Author's Note

The original tattoo idea was for it to be latin but after relooking at it and checking translations again I couldn't find a proper translation of that only one I could find says die to live another day so it's just gonna be English now

Questions about the past

As everyone went their separate ways Andrew, and spike followed behind Twilight back to her castle.
"~hey sorry you, and the guys got in trouble for letting me drink.~" Spike whispered to Andrew.
"~Its okay not your fault. To be fair we really should have paid more attention to the date, so we could have had everything cleaned up like nothing happened.~ Andrew whispered back.

"What are you two talking about back there?" Twilight asks looking over her shoulder.

"Nothing!" The two boys stayed simultaneously.
"Yea ok." Twilight says looking forward again not believing them at all.

As they continue to walk the two just silently chuckle.

Once they made it into town all the residents had already started their day and were out and about shopping or going to work. As the group passed by all of the ponies would stop and stare at the newcomer they all heard about before heat season.
Every now and again Andrew could hear whispers coming from the crowd of ponies some good some bad and some he didn't know how to take.
"~Hey that's him.~"
"~Did he really shoot the princess with a paintball gun?~"

"~Do you think he's gonna hurt us? I heard talk about him coming in and out of the Everfree with stuff on his back.~"

"~He's kind of cute wish he was around to be of "help" during this heat season.~"
All Andrew could do was try to ignore most of the whispers and keep his head down, but some definitely caught him of guard if the blush on his face was anything to go by.
As they all neared the castle spike whispered into Andrew's ear one more time.
"~Well someone is popular~" Spike says with a quiet chuckle.
"~Shut up spike.~" Andrew growls punching him in the arm.
"Ok here we are." Twilight states turning around to look at Andrew and spike.
Looking forward Andrew couldn't help but let his jaw drop at what he was seeing. There in front of him sat a massive crystal castle.
"Sweet baby Jesus that is a massive fucking castle and... Is it made of crystal?" Andrew half asks half shouts still looking at the structure.
"Yes, it is, and who is Jesus?" Twilight asks cocking her head to the side.

"Um don't worry about that it's a topic that's far too complicated to really delve into but he's God or well gods' son." Andrew says taking his eyes off the beautiful work of craftsmanship that is Twilight's castle.

"How did you guys even make this? Crystal isn't usually the easiest thing to work with."

"Oh well no one built it, it built itself."
"Wait a minute, you're telling me this thing basically just grew out of the ground, or popped into existence?" Andrew asks not believing a single word.
"Well yes actually it grew from the ground." States Twilight proudly.

". HOW?!"
"Magic." Twilight says like it's the most obvious thing to grace the planet.
"Will I have to use that as an explanation for a lot of things around here?" Andrew asks still in disbelief.
"Pretty much unless it's Pinkie Pie then we just blame her." Spike says earning a smack upside his head from Twilight.
"Don't say it like that spike! But yes, if that's how you can cope with it do so." Twilight says annoyed.

"Alright I think I'll just do that then."

"Lets' go inside and we can get this Q&A started." Twilight says showing Andrew inside.

once inside Andrew followed Twilight down the hall through into what looks like a thrown room before going through another room with a table and 6 chairs in the center.

"Welcome to the map room where me and my friends meet up, and see where in Equestria we are needed for friendship problems." Twilight says gesturing to the table.

"Cool place you got here. I'm going to assume the different symbols on the chairs represent each of your friends?" Andrew asks walking to the table

"You would be correct in your assumption. Go ahead and take a seat, and we can get this started." Twilight says sitting in her own seat.

Andrew goes over to a chair with a rainbow lightning bolt and cloud sitting down.

"So, lets' get this started what is your name I don't believe I caught it yet?"

"My name is Andrew Savage, and I'm 24 years old." Andrew states catching Twilights attention.

"Oh, so you're the same age as me that's good to know when's your birthday?"

"December 25th what about you when's yours?

"Mine's March 30th it just passed 4 weeks ago."

"Ah so its April 27th right now that's good that means the dates here and back home are the same." Andrew says rubbing the stubble on his face.

'I might grow a beard no reason to shave anymore.' Andrew thought to himself.
"Ok next question what are you, and where are you from, I've never seen anything like you before?" Twilight says looking directly at him a sparkle in her eye.

"Well I'm a human from the planet earth I grew up in the United States of America in a small state called Wyoming."

"A... Human..?" Asks Twilight before regaining her composure.

It wasn't much but Andrew took note of the fear she shown.

"Uh yea is.. is that a issue?"

"Nonono not at all it's just a shocker humans haven't existed in over a thousand years they disappeared shortly after princess Luna was sent to the moon when she was taken over by nightmare moon, but no one knows why."
"Is that so huh, well it's definitely something that could be looked into."
"Ye yea looked into well the only pony that would know is princess Celestia."
"Oh ok well do you have anymore questions?"
"Oh yes um let's see. What did you do back in your world?"
"Well let's see i guess I did a little bit of everything ranging from mechanics, engineering, and security detail." Andrew says
'not a lie but definitely not the truth.' Andrew thought.

"Oh wow you got a lot of experience under your belt then. The security thing how was that."
"Oh well it was.... Boring, nothing crazy just small things like protecting vital assets or buildings." Andrew says gaining a far away look that Twilight didn't notice

"Nothing ever really happened real cut and dry stuff."
"Hehe heck this one time me and my buddies where tasked to protect this high value forign dignitary during some negotiations and all we really did was escort this guy across the desert and hold security out side the room while they all talked business." Andrew states giving off a forced chuckle.

Twilight couldn't really tell but the way he talked about it seemed kind of forced like there was something more to it.
"Well that sounds very interesting but was there more to it you seemed kind of off while talking about it?" Twilight asks with a slight bit of concern.

"Huh oh no nothing really with the job but after the job a couple of my buddies were in a car crash and didn't make it. I don't normally bring it up cause it's a bad memory but to show good tidings I decided to tell you."

"Oh I'm I'm so sorry to hear about that let's get on a different topic." Twilight says as her ears flatten to her head.

"Ok."
"Do humans have cutie marks? If so what's yours?"
"Cutie marks... Oh yea the guys were asking about that yea no we don't get em but we do get tattoos which is when someone takes a needle and ink and stick it into your body making and image or saying, I actually have one on my right forearm." He states while pulling up his sleeve to show her his arm.

"It says live to die another day." He states letting her look at it
"Why would you have it say that?"

"Well the reason is because sometimes we all need a little reminder to not give up and keep moving forward."
Twilight wasn't sure how to take that but didn't want to ask about it either 'he'll tell me when he's ready.' Twilight thought to her self while biting her bottom lip.
"Well let's keep going shall we."

"After you Twilight."

"After a long day of questions Andrew was finally on his way back to his home. With it being dark helped to conceal Andrew of any prying eyes.
'what a long day hopefully I didn't say anything to incriminating oh well it's something for tomorrow.' Andrew thought as he made his way into his house.

Back at the castle Twilight had just finished going over all of her notes she took during her questioning of the human Andrew.

'i can't help but feel like he wasn't telling me the full truth, but after what he said I can see why he doesn't like talking about him self. I need to send these notes to princess Celestia she is going to want to meet him and know all she can before doing so.' Twilight thought before writing a letter and sending it off along with her notes to the sun princess.