Philosopher of Earth

+++ Ponyville Train station, one hour later. +++

Even though I had been essentially resting for the past hour, I was tired. Twilight and I had discussed my teaching plans and class times. I had not yet figured those things out myself, but I tried to give Twilight my best estimate. While still on board, about five minutes from Ponyville, Twilight suddenly looked like she remembered something and started rummaging through one of her saddle bags. Why they called it that, I don't know why, as none of them ever wore a saddle, but not my culture so I can't criticize. Finally Twilights head came up from under the table.

"Found it!" she exclaimed, sliding a piece of parchment towards me.

"What's this?" I asked, looking at it.

"The deed to your new home!" she exclaimed, clapping her hooves together.

"Deed? New home?" I stammered. Sometimes I can really be a genius with words that are said outloud.

"Yep! Celestia wanted you to live among ponies, and being cooped up in my castle won't get that done!" she exclaimed excitedly. When she got the chance to talk to Celestia again, I still don't know to this day. However, what she said did make sense... The princesses wanted me to learn about them as well as teach them, so living "in the crowd" was a gesture of "Hey! this is what we do!" Twilight also pulled out a decently sized bag.

"And this!" she said as she lifted it onto the table with a little difficulty, it landed with a "chink!" "This is something of an allowance to get you started!" I looked inside. Coins, a lot of coins, I'm not very good at figuring a bags square footage, so how many coins there were, I could only guess at, a good 150-200 though...

"Started?" I asked, was this some sort of RPG that I had gotten myself into? If so, then what the hell.

"Well, Celestia isn't going to pay you all the time!" she stated. "Besides, think of it as another way to try and fit in!"Twilight continued. Yay, ether Twilights, or Celestias  way of saying, "Get a job you bum." Suddenly wishing I still had the bag that I stole, Twilight had it confiscated when I was unconscious, I stuffed the deed into my pants pocket, and lugged the coin purse over my shoulder. There were a few ponies on the platform in Ponyville, the few who were there still stared  silently however. That was probably the reason the cry from behind grabbed my attention.

"Wait!" it yelled. I turned around, and the blood rushed from my face. Limping towards Twilight and myself, was the unicorn mare that I had saved. How she was walking already, I'll never know, but she limped towards us with a kind of crutch supporting her injured leg nonetheless.

"Silver!" greeted Twilight. "Cheese, I would like you to officially meet Silver Star, she was the unicorn that you saved, and she'll be your guide while in Equestria" Twilight said to me. My mouth made some movements but no sound came out. "And Silver, I would like you to meet Cheese, your current assignment!" Finally the words strung themselves together, guide, current assignment? Did that mean? ... Oh Celestia you tricky mother f... My thoughts were suddenly scattered by the speaking unicorn.

"Nice to meet you Cheese!" she smiled.

"Nice to meet you too..." I hesitantly said. I honestly didn't know what to do. Here was one of the three that had hunted me, nearly killed me, and the only one that I had seriously injured, and she was supposed to be a "guide".

"Now that you two have met! Let me show you the house that Celestia commissioned!" said an excited Twilight, oblivious to my hesitant behavior. Silent, we, the poor duo that Celestia deemed amusing somehow, followed the eager alicorn.

The "house" that Celestia had commissioned for us was more of an abandoned shack than house. True, it did have multiple floors, and there was evidence of something living there, not recently, but still there. Everything was however, damaged or extremely worn down. I guess Celestia either didn't know about the condition, or didn't care. Thankfully however, the electrical lighting still worked, but how far gone it was, only the previous owner knew. I guess I would have to fix it up somehow despite my lack of proper electrical training.

Twilight soon left us so she could attend her royal activities. So, we began to explore the house. It had three floors, including a basement, the kitchen and living room was on the first floor, while there were three bedrooms on the second. Fortunately, furniture was somewhat included. Unfortunately, as I said earlier, everything was extremely damaged or worn down in some way. The mental list of things we needed to replace grew so large, I eventually decided to fuck it, and just put "yes" on said list. That included the beds. So that night, in the bedroom that I claimed as my own, I just slept on the floor.