Yea, this requires some beforehand commentary.

This story is written in third and first person to get the right affect. Third is italics (marked by ~ at the beginning and end of the paragraph since I can't get it to save as HTML), first is normal.

In most of my stories, I have made my ponies "anthro" so they can do useful things like hold stuff. So my characters walk on two legs.

This story is a tiny morsel of the larger, sprawling, uncontrolled saga I've somehow created in my head. This one has a beginning and an end, fear not, and so I only need to explain a few things before you read this.

Tyler can only communicate telepathically. He's a derkin, and all of them are somewhat telepathic, and he is extremely powerful in the mind- manipulation area. Tyler doesn't hear voices but receives the input of the emotions behind the words and forms those into an untarnished meaning of what the person is saying. Appearence: silver, white mane and tail

Mystic is a normal mortal guy who got sucked into a pretty abnormal life. I won't go into details, because it doesn't matter for this story, and I'd hate to ruin the plot of other stories! Appearance: All black

This story is set in the Sky Kingdom, an immortal kingdom of the Council—don't worry about it. It's not important to this story, either.