Heartburn

“Hey Scott?”

“Hm?”

“Who raises your Sun?”

I muted the TV, and faced Cadance, my eyes widened in perplexion and surprise. “Cadance, I have no son.”

“That’s not true,” she countered, “it hangs high in the sky, just like it does in Equestria. But humans do not possess magic, how do you hang it in the day sky?”

Just as quickly as my confusion evaporated, several other questions pushed themselves to the forefront of my mind. “What are you talking about?”

Cadance smacked her lips in annoyance. “I mean like, humans aren’t magical—”

“That’s what you think.”

“Listen!” she cried, her cheeks huffing out as she exhaled. “In Equestria, my Aunt’s, the rulers of Equestria lift the sun to start the day, and raise the moon to start the night by using their magic. How does your Sun and Moon move without such powerful magic?”

“They don’t.”

Cadance tilted her head to the side. “Pardon?”

“So, essentially, The Earth, what we live on, is a planet that rotates on an axis around a fixed Sun. The sun is the middle of our universe—”

“Fuck this, I don’t care enough, can you give me the remote? I want to watch Gilmore Girls.”

I frowned. “Really? I thought you were the one who wanted to learn as much as you could about this dimension.”

“Eh.” She shrugged, pulling the remote from me in her magical clasp. “I’ll just google it or something.”

I blinked.

“I learn quickly.”