City of Caracas

District Libertador

Parish La Vega

August 7th of 2015, 7:00 am

Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela of 1999
Chapter II
About nationality and about citizenship
SECTION FIRST: ABOUT THE NATIONALITY

Article 32: Are venezuelans by birth:

1. All person born in the republic's territory.
2. All person born on the foreign territory, son or daughter of a venezuelan father by birth or a venezuelan mother by birth.
3. All person born on the foreign territory, son or daughter of a venezuelan father by birth or a venezuelan mother by birth, always as establish its residence on the Republic's territory or declare its will to embrace its will to gain the venezuelan nationality.
4. All person born on the foreign territory, with a venezuelan father by naturalization or a venezuelan mother by naturalization, always if before turning eighteen years old establishes its residence on the Republic's territory and before turning twenty five years old declares its will to embrace the venezuelan nationality.

Article 33: Venezuelans through naturalization will be:

1. The foreigners that obtain a natural letter. As such, they'll must have a home in Venezuela with uninterrupted residence of, at least, 10 years immediately before the date asking for the respective query. The time of residence will be reduced to five years for those who had the original nationality of Spain, Portugal, Italy, latinamerican countries and the Caribbean.
2. The foreigners that contract marriage with venezuelans since they declare their will to be, passed five years at least since since the marriage date.
3. The foreigners minor of age by the date of the father's or mother's naturalization that exerts the custody upon them, always as they declare their will to become venezuelan before turning twenty one and have resided on Venezuela, uninterruptedly, during the five years prior to said declaration.

Article 34: The venezuelan nationality cannot be lost when opting or acquiring another nationality.

P.O.V.: Samuel Guzmán

As Samuel kept looking at the computer, for more time than he should, he wondered just how screwed could Twilight be. He was starting to fear that she could be taken away if they discover that she was a foreigner with no background (a believable one at least) and he was starting to feel despair as he tried to find a solution for her. He wanted to know if he could find something else on the Constitution or the law, but he was starting to get low on free time and he still needed to make his breakfast.

As he left his room and went to the kitchen, he started to prepare his food for the whole day while getting moving to the Ballroom to wake up Twilight and teach her how he cooked his food. As he went to the Ballroom, searching for Twilight, he got surprised when he found Twilight's bed alone, without the new resident in the house sleeping on it. As his mind started to worry, he decided to move around the house to search for her just to stop all thought process when he found Twilight on the Dining Room doing an activity he didn't expect to find.

He found Twilight Sparkle eating a couple of arepas with cheese that she was eating with pleasure. As Samuel watched Twilight eating, his mind started to go full speed thinking on how she could have gotten that food and, what he feared the most, who helped her to cook it on the case that somebody decided to help her. His mind was so focused thinking on how did Twilight Sparkle got around food that he missed her noticing his presence and how her face started to worry over how long has he been watching him and it wasn't until Twilight decided to salute him that his mind returned to the earth and started to proceed with the morning conventions he was used to do.

"Uhm" - Said a very concerned Twilight. - "Hi? How long have you been there?" - As Samuel reacted and looked at her, his response was quick and warm enough for Twilight to feel alright. - "Oh, sorry, I was just wondering how did you got that food since, as far I'm aware, you don't know how to cook."

Twilight looked at her arepa with great fixation and, right before she lost herself on thinking what she was eating, decided to respond Rafael.

"Oh, well, your mom helped me out a lot by cooking me this... a-re-pa and she taught me a bit about how to cook it..." - Unbeknownst to Twilight, Samuel gave a deep and relaxed sigh once he knew from where did she got that food and kept on hearing her. - "... your mom is a very nice lady. I didn't expected her to move so fast in the morning, it reminds me of how I used to wake up back in Equestria" - She said with a hint of nostalgia and worry that Samuel missed to note. - "And I was now thinking about how I would like you to, please, help me out to learn spanish so I could help out more in this house".

In the moment Twilight said those words, Samuel's mind quickly crashed as it started to think of a way to actually teach her spanish while acknowledging the fact that he was wasting his time on not making his meal of the day and the sad truth of him not trying to do both. In the end, he decided to make his meal as he asked Twilight to follow him once she finished her breakfast.

As he started to put the rice to cook, add the salt and condiments necessary to make it good to eat, he started to explain Twilight his current predicament.

P.O.V.: Twilight Sparkle

"Look, Twilight, I apologize but I don't know how to teach someone else a foreign language. It doesn't mean that I won't try, but I would like to get an idea of how to do it first" -. As Twilight heard this, she frowned her brows and asked, - "wait, why don't you use the same method your teacher gave you to understand english but for spanish?" - Samuel's response was one that baffled Twilight on many ways and that would be the cause of their next discussion after Samuel's return from college. - "I learned english by my own, I barely had any teacher and, by the time I actually started to see english from a teacher, I was capable enough to speak it and understand it".

From that phrase, what baffled Twilight wasn't the fact of hearing somebody learning a foreign language on his own, it wasn't that he basically said that as an excuse to postpone her teaching of spanish or that he probably did it at a very young age, if her estimations were accurate.

What baffled Twilight was the way he said it, it was as if learning another language on your own was something to shrug off, he said it as if it meant nothing, a casual thing one would do to kill some time. She now was curious about how he actually learned english, surely some details were skipped, but she mostly wanted to get an idea of what kind of society he was living in that the fact of learning another language was something to shrug off.

After that moment, both Samuel and Twilight stopped discussing about teaching and Twilight started to talk about how her arepa with cheese tasted and asked how it was made. Samuel decided to explain her that the arepa was a product made of pulverized corn and mixed with water and salt to create the mass, followed by putting them in an iron plate (or any metal plate capable of cooking them that doesn't allow the mass to stick into the plate) until a toasty crust was made, once the mass was cooked on the inside, the arepa was opened on the inside and filled with any type of condiment she wanted.

"Really?"

Said Twilight Sparkle with a hint of curiosity as her eyes fixated on the biten food she held on her hands, hunger craving as the melted cheese mixed with the inner mass, blending both foods and giving Twilight's mouth a sensation of a toasted corn, which gave in to her mouth's jaws as if it were mashed potato, mixed with a cheesy flavor that exploded on Twilight's mouth and sent her to paradise.

"Sure!"

Said a Samuel that, while it had a slightly enthusiastic face, the tone of his voice barely registered any type of emotion as if he was trying to suppress the desire of talking about a subject he loved and his mastery of it made him look as an emotionless individual. But, Twilight noted, the more he talked, the more his voice gave in inflections. As Samuel spoke, it felt less as a mechanical being since he started to give out more emotion, more desire and more hunger towards the thing that was creating a garden of eden on Twilight's tongue.

"You can add eggs, scrambled or fried, caraota, meat, etc. Is your choice, really. The arepa can go with, practically, anything and, for that reason, some of these have different names or titles. In example: there's an arepa mixed with avocado, mayonnaise, scratched cheese and, I think, something else and we call it the Reina Pepiada. Is a fan favorite among those who want to eat something good and they don't mind getting their hands dirty".

As he said those last words, his mouth started to twist in the shape of a simple smile but, before it could form itself up, Samuel moved back to the kitchen to see his rice. Meanwhile, Twilight decided to look back at her bliss from heavens and take note of how versatile this simple piece of heated corn was for this family (or country) and she remembered how Equestria did the same with hay. Hay was used as a burger, a simple appetizer, fried food, it was only limited to the pony's mind and it brought joy to her mind as she realized that this new type of food could make a revolution to the kitchens of Equestria. She could imagine how Spike and Applejack would be so interested on this and, maybe, even Pinkie Pie would get into this if there was a way to make this arepa sweet.

But, the same way that she used to creep in into a library so nopony could notice her until she was already in, a creeping thought started to invade Twilight. A thought being originated in one of the potential compliments started to creep into her mind, slowly, and it decided to erupt from her sub conscious a series of images that freezed her mind with terror and that would have make her lose her food if it weren't for the fact that a foreign voice, also known as Samuel, brought her out of her nightmarish visions and stepped her down to reality.

When Twilight looked back at Samuel, his emotionless face was back but his dark eyes were now having a small shine into them that, Twilight was sure, weren't there before. She saw that he now had rice mixed with chop suey and caraota which, she noted, was the same thing he ate yesterday as a breakfast. Very soon, she was about to engage into a new conversation, involving this time the second question Twilight made yesterday.

"Now, you said yesterday that your god created everything and I'm very sure that includes both the sun and the moon. Now, what I would like to understand is how does he control everything without overwhelming himself, I mean, in Equestria, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna uses magic to control both the sun and moon respectively but they don't do that all the time, they only mark the speed and let them move on their own until it's time for the dawn or twilight. How can your god move the sun and moon?"

As Twilight waited eagerly to hear a response from him, her patience only exasperated as Samuel focused more on eating rather than explaining. Twilight could feel how the cold air of the night was slowly being warmed thanks to the sun, she remembered how she always got up in Equestria and drank a hot drink and she would always enjoy seeing the steam coming out of her drink. As Samuel ate from his food, still releasing steam, Twilight wondered if he also enjoyed that kind of things, after all, he must have something to keep his mind busy enough to not get his tongue burned. And, right when Twilight was thinking that he wasn't going to answer, Samuel said a simple word before continuing his breakfast.

"Gravity".

The word itself explained nothing to Twilight, as the word 'gravity' itself meant nothing to her. As she tried to think what Samuel was meaning, she couldn't miss his eyes quickly taking a look at her before focusing back on his food. Twilight wondered if he was going to just eat before answering but, as there was less and less things to eat on the plate, Samuel started to give quick words before bringing the fork back at his mouth.

"It's what hold us together to big masses" -. That was the first sentence explaining Twilight the sun and moon mystery as he made sure that the rice didn't fall from the fork with the help of the knife.

Twilight's mind tried quickly to put the pieces together as she heard the words. She saw the chairs she was on and then the floor, wondering how big was the ground that it was keeping both of them on the ground.

"The bigger a mass is, the more force it can exert unto other smaller masses" -. He said as he used his fork and knife to manipulate the food at his whim.

She wondered if Equestria had the same rules. Was it a type of magic that was impossible to use or just a field that the academics never went to analyze under the argument of "it's magic" to avoid a study in an unknown territory?

"The planet earth is big enough to hold the moon into an orbit, making it go around our system" -. He said as he mixed the rice with the caraota and sent them to his mouth.

Now Twilight was starting to have more questions. Did that meant the moon was small and, if so, the sun was equally small? How did gravity made the moon orbit around the world?

"The sun is huge enough to make us go around it, but it's far away from us so we don't die from heat" -. He said as he took the fork away from the plate and blew the food to cool it off.

Now Twilight was sure that the sun and moon worked differently as they did in Equestria. Not only the size differences, but also the way they interacted with this world and that brought a new series of questions for Twilight. Why was the sun and moon so far away and close enough respectively that it only worked for the earth?

"But the sun and moon aren't the only ones making the orbit. There are multiple systems on this universe that helps keeping the gravitational balance on this system alone" -. He said as he started to pick condiments that were apart on his plate and mixed all together to eat the leftovers.

And now, Twilight's questions were, somewhat, answered and all she needed now was to fill the holes left by his explanation.

"How does your god enters into all of this?"

As Twilight asked this, Samuel started to move around to the kitchen and started to clean his plate on the sink.

"Well, that's a simple answer. Simple facts, if God created the universe, the stars, the gravity, everything. Doesn't that means that he also created the rules necessary for it to run on its own? Just because he created everything, it doesn't mean that he has to break the rules, in fact, he only does it to show his omnipotence to the those who believe on him and that only happens scarcely, putting aside Jesus of course".

As Samuel finished cleaning the plate, he went back to his room, leaving Twilight alone in her musings as she went to the sink, picked up the sponge and red liquid that Samuel used to clean his plate and cleaned her own hands. As the cold water went through her hands, she thought back on Equestria and now wanted to tell Rafael how different was her world from his.

Trying to not ask about this Jesus, Twilight gave a thought to this idea. It was sound actually. Instead of trying to control everything directly, this god would only create the rules and only intervene when necessary and she now wanted to now how efficient it has been. As her hands cleaned themselves from the arepa's oil, she went back to the hall and waited for Samuel to ask him a bit more and, probably, tell him about Equestria. Which is why she became sad after seeing him coming back with a backpack, a thing she has only seen him using when he was going out. But, before leaving, Samuel decided to say his good byes to Twilight with a kinda energetic words.

"Well, that's all I can answer for now, don't worry, I'll talk to you more when I come back here, meanwhile, I hope you can have a nice time here."

After saying that, he opened the door in the middle of the hall and Twilight saw a white light covering him.

"I'm trying to see how I can help you a bit more and remember that I left a bit more of food in the pot with rice for you. I'll be back soon".

He opened the white jail and went into the other hallway, this time, Twilight could see stairs going down while, in front of them, was another jailed door that had another door right besides it. Between the strage door and the one Twilight was standing, she could see a big wall of wood that, she was sure, connected to some place.

As he was about to leave the house, Samuel looked at Twilight's distressed face and said: - "look, I understand that you want to talk more, but I have to go to college and I know that you must need something to read. Why don't you read more about that book and tell me more about it? Maybe, by the time I come back, you may tell me how is your home and I may give you something else to read".

And, as Samuel was closing down the door, he said with a cheerful tone. - "Bye!" - And closed the door. Twilight kept looking at the door as she heard the jailed door being closed on the other side. Twilight was now wondering what else she could do and now wanted to see if she could help in some way on the house. As she moved around the part of the house she was allowed to be in, she started to look at the walls and furniture, she saw how those walls had a grayish white instead of a full white it should have, she saw how the library was filled with dust and couldn't fail to notice how the mirrors looked as if they were wash with soap but never with water and she then new what to do.

As she decided to move to the kitchen, she started to search around for tools to clean, reminding her of whenever both she and Spike would have to clean the library to reorganize the books and the memories sent a bliss of happiness into her. She picked a bucket, a mob, a translation dictionary and something that said being a cleaner and started to clean the walls.

Twilight would spend the following hours cleaning the house, starting by the library. From here, she would pick up every single book from a row (and starting from the higher row) and pass the slightly wet mob on the books's covers just so she could wipe out the dust from them, then pass the mob on the empty rows and take out the dirt that was contaminating the sanctuary of knowledge that was residing on this house. As Twilight was cleaning the books, some large, some small, some thick, some thin, she decided to use the dictionary to read the titles of most of these books to get an idea of what kind of individuals were living on this house. The fact that they were on spanish only added more reasons for her this new language but, for now, the dictionary would suffice.

Borburata, Doña Bárbara, Cantaclaro, The Road of El Dorado, Heroic Venezuela, Memories of a Venezuelan from the Decay, Amadís de Gaula, Hamlet, Otelo, Romeo and Juliet, Guzmán Blanco: Elipse of an Ambition for Power, Letters Between Bolívar and Sucre, April 19th of 1810, Auto Biography of Jose Antonio Paez, The Colored Spears, Biography of José Félix Ribas, The Little Prince, The Cabito, Faust, La Vorágine, The Battle of Carabobo, The Fall of Yellow Liberalism, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Barrabás, Don Quijote de la Mancha.

There were much more books for her to read, which brought her joy, but there were two books whose titles brought her attention the most:

The first book, large and thick, divided on three volumes, each volume had a huge image going across the whole cover depicting an empty battlefield and it had a title which gave her a creeping dread and a desire for it to be fiction, had for a name The World Wars. As Twilight gave this books a thought, she wondered over the idea of a conflict that could go across the world and how it was possible. She could only think of something so evil and so spread out that could only be defeated by a united alliance across the world. As she thought about it, she could agree on the idea that such plot would bring over a lot of fans and she wondered what kind of lore must have been built to make such a big book.

The second book, much smaller and thinner than the other, it didn't have any type of image and the cover was of a simple orange color, but it had a title that mesmerized Twilight and made her feel as if it had a secret meaning in it, as if the author wanted to give a secret code to the readers and you could only find it inside the book. This title, the more Twilight looked at it, sounded as something that only Princess Celestia could write due to her age, making her wonder about the author's age: 100 Years of Solitude.

Meanwhile, as Twilight was cleaning the house and looking at the books, she was being watched by the grandfather. What was going on on the mind of the old Joaquín was a mystery to everybody, sometimes he would be nice to those surrounding him, sometimes he would be a tyrant. In that house, the only one close to figure him out was Samuel and, even still, it was hard to predict what he was going to do next. After the last discussion between Samuel and Joaquín, the tension inside the house only grew with only two figures not noticing it: Twilight being new on the house, she was unable to notice how the tensions between the grandson and the grandfather were caused by her and, as she was helping on the house by cleaning, the old gaze of the enigmatic elder was seeing and determining what to do with her.

P.O.V.: Samuel Guzmán

As Samuel was entering into the elevator that would take him back into his house, he was wondering how he would help Twilight to learn spanish. He was sure that he would have to make up something but he wasn't sure what, perhaps he could use the dictionary?

His feet started to move inside the elevator as the doors opened, he looked at the button that said PH, used an electronic lock and then pressed the button that would take him to his apartment.

Regardless, he was sure that he would have to figure it out quickly, if Twilight didn't know spanish soon, she wouldn't be able to get a job and, that way, ensure that she wouldn't be kicked out of the house. The more he thought about it, the more worried he got, he only hoped to get an idea quickly.

The elevator's doors opened and he went out, his mind putting the body on automatic movement so he could better think of a course he could use to teach her, perhaps the same system his mother used on him? It worked very well and he ended up learning english on his own.

He pull out the keys out of his pocket and put them on the doors to open them as he could feel how the idea was coming to him, he was getting close to getting a plan to teach her.

As Samuel entered into his house, his vision was welcomed by an image that blocked out anything except what he was looking into. He found his guest looking at a couple of books while she had at her side a couple of cleaning tools, he already wanted to know what was going on, so he went to Twilight and asked what was going on.

As Twilight Sparkle looked at him with a happy face, as if she has done something worth being proud about, and decided to explain him what happened after he left.

"You see, after you left, I wanted to help on the house and, since I don't know spanish neither am capable of doing a job for the time being, I decided to help you clean the house, starting with the library" -. As she pointed out to the library, Samuel couldn't help but notice how well she cleaned it. The shelves had zero dust just like the books and he was sure that she even ordered the books in some way. - "I must say" -. She continued. - "You have a really interesting collection of books, I would really like to learn spanish very soon so I can start reading all of these".

As Samuel took notice of both her desire to read and her usefulness as a homework reminder, he decided to go on with the conversation they had earlier that day while he was cooking his dinner.

"I think that I'm starting to get an idea to teach you spanish, but I'm still not sure about how to do it. I suppose I could start by saying some words in spanish so you can start to get used to them but, for now, I would like to continue our previous conversation".

As the intellectual couple was waiting for Samuel's rice to cook, Twilight decided to proceed with the conversation and to answer his questions.

"Well" -. Samuel said. - "For starters, you asked who controlled our sun and moon. Does that mean that somebody controls the sun and moon of your world?" - Twilight's confirmation got his interest on her world. Her happy grin only showed him how eager she was to talk about her home. - "Yes! You see, in Equestria, our sun and moon are controlled by our princesses, Celestia and Luna respectively, and they always make sure that the celestial bodies go around Equestria at the right time" -. As Samuel heard the names, he couldn't suppress a light chuckle which got Twilight's curiosity.

"Oh" -. Said a calmed Samuel. - "You see, I find it funny that the princess that controls the moon is called Luna because moon, in spanish, is named luna. So, from my perspective, you said that the moon is controlled by the Princess Moon." - Twilight's face clearly showed that she didn't found it funny at all, not that Samuel minded, he always found his joy in small stuff like that even if no one else did.

"It doesn't matter" -. He continued. - "How do your princesses control both the sun and moon?" - Now, this was the question plaguing his mind. He wanted to know more about Twilight's origins, perhaps, he could tell how far was her mind or, rather, how different she was from his perspective of normality and her answer was something that both disappointed and interested him. - "Well, by magic" -. Even though she said it with a tone that depicted normality (and a hint of happiness) that wasn't enough for Samuel. - "Magic? Magic how?"

Twilight's explanation was something that brought his mind to think. It was hard for him to understand the idea of something that could be used by three tribes, working differently on each tribe, while the princesses, being a combination of all the tribes together, having enough power to control small celestial bodies. Even more so, the more he thought about it, the more he realized that the constellations and bodies in Equestria must have worked differently compared to his own world, even though they had the same names, for there to be a force that could only be described as "magic". It was a simple idea, but he wanted to know more.

But Samuel wasn't the only one thinking about the difference between the two worlds, for Twilight was also wondering how close was she to her own world, for she was now living in a world that had similar names and bodies to the ones she knew about but, instead of magic, it worked through a different set of forces that made her new home radically different. And the more she knew about it, the more she was interested in it.

Author's Note

About the arepa: yes, you can mix it with, practically, anything edible that compliments it (some food that has the same consistency as the arepa mass won't mix so well. I.e.: mixing arepa with potato would be like mixing coke with pepsi) and it taste good. Yes, you can make it sweet if you mix it with anese.

You can find an image of it here

And this is a Reina Pepiada:

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