“They’ll never accept me, you know,” the human grunted, sighing dejectedly.

“Andrew come on now, they might be a bit apprehensive of you right now, but they’ll come around," Twilight urged, putting a supporting hoof on his leg.

“I’m not banking on it Twilight,” he said, resting his head in his hands. Twilight sighed, filling both their cups of tea, she looked across the small breakfast table at her otherworldly visitor.

Andrew. A human, male, twenty seven years old and, well...

Severely depressed.

Three months ago, a freak storm had rolled through Ponyville. Completely catching the weather ponies off guard. What made it worse was the sheer power it contained, enough that had brought them this other worldy visitor. Three months of this new being alternating between crippling anxiety attacks and trying to fit in with the locals.

Neither of which were good.

“I’m sorry that that’s how you think we see you Andrew." Twilight said softly, but once you show them that your kind and you just want to fit in they’ll come around, I know they will!”

“Twilight,” he started, his voice tired "They're all terrified of me. I came here in a storm that blew apart some poor sods home, I blinded one of those pegasi for crying out loud!”

“Andrew” twilight said sternly “You know that wasn’t your fault. That storm was a cosmic anomaly, you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, as was that pegasus.”

“Twilight, no one is going to chalk this up to a freak accident. They think im some kind of omen. They all want me gone.”

“Nopony said we don’t want you here-”

“But I can’t go home can I?” Andrew pushed.

Twilight squirmed in her seat, looking into her cup of tea. “Well... We’ve been through this Andrew, that storm was like nothing we've ever seen before. It had enough power to transport your entire mass from a different planet. Even the princesses power combined doesn’t have the power to do that. The only thing that can send you home is another storm.”

“Yeah. Just like Back to the Future,” the man sighed.

“What?” twilight asked.

“Nevermind.”

“Besides, we wouldn’t turn you away. Do you think Applejack would have taken you in had that been the case? Hmm?”

Andrew did smile at that, if only a little. “Well, it was real sweet of her to let me crash under her roof. I guess the payment is dealing with her sister though,” he smiled.

“Twilight giggled, glad she got some positivity out of Andrew. With everything that he’d been going through as of late, it was blessedly rare to hear him laugh.

“Yes she can be quite the hooffull,” Twilight added.

Before Andrew could comment on how strange that butchering of ‘handful’ was, (as he always did) a knock came from the front of the library door.

“Come in!” Twilight called out, and in swooped Rainbow Dash.

“Hi Andrew!" she cheered, ever upbeat. "I got some sweet new moves I want to practice and i need your help to help co-ordinate, you down?”

“I suppose,” Andrew groaned, but all could tell that he was grateful. Twilight company was nice and all, but Rainbow Dash seemed to be the pony he connected the best with. Twilight speculated that this might have something to do with the fact that when he came to after his incident, she was the first pony he saw.

“Awesome! Catch ya later Twi, come on Andrew, i was working on this stunt all night and i think you’ll be impressed.”

“Lead the way Dash,” he gestured, and with that she streaked off out of the library, leaving Andrew to play catchup. Twilight smiled as she watched from the door, watching the two run down the street.

“She’ll be good for him,” Twilight spoke idly to herself as she watched the pair play fight as they shrunk into the distance.

Author's Note

Very quick chapter in order to fill the gap between great southern land and lonliness is a sickness. I will revisit this chapter later and clean it up.