Wonders

After an hour of flying we reached the crystal empire, we found them in the middle of preparations for a celebration.

“They are holding a special crystal fair” explained the purple princess when we met up with her in the crystal castle “in honour of the dignitary from the Windigo kingdom”

I snorted, this had begun as a scouting mission, and now I was a dignitary.

But I didn’t need to scout the crystal empire, I had been here before, and it had impeccable harmony.

And so I wandered around, and talked to ponies.

The crystal ponies seemed surprised that the foreign dignitary would talk to them, and they were also scared of the Windigo, a creature their stories taught them was evil.

But they quickly got over their fear, and talked with me about all manner of things, from the fair to the weather.

At some point I realised that I had accidently dropped the Pegasus disguise I had been wearing for weeks now, and that nopony had said anything, or been scared.

Twilight approached me after a while, asking if I would tell her about windigos, because the ponies apparently knew very little about windigos.

So I told her of the Reverum, our collective memory, the ability of all windigos to see the memories of dead windigos. I told her of the way disharmony felt, like warmth in the cold, and the way actual warmth felt, uncomfortable. I told her of SnapFrost, the ability to instantly freeze and kill a pony, and that any Windigo capable of SnapFrost was considered an elder. And I told her how we are created, when there is enough disharmony for a great storm, a vortex created by the elders that seeks out disharmony, and snapfreezes anypony in its path, when innocent ponies are snapfrozen, their souls become windigos.

And after I had told her all of this, she left. And I waited until the crystal heart started the rainbow aurora before I too left.

And as I flew away from the ponies I hoped the rest of the elders would agree with me, there was a lot of disharmony in that kingdom, but there was even more harmony.