn't involve their brilliant tea. Silver Leaf was always so cheerful... to basically everyone. It really lifted my mood. XXXXXXXXXX -os. Still, she seemed to enjoy herself. It's nice to have somepony else to talk to who isn't completely comfortable with this world. From what I gather of what she has said, the world now is almost as different from what she is used to as it is from my own. Her world... much less advanced and more full of conflicts. Apparently this is a time of peace that has lasted for a long time. She is nice... if a bit loud and, well, royal at times. Lots of loud proclamations and a lot of 'We' instead of I. I actually have a real world meeting with her tomorrow, something about wanting to show me the royal archives? Luna had found what I managed to show her of Earth interesting. It was harder to do than I expected but I did manage some things. A city street, people and cars everywhere. An airshow. She really liked that one. As a sidenote, according to Luna, humans look really strange, especially the way we move. A kind of... flowing motion that makes it look like we are about to tip over at any moment. In any case, I have both today and tomorrow fr- XXXXXXXXXX “Here you go.” Silver Leaf said and put the bowl down in the middle of the table. “Please enjoy.” “Thank you, Silver. You're a star.” I answered with a smile before turning back to the journal. XXXXXXXXXX -ee. Quill is heading off to meet family and is closing the store during that time. I offered to keep it open for him, I do after all handle most of the work and customer contact, but he just shook his head with a chuckle and told me to find a mare and relax for a couple of days. In a way, I'm actually going to take his advice, funnily enough. Going to be interesting to see what Luna wants to show me. Page, signing off. PS: Ponies control the weather. Because of course they do. Pegasi push clouds around by hoof to where they need to be. They manufacture clouds in Cloudsdale. I don't know why I keep being surprised by these things.