Even farther from home

The unicorn eyed you with expectancy, impatiently waiting for your response. Before you could open your mouth though, Twilight's magic enveloped you in her familiar aura and practically threw you into her domain. As you flew through the air, you were able to examine the tremendous mess that Twilight called her home before crashing into a pile of hard cover books. Momentarily dazed by the assault, the lavender coated mare appeared right in front of you within a purple flash.

"I went to the hospital yesterday to check if you were recovering well from the dragon attack but Nurse Redheart said that you already checked out that evening and I got so worried! I mean no offense, but you seem like the type that won't listen to medical advice even though you nearly had your leg chomped off. Well I became so concerned that all I could do was come back to the library and try to occupy myself until you showed up, but then I started making a mess of everything and then you come knocking at my door! It surprised me so much that all I could do was drag you into my hom-", Twilight rambled before you put a claw to her mouth to silence her. Examining her appearance, you could see that the unicorn was honestly concerned for your well being, a concept you still found difficult to grasp. Pushing yourself off the books, you stood at your full height, leaving Twilight in your shadow.

"As you can see, J'lae has recovered and still has complete control of all his appendages. Well, almost all of them.", you responded while eyeing your tail with malice. Twilight seemed to relax a bit, if not seem more confused by your response. " As for now, J'lae only came by to see if you and the rest of your companions were unharmed." Eyeing the mess behind Twilight, you raised your brow in concern. "At least there seems to be no physical harm present, but J'lae can't say the same for your mental health."

Twilight looked at the floor in shame as you pointed out her mess. Slightly annoyed at how easily these ponies are insulted, you began to walk yourself out the door to find the rest of Twilight's gang.

"Wait!"

The mare's sudden outburst caught you off guard as you span on your toes to face her. She pawed at the ground some more before looking you straight in the eye.

"I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions now that I had the chance."

'What would she want to know about J'lae? Might as well comply for now less she pain me with her magic again.'

"It seems that J'lae owes you at least that much for preventing him from turning into a corpse on more than one occasion."

Twilight practically beamed at your agreement and quickly levitated a quill and scroll in front of her. Rubbing your eye in angst, you were hoping that this would end rather quickly.

"First things first, could you tell me more about your species?"

"Before we began this rather boring interview, may J'lae ask you one simple question?" Twilight looked rather hurt at the word 'boring', but nonetheless slowly nodded in agreement.

"How are you so powerful?" Once again Twilight was in a state of confusion. You felt further explanation was going to be needed. "When we fought not so long ago, you destroyed my ward rather easily. J'lae is not trying to boast, but not many of his enemies are able to do that with incredible ease as you." In response to your makeshift compliment, Twilight blushed slightly and shifted uncomfortably.

"Well, about that..."

"Yes, go on."

"I never really used any offensive spells on you besides paralyzing you." You felt your expression turn into that of a bewildered one.

'No offensive magic!? The damn bitch blinded one of J'lae's eyes!'

"If you used no offensive magic how do you explain those fireballs, breaking my arms, blinding one of J'lae's eyes and reducing a building to ash?" Twilight began to rub the back of her head before letting out a sigh of defeat.

"Well to explain the fireballs and burning down that building... They were all illusions."

Your right eye twitched.

'I-illusions? Thats not possible...'

"As for your ward, all I did was reverse the polarity of it so that it imploded in on itself, but I never thought that your ward was strong enough that the blowback would hurt you that badly." Twilight said while giving you an apologetic look.

'Using ones magic against them by just slightly altering it. J'lae has never heard of such a thing, perhaps he should ask the purple one to teach him of this.'

"J'lae... understands. Now that that has been explained, J'lae supposes he should tell you of his people. As J'lae mentioned before, his kind are called Khajiit and hail from a land called Elsweyr. We believe that our ancestors bred a litter of children and in turn kept doing so until our original father became angered and punished our brood mothers children. In defiance, they created the first of our kind and set them free in the lush forests. In more anger, our brood father turned our once beautiful forests into nothing more than barren deserts and toxic marshes. Azurah, one of the children, gave our kind the gift to change shape and this is where the Bosmer came from. J'lae knows what your thinking, but he knows nothing of those elves, so don't ask. After settling in a forest untouched by our creators wrath, we were not much more than quadruped cats that ran on instinct. After some time though, we began to from tribes and still loosely do in a sense. As for ourselves, our appearance depends upon the aligning of the moons back in Tamriel. J'lae was born under the Secunda Waxing, granting him the gift of being bipedal. Does this answer your question?"

Twilight was still furiously scribbling down notes she was taking before looking up at you.

"I still have more questions, but this will do for now."

"If that is all, then this is my farewell." Walking out the door, you heard Twilight say bye before you shut the door behind you. Looking around, the roads of Ponyville were much more livelier than before. Taking in a deep breath, you could taste the crisp and cold air that signaled autumn was near.

'The atmosphere is quite quaint in this little town. A much better improvement than the dread that Skyrim emits. Might as well enjoy it now while J'lae finds the rest of those talking hor-'

Your thoughts were interrupted by a soft thud you felt on your head. Looking around for the object that struck you, all you spotted was a muffin with a bite taken out of it in front of you.

"Pastry? How odd." Reaching down to grasp the culprit, you outstretched your arm to pick it up. As your paw wrapped around it, a heavy looking anvil fell from the sky, right onto your hand.

"......"

The pain did not reach you immediately, but it did eventually.

"BY THE TWIN MOONS! WHAT TREACHERY IS THIS. CURSE THIS LAND OF TALKING HORSES AND ALL THAT IT HOLDS DEAR. LET SHEOGORATH TURN EVERYTHING IN THIS DAMN PLACE INTO CHEESE!"

A voice from above called for your attention.

"Sorry about that!" As you looked up, you saw a rather buff looking pegasus carrying a carriage of equipment while a gray female was hovering beside him.

'There's something off about that gray one.'

The gray pegasus began to descend to the ground near you and promptly helped you lift the anvil off your hand. With your hand freed from the anvil, you were only slightly annoyed that all the bones in it were broken. The pegasus on the other hand looked like she was about to have a panic attack.

"I'm so sorry! We need to get you to a hospital!" She said with wide eyes. Ignoring her suggestions, you simply readied a healing spell in your other paw and got to work. As the bright light enveloped your broken hand, many pops and cracks signified your bones were aligning back into their proper positions. The pegasus seemed entranced by the spell you performed until it was complete.

"Amazing" She muttered under her breath. Looking her in the eyes, you finally spotted what was off about her.

'Hmm, her eyes seem... unbalanced...'

Realizing that you were staring at her, she forced out a chuckle to try and ease the rising tension.

"I'm really sorry about your hand mister. We were just making deliveries and I just don't know what went wrong."

"It is fine. Your depth perception must not be very good with your eyes like that." The pegasus seemed like she was about to cry at you mentioning her eyes.

"Y-yea, I g-guess you're right." She said with her voice breaking.

"Do not fret, J'lae meant no harm. His eyes are broken as well. Well at least one." You said while pointing a claw at your right eye. As the Pegasus took a closer look, she saw that your right eye was lacking any color. She giggled slightly before covering her mouth.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't laugh." You grinned at her.

"Do not worry, we are both at a disadvantage, the important thing is that we should never let others hurt us so easily with words." It was her turn to grin.

"Yea, you're right. Thanks for that! By the way, my name is Derpy, and I'm guessing you're J'lae?"

"That is correct."

"Well it was nice meeting you. And sorry again for your hand. Oh! Hang on a sec." Derpy said as she began to dig into her parcel. What she pulled out was a very delicious looking muffin. "Here, take it!" She said as she gave you it.

"This is not necessary, J'lae has already forgiven you."

"Well then take it as a gift! I have to get back to work, but I hope I see you again J'lae. Bye." Derpy said while she went back to her deliveries. Taking a bite out of the muffin, it was still very warm and left an excellent taste in your mouth.

'Such an odd one she is, but kind. Now what was J'lae supposed to do...