"So, why don't I have one?"

We have gotten deep into talking about Equestria and its inhabitants. She told me all about earth ponies and pegasi and unicorns, what they do and how they do it. This was the last thing she was telling me about, these "cutie marks". I hadn't paid much attention to them until she brought it up. She told me about how they represent someone's special talent.

"Most likely because you haven't discovered your special talent yet."

"Alright." I didn't plan on staying here long enough to do so, but the information was interesting. "I'm ready to answer your questions now."

"Great!"

Suddenly, with a quick glow of her horn, she got out a quill and a long, long piece of paper. I looked at her curiously at why she had gotten them out.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm going to be learning things from you that isn't in any book in Equestria! I can't just miss this opportunity to learn! So, I'm going to be taking notes." She smiled brightly; she seemed seriously interested in me.

"Um, alright then" I've never seen someone so eager to learn before. "So, where should I start?"

"Tell me about you, these 'humans' you told me of a little bit ago."

"Well, humans are kind of complex. There are so many things I can say about humans. First, we've become technologically advanced in machinery, especially weaponry."

I saw her taking notes as she asked questions.

"Weaponry?"

"Yeah, it's why the entire world of humans is at war with itself."

"That sounds… well that doesn't sound good at all! Why is your world at war?"

"It's actually a long, long story."

"Please tell."

"Very well, it all started about ten years ago."

I let my mind wander deep into thought, gathering information I haven't bothered to think of in years. All this information was alien and scattered to me, but thanks to twilight's patience, I was able to slowly piece everything together before I started speaking.

"About ten years ago, the year 1220, Mankind had started developing extremely powerful weapons. Each country was claiming that the weapons protected the boarders and brought the world closer to peace, they didn't know how wrong they were. Instead of bringing peace, countries demanded that the others relinquish their military power over fear that they would be attacked. To put things simply, countries were confident in their own military power, but feared the power that other countries had.

"Certain countries attempted to create alliances with other countries, but in these tense times, all alliances were bound to fail, and the world fell into a free-for-all. Tensions had rose even higher, every country in the world had its guns pointed at all the others. Troops were sent out to defend and offensive lines were set up. I'm not sure what country attacked first, but it doesn't matter to me. Either way, that first attack officially started the world war. Out of sheer panic, all the other countries started attacking others, some of the smaller and weaker countries didn't last very long and were basically destroyed, and then taken over.

"Stronger military powers began to fight each other and ignore the smaller powers a bit more. Eventually it got to the point where countries actually tried to take land. That started happening five years into the world war, and that's when I was sent out. We took a number of small territories along Germany, and I was then pulled from Germany and sent on a ship to Africa to take back some land Germany had taken. I was on there for about another five years, I had heard rumors about the countries coming close to relying on nuclear warfare; I hoped for my life that they were just rumors.

"That's just about it, my world is a total mess and it affected the economy to the point where people across the world, even the rich countries, can barely afford homes and food for themselves. It's a bad situation and citizens have no choice but to join the military because of how bad their lives are if they don't. It's not that the government purposely hurts the citizens; it's just that they're so focused on the war, they can't do anything else.

"This isn't a world war; it's just a world-wide civil war." I finally said as I finished talking.

"Wow... I had no idea..." Twilight slowly said.

I was so focused on explaining things that I didn't notice that Twilight had stopped taking notes about half way through my speech.

"It's a pretty bad place at the moment... but enough about that, what other questions do you have?"

That triggered her note taking again, we spent the next two hours of me explaining what life on earth use to be like, what it's suppose to be, how nice and mean people can be. She seemed extremely surprised when I told her about the lack of magic. Well, mainly her asking about it and me telling her there was none.

"How can there just... not be any magic?"

"I don't know... there just isn't, it's hard to explain from your point of view."

"Okay then." She said and wrote one last thing at the end of the long piece of paper. "Well, that's just about it; I don't think I have much more to ask, at least not yet."

"Well, then I guess we're done here." I took a look out the window and looked at darkness. I was surprised, it was so dark outside, yes we got here at morning, have we really been here that long?

"Well, I guess that answers a lot of my questions." I heard Redheart say as she gets up from lying on a pillow. "I should get home and get some rest." Redheart says as she heads for the door.

"Bye Redheart." Twilight Sparkle said just before she leaves the library. Twilight then gave out a yawn. "We should get some rest, too; in the morning I'll show you around town, maybe we'll meet some of my friends."

"Okay." I simply said. I wasn't exactly keen on seeing more of this town, but I'll deal with it then. All I wanted to do was get home as soon as possible; I'll pick World War over sunny hills and rays of sunshine any day.

Her assistant named Spike made the guest bed. I left the fact that she had a baby wingless magic dragon that can talk as an assistant alone; I didn't want to think too much. Me being a pony now, I was in an awkward position as I tried to lie in bed. I closed my eyes and somehow managed to get some sleep.

The next morning I was woken up by the sound of a trumpet. I let out a surprised yell and jumped from my bed, landing half on the floor in a position that mirrored the first time I tried to get out of the hospital bed. The dragon began laughing a bit holding a small trumpet.

"Man, I've wanted to try that for ages!"

His laughter was soon cut short when I quickly got on all fours, with a bit of stumbling obviously, and looked at him ferociously with a low growl.

He seemed scared, but my anger was cut short when he spoke. "H-Hey! Don't look at me like that, Twilight told me to wake you; also, she wants to see you downstairs."

I calmed down then, he didn't have to wake me up THAT way, but it was effective I have to admit.

"Okay." I said and looked around. "Where's my walker."

"Right here." Spike said. He went to get it as I was looking around for it and was currently bringing it to me.

With a bit of difficulty I got onto the walker. I'm not going to go into detail about how hard it was to get down those stairs; I will say that I almost ended up hospital worthy again. Next time I'm sleeping downstairs.

I met Twilight downstairs and she looked over at me.

"First things first, lets get rid of that walker."

"W-wait wha-" Before I could finish my walker was grabbed by purple magic and pulled away, I met the floor once again. I think I'm getting use to the feeling of my face meeting the ground.

"Come on, get up, you're going to need to know how to walk."

I mumbled and slowly made my way to my feet, err, hooves. I was somewhat use to standing, just not walking.

"First, put your right fore hoof forward."

I felt for that hoof, and then did as she said and brought it forward to the ground.

"Good, now the left hind hoof."

That was a bit more difficult to find, but I managed to do that, too.

About thirty minutes passed and I was walking pretty decently. The feeling wasn't that different from walking on two legs, but different enough to give me some problems. I couldn't exactly walk quickly or jog at all, but I'm sure I'd get more hang of it once I walk more.

"Alright, so we're ready to go." I heard her say.

I stopped walking around and looked at her, then slowly made my way to her. Soon, we were outside again, and I looked around and saw what I saw yesterday, but in more detail.

The buildings were mainly white with hay roofs; I figured that the roofs were stronger than they appear because I saw a couple ponies standing on one working on the chimney.

Ponies were walking here and there minding their own casual business, I wasn't getting as many looks as before, must have been the walker, then. As we walked through town we made it to what appeared to be the market of town.

"This is the market place; this is where ponies would sell food, grains, oats, plants, flowers, and furniture, too. Unlike most places, thing don't have a set prince here, the customer and the owner of the stand usually just bargain on a price."

"Uh-huh." I simply said, I was too focused on looking around as we walked to give her a proper answer.

The market was full of stands, each selling different things. The buildings next to the stands looked to be shops and stores, one store that looked odd to me was a store that said it only sold quills and sofas, I wondered how anyone could make a profit just by selling two things.

There was also a jewelry store, and not far from the market there seemed to be some sort of candy shop as well. I'm not too fond of candy or sweets, I never really had much of a sweet tooth.

After walking around the market a bit, we came across the edge of town where there was a small red building.

"That's the schoolhouse, where the fillies go to learn stuff."

In my mind I thought "You don't say?" but rather than saying that I simply nodded. "Alright, what's next?"

"Well, there's the town hall, it's over by the market, I guess I should have showed you that first before dragging you to the edge of town."

"That would have seemed like a good idea, yes."

Heh, yeah I figured that... my bad." She said with an awkward smile.

We made out was away from the schoolhouse just as the bell rang for the school day to end. We soon made out way over to the town hall after about ten minutes of walking.

"This is town hall, where ceremonies and town meetings are held. Political decisions regarding the town are also made here as well as plans for any upcoming events."

"Well I figured that much, but still interesting."

"Yeah, well come on, there's still more to see." Twilight said as she walked away slowly.

I sighed. "Oh joy." I began to follow her.