Prejudices

There wasn't anything wrong with her hometown. It was a great town, but well, eventually things get boring as each day is the same as the next. So she decided to move. Far away. To a place called Ponyville.

The balloon ride took forever. She almost finished a book and was about to move on to another, when her ride went BUMP! Her book went flying out her hooves and closed unmarked. "NO!" Lyra cried out. "Who dared lost my page?!" She got up and found her balloon floating beside another balloon. Inside, a male pony looked around confused. His coat was greyish brown and his mane and tail brown. He had expressive blue eyes and his cutie mark was a rose. Was this some kind of joke?

"Wh-what?" Clearly disoriented, his eyes wandered a bit before seeing her. "Whoa."

Lyra wasn't impressed. She sighed. That sort of reaction was normal from ponies about her. Her contrasting pink and blue mane and tail, her bright turquoise coat and yellow eyes. She radiated weirdness and her huge soft pink spectacles weren't any help either.  And her cutie mark. Who had EYES as a cutie mark? Not that he has seen it. Yet.

"We can't be there already," the male pony in the other balloon said.

"No," Lyra answered exasperatedly. "We aren't. Your balloon bumped into mine and made me lose my page." She glared at him.

"Hey whoa," he put his hooves up in surrender. "I am not to blame for that! Blame my balloon! Or the wind! I was just sleeping!"

"Oh," her temper rose, "your snoring must have shaken the balloon into bumping into mine."

"I do not snore that loud!" His ears turned pink at the tips.

"Yeah, right," Lyra agreed sarcastically. "Any of this wouldn't have happened if you didn't decide to move today."

"I didn't! I was supposed to arrive yesterday!" He answered indignantly. "The weather hasn't been good," he grumbled, looking away.

"Oops! Sorry about that! That would be my fault!" A pegasus flew to their side. She had rainbow mane and tail, a blue coat and a red blue yellow lightning from a cloud cutie mark. "Hi! Welcome to Ponyville! I'm Rainbow Dash. Sorry about the weather but it should be alright today. Gotta dash bye!" Rainbow Dash flew off, leaving a streak of rainbow trailing.

"I'm Eon Lite. I'm from Marelaysia," Eon offered his hoof to shake.

"Lyra Booklet from Booklyn," a bit reluctantly, she shook his hoof.

"I'm sorry about your book, Lyra," he apologized even though it wasn't his fault.

"It's alright," she opened the book exactly to the page where she stopped and marked it. "I remember where I stopped."

Eon let out a puff of air, clearly relieved to have avoided a fit. "Then why were you so mad if you knew you could find it again?"

"They're my best friends," Lyra muttered, looking down. Normally, a normal pony wouldn't have heard her, but surprisingly, Eon did.

"Aw, s'alright, little filly. You're bound to make new friends here." Their balloons gave a little jolt and "Hey! We're here!" Eon cried out in surprise.

Lyra was speechless. Without a word, she took her things and went for the library, not once looking back.