Excerpt from Golden Grace's journal

11th day after the event of sunshine and rainbows

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My name is Golden Grace. I am an earth pony medic and scavenger. My cutie mark is that of an open vault with various things spilling out of it, mostly gold caps. My partner who is lying near the fire next to me as I write this Ready Shot is a unicorn mercenary and my lover. Her cutie mark is that of crosshairs centered over a full magazine with a couple of bits underneath the magazine.

After recent events I have decided to keep a journal should anything happen to me so that people may know my story in hopes of spreading hope, and the vision of life for all races.

Its been 11 days since the world exploded in a wave of rainbows. Bringing back the sunshine and cleansing most of the radiation and taint from the wasteland. Although the event seems to have had some unintended side effects the most notable of which for me any way, was the strange infant creature that it brought with it.

Me and ready shot where exploring the ruins located at the base of Dragon Mountain as some of the locals have taken to calling it. (This is due to the fact that one of the few remaining dragons left in the world resides in a large cave near the peak.) When the event happened to be frank I thought we had triggered some sort of super trap. Seeing as I was picking a particularly annoying lock at the time. After a few moments we both realized we were alive and rejoiced over this fact hugging each other.

Shortly, no immediately after we heard the sound of crying. On the other side of the door I had opened was an infant....creature, is the best I can say. It looked hideous damn near monstrous but......It also looked helpless and fragile, as if even the slightest breeze might harm it. I don’t know what came over me, but at that moment I guess I fell in love with it like a mothers first time seeing her foal. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I was starting to desire a foal of my own. I believe in the end I made the right choice.

I have taken to calling the infant Life because he is just so full of it; and because to me he represents the hope and proof that life of all forms can grow no matter where you are. That is something I think the world needs more of still even after the event swept clean a lot of the radiation and taint from the world. Even with this, there is so much violence now that ponies fight over newly re-fertile pieces of land and territory.

After taking care of it a while I learned some very important things. First of all I learned that it was male, that one was fairly obvious, but it tends to remind me sometimes when I am changing his diaper. Second children are fussy no matter what species they are. They demand more of your time than you have or can afford to give. I have come to learn this first hoof. Secondly children can be hard to feed especially if they aren't even the same species. It took near two days of the child’s non stop crying and various experiments before we discovered it could eat barmen milk. While I am not sure if it is the best thing for him but it seems to be working for now. He does not have teeth and I am not sure if that is a permanent thing or not and it is a little worrisome.

Another thing that has me constantly worrying is the collar around his neck. It is unlike anything I have ever seen. It is apparent that it is very high tech, but the tech is nothing like I have ever seen I couldn't possibly begin to even guess what it is for, and that worries me. The other thing that worries me is if we don’t get it off it might eventually choke him as he grows, although the collar doesn't seem to bother him. Maybe I am worrying for nothing but it will always be on my mind. The collar is tight, tight to the point I can’t even slip a sliver of paper under it. It is super flexible almost like his skin but not quite. I really hope it is not something that will come back to harm him as he gets older.....

Oh minor note, and I am not sure why this comes to me know. But the child has no belly button or anything to indicate that he ever had an umbilical cord in the first place.

Author's Note

Things should be looking better now I got an editor.

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