Author's Note

Warning: The colored text implies that the conversation is happening via chatting in a messenger app.

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Rainbow dash and I parted ways after that, however I could still hear her shouting "THIS IS AWESOOOOOOOME!" from a mile away. But I don't blame her. My motorcycle felt alive again, it was working flawlessly! I dare say even better than when I first got it. Steely Armor did me a great favor with fixing this for me.

I got home pretty quick, my body felt sore from dragging my motorcycle so I just crashed on my bed and before I knew it I was napping. When I woke up, it was six-ish. I crawled out of the bed to change my clothes to something more comfortable. and dropped on my couch. My mind was wandering about what about what happened with Steely and what that blueprint was, he seemed really protective about it. He was not the type that engages with others a lot however he did when he and Flaming Star first came to school and, well, you know the rest. I noticed that when he wanted to elaborate on my motorcycle he was very confident and fluent with his words. Whereas other times, he struggles to form his sentences.

I was just looking around the social media for stuff to just pass time, but I just couldn't get the thought off of my head. Therefore I messaged Twilight.

-Hey

-Hi

-How are you?

-I'm good, a bit tired but ok

-How are you?

-preparing my new schedule for next week

"of course you are!" I thought to myself.

-how is spike?

-he's eating his food

-dinner or evening meal?

-I don't know...he has been eating quite sporadically these days.

-why don't you make a schedule for his eating too?

-WOW! that's an amazing idea!

I literally face palmed myself on the couch when I read that.

-I meant it as a joke

-Oh.

-you're still going to do it anyway, right?

she didn't respond for a while.

-NO!

-(-_-)
-never mind

"I'm sorry spike!" I said, even though no one was there.

-hey, I wanted to ask you something
-how would you describe Steely Armor?

-we don't talk much about anything other than magic and our theories on it, but he seems like a nice guy.
-why are you asking this?

I felt explaining all that would have taking a long time, so decided to call her.

-Hold on

I stopped laying and sat down on my couch. I was still lashing though. As I was calling Twilight, I sensed something wet on my left chick. It was Ray, rubbing his head against my chick. I picked him up with my finger and let him be there, yes he occupied one of my hands but I still had my right hand.

After a few rings, Twilight picked up. "hello Sunset!"

"Hey, so, I think it's better if I tell the story here

"well, yeah, I managed to figure some stuff out."

That was promising! "So what is it?"

"Whoever made this blueprint has combined winding fonts together."

I changed position and sat down on my couch, "the what ding texts?" I admit, for a second I thought it was a scientific saying or something.

"Winding! Sunset! Winding! they are a digital font language that have shapes instead of letters, and there is quite some variations. its first model was designed in-"

"Twilight! the blueprint, not the history of digital fonts!" I would have let her explain it fully if I was not very curious at the time and to be honest it was not essential information.

she let out a sigh behind the phone and continued: "As I was saying, there are various types of this font, four to be exact. And I see shapes from all four here!"

"so what do you mean by that?" I asked while pitting my hand in my hair.

"it means I can't use any sort of programs to tell me what it is saying, Instead I have to decipher it manually."

"which means...."

"it's going to take a while, and that is if my assumption is correct and this is all there is to it."

That was disappointing, "Ok, just keep in touch if you had any news."

"so, are you not going to tell me where did you get this?"

She was determined and keen on knowing that, and to be honest, I don't blame her. I wouldn't have been patient either. But I needed to stall as long as I could. "I promise I will explain it all tomorrow, you just keep working on translating the blueprint."

"OK, I'll try my best. anything else?"

"No, just tell spike I said hi"

"will do, bye!"

"bye"

I turned my phone off and tossed it aside. I thought of just passing time and playing some games but, all the thoughts and questions I had in my head felt like a storm on a sunny beach, I just couldn't stop wondering. Wondering what it all meant, "why put in the effort to write everything in that conventional language? Is it that important that you don't want others to figure out what it is? If yes, what is it?" My head was exploding! I couldn't enjoy anything at that time.

So I started looking at it from a different angle: 'From what I'd gathered about Steely Armor, he is an antisocial dude who clearly is not very keen on opening up, unless he has to. From what I saw today, I dare say he is mazing with machines! I don't have much information on cars and machines and all that, but I can say what he did today, is not something that any mechanic can do. Not a normal one at least. But beside those I don't really know anything about him, all I can guess is that he is trying to make something that he doesn't want others to know.

"maybe telling twilight is not that bad of an idea..." I thought to myself while staring at the lonely white lamp that was hanging from the ceiling. "She had spent some time with him so she should know a thing or two" I sat on the couch to think more straight, "But even if she did, It's not like she is her best friend or anything!" and it was then, that it hit me! "Flaming Star!" I stood up and started walking around my not so big living room. "he probably knows a lot about him!" trying to get some information off of him seemed like a smart move, except, I was constantly remembering my tutoring session with him! THAT was not helping with the headache it was giving me. However, if it is was going to get me some more information on Steely Armor that could potentially help me figure out what is it that he is making, I was going to take the challenge.