Silver Scribe: Equestrian Historian, At your service!

After proper introductions were exchanged, Twilight and Silver Scribe made their way to the castle library. On the way Silver Scribe gave a questioning look as he took in the crystal architecture. He wasn’t unfamiliar with the aesthetic but Ponyville was a small town, why have a giant purple crystal castle built here?

“I beg your pardon Princess Twilight, I’m not one to judge on anypony’s design choices but may I ask why you went with the crystal theme for your castle?”

“Oh right. Well uh….you see there is a reason for that…um…” Twilight nervously replied. “What do I say? I don’t want to scare him off by telling him how many dangers have happened, but at the same time I don’t want to lie to an important figure like him.” Twilight unfortunately didn’t realize she was making a slight scene with the worried face she was making.

“Princess Twilight? Are you alright?” Silver asked hoping he didn’t accidentally cross a line with the lavender princess.

“Oh, huh yeah sorry. I’m alright. I’ll tell you but you have to promise to not freak out when I tell you.” She said putting a hoof on his chest.

“U-Uh ok Princess, I give you my word as a historian that I won’t freak out. I mean all I asked was why you chose this theme for a castle. I’m not sure what the big fuss is about.” Silver replied giving a nervous smile, confused on why a somewhat simple question would be this hard to answer.

Twilight then informed Silver on the battle with Tirek, the destruction of her old home and the box from Tree of Harmony creating the castle. When she finished she shut her eyes not wanting to look at this important figure look at her in disapproval of not being able to, in her mind, care of her new “kingdom”. Silver’s eye was wide open and his mouth was slightly ajar. He had heard of the demon Tirek’s attack, the plus side of living on an island country, no one tended to bother you so Tirek’s devastation never reached their shores.

“Oh, so that’s it is it? Fascinating. I’ll have to make a note of that in my report.” he said as he casually walked past the distraught princess, as if she had told him something simple.

“I just, w-wait WHAT!? I tell you that and you act like it’s nothing? We fought a giant centaur demon and you act like it’s an everyday thing?” Twilight replied with a combination of anger and surprise as she trotted to catch up to him. “Doesn’t that bother you at all?”

“Not as much as you would think actually. When you’re in my line of work, you tend to see a lot of surprising things from the past. Visiting old tombs in the Northern Mountains, dig sights of ancient Pony ancestors in the desert. I’ve seen plenty of amazing things from this world. A Princess having to fight a battle to protect the kingdom of Equestria doesn’t really have the grandness it once had when you’ve seen plenty of other events like that. Sorry if my reaction wasn’t what you were expecting.” Silver replied with a smile on his face. “Anyway, let’s see this Library Wing of yours.”he said as he continued down the hallway.

Twilight was beside herself, here was a pony who took the news of a battle for Equestria like it happened on a daily bases. This was going to be an interesting meeting after all. At the end of the hall they reached a large set of doors which led them to the Grand Library. The room was enormous, almost the size of the main waiting room. It was full of books ranging from novels to multi edition history tomes. The rumors of the newest princess being quite the book enthusiast was an understatement.

“My word. I must say Princess, your collection is quite impressive. How did you acquire these?” He asked as he let his eye wander and bask in the sight of it all.

“It was actually thanks to the other princesses. They donated them from their private collections after my old library was destroyed. I have to say it is nice to have somepony else who enjoys books as much as I do enjoy them.” she said with a smile.

“Well, let’s get this meeting under way shall we?” Silver said to the princess with a slight smirk.

About and hour passed and the meeting was going well. Twilight recalled tales of her and the rest of the mane 6s’ adventures: Discord, the Canterlot Wedding, Discord’s reformation, etc. Silver made numerous notes on each of them. The fact that Twilight was not only a princess but the sister in law of Princess Cadence was also interesting.

“My my Princess, you seem to have had quite adventurous life.” Silver glanced at his notes, happy with what he had so far for the time being, one more page of notes and they could take a break. “I’d say one more page of notes and then we can take a break.”

“Alright, I’ll go get the next one.” Twilight made her way over to the shelf where the book she wanted lied. Picking it up in her aura only to reveal a large pink head.

“WHAT’CHA DOIN’!”

“AHHH!” Twilight yelled, slightly scared by the sudden high pitched voice popping out of the book case. “Pinkie Pie what are you doing hiding in the book case?” She asked the pink party pony.

“I wanted to see what you were up too silly *giggle*, you’ve been inside the castle all day.” Pinkie happily answered, oblivious to Twilight’s frown.

“Pinkie Pie, I’m a little busy right now.” Twilight said through her teeth. Things were going so well with Silver Scribe, she didn’t need Pinkie Pie ruining things.

“Princess? Who’s this?” Silver asked, still wondering how somepony could fit inside a bookcase.

Twilight cleared her throat and responded to her guest. “Silver Scribe, this is one of my friends, Pinkie Pie. She works at the local bakery. Pinkie Pie, this is Silver Scribe. He’s an Equestrian Historian from Trottingham. He and I are in the middle of a meeting. So if you don’t mind I'd aprecia….”

Pinkie cut Twilight off with a loud scream. She quickly grabbed Twilight and hid in a pile of books. She put her face close to Twilight’s and lowered her voice.

“Twilight are you crazy!? What are you doing with a robot!? It’ll take over and it’s robot friends will take over the world and everypony will become slaves in their robot mines! ROBOT MINES TWILIGHT!!” Pinkie frantically explained to an agitated Twilight.

Twilight got up and brushed herself off, “Pinkie Pie, Silver Scribe isn’t a robot, he’s an incredibly respected historian and he made a special trip to Ponyville for the first time in years! So I don’t have time for your crazy antics today!” Twilight was practically steaming at this point, “how embarrassing.” Twilight thought. Without warning, the sound of laughter came from behind them.

“A robot? Well that’s one I haven’t heard in a while. But in all honestly I’m not a robot. I simply have a specialized prosthetic eye.” Silver explained.

“I was actually wondering about your eye Silver. I didn’t know if you were comfortable or not so I didn’t ask.” Twilight nervously admitted.

“Oh it’s fine, the accident was years ago when I was a colt. I don’t mind telling you if you want to hear it.” he offered.

“Ooh Ooh story time!” Pinkie happily popped out of the pile of books and hopped towards the silver unicorn. “Tell me! tell me!”

“Well aren’t you the energetic one. Alright I’ll tell you the story behind my eye.”

“It all happened when I was around 4 years old. I was helping my father in our home in Trottingham.”

(FLASH BACK)

“Silver. I have some supplies I’ll need for my next trip, you mind getting it from the basement son?” Silver’s father asked.

“Ok Dad!” a young Silver Scribe happily as he made his way down the stairs past his pregnant mother and towards the basement door.

Silver slowly made his way down into the dark room, using his horn to create a small glow to light his way. Unfortunately he made one slip up on a scrap piece of cloth on the stairs and fell down the the hard wood. The small tumble would’ve been fine, unfortunately when he stopped rolling, he bumped into a supply shelf and something came crashing down.

“Oh no!” Silver quietly gasped to himself.

“Silver? Honey is everything alright down there!?” Silver’s mother, Morning Star, called from upstairs.

“Uh..y-yeah I’m ok.” Silver replied.

Silver Scribe quickly turned around only to bump into a table and fell onto the sharp glass shards. A pain filled shriek quickly escaped from the basement. A sound that no parent wants to hear and Morning Star quickly reacted to it.

“SILVER!” Morning Star franticly ran down to the basement where her son’s prone body was, a puddle of blood pooling around his head. “Oh Celestia no…HONEY! SILVERS HURT, CALL AN AMBULANCE!” she screamed to make sure her husband heard her.

Silver was crying from the incredible pain that his face was in. More specifically his left eye felt like it was on fire, the pain was unbearable.

“Mum, it hurts so bad!” The colt whimpered with blood and tears flowing down his face.

His mother tried everything in her power to try and calm him down, even though she knew it wouldn’t do much.

“Shhhh….shhhh it’s ok Silver, we’ll get you to the hospital and you’ll be ok.” She said calmly while lovingly cradling her son’s head. She was terrified, there was a large shard of broken glass embedded in his left eye along with a long cut down his face. It almost made her want to vomit, but she had to be strong for her baby Silver.

(FLASHBACK OVER)

“After the ambulance took me to the hospital I was taken into surgery for 5 hours, the damage to my left eye was so extensive that it had to be completely removed. Thankfully I was going to be ok, and the doctor gave me this specialized prosthetic to replace it. My mother still shivers a little when she sees it.” Silver finished with his head down and eyes closed.

Twilight and Pinkie were silent, their eyes were wide, and Pinkie was even tearing up. Twilight had no idea how a colt at that age could go through something like that. Pinkie immediately ran up to him to give him a Pinkie Pie special bear hug.

“Whoa…what’s goin’ on in here?” Another voice came from the window above the west most book shelf. A rainbow maned pegasus was listening through the window.

“Rainbow Dash? What are you doing here?” Twilight asked.

“I was just flying around and I heard Pinkie Pie scream so I came right here. So what’s this I hear about a prosthetic eye?” she asked flying down to the 3 ponies.

“Yes Rainbow. My guest Silver Scribe, a historian from Trottingham, was just telling us a personal story behind his prosthetic eye.” Twilight explained.

“Really?” Rainbow asked as she got a good look at the red lensed left eye of the silver stallion. “Wow! That’s cool.” she told him.

“Well as fun as you two have been Silver Scribe and I were in the middle of a meeting so if you don’t mind.” Twilight somewhat angrily said. She was tired that her meeting with Silver was getting interrupted.

“Actually Princess, I think a change in scenery could be helpful to my visit. I was already planning on doing a tour of the town. Might as well do it now.” Silver said with a slight smile on his face.

“Well…..ok. Let me just tell Spike we’re leaving.” she replied. “SPIKE!”

“Yeah Twilight?” Spike answered running into the Library.

“Silver Scribe and I will be doing a tour around Ponyville, you can have the rest of the day off, if you leave just make sure you lock up the castle before you head out, ok?” she told the little dragon.

“Awesome! I’ll go see if Rarity needs help with her dresses.” he said excitedly. Twilight responded with a small giggle.

“Ok just don’t stay there too late lover boy.” Twilight told him like a big sister would.

“Well, let’s get goin’ shall we?” Silver said as he put his notebooks in his saddle bags.

“YAY! I’ll have to throw a “Welcome to Ponyville!” party for you!” Pinkie said excitedly running off to start planning it.

“Well if you’re gonna do a tour around Ponyville, I better get my place ready for ya. Later!” Rainbow Dash said as she flew out.

“Well Silver, let me show you all that Ponyville has to offer.” Twilight said with a smile.

“Lead the way Princess Twilight.” Silver replied with a small bow.