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Shopping For Books With Moondancer
Oct. 14th, 2015 11:12 pmI took the train to Canterlot, went to Moondancer's house, and from there we went shopping for books. Her favorite bookseller had a good selection of speculative fiction, mostly published by Dell Neigh, Pace Speculation and Zebra Science Fiction. I picked up Foalhood's End by Halter C. Cart plus a few reference books. I looked at books on stone masonry, ceramics, topiary, meditation, embryology, cabinet making, cookbooks. Shopping for my own collection is not the same as stocking a public library. So I got a cookbook and the book on meditation, plus The Art of Invisibility Spells and Thornhoof's Brief History of Canterlot (two books I lost when the Golden Oak was destroyed). This reminds me, I should see if Applejack will lend me her past issues of Poplar Mechanics magazine.
After buying our books we went to a nearby café to eat. Moondancer passed to me two of the five books she had borrowed from the ancient castle library. Snow Flake Architecture, and Star Formation. She had finished reading them and asked me to return them.
We talked of the mirror verse that Sunset Shimmer is studying, how it must be artificial, unlike the Breezieverse. We mulled over whether it could be a real, independent universe or just a magical reflection of our universe. I argued that it is probably the latter. Sunset Shimmer, Spike and I all changed form and gained clothes on passing through the mirror. Every entity there has an Equestria equivalent. The fact that some species are apparently not mirrored neither supports nor refutes either side of the argument. (Namely, dragons, griffins, cows, sheep, zebras.) And final argument, Starswirl used it to trap three sirens 1,000 years ago and they haven't aged or changed attitude in all that time. That does not sound like an independent universe ticking along on its own and mirroring Equestria by shear accident.
Before we parted ways and I headed back to the train station, Moondancer told me that she is to be a guest lecturer at Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, presenting her research and field data on the windigo, Winter! That's in four weeks time. I'm going to sit in on that, I wouldn't miss it for anything! Well, almost anything.
Moondancer is going to see if Minuette, Twinkleshine, Lemon Hearts and Lyra Heartstrings are free to attend the lecture I'll be giving for the Canterlot Explorer's Society. If they all say yes, that will be 11 guests. I guess my parents would like to attend too. I should ask them. And my brother, and Princess Cadence and Princess Celestia...
After buying our books we went to a nearby café to eat. Moondancer passed to me two of the five books she had borrowed from the ancient castle library. Snow Flake Architecture, and Star Formation. She had finished reading them and asked me to return them.
We talked of the mirror verse that Sunset Shimmer is studying, how it must be artificial, unlike the Breezieverse. We mulled over whether it could be a real, independent universe or just a magical reflection of our universe. I argued that it is probably the latter. Sunset Shimmer, Spike and I all changed form and gained clothes on passing through the mirror. Every entity there has an Equestria equivalent. The fact that some species are apparently not mirrored neither supports nor refutes either side of the argument. (Namely, dragons, griffins, cows, sheep, zebras.) And final argument, Starswirl used it to trap three sirens 1,000 years ago and they haven't aged or changed attitude in all that time. That does not sound like an independent universe ticking along on its own and mirroring Equestria by shear accident.
Before we parted ways and I headed back to the train station, Moondancer told me that she is to be a guest lecturer at Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, presenting her research and field data on the windigo, Winter! That's in four weeks time. I'm going to sit in on that, I wouldn't miss it for anything! Well, almost anything.
Moondancer is going to see if Minuette, Twinkleshine, Lemon Hearts and Lyra Heartstrings are free to attend the lecture I'll be giving for the Canterlot Explorer's Society. If they all say yes, that will be 11 guests. I guess my parents would like to attend too. I should ask them. And my brother, and Princess Cadence and Princess Celestia...
