Journal

Current location: The Abandoned Cabin

Man, im tired....

I was busy all day trying everything to get done, but at least i managed to do everything that needed to be done. After i woke up today, and maked my morning business( i forgotted to mention that the cabin has internal WC too, though its a bit misshaped compared to what im used to,but its make job done. Its not the normal thing either, the "business" just dissapears in the hole and leaves no smell either...Yeah, magic does get the world around. First i just suspected, but now i know im such a lucky SOB for finding this place...No bathroom though, probably because no running water in the woods.) and checking the firewood at the furnace, wich i finded to be enough for now, i decided to try my luck with the crystal city.(i have no idea how they call it besides Crystal Empire) So i taked the scarf out of the bedroom closet, and after thinking a bit, the old pair of saddlebags too and put them on. Even if i dont manage to bring something to home, at least it will cover my blank flank, so  no ponies will raise an eyebrow at me. After i exited the cabin, i stopped to take whiff from the crispy cold air and take a look around. At night falled some snow and it looked just awesome how the sunlight maked sparkle the vast snowfield before me. Somehow, i feeled like a little kid again wanting to play gleefully in the snow like no tomorrow. This was so... nostalgic, i guess? Though im nowhere as old to use that word just so... Buck it! it was awesome! Grinning like a mad man, i pounced off the porch, right into the first big snowpile, while leaving the saddlebags on the porch's wood floor, due to wild takeoff. After fooling around a bit, i move back to the porch for the bags and while setting my sights on the city made of crystal and put them on again. "Now lets see, what the fluff is going on" With that thought i started walking in the direction of it. Now i will not write about the good half hour walk that happened before i reached the city, except that that changing into an earth pony, had totally maked better my psyhical condition. Lets summarize, what i learned in there, shall we?

So:

1. It seems i dont have to worry about messing with the timeline.(thank you!thank you!) From where i know? Well, these new kind of changelings with their colorful hides are everywhere, happily chatting with ponies or just buzzing around(), so it seems that Thorax returned with his quest with Starlight, Trixie and Discord and bringed them back to the Empire from the old hive. So the streets are now literally buzzing with life with all these changelings and a lot of ponies in a  crowd. Why the crowd you ask? Well, here comes number

2. There is a great Hearthswarming Coming Fair now in the city and all week, till Hearthswarming Eve it seems, if i read right on the banner. So the streets are filled with booths and foodstalls and acourse, with ponies and changelings for good measure.

Its like 2 months earlier here than earth, though i dont mind it too much, mind you. So i just walked and looked around enjoying the festive atmosphere and occasionally asking around for work.(The fair is awesome, but i cant let the main goal slip, that would make the difference between a happy pony, and a pony without something to eat) After asked a few stallpony, it seems that not nopony hires at this time of year, but they redirected me to the local Royal Unemployment Office, where an older officemare, after some burocrative meddling, scribbling name ,some data(wich ones i just come up) dispatched me with 200 bits in a bag.(to my pleasant suprise, it seems the crown/goverment  puts you up with this amount money till you get a job. MONTHLY.Acourse its not that much, but mind you, i have a huge advantage, what other unfortunate ponys dont have, namely since i live in The Abandoned Cabin(TAC in short) i DONT pay ANY rent to nopony.I dont know how much similar is Equestria to Earth, but if any similarities are im sure that the rent for your apartment or house takes the bigger sum of your money.) So now as i trotted on the street again with my now not so empty saddlebags, looking the supplies of the stalls of the fair, i maked a mental shopping list in my head.

I will certainly need:

-More food, canned food preferably.

-A first aid kit, if they have it those here. I dont plan to be injured, but better be safe than sorry.

-Some kind of water can for holding my drink water, so i can use that pot for cooking and stuff.

Oh and also i need to be trifty with my founds, so i can hold out in this month. I will not turn into a beggar in this brand new life, enoope.

As i wandered on the streets, i noticed, that im kinda bigger than the avarage pony. I just dont noticed it earlier, because i haved nopony to compare to. And im not just taller than them, im bigger, like have a sturdier build. If i have to guess, i think i have the Big Mac type (kinda) body? I seed that the ponys in the crowd, mostly the mares stealing glances towards me. Maybe i am giving off some intimidating vibe?(awkward) I ignored the staring and entered a shop wich haved sign with a transparent bottle with a yellow liquid and a white and red capsule on it. As i entered the establishment, the bell over the door ringed and soon a female sound voice have heard:

"Coming! Just a minute!"

While waiting, i have taked a look over the shelves(made of crystal as EVERY FURNITURE in the shop ), overflowing with bottles and containers, who knows what substance the holding inside. Then, behind the door of the counter an unicorn mare has emerged. I taked a step back. Wow, she is pretty!... light red coat, rosey mane and tail with white stripes in them and as a cutie mark she has a green cross with a red and white capsule on it.(very nice flanks too)  She was a crystal pony and looked at me with a gorgeous pair of golden eyes with a smile of a godness....

"Welcome to the Bottles and Pill pharmacy and alchemy store! Sorry for the wait, i was busy behind checking the stock, we dont get much customers in this time of year.What can i help you with? Umm sir?... are you okay?" She asked with a smile turned concerned frown.

I snapped out myself from the gawking and  pushed my mushy brain to gear.

"Uhh...(very smooth i know...) Oh! Yes! Sorry, i just kinda dozed off here..."

"No problem, sir." She smiled at me again.(oh Faust!)"What can i help you with?"

"I would like to ask: Do you sell first aid kits here?" I asked remembering in the mean time why ive entered the shop in the first case.

"Oh yes! We assembly those ourselves with great care here and we give an instruction manual too with the kit to the healing potion vials. Would you like to buy one?" She asked. As if i could say no those eyes, even if i dont wanted to purchase one in the first place...

"Yes, i would like to. Its better to be safe than..."

"...sorry." She finished my sentence giggling cutely.(HNnnghh!)

"Im Sweet Pill, by the way." She extended a forehoof towards me, wich i grabbed gingerly and shaked it.

"Ebony Lock. Its nice to meet you."

"Excuse me for a minute."She turned back towards the door and shouted back:

"Dad, would you  put together  a first aid kit, please?"

"Right away sweetie! Just a minute!" Sounded the response from the back.

Soon a dark red coated older unicorn stallion appeared in the doorway, with white gray mane and a pair of glasses on his muzzle, holding a red box with a white cross on it(this seems to be universal everywhere) in his red colored magic grasp.

"Here you go, dear.Anything else?" He ask.

"Good question dad, can we help in something else ?" She turned towards me.

"No thank you very much." I smiled  at the mare.

"Then it would  be 10 bits" While i fished out my "purse", to count out the payment for the kit, Sweet Pill's dad dissapeared behind the back door."Ill be back here, sweetie if you need me!"

"Okay dad, but dont forget lunch will be in a hour!"Replied the unicorn mare, while she wrapped the box in brown paper.

"Okay sweetie!" we heard the answer, while i counted the bits out to the mare and then placed the kit in one of my saddlebags.

"Thank you for your purchase!" I heard as i maked my way to the door.

(phew, for the future pages, i think i will refrain from writing out the dialogs, its too hard for someone(or pony now) who is not that experienced writer like me)

After purchasing the first aid kit from Sweet Pill, i managed to get the rest of the things off from the vendors of the fair and from the stores.

I buyed:

-more food

-matches

-ink and paper

-teakettle and tea(fruit ones)

-a tin mug(from i can drink the tea)

• a small jelly can for the drinking water

So, i think i have getted everything what i needed. I hope, i have not forgetted something important.

I thinked about going back to the cabin, when i seed a stand that selled books.hmmm.... Why not?

So im now back to the  cabin, writing this journal by the light of the magic lantern. I have purchased two books from the stand,wich are now resting on the before soo empty bookcase. One of them was the Supernaturals: Natural Remedies and Cure-alls That Are Simply Super which i recognized from the Bridle Gossip episode. I thinked it will come handy  sometime. The other was a thick red book with a golden silhouette pony head with a pipe in the mouth and the trademark cap. "The Adventures of Sherlock Hooves" i was intrigued that the pony version of the book was also as good as the original book.Plus there was some tales wich was not in the human version.  As i  was for leaving the salespony from the book stand warned me that there going to be a big snowstorm at the evening and it will be raging at the entire night. I thanked him and leaved for home. When i arrived back to the cabin i just putted down the saddlebags and hurriedly stacked the remaining wood from the basket to the wall, taked the axe and the basket and goed out for more wood.(freezing to death is a not so good death i think, eenoope) I was lucky when i commed back with a really full basket, it was already snowing in big flakes and the wind is started pick up the pace, when i closed the cabins door behind me. I put the basket and the hatchet on their place, and then from the old wood i lighted in the furnace. It was already dark in the cabin because the starting snowstorm, so i used the the lanterns light while i put away the purchased goods. I putted the food to the "kitchens" cabinets, also the tea and the teakettle, the mug, and the jelly can. The paper, ink, the matches, and the bag with the remaining bits inside goed  into the bedroom desks drawers.The saddlebags and the scarf goed back to the closet.Damn this all maked me so thirty i drinked all the remaining drinking water from the pot. Nevermind, as things looks like, there will be lot of snow to melt and boil tommorow and fill the jelly can. Im tired like for 'realsies' so after this, i put some more wood on the fire and then will sleep like a log.

Ebony Lock out.