Caracas, August 7th of 2015
Parish La Vega
P.O.V.: Samuel Guzmán

As Samuel was about to sleep, at 12:00 m this time around, he was trying to think on a way to explain Twilight what she just did without making her sad, after all, he spent the whole night answering her questions, which didn't give him enough time to tell her what his grandfather said. It was quite clear that she was resolved to learn Spanish if she was reading a Spanish book through a Spanish-English dictionary and he would've been more than happy answering her questions had he actually read the book she was reading (Pietri was a cool choice though) but Samuel was sure that the only reason why his grandfather didn't said anything was because she is new to the house and Twilight doesn't show any signs of being a thief. Samuel had to explain Twilight "the rules" of the house before his grandfather started to get paranoid again and blamed her of any disappeared item. As he remembered that tomorrow was a Friday and he would have to move once again to summer school, he knew that he would have to wake up extra early to tell Twilight about the "rules".

Caracas, August 6th of 2015
P.O.V.: Samuel Guzmán
5pm

Samuel was feeling bombarded by all the questions Twilight was dropping on him. She was speaking so fast that he could barely keep up, he needed to calm her down so he could be of more help to her and the faster he helped her, the faster he would eat and rest.

"Wait, hold on a second there Twilight, I need you to calm down so I can better understand you. I may be able to speak English but that doesn't mean I can keep up with a fast speech so, please, slow down and ask me once again your questions".

As Twilight realized what he was talking about, she slightly blushed (not that Samuel would notice) and decided to repeat her questions once more, Samuel was hoping that he could understand her better now:

"Sorry, is just that this book really captivated me" -. She then raised a dark orange book, when Samuel noticed the title, his interest peaked and decided to pay more attention to her. - "I've never seen such way to describe a land and I really wanted to know how much of this was real, after all, the author says in the book that this land have changed a to the worse and I really want to know how much have changed ever since then".

Samuel took note of her words, started to think what the book was about, and tried to make his best answers considering that he hadn't read the book yet. After some quick thinking, he decided to go for an easy answer:

"Indeed, the book is right about that" -. When Twilight heard this, she got shocked. - "You see, for a few years, the government haven't been handling the country on a nice way. This has caused a... degradation to the land and..." - He was trying to come up with a quick answer, but those were always hard to make for him. - "Now the country looks a lot worse than what you read in there".

When Twilight heard him, she started to put a sad look on her face and quickly asked: "But, why nobody have asked your princess to fix it? Why has she allowed your country to go so bad? After all, what this book describes is a very nice place and it's a very sad thing to know that is being mismanaged".

Samuel could only look at her puzzled... 'was she European to ask about a monarch?' That was his first question but, that wasn't his main concern. She asked about a princess and that wasn't the government system in Venezuela.

"Huh... we don't have a monarchy in Venezuela... we have a Socialist Government with a 'Liberal' Constitution... I think" -. Twilight looked at him with a confused look. - "A what?" - Her response was giving Samuel the idea that she didn't lived on a very open society in regards on politics and thinking, but she made a question and he was going to answer, but first. - "What part you didn't understand? I need to know what you would like to understand first."

Twilight kept her confused look but she was now looking at the house, as if she was trying to formulate her question appropriately, and Samuel felt that she was going to make a question whose answer was going to be very long for him to make. After a few seconds of waiting, Samuel started to feel hunger consuming his body so he decided to ask Twilight to eat so they could have the conversation with a full stomach. When Twilight heard that, she made an ashamed smile and accepted the idea, remembering that she hadn't eaten as well.

When Samuel heard this, he understood why the pot with rice was almost full. That meant that he would have to heat it up a bit before eating with Twilight, but everything was going to be worth it just to eat something.

As Samuel was picking a couple of plates, washing and drying them, and started to split the rice between himself and Twilight, Twilight decided to talk to him again:

"Hey, thank you for making me food and sorry for not eating it."

"Don't worry about it."

"It's just that, the book, I was really wanting to read it and I didn't realized how much time passed as I was trying to translate it".

Samuel then started to pick up the vegetables and white grains, noticing that not a lot was picked up, he asked Twilight how much did she wanted. After putting the amount of food they both wanted and then put Twilight's plate on a microwave first. As he did, he noticed how Twilight was looking at the microwave with a mild curiosity but he wasn't going to ask why.

"Don't worry about it" -. He said while the microwave was heating up her plate. - "I also get distracted and forget to eat from time to time and, considering that you picked up a book made by Arturo Uslar Pietri, I don't blame you. He's a good writer".

As he was speaking, the microwave started to beep, signaling that Twilight's plate was ready. As he took the plate out, smoking out the heat, and put his own to heat up. Samuel didn't noticed Twilight's amazement over the plate and how it was hot now, all Samuel did was take the plate to the dining room and put her plate in there with the fork and knife she needed to eat. As he was doing this, Twilight continued talking to him.

"Really? What kind of stuff he writes?" - As Samuel pondered on the question, he realized that he never gave a thought to that. As Samuel wondered on this, he ignored how Twilight was looking at her plate and seeing the smoke coming out of it because of the heat. In the end, Samuel decided to give her a simple answer. - "Well, he wrote about a lot of things. He wrote about history, politics, economy, he made short stories, he made novels. There wasn't a much he didn't write about" -. Now, Samuel was about to trap Twilight on a very long speech about Uslar, but the beeping of the microwave saved Twilight for now.

Samuel picked up his plate and put it on the table besides Twilight. When Samuel prepared to eat, he made a small pause, put his hands in front of him and prayed, once again, not noticing Twilight's confused look on him, wondering what was he doing now. Once he was done with that, he started to eat with pleasure. His mouth was salivating at the mixture of hot rice mixed with Chop Suey and white grains, the mixture of food made him feel in heaven as he savored the feeling of accomplishment for eating and getting his energies renewed and, as he was doing this, he ignored Twilight's eyes looking around the house and noticing how big of a mess was that place (with multiple stuff, from books to tools, filling the table and with the chairs having clothes on top of it) and how much she wanted to fix it. Samuel also didn't notice how Twilight started to make weird gestures with her hands, all Samuel focused on was in his food.

After eating, Samuel decided to keep answering her questions a bit more. Twilight's next question was more about his country:

"Why you don't have a princess ruling you? They're the most capable and powerful beings. Maybe you would be good if you had a princess ruling Venezuela".

Samuel took notice of her question, the more she asked, the more she revealed him about what kind of place she lived him, interesting, so he decided to keep answering her questions.

"First: Princes and Princesses don't rule, the monarchical system consist in a king or queen ruling and holding the crown, on a system of absolute monarchy, they are the ones who rule. Once a King or Queen dies, then the crown is passed to the prince or princess, who then becomes the new king or queen".

"Second: Just because they're a monarch it doesn't mean that they're the most capable of ruling a country. There have been many instances of monarchs becoming autocrats and ruled at their own pleasure or of monarchs that, as more well intentional they were, were very awful in their work".

"Third: Just to give a better example of my previous point, it was because of an awful monarchy that we decided to become an independent country from the Spanish Crown - wait, that reminds me, I have to teach you Spanish, remember me that later - so I doubt that we would've been better with a monarch".

Twilight gave him a perplexed look, started to look around, as if gathering her thoughts, and prepared for a better question.

"Are you sure that the problem was the monarchy and not someone else? I mean, a monarch would never try to mistreat its people".

Samuel was about to give her a strait answer when he remembered a few details that he wasn't so sure off, since he never studied deeply the colonial age between the 1500's and the 1800's. He took a moment to think and then answered:

"That's a good question, I'll admit that I've never studied that period of time to give you a good answer but I do know that, by the end of the 18th century, this country was getting fed up of the Spanish Monarchy and those they left in charge of the country through our history and that lead to an independence movement but, to explain it, that whole story could take too long".

Twilight then decided to take the information he provided and decided to accept it. After that, she decided to ask about the history of his world, - "how did your world came to be? Who controls the Sun and Moon? How many countries are here? (...)" -, and many more that Samuel decided to respond one at a time. What Samuel didn't expected was that they would stay up until late discussing only the first question and what version was the "accepted one" since Twilight had troubles regarding the idea of both a "Big Bang" or a God that wasn't so involved with its creation, according to her.

August 7th of 2015
12:30m

As Samuel gave that conversation more thoughts, he wondered what kind of place she came from, after all, she asked who controls the Sun and Moon, that means that there must be a religion or beings capable of controlling the Sun and the Moon and that sounded very fascinating to him. But he then wondered how hard it could be for her to see how different was this from her house, he wondered how it was affecting her being so hard from her family and loved ones and, as he wondered, he fell under Morpheus arms to a pleasurable slumber.

August 7th of 2015
6:00 am
P.O.V.: Twilight Sparkle

As Twilight Sparkle woke up from her slumber, dreaming about Ponyville and her friends, she wished once again that she was just in Ponyville in her old library, with Spike, following what she understood was the norm. This world was already starting to see confusing, how was it possible that a God created the Sun and Moon to be moved by themselves? Why he didn't do it by himself? Better yet, how was it possible to control their orbits but allowing them to function separately at the same time? Why there wasn't a princess like Princess Celestia or Luna ruling over them? Nothing made sense for her and she was already missing that world whose rules she was already used to.

On this world, she had a different body, she had no house, there was no magic, there was no princess and she didn't even knew what was the law. Why did the spell had to fail so miserably? What went wrong? Twilight moved her hand over the huge box that showed images from time to time and tried once again to move it with her hands just to feel sad once again because it didn't move.

As she rose from her bed and tried to figure out what to do, she saw a woman, who she remembered being Samuel's mother, wearing a huge pack on her back (backpack?) and moving back and forth between the kitchen and the rooms where Samuel said that both he and his mother slept. As Twilight looked at her moving around, the moving figure got to notice static one and decided to treat her with the respect she always knew to show to others.

"Hi" -. She said, while she was speaking on a language that Twilight understood, it still felt broken. Not as broken as the grandfather, but it still felt broken and a bit forced. - "How are you? Do you feel good?"

"Yes, thank you for asking. I just woke up and I was wondering what to do right now" -. Antonia looked at Twilight and, giving her a smile, she simply said, - "well, you could help me out with this so I can go early while leaving you something to eat."

Twilight accepted it and moved to help her by washing the dishes and learning how to prepare the food which Samuel, to his mother's chagrin, didn't teach Twilight how to do so. As Twilight helped Antonia with the kitchen, she couldn't stop to talk to her about certain issues that were troubling her.

"Ah, sorry if this comes out a bit too hard but, you're son is kinda... harsh..." - Twilight could feel a bit bad by saying it, but she wanted to see if his mom knew something about it. - "I mean, he doesn't show emotions and is too blunt when talking. It also feels like if he wanted to be right all the time".

Twilight started to wait for his mom to chastise her for criticizing her son but, to Twilight's surprise, Antonia's tone remained soft.

"Yes, he is like that. I have been trying to fix that but there's just so much you can do when your son is an asperger" -. Twilight turned around and looked at her with a huge question on her face. - "A what?" - As Antonia turned around, she took out a little box from her pocket and got surprised after seeing something from it.

"Oh, it's too late, I must go. Sorry, I don't have time to talk to you and sorry for not talking good english. My son doesn't want to teach me" -. As Twilight almost fell into shock, she quickly tried to ease her tensions by saying something that (had she known better) only made slightly worse. - "Oh, don't worry, I'm planning to learn Spanish and your son promised to help me to learn it".

As Twilight said this with a smile, Antonia (for a brief moment) looked like she was about to drop her smile but she kept it and said her goodbyes to Twilight with great kindness, she opened the door, revealing a jail door that allowed to see a small hallway with another door at the other side of said hallway, she then opened the jail door and, as she said her goodbyes again, she told Twilight to keep remembering Samuel of helping her with the Spanish, he would probably forget about it very soon.

Author's Note

Well, I think this is a nice way to return to this story.

I repeat, this is just the beginning and I'm just setting the characters and the world (even if it's our world) before starting to drop the bombs. It will take a while, but I do plan to do this.

I hope you're enjoying this read.

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