"Purification"

Lathran was watching Ponyville from the Everfree forest. He almost found it funny watching all the colorful ponies panic at his 'Suicide'. I did sorta kill myself back there, but was that murder or suicide in the law books? We were 2 parts of a being and were separated but I believe I could pull it off as a half suicide. Not that Celestia would allow me to go to court to plead for innocence in the first place. She wanted me 'purified' and that's what she got. I'm probably all of humanities sins and triumphs wrapped together in magic. Anyways enough about myself I have ponies to spy on.

This was the first reported murder in Ponyville the last 200 years! Twilight called in the assistance of Celestia for the second time this week to send investigators and to help set up a funeral. Twilight spent her morning drinking tea and rocking back and forth. This was just too much for even her to handle. Spike was trying to comfort as he always does, but couldn't do much for her detrimental amount of stress. They heard someone knocking on the door.

Spike got up. "I'll get it, just stay here and relax alright?" Twilight gave him a strained smile, but she couldn't bring herself to be happy yet. Spike walked up to the door and opened it to see a royal detective. The unicorn stallion had a grey coat, blue eyes and a silver chest-plate.

The detective cleared his throat. "You must be Spike. I was told there was a murder here."

"Yeah.. He's downstairs." He pointed to the stairs. "Second room down."

The detected set off to work investigating the murder scene. First he surveyed the area for physical damages, finding none he surveyed the local magic to see if there was anything unusual. "Bingo." He found strange leftover magic on the door and on Jared's throat. Using his horn he channeled the magic into a clear crystal for later study. All he knew about it was that it was grey and looked creepy. Finding no more evidence he went back upstairs and searched for more of the strange magic. He found some on the ground seemingly going in a straight line and curving around. He then found some more on the front entrance. He noted in his report where he found the magic residue before storing it away with the rest. Being done with that part of the investigation he started leaving for the door, he figured he could question them when they were more mentally stable. He took one last glance at the rocking Twilight before leaving.

Lathran wasn't surprised by the amount of pony investigators sent here. Throughout the town their had to be at least 12 ponies investigating this 'murder scene'. Many of them were probably questioning the locals about last night and many were surprised someone was murdered. I made sure to stay away from town, I wouldn't want to be spotted. After about an hour most of them left and so did I, there is only so much time I can waste on making sure they aren't tracking me. I decided to travel down the path to the ruins. 'Hopefully there is a ancient collection of knowledge.'

Eventually I came across a calm river. 'Does water affect me?' Thinking logically I 'lean' over the edge of the river and try to pick up the water. I find that water just flows through my hand like i'm oil. Deciding it's safe I float on over the water to the other side and continue down the path. After awhile I came across a bridge, in my old body I would have avoided using this bridge due to my mass, but now I don't have to worry because i'm as light as a feather now. Not worrying about a thing I hovered through the rickety old bridge. Continuing down the path for about a minute, the ruins came into full view.

'It looks half decent, I wouldn't mind living here.' Striding up to the door I tried opening it only to remember i'm physically weak and i'm basically incorporeal. Learning from my lesson I moved through the door and started searching through the castle. 'It was excessively tall, especially for ponies.' Did the princess want this for their ego or did the common ponies build it this way? Who cares. During my search I found a few interesting things like a few suits of full pony armor and a few shinny treasures. After 10 minutes of searching I finally found the library I was looking for and like everything else in the castle it was HUGE. There had to be about 1200 books here. I could spend months reading all of this, imagine all the useful things I might learn. Of course there's a few things I don't require right now such as knowledge how to cook or how to build a home, being incorporeal and all I don't really feel the need to sleep.

Deciding I have nothing better to do I started gathering books I was interested in reading on a table. Problem was I could only carry about 2 books at a time it took awhile not to mention the books that I had to hover up to reach. First I started with a few books on incorporeal entities and magic. I read and read through the entire night learning multiple things. Apparently incorporeal entities are commonly made of magic and can cast spells by draining their body but doing so may result in them 'dispelling' themselves. So theoretically I could cast magic if I gather enough of it. 'Nice to know.' It also spoke of how magic comes more naturally to beings made of magic 'Makes sense.' and that they cast it through intent and willpower. Reading through the magic books I found that it mostly just explains what they spell does and how it does it. They say if you understand the science behind a spell it makes it easier to cast it. Such as friction + wood + air = fire. I kept reading and reading waiting for time to pass away.

Eventually it was midnight and I felt empty for some reason, so I explored the ruins while thinking to myself.