Author's Note

Detail, I do not remember the name of the story that introduced the caribou to the site, but they, their culture and everything else is not mine !!! I just found an interesting detail to put in history and well, it has already become public domain already right? as Discord with being a draconecus, I am almost sure that your species is made by fanbase and not official but everyone adopts it!

I will be making a long chapter of more than 3k words and two short ones in a row, the long ones will be made to advance the story and the short ones will be about 1k 1.5k words for 'memories of the past' chapters, or character development / filler
These chapters 'memories of the past' will be made randomly and may not follow an order, and aim to show what happened in his world, the great struggles and, well, the time he spent with twilight...
note: as i'm ahead, since i finished a chapter i post the previous one, i will post one more today, enjoy !!!

Memories of the past: Snow and ice

God is cold, well, that's what you get for walking through the great north, a true desert of ice, my God how cold it is, wherever I look there is snow behind? Snow, right? Snow, left? A little hill again, look, this is new, damn, how I wanted to be Miranda now, she figured out how to get into the heart of crystal and now she doesn’t get out of it, Jesus she even makes a fire there and somehow doesn’t die from suffocation , damn I was never so jealous of anyone, not even when my brother won that arm wrestling, ahhh, so many memories, it almost manages to make me smile, I would have, if it weren't for the spear a few meters from my face, yes, it is important to look ahead.

"Who are you, stranger?"

"I'm just a traveler, you know, a fan of the weather."

I look ahead expecting another yak, but no, there in front of me was a caribou, god as I was looking for them, seriously they have to map this area.

"No kidding, what do you want!"

Sigh, yeah, it seems that the fact that they don't like outsiders who have a boy between their legs is true, well, I have no head to fight here, not to mention that it is very cold.

"I am Damian from New Equestria, I am looking for a meeting with your boss, and preferably the elders too."

"Damian ... Wait ... Aren't you the guy who destroyed the crystal empire!?!?"

God how the news runs in this solitude of hell.

"I thought you were a minotaur!"

"And I thought you guys would be bigger, look, can you point the village at me? I'm freezing here!"

Heaven, he almost instigates me to taste the taste of the caribou meat, almost, maybe I’ll get some from their village, well, don’t kill the guide, right?

I keep following him for a while, he periodically looks back and asks me quick questions, I answer the best I can, but God how annoying he really is, not as if the fact that I have been carrying two huge suitcases for more than EIGHTEEN HOURS IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ICE DESERT AND MIRANDA IS PROBABLY EATING MARSHMALLOWS NOW! No, of course it's not that, it's the fucking scar that Luna left on my back, bitch from hell, seriously, I think---

"And how was it? I mean, face Celestia?"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

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I am obliged to comment, it is a beautiful village, of course if you ignore the slaves everywhere, detail, all females, some even rubbed against me, disgusting, had all kinds, yaks, ponies, some balls of huge fur which I think are slaves ... And of course, the female caribou, God, had several, but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that I’m in a tent, not any tent, their boss’s tent, a big brown caribou with huge horns, sitting on a big golden throne, the boss obviously, let's be direct.

"Then your highness, I come---"

I am interrupted by the lifting of his hoof, ahh arrogance, as I miss my throne and torment some ponies, the best I can do is a mare as a foot support, and man, she is a very bad support.

"So, were you the one who ended up equestria and the crystal empire?"

"Correction your highness, equestria was reborn, the empire ... Let's say he shrunk."

"Ah ah ah, I like you, bring some slaves for this warrior."

I shuddered only at the idea: "Your highness will not be necessary, I do not seek the pleasure of the flesh, only that of knowledge."

He didn't like it, can you see it on his face, my god when I got so good at reading animals?

"I see... but tell me, what do you have to offer for the knowledge we have?"

Ok, time to negotiate, I grab one of the suitcases and open it, several gold coins reside inside it as well as some precious stones, I put a smile on my face, how long have I not done this? Negotiate, ahhh how I miss the land, I have to do this more.

"No, I don't want gold or worthless gems, I can have that by exchanging slaves."

What? Are fucking gold coins, how can he not want?! You mean I brought this shit here for nothing!? Jesus...

"Look at your highness, I came from afar in search of help, knowledge, and I bring the finest gems and the purest gold, surely you can beautify your slaves and bathe your monuments with gold !!!"

"You know stranger, there are two types of beings in this world, those who repudiate our lifestyle, and those who adore him, I can't say which one you are yet ..."

Yes, the infamous slave and sexist culture of the caribou, four years ago I would have found it horrendous, sick and repulsive, now ... Heeee ...

"Look at your highness, I admire your complex culture and everything, I even like this pony that you brought in support, but my time is short, is there anything else you want?"

He stares at me for a while, thinking, judging me, but it was when he smiled that I saw it, I won.

"I see that you have a beautiful necklace there with you, my people tell his legends, an amulet that will give to the bearer the powers of an alicorn, I want him."

"Done!"

"And all those trinkets here," he says, signaling the suitcase full of gold and gems, "it will be a goodwill gift, right?"

Sigh, difficult dealer, but that's what I can do, I didn't come here to leave empty-handed, "done!"

"Haha, so there is a party!!! Bring the slaves!"

My cue, "I would love your highness, but as I said, my time is short and I need to see the papers and the elders."

"Really, a peculiar being, whatever, if you want to go see those old people you can go! I already have what I want.

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I don’t know if it was worth it, they had almost no knowledge about travel between dimensions or how to break magical seals of the highest level, almost useless, I hope never see they again, and I just got a caribou to eat, female obviously, better, better than anything.

"Mr.?"

What? I thought I heard someone calling me, seriously, I'm already hearing things, I have to stop and--

"Sir please stop!"

Yes, I heard something, I turn and see, a yak with several caribous and a pony in her hair, shaking, what?

"Thanks to the heavens he heard us! Please sir Damian, executioner of Equestria, save us from this place!"

Fuck, the news is flying, even slaves at this end of the world are linked in the news, "what do you want," man, it was too cold to try to look like a bad guy.

"Sir, we ran away! We know your story, and we beg for help, we can't go back there!"

This yak speaks very well to a yak, "why should I help? This is not my problem."

"Sir, please, they will beat us up if we return, and we will have to... that..."

I sigh, I hate situations like that, I pull my suitcase closer to me, I lightly rub the Crystal Heart and I see it shine, "Miranda, yes or no?"

"What?"

"Yes or no?

"Hmmmm... YES!"

Sigh, children, I really have to educate you better, "ok, I will help you, but the ponies stay."

"What!? You can't do that; she is a slave like us!"

"I don't care, you have a pony here, or she become food, or she come back, this is the agreement."

"Done!" I expected to hear a caribou, maybe that intellectual yak, I didn't expect the only pony of the group to say that!

"Seriously, would you become food for them?"

"Yes, anything is better than going back there, until death, and if it helps my friends, I don't care what happens to my body."

Ok, she has balls, iron balls, sacrificing herself to save her friends, noble on her part, pathetic, but noble, she looks in the eye of death and doesn't hesitate.

"Killed how many?"

"What?"

"Killed how many to escape?"

"Two..."

This pony, I recognize a murderer when I see one, she killed, and it was not just two.

I throw a small stone and a black horn at them, "use the horn to keep warm, and follow the path that the stone points, then with luck, you can survive." I turn around and walk away, I can hear one of them crying and the other wiping her nose, but not the pony, she stayed there, still looking at me, man I hate this place.