***POV Jordan***

Today was going to be my first look around the city of Canterlot. Twilight Velvet had agreed to take us to the public library to get us some books for little Twilight and some for me so that I could study Equestria a bit more.

Needless to say, I was a bit excited. I had a lot of questions about their society. But most of my curiosity was in seeing how similar or different they were compared to us humans.

“Are you two ready? I would still like to get some groceries from the market before it get’s too crowded.” Twilight Velvet pulled me from my own thoughts with that sentence.

We agreed to go the the library first and then help her with bringing the groceries back home.

“Yes mom, we are ready,” Responded little Twilight.

“Good. Also, I’m not spending an entire morning with you two at the library. We can stay there for one hour maximum, okay?”

“But mom,” Twilight tried to argue.

“No arguing young lady. We go frequent enough to the library as it is. So you better not complain about it.” Velvet stated.

“How many times do you go to the library?” I asked.

“Two times a week for little sparkle her studies mostly. And you?” Velvet answered.

“Where I come from, libraries are a disappearing phenomenon. Usually when we need info, we just search on the internet,” I said.

“What’s the internet?” Little Twilight asked.

“Only the most disturbing worst best thing to have been created by humans.” And with that I started my explanation of what the internet actually was, while we were walking through the city.

This city was really beautiful. It had a nice unique architecture, but it was huge. Vibrant colors everywhere compared to what we use. Canterlot really looked like a more colorful 17th century city.

I also noticed that it was build on the side of a mountain. Which I found interesting. From a strategy point of view, I had two opinions about that. One, either no one could damage the mountain and it was really safe. Or something could destroy the cliff side of the mountain and destroy the entire city in one swoop, but I left those thoughts for what they were.

It’s inhabitants were even more colorful than the city. Even tho I got a lot of stares at me for being what I am, they seemed friendly enough. Even kids were openly playing outside on the street.

There were more guards on the streets than I would have thought. Maybe this is common here? But I found it unusual. They were actively helping the populace, helping kids stay away from the more busy streets. They were helping adults load up a cart. Cops could sometimes act like that but most of the time they were ignorant for this kind of stuff.

With my explanation complete and me observing the city lifestyle, I didn’t notice that we arrived at the library. It was a huge white building with probably 3 or 4 floors.

“I’ll wait for you two here at the checkout entrance, while you find what you need. But no more than an hour Twilight. After that we are leaving. Understood?” Said Velvet.

“Yes mom,” Was Twilight’s usual response.

Twilight then put me on her back and started running.

“We need informational books and encyclopedias. Those are all on the third floor.” And with that said, she made a beeline towards the stairs.

This place was even larger on the inside than it appeared on the outside. Hallways with hallways of books and quite a lot of ponies visiting/reading.

When we finally got to the third floor, Twilight started to walk towards this specific section of the library. It was the section dedicated with info about Equestria.

“We need some beginner guides, some geographical books, ...” Twilight started to ramble.

“Twilight, just basic books will suffice for now. I can always return and get a more detailed book on a certain subject,” I interrupted her.

“Don’t forget we need some books on electricity as well.”

“Yeah, you’re right,” she said with quite a sad tone.

“What’s wrong?” I asked. It seemed that something really got her down.

“I just want to teach you something about Equestria in return for you teaching me. You have been teaching me so well, I just want to return the favor,” She answered.

“Twilight, after you ace that exam, you can teach me anything you want about Equestria. Top priority right now is furthering your education. Besides, our study sessions are a team effort. And I have to say that we make a pretty good team. Especially after yesterday’s work, I learned a lot from that too,” I said trying to comfort her.

“You’re right,” She said with renewed vigor.

And so we got some basic guides of Equestria from this section of the library. Those were 5 books in total.

It was a bit of a hassle to search for the books on electricity. They had to have some at least. Otherwise how do they get those light bulbs to work?

After about half an hour of searching we found something. In a small abandoned corner of the third floor we found some dusty books. When we looked inside the books they were indeed about electricity and some theories around it. But we didn’t look any further in the contents of the books. These were the guides we were looking for. But I got a bad feeling about the state of these books.

We got back down to Velvet just in time before the hour was over with 8 books in total. We checked those out and headed outside.

Velvet still needed her groceries from the market. That gave me more opportunities to have a look at the city and ask any questions I had which Twilight was quite happy with answering. For example, How do they keep their merchandise fresh at the market? I know humans use these big refrigeration units for that. But how did these ponies do it?

Apparently they used these enchanted boxes. These boxes kept the fruits and wares in good shape.

It took Velvet about half an hour to get all that she needed to supply the family for a few days.

While on our way back home I started to notice more details in the city. There was literally no garbage in the streets. They were spot clean. The trees also look like they are getting cared for at least once a week. The animals looked happy and content. It really was a nice change of pace compared to the city I used to live.

When we got back at their home, we helped Velvet to put all the groceries away before hurrying upstairs with the books that we got from the library.

“So what do you want to start with?” I asked.

“I thought that you would want to get at least a bit more acquainted with Equestria. After that we could continue with my presentation for the exam in two days,” Suggested Twilight. She had a point. This way we could see how far we can take this presentation.

“Alright, let us begin.”

The study session about Equestria was nice, but pretty disturbing at times.

It started with the founding of Equestria. It seemed like the ponies had a Game of Thrones style winter coming for them. Only the ponies knew how to solve it, unlike game of thrones. After they banished the wendigo’s, Equestria was formed.

Shortly after the creation of Equestria, two princesses rose to power. The solar princess Celestia, and the lunar princess Luna. It is said that they could move the sun and the moon respectably on their own to continue the day and night cycle. Ponies ven based a religion around both of these princesses.

That was just ridiculous. How can somepony move the sun or the moon? Is the capability of magic that insane? Or is it just make believe? If so, then they both have this world basically as a hostage. They can just make threats like ‘I’ll make it eternal night’ or something like that to keep invasions at bay. Maybe I was just thinking too far and magic is actually that insane.

It was also pretty disturbing that the solar princes was still ruling today? Unless that it was a descendant, that means that their ruler is like a few thousand years old. She must be the loneliest pony on the planet.

On geographical terms, this world was strange yet somehow familiar.

Still, You could see that they had yet to discover a few things. So who knows what else is out there?

Their educational system was awesome and nearly free so that anyone could study. Their economy was basic and stable. It looked like a nice country with few enemies and a good social system. The few enemies that I could find from these books were maybe the griffons and the changelings, whatever those were. There was a bit of a skirmish with the griffons after the banishment of the lunar sister. And with the changelings it never went well.

And that was what I learned about Equestria.

“That was a lot of info Twilight,” I said.

“Did you enjoy it? I know it’s not much in detail but it is the basics.” She asked.

“Yeah, there are certain thing I don’t believe or don’t agree with but that is my opinion on the facts that I have learned about. It was really interesting. I would like to learn what kind of technological advancements you guys have.”

“Those old books had somethings about electricity. Maybe we can look through those and continue with my presentation?” Twilight proposed.

my stomach rumbled. “I think we should look if you mother has finished preparing lunch first,” I said with a laugh.

We both agreed on that decision. It was already 12:30. When we opened the door we saw that Velvet was already on her way upstairs to come get us for lunch.

**TIME SKIP**

After lunch we continued with Twilight’s presentation.

We started by going through those books we found in the library. And we were disappointed with what we found.

It turns out that Equestria doesn’t have much in terms of electrical advancements. Then again they probably rely more on their magic than on technology. Still it was pretty underwhelming what they had.

They only strictly had a small low voltage DC network that linked 3 houses together maximum. The highest voltage they had was around 50 Volt. There was no safety regulations. No insulation. They generated the power with these magic generators that converted magic energy into electrical energy. But the efficiency of that process was really bad, around 10%. They had no other more advanced machinery.

The other things we found were strict warnings about the usage of AC power, how unusable it was and the apparent danger around it.

Twilight was even more disappointed with the find than I was. I basically taught her things that weren’t even developed yet in Equestria. But she still decided that she wanted the presentation to go about electricity.

So I continued my lessons about electricity. More specifically about safety, all the ways to generate green power (solar panels and how they were made or how they worked, windmills, etc...). They had windmills in Equestria, but those were the old medieval ones to make flour.

We even made a theoretical case for a small solar panel installation.

Twilight really quickly caught on with the material I was giving her. I once again gave her some exercises, she was able to solve most of them on her own this time.

I decided that we would make the presentation only about the solar panels case we made. If these ponies really had near to no advancements in the electrical field, then we would already trump them with what we had made.

The evening quickly came around without us noticing.

After we finished the presentation, we were called down to eat dinner and went to bed.

The few days after that quickly blurred together for me. I was really busy asking and answering questions to and from Twilight. We even did a small study on my species.

But we also got some free time with Shining Armor. We played some games or sports together, even tho hoofball was a bit of an issue with my size and all. We still had a blast.

And then the day for the entry exam came.

Author's Note

Any fair criticism is always appreciated. I hope you guys are enjoying this as much as I am.
Next chapter should be up soon as well because it is pretty much done.

Have a nice day.