[3 Months After Exile]

Twilight awoke to the sunlight pouring through her room. Even though she had officially moved in so long ago, she still felt like it was the first time she had woken up in the home of Misako, the reynard offering her to stay here. Even though she was a strange pony by the beings of this town, she had managed to snag a job courtesy of her boss, Mr.Gray.

Even though she hadn't known what he meant by "reprimanding with troublemakers" long ago she soon found out what he meant within two weeks of working for him. Twilight recalled the memory of her first "reprimand" or what she would call maiming.

[2 Months ago]

"Twilight. Looks like you get to deal with someone after all. Looks like we've got a reynard named Dularn that's been slacking with delivering packages." Mr.Gray paused to take a breath from his cigar before continuing.

"It's a damn shame too, young fella that was one of the fastest reynards underneath me. I want you to bring em in and set em straight. And don't get cold feet sparkle" He finished.

Twilight huffed in minor annoyance. Mr.Gray had taken to calling her the last part of her name instead of just using "twilight". While she didn't mind all that much, she felt it rude to do so, and presumed that he just couldn't decide on using either her full name or her first part, so he decided on the only consonant. She needed to get a move on, and find this "Dularn". Apparently, he was one of the few reynards' in town that had a full grey coat, with no other color on him. That should make him easy to spot despite the gloomy backdrop of the town, and the various meat-shops.

Twilight shuttered at the thought of eating meat. Even though she had been with Misako, she never ate any meat, and when she had told the reynard about this when they met, she had burst out laughing, saying something along the lines of "you may or may not have a choice later on in life, especially dealing with the creatures out here". She still didn't know what she meant by that, but she hoped that there was nothing bad associated with it. Again, she was getting off-track, the more she thought about her place here, the more she felt.... angry? No. It wasn't that, she just felt kind of useless, but she had a task to do and she would see it done.

[Flashback: 1 Hour Later]

Twilight had just left the room after following the commands of what Mr.Gray told her to do. She couldn't help but feel disgusted having to do that to a pony, let alone an intelligent being. She had been told "Only to harm him enough so that he's be able to be back on his feet after long." and when she had questioned that, he had told her he meant that he had told her to break one of his legs. She had understandably questioned doing so, but she ended up doing it anyway.

'What is wrong with me?' Twilight thought as she not only just willingly hurt somepony, but she did it without thinking several thoughts on it. Maybe stress? She doubted that. Could it have been? No. They weren't capable of that, they only dampened those terrible nightmares of the burning sun and fracturing moon. Twilight decided to chalk it up as Celestia having a stick up her ass. Twilight reeled back on her use of lightly throwing the sun princess's name in that way. She would have never have thought about saying something like that. Then again, maybe it was deserved. After all, it was Celestia that put her out here along with Luna. She couldn't help but feel angry at them both, but she realized her anger was just towards her former mentor. Luna looked like she wanted to say something, but didn't. It was likely that she was just following the orders of her sister. Perhaps Twilight was just stressed out after all... she needed some sleep, and they would ensure that she get some.

[Present Time]

Twilight got out of the bed, and started to get ready for the oncoming day, as it was one of her days of leave from working, she would make the most out of the day, and learn even more from Misako. About a month and some change, she had started to learn the language she had been speaking without the support of those leaves that Misako had been giving her. Despite Twilight's large intelligence, she found it difficult to learn it considering how different the alphabet was, for instance. In the language, Cyrolian, the only similarities with Ponish was certain letters such as A and E. The main differences came in the form of howthe letters were said. Like the letter B in Ponish would sound as it looks, but in Cyrolian it sounds like a V. and is said like vee-tah. It confused the hell out of her, and every time she would pronounce a word wrong Misako would look at her, silently and letter her continue saying the word wrong until she got fed up with it. The reynard reminded her a lot of her teachers she had when growing up, albeit with more patience, which she likely got from living for so long.

Twilight freshened up in the bathroom before taking a peak around her room before using her magic to pop a floorboard underneath the bed out. She had discovered the cove a month before, and had since been using it to hide one singular thing that she knew the reynard of the house would not like. She slowly took up one of the white thin cookie like tablets and popped one in her mouth. She tended to take one everyday in the morning, and they helped with the nightmares she had. She had procured them of course, from her boss. Twilight knew she shouldn't be taking them, but it's not like she had any spells that removed the cause of the nightmares right? These were the next option, and even if they were just as bad as not taking them, she felt it better that her emotions and nightmares be dampened, instead of outright having to feel every bit of pain that came from them.

Twilight heard shuffling coming from somewhere else in the house, meaning that Misako was awake and would soon be coming in to check on her, she quickly hid them back underneath their hiding spot before making herself presentable. She soon spotted one of the three letters that she had kept, burning Celestia's during her stay in the wilderness. She knew that one was from Spike, and another from her parents. Based on those two guesses, the last one had to be from her "friends" and she wasn't going to bother opening it now. Perhaps later she would, when she would be in capable reach of smacking the taste out of their mouths for any "badmouthing".

[Warning. Time skips. Yeah, Yeah. You can King Louis the XVI me later!]
[6 Months Later since Exile]
Twilight had since grown accustomed to speaking without the leaves, and had also gotten use to her 'other' job working under Mr.Gray. She still took Aloe, which relieved most of the nighttime problems she had, but had started to feel more and more as if Misako knew about it, asking her questions about whether or not her dreams have been ok as of late. She didn't want to know the answer even though she recognized that the reynard probably already knew by now.

Twilight looked at the time, and saw that it was getting past noon. She would be late, and Mr.Gray would not be happy about that if she were, she needed to get going now. Putting off her pondering, Twilight made way to get to work quickly.

[Nearly 9 months after Exile]

Twilight hated the cold. She hated it, and would rather spend her time jumping through numerous hopes or maybe even being banished to the sun than have to deal with this. Looking out in front of her, her vision narrowed at the light frost appearing on the glass outside. She was inside, and still could feel it! After she figured out how to manipulate weather magic, she would be having some nice words with the weather. She huffed, and decided she had better not deal with a unknown entity, and would rather go warm herself next to the fireplace. She would get warm even if she had to snuggle up to Misako, as it seemed that even though the reynard had more fur than her, she still got cold. What hell decided to freeze over and fuck this area? She thought as she made a move on. Surely even Mr.Gray was curled up inside as well, waiting for this blizzard to pass over that way they could get back to work

Author's Note

It's finally here after fighting with myself on whether or not I should make this a second Interlude of the previous chapter! I ultimately decided that should not be the case. You all will find out the repercussions of the elements not being in play later, let's just say that I was half and half on the situation.

On another note, I have a question for you all. IF you were a unicorn that was the leader of some type of army, if you had an option between two weapons which would you wield?

A. A Greatsword that is capable of becoming a spear when the handle slides out from the pommel of the blade?

or

B. A greatsword capable of splitting itself into two seperate longsword, which then can become tiny blades, held within magic.

It's an idea for a story I've had in recent memory so I'd thought I'd ask. Also, original plans for this chapter included many different things, such as gruesome depiction, as well as her reading the last letter she still had not yet opened. I decided to go against it, for undisclosed reasons. As to the future, we shall see!

"Strong is the will of a tyrant. Even stronger is a nuke." - The King Of Spades