Echo-4882

As I got closer to the town I could make out more and more of the town itself. The town looked a lot like it did in those history books I had read in school, but that couldn't have been right. After all, the town hadn't looked like that in over a century. Strangely enough, the walk didn't tire me at all, even with me being an earth pony, a walk of that length should have at least tired me a bit. I just chalked it up to be adrenalin from when I travelled from my own world and continued forward.

“No need to think too hard on things like that. Right now I just need to figure out where, or when, I am.” I thought as I shook my head to clear out my thoughts.

After about 20 minutes I arrived at the outskirts of the town. Being this close to it really showed how primitive its technology really was. The houses looked like something out of a fantasy book, being entirely made of wood, thatch and plaster. There where various exceptions of course. The biggest being a house that looked like it was made out of a various assortment of cakes, chocolate and other confectionery. (Just a tip, don't try to lick it. Trust me I tried and lets just say that it wasn't a great idea.)

The skies had no ships and the roads had no vehicles. Ponies either walked to their destinations or used a carriage. I had never seen such a clear sky, normally there would be so many ships in the air that the sun would have difficulty getting down to the ground. But here? Besides the occasional pegasus, the sky was completely clear.

One of the first things I noticed as I walked around the town is the lack of hostility. Every pony that I passed either smiled, waved at me or passed me a simple 'hello' before moving along with their day. I had never seen such a welcoming community, sure Ponyville back on my world was welcoming, but no where near to the extent that these ponies where being.

As I continued to take in my surroundings I realised something pretty important: “Where am I going to stay?”

I obviously had no money so I couldn't get a hotel room and I doubted any of these ponies would just take in some random filly off of the street. As I tried to figure something that I could do to get a roof over my head a voice suddenly came from behind me.

“Hey there little one, I haven't seen you around here before. Are your parents on vacation here or something?”

I quickly turned around to see a lavender unicorn staring down at me with a little smile. She had a purple mane and tail with a lighter purple and pink highlight going through both of them. Her cutiemark was a star with 5 smaller stars around it.

I thought about how I should respond for a second, if I told her that I was a filly from a different world she would most certainly not take me seriously. I hated to lie to this pony, especially with how welcoming they had been to me. But I had to be realistic. I needed information about where I was and I wasn't going to get that in an insane asylum.

“Yes they are.” I lied, “I'm from Manehattan, my parents just wanted to get away from the city for a while.”

Honestly this was complete guesswork. I knew Manehattan had been around for a long time in my world and so I put my hopes in that I hadn't been put in a world that was that primitive that Manehattan didn't exist.

“Well I hope you and your family have a great time in our little town. The ponies here are really welcoming to new ponies so I'm sure you will be fine. Oh but you should probably steer clear of Pinkie Pie for a few days. She gets far too excited about meeting new ponies.” She replied, apparently buying my well guessed lie.

“Ok thanks, I'll keep that in mind” I responded, hoping to end this conversation before she started asking more in depth questions. I'm not exactly the best liar.

She nodded her head and walked away to go continue to do whatever it was she was doing before she met me. When she was out of earshot I released the breath I wasn't aware I was holding. That could have gone a lot worse, I needed to keep away from ponies like that before somepony gets curious.

I almost facehooved when I realised exactly what I had done though. Because I said that I was on holiday I couldn't exactly ask anypony for lodging since I claimed I had my parents with me. I doubted that these ponies would appreciate me lying to them and I still needed to find out where I was.

“Maybe this town has a library. The history books said that there was one here once but it had been destroyed during the battle of Tirek.” I thought to myself as I looked for anything that resembled a library.

When I did eventually find it, it most certainly wasn't what I expected. I had found a massive hollowed out tree that seemed to have been re purposed as a house. There where multiple windows on the structure with a couple of platforms on the sides, one of which had a telescope on it. The oddest thing about it was that the tree appeared to still be alive, even though the majority of the original tree was no longer there. There was a sign outside that stated that the tree was called the “Golden Oaks Library” so I headed over to the door and knocked on it.

Imagine my surprise when a very familiar lavender unicorn answered the door.

“Oh hey there, I remember you. Come on in, what can I do for you?”

“Damn it”