Chapter Two
Recovery, and Pink Radicals
As my leg healed, I gradually spent more and more time being known by the local populace. As I was allowed to stroll outside to get the necessary exercise in for my leg to heal properly. I would go out early to move around in the early morning, dew on the grass, night still in the sky. I enjoyed this time as hectic as things had been recently. I had started with a "quick stroll" around the libraries circlet. As my leg healed to the point where the cast was removed, I began to stroll farther distances. Often leaving for up to an hour. I got to see quite a bit of the town during this time, and began to understand the layout of the place. I learned important locations relative to others. I as soon as I could walk for about an hour with no fatigue in my leg, I began to jog. I would jog to the Town Hall and back. As I slowly became accustom to that, I would go farther, and farther. Soon, I had to go all the way around the town. This was good, I had gotten a little better than I had been when I first arrived. I did't necessarily have to keep jogging in the mornings, but with free time, I had to do something. And as Twilight had gotten permission to allow me to be more publicly seen, I was to appear at a "quick" town meeting. It was not quick in the slightest, as Twilight was about the only one who new anything about me, and humans, she was given the opportunity to give a speech. Even I was getting sleepy at the end( And I had been a scientist in our would! Think you've sat through some repetitious stuff at work, or school? Try one of Twilights speeches.). After about twenty minutes on basic information, such as my strength, general temperament, my dimensions, and such, She got into history about my kind. Going as far back as before Modern Equestria. The mayor, having dosed of about five times by now (She may have a few more times, I had spaced out a couple myself), decided it was time for Twilight to stop and actually introduce me. So she invited me to stand next to the podium, though I had to bend over, and almost kneel, I was able to give my name (Randis, since I hadn't been Introduced yet in conversation) and say how glad I was that I was being so welcomed by everypony. I was quickly done, and we all left. There were a few ponies interested in the fact that a 'human' was among them, but not too many. So we had a little discussion outside the Town Hall with a few ponies. To name them, it was: Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie(Who was insisting that this called for a party), Rarity, Fluttershy(though she was actually just looking sheepishly at the ground), Carrot Top(Who was interested in knowing that I would stay out of her garden), Derpy Hooves(Who thought I would need to be recorded for an address), The Mayor Pony(I never got her name, she made sure that I would not cause more trouble than she already had to deal with, looking pointedly at Derpy), and a certain group of 'crusaders'( They thought I could somehow be a way to get a cutie mark, and I was advised by Twilight and Applejack to watch out for a few weeks). As for after the meetings, back at the library, Twilight began to teach me some stuff about their society. Much to her dismay, I already knew most of what she had planned to say. She neglected the fact that I had been working in the Library for several months now. With any amount of free time, I would select a book from a subject of interest. This had taught me a good deal about them all. I still got a lecture about early pony lore. It was informative to say the least. I learned who made potting spells, and even more about Starswirl the Bearded than I ever had considered wanting to know! I had had a quite long, informative, and tiring day. As had, thankfully, Twilight. So she cut short the lecture on who one of the most important unicorn magicians of all time was, and went on her way to sleep. I quickly followed suit.
The next day, I got up a little earlier than usual, and decided to visit each place in town I was likely to be sent to on an errand. This would save everypony a lot of trouble when it came to asking me to go get quills or parchment. They had so many peculiar stores in this town, one that stuck out the most was Quills and Sofas. WHY would you sell ONLY quills and sofas? Apparently they made a decent living doing so, but why QUILLS AND SOFAS? They don't even go together in the slightest, unless you decided you wanted to write on your sofa, but that was heading into the realm of Pinkie's thoughts, something I backed away from quickly. I decided to drop the peculiarity of most things and go with the flow.
As I was heading back I realized in walking to each destination, I had spent considerably more time out than usual. In fact, I was actually seeing several ponies out an about. I watched the weather patrols clear out clouds that had been accidentally shoved beforehand, and gardeners tending to their pastimes, I even saw Applejack tending to her apple stand. Another thing I had noticed, the Apples. They all were named for what they did. Applejack, Big Macintosh, Applebloom, Granny Smith, all were types of apples, or apple related. Nothing wrong with it, just interesting. As I headed back to the library, I saw Pinkie Pie being her usual, high strung, hyper active self. She was bouncing along quite happily, and had spaced almost everything from her mind, If she ever didn't, but when she saw me she seemed to remember something, and dashed off. I, not knowing what just happened, continued on my way. Later I would be in for a surprise. Upon entering the library, I saw Twilight looking slightly confused, I was usually back early enough to open curtains and do some simple chores, but taking a stroll quite longer than expected, hadn't had a chance to. After explaining such things, and taking up a few extra tasks to make up for it, The day was back on track.
At about five in the afternoon. Thats when we were all called to the Sugar Cube Corner, for a Pinkie related matter. The others all had a good idea of what was going on, I had not experienced such things yet, and was a novice in matters that dealt with Pinkie. We got inside and headed for her room, which as soon as we entered, was brightly lit with streamers, and balloons, and tables full of sweets, and drinks, and oh, so much was there to be seen! I had lost count of how many different ways she had arranged different decorations! And of course, Pinkie managed to make it a surprise party, by jumping from some point in space which managed to completely hide her, to RIGHT next to me. When I say right next to me I mean, If she had been closer we would have fused into some super Human Pinkie Pie crossover of some sort! Of corse, this made me jump off the floor far enough that a rocket jumping maniac would be hard pressed to beat me! This brought a good laugh to everyone present, and nearly gave me cardiac arrest. I had to give it to her, she threw a party! We arrived about five as I said, but the whole thing lasted until about nine, and that was with six ponies, and one human! I almost couldn't comprehend the possibility of there being more, it would last forever!
When we all parted ways, the pink mare made sure to include my birthday to her (more than substantial) list. I was again amazed at how she could do all of this without any form of time manipulation, then again, the way she acted it would not surprise me much if she did manipulate time. On the way back to the library, we, Twilight and I, got into a discussion on the topic of that particular pony. Pinkie, was as far as Twilight could tell, nearly always with a schedule fuller than that of her own, and at the same time, the radical element of laughter, was always wandering aimlessly somewhere at any given moment. After each giving input that involved theorems, and mathematics so complex, onlookers gave up listening entirely, we reached a conclusion. Pinkie Pie was to be deemed a free radical in the universe. Twilight was intent on discovering where her peculiar abilities lie, however, and decided to put more thought to it. I was going to sleep. I was not a pink pony with unlimited energy, and that party had been long, tiring, and filling. None of which was noticeable while in attendance, but outside of the environment, all were too pressing for thoughts other than, sleep.
Author Note:
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