Before the sun has touched the sky with it's light Shadow Sense was at the train station, she was observing the prices for tickets. 'Only 10 bits for a private car to Canterlot, this will do' Shadow Sense then went to the tavern to 'keep up appearances'.

"Hey Brew you there?" I spoke.

"Yeah one minute, what's up?"

"I'm not gonna be here today, figured I would let you know in advance."

"Well that's to bad, I was starting to like ya, where you heading?"

"Oh just Canterlot, I heard they have good weather at this time of year." 'That was a lie.'

"I won't keep ya then, best of luck Shadow!"

"See ya latter Brew, good luck with the tavern business!"

As I was walking away I recounted the bits I got from work and the ruins. 'About 30, unless I counted wrong.' Making my way to the train station I got there just in time to buy the ticket before leaving.

"One private car please." I spoke as I gave the stallion his bits.

"Here you go ma'am."

I made my way to my private car without another word and sat down. There was even bread and butter, so for the sake of looking normal I took a single bite out of the bread. Not that I can digest anything, it will just be turned to ash via fire in my 'stomach'. So I sat down and watched the scenery through the window as it changed. 'Appleloosa, Ghastly Gorge, some river and Ponyville?' The town was a complete mess with flying insects everywhere, luckily the engine driver decided to skip Ponyville's stop for today in order to insure customer safety and drove right past them. One of the buggers got in my car, so I tore it's fragile wings apart and stomped on it. I absorbed it's mass and it had a surprising amount of magic in it, I just had to destroy the flesh to reach it. Eventually we went through the mountain and around it until we reached Canterlot.

I will admit, the contrast between the colorful train and the gold, purple and blue train station did distract me for a second. Trotting onto the yellow tiles I made my way outside the station and right into Canterlot. 'The magic in the air here is much thicker, maybe it's the ponies, or just the unicorns...' Anyways I arrived in what looks like a medium income area with fancy looking businesses and houses. Walking around I looked for a magical item store. 'Perhaps I can learn to enchant things.' Given about 20 minutes of walking and avoiding colliding with anyone I found what I was looking for. 'Night Light's magic emporium.' I opened the door and walked inside, observing the inside. 'Quaint, rich yet not spoiled. A perfect place to work, they have lots of merchandise to. A blue stallion with a moon cutie mark came from the back.

"Why hello there! I'm Night Light, what can I get you?" He said in what seems like his naturally energetic voice.

"I'm Shadow Sense, I was wondering if you could hire an apprentice, I can easily learn any spell you put in front of me."

"An apprentice you say? Say, did you go to Celesta's school for gifted unicorns?"

"No I couldn't get here when I was young, yet I am gifted none the less." I spoke.

"We will see about that, here read this book and try to get the spell on page 15."

I skimmed through the book to 15 and found it was a cooling enchantment, you put it somewhere fire proof and have it absorb all the heat, usually hanged from ceilings. 'relatively simple, conduction is a basic concept I learned in elementary.' So I picked up a metal rod, lifted it up in my magic and manipulated it by increasing thermal conductivity and increased the amount of time it took to reach absolute 0 by 5 times. (In layman's terms, I manipulated the metal so it takes in more heat before it think's it's hot.) 'There we go, it's already hot.' Holding the metal in my magic I called over Night Light.

"Your done already?"

"Yes it was a simple concept that I have worked with before."

"You mind if I take a look?"

"Go ahead." I say while passing it to him. "Told ya I could learn anything."

He looks to me and then back to the metal and again to me. "This looks almost like what someone would make after 3 years of experience!" He spoke as if I blew his mind. "You remind me of my daughter Twilight, she could do all sorts of things."

"So, am I hired?"

"Yes, yes of course your hired just go in the back and read page 20 on disenchantment to remove this spell."

So I went to the back with the book and the enchanted rod. But instead of 'dispelling' the magic I simply absorbed it. When I absorbed the spell, it's almost as if I learned everything about it in microscopic detail. I waited a minute before heading back out again. "Done." I said in a playful tone.

"That was quick, where did you learn magic?"

"I'm self taught, my family was very poor."

"That's sad to hear, what about your cutie mark, what does it mean?"

I look at my flank to see the two black swirls. "It shows my skill for absorbing information and then forgetting it latter if it's not a constant in my life, I know how heat transfer works, but I don't use advanced math every day, you get what i'm saying?
It's like a reverse whirlpool that pushes anything that's not important away."

"Ah I see, well come back tomorrow and we can get you a job as a salesmare."

I started walking towards the door waving bye to him. "Bye Night Light, have a good day."

"See ya latter Shadow Sense."

'Lets see what else there is.'

Author's Note

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Snobby Canterlot pony names? Names for peculiar salesmares? Guard names? Suggestions are always welcome.

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