How would you handle waking up one morning on a camping trip to find everything had changed? Your environment seemingly hostile to outsiders, a far cry from the benign forest near your hometown where you went to sleep that night. Though this forest doesn't directly harm you, it feels almost malicious to your presence.

This is the story of Gerald Helfeld, a man who found himself thrown into the foreign land of Equestria, and soon finding that the forest of monstrosities and oddities is the closest thing to home he has, as outside the forest, many natural processes he takes for granted are manually done, even something as unflinching as the rise and set of the Sun and Moon.

As he begins to accept his situation, he learns that magic isn't as impossible as he might have believed, and even discovers a talent of his own through this turn of events. Why did he suddenly end up in Equestria? What is this talent and why does he have it? Let's find out!

A few things to note:

I'm still looking for editors, if you're interested in helping with editing(Including pointing out things that you feel are plotholes without current or future explanation), please comment or PM me.

Currently I'm intending for this story to occur post-Season 8, though with where I'm at I may change this based on creative choice before it becomes relevant to the story. If references are made that lock the story before or after a given series of events, it is safe to assume that implication will remain true for the future of this story.

Thanks to Warlite the Human Guy for his help editing the original versions of chapters 1 through 6.