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[Normally one who sleeps away the winter months, Xzana has once again opted to move into human housing so that she can be awake during it. So long as she keeps warm enough she shouldn't fall asleep and as long as she has the thing called a bathtub she can suit her needs of being submerged for long periods of time.

However, a bathtub is much more cramped than the lake she is use to during warmer weather and she simply must get out once in awhile. Today she has decided to chance spending a little time outside. She's a bit hesitant at first, seeing the white drops falling from the sky, but after a little longer she starts to have some fun.

She prances about, kicking up snow in her bare, clawed feet. Wearing nothing but a flora dress she found randomly at the clothing shop she's a bit odd to see around. She'll spend time skating through the rivers that run through the village as she makes her way to the grocery store. She'll eat her fill of some of the raw meat there before carrying an arm full of it back to the ground building. At least being alone on the top floor means it shouldn't smell too bad when that meat slowly starts to rot.

Feeling full and happy she opens her journal to speak into it. Still full of energy, but not wanting to spend more time outside and chance freezing into place. The one winter she had spent awake in her homeland her friend Casimir would read from his books.]

Humans. Have you any stories to share? I do not mind if they are long ones. Perhaps ones of battle and victories? [Those were always exciting.]

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Depends. What sort of story do you want? There's more than one kind with humans.

I do not mind. I have heard many stories. Ones that were true and those that are told to merely teach lessons to young. What is your favorite story?

The one about the great Star Fleet Captain that saved his entire crew from a lightning storm in space.

_{[ The story about his dad. Not that he said that's who it was, but it
was his favorite. He whispered it to himself at night as a kid, even though
as an adult he had balked the man's legacy for quite awhile. ]}

[Wait? Space? Star. She gets stars.] There are creatures that live among the stars!? [Is that even possible?]

Heh, sure. On other planets. See, some of those stars you see in the night sky? They have planets orbiting them, and they're just right for supporting life - like the one you live on. But to get to these other planets, you have to travel to them in big ships.

[What. What? What? This is... her mind... help.]

Big ships? There is a waterway that leads to the sky?

Not a waterway - no water involved. It all has to do with thrust and mass and a bunch of physics. But if it helps, yeah, the stars are the water and my ship is, well, a ship and space is our ocean.

So it flies like a bird in the sky? [She's trying so hard to understand it, but it's nearly impossible for her to picture. What she does picture just looks so silly.]

Yeah, that's another good description. Think of it like that, but much, much, much higher! Higher than any bird has ever flown.

It becomes very cold when one flies too high. Do you only fly in the time of sun and green? Humans do not do very well when it becomes too cold.

Well, see, my ship, it doesn't have openings. The environment is controlled inside, so we can control the temperature and keep from getting to hot or to cold.

No openings? Then there are no doors? How do you get inside of this ship? Are you born inside of it?

No, no it has doors and windows, but they can be sealed and unsealed so we can control the temperature.

[Temperature. That word again. Before she had been focused on the fact there were no openings. She's quite a moment. What could be controlled if there were no doors? Could he mean the wind? Was there a magic user on the ship? Maybe that's how they made it fly?]

Temperature... so you control the wind?

Hmm, no, that's not what temperature is. Temperature is how hot or cold something is, so we can control how hot and how cold the surrounding air is in our ship.

Weather. You have one that can control the weather. [Much easier to understand! She knew magic had to be involved somehow!] Have you run into the stars?

Haha, nope. See, they're actually all very far apart, and they're really big, so we see them long before we ever run into them.

Some do not look so very far apart. There are so many it would seem hard to miss them all.

It's because you see them from far, far away. You know how if you look down a row of houses, the ones at the end seem closer together than the ones in front and near you? It's the same thing.

[She's quiet for a moment. Thinking it over and recalling the images to mind. Then her eyes light up for a brief moment as she realizes that he was very right.] You are correct. They do appear to be close together although they are far.

So it's just like that! Except, these stars are so far apart that even so far away, they still look like they have quite a bit of space between them.

Hm. I do not think I shall ever be able to picture this story as it happened. I did not realize there was so much open area in the sky. I have never been able to fly so high in the sky the stars do not look close to each other.

[Not that she isn't trying. Her gruff voice sounding as dreamy as it could possibly go. Is there really that much room above her head?]

Then do you know why the stars are trapped in the sky and are only able to fall from the sky while the sun has returned each rise?

Well, the sky isn't really... the sky. I mean, it is the sky, but space is just that - space. Empty space. The stars are dense balls of gas held together through gravity and pressure. And the sun isn't actually moving - it's the earth that is. The earth, like a star, is a dense ball of mass held together through pressure and gravity, and it rotates around the sun and also turns in a circle itself. So when the sun goes down, it's really just the earth rotating enough so that that side of the earth is not facing the sun.

_{[ Was that 101 enough? He wasn't sure... ]}

[Not 101 enough for a creature like her by a long shot. You lost her at the sky isn't the sky.]

I do not think I will ever be able to understand the world as you humans do. Where the sky is only called the sky.

I guess I'll skip the whole levels of the atmosphere stuff then.

Atmosphere? What is that? [Also could be translated into: Skipping that would probably be most wise.]

Well, I don't know about battles, but I could try telling you about a pretty awesome victory. Or a couple. I've kinda had my share.

Alright. Tell me a story about a victory. A contest you were in then?

The contest. It's only the biggest event up in Cloudsdale, and I flew home with the prize.

[Granted, it wasn't all that easy.]

See, every year they host this event called the Best Young Flier's competition. Pegasus ponies gather from all over to show off their awesome, show stopping stunts. I had big plans to show off a Sonic Rainboom, but when my pal Fluttershy couldn't even give a half-decent cheer, the rest of my friends decided to tag along.

The problem is, only pegasus ponies can walk on clouds. Lucky for me, Twilight's an egghead. She had this spell to give ponies wings... and just walk on clouds. I guess she only had enough magic to give my pal Rarity wings... and maybe that wasn't such a bright idea in the long run.

[She'll let her soak that in before continuing. No need to overwhelm her with all the details at once, after all!]

Edited 2013-12-02 16:40 (UTC)

An egghead!? There are such creatures? We dragon lay eggs, but the shells are removed when they are hatched. Is it a creature who remains in their shell?

Well, no. Egghead's just a slang term-- it's for people who read way too much. I dunno how Twilight can even stand it.

A slang? [She thinks on that for a moment. Casimir use to read to her a lot. She wonders if he would be an egghead. He had always been strange for a human.]

Reading can be helpful to some, but I can not read at all. If she was able to use her skills in order to create wings she seems like an incredible Pegasus.

Well, actually, she's a unicorn-- well, I guess alicorn now. Last time she was here, she had wings and a horn, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't because of that spell.

[But while she's on the subject...]

So, when my friends came up to Cloudsdale, Rarity had this flashy set of butterfly wings, and everypony kept gawking at her, which just fueled her ego and made her enter the Best Young Flier competition. It was totally uncool, because I'd been practicing so hard to impress the judges! We're talking nonstop training with slick maneuvers only a real athlete could pull off.

I mean, I'm not mad at her now, but back then it was stressful. Maybe even a little scary. The worst part? We both wound up having to perform at the exact same time, and when Rarity flew up towards the sun to show off her wings, they burned right off, and she fell straight through the clouds.

It was a disaster!

[Not just because of the performance, but because it put one of Dash's closest friends in danger. Rarity may've gotten big headed, but that didn't stop Dash from caring.

But she'll get to those details soon.]

Her wings brunt off!? [Her own set of wings trembles just a bit. Wings burning off?! Scary!] How high in the clouds were you? Did she survive?

Way up there! 'Course, Cloudsdale's packed with pegasi, and the Wonderbolts dove right after her, but she sorta knocked 'em out with all her flailing.

[She can't help but chuckle at the mental image.]

'Course, I wasn't about to let one of my best friends become a pancake on the ground, so I rushed right after her, kicking up speed to make sure they all made it out okay. And the best part? Just as I reached them, I pulled off a Sonic Rainboom! I guess all it took was a little motivation.

And by the time it all ended, I wound up winning the competition, Rarity and I made up, and I even got to spend a whole day with the Wonderbolts! It was awesome.

A sonic rain... boom. Does that call down rain?

I am glad that you and your clan were able to get along together once again. It is important to stay strong together.

Nah. But it's this super cool mix of a sonic boom and a rainbow! The second I break the sound barrier, it creates this huge rainbow ring across the sky. And the best part? I'm the only pony who's ever pulled it off, and that was my second time.

I'd show you if that stupid power cap wasn't in the way. It seriously slows me down.

Sound barrier? Sound has a barrier? But it is... sound. [She's so confused.]

Sure, but sound only moves so fast. Breaking the sound barrier means I can move faster than it.

[She may not be an egghead, but she at least knows that much.]

Sound... moves? It is... sound. Sound is... sound. It does not move as it is sound. Is that not correct?

Uh, actually, sound sorta travels in waves. I don't know all the details, but I know that it kinda has to travel in order for us to hear it in the first place. It's just... invisible.

Invisible. Hmm. I do not think I could understand, but that is alright. I believe that you can really travel that fast.

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