This was full of bullshit, I was set up from the start! I was hit with various waves of nausea and pain. Stopping my train of thought I looked up to my sudden aching to see my horn have glowing bits of the same signature look of my earlier use of black magic.

Even though Discord was an asshole, he was right, I need to control my temper if I want to last longer than a minute. I began to trek through the greenery, calming and peaceful were the words that came to mind as I saw the forest. Its plant life was bright, healthy, and alive, the leaves served as a sort of canopy, hanging over the ground with small holes and empty spaces that let the sun shine through with graceful beams showing small bits of the outside world.

It was almost tranquil in a sense, nothing could be heard but the chirping of the birds with flaps of flight souring through the most harmless forest. As I walked along I found a small clearing the showed a dirt path, not very used due to the dirt's uneven mound of earth.

I spoke out loud."This must lead to the village." I now knew what direction to go, my hooves began to pick up the pace in a brisk trot. As I picked up the pace more and more I found a bright opening that led outside, I galloped towards it with haste only to be blinded by its radiance.

I felt my body crash into something, as I got bumped from the force and onto the ground I saw what I had mindlessly hit.

An earth pony with a short chinese brown-colored mane with bangs splayed at different lengths. The back of her hair was a lot more puffed in volume with high lights of peach, like buttery salmon onto the back ends of chunks of hair with braids onto the front. "Oh! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to, I just was in a rush and I wasn't trying to feel the environment and I just-"

Seeing her around brought a smile onto my face, usually when something like this happened the stranger would just yell and throw insults as if they were trash meant to be thrown at anyone or anything.

I laughed a bit, seeing something so small become a disaster to a pony was very refreshing after everything.

I looked back to see her still blubbering about with apologies and alike but her looks kept my attention, her eyes bright like gold mixed with orange. Freckles upon her face with golden hearts as an earing piece on her ears, her coat like white dampened with peach creating a fresh honeydew color as her coat. Looking away from the mess she was slowly turning into I looked behind her to see a small yellow bow upon her tail, with a satchel wrapped along her stomach and back with a small lock mechanism in the middle. The satchel was dark cinnamon-colored on the underneath with the top/cover of it being of dark brown with the belt that held the entire thing together being the same color.

I had absorbed enough of the appearance of the mare to finally re-engage where the conversation was.

"And I just don't know how I didn't notice you," I pulled up a hoof to signal her to stop but she just kept going. "N-not that it's your fault or anything it's just-"

I cleared my throat which finally got her attention as she went rigid. "Listen it's my fault as well, I was uh, lost, and when I found a clearing in the forest I just ran out."

Slowly she let her form relax and become more normal and closed her eyes in relief.

"Are you okay?"

Her eyes snapped open along with her mouth but quickly shut it. Why is she afraid- Oh. My. God. What the HELL WAS I THINKING? OF COURSE, SHE FROZE SHE'S SEEING KING SOMBRA-

She slowly mouthed words but I didn't register them until a few moments later. "You're still here?" Confusion fogged my brain as I recoiled at the question, fear and worry now set aside from what should've been the obvious reason as to why she was stuck in motion.

"Uh, yeah?"

Her eyes widened before speaking. "Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to make it sound like that, I just couldn't sense you is all."

What should've led to screaming and running for a pony was now questioning if I was there? "What?"

She showed a small smile before looking down. "I'm well, blind, I can't see anything, and how I know where things are by tapping into my magic in my hooves. I can use my connection to the earth to have vibrations tell me where ponies are or read the magic aura. But for you- well I've never met somepony who I couldn't sense."

"You can't see?"

"Yeah, Oh my Celestia! You probably were waving your hooves or telling me to stop while I was apologizing, weren't you? I'm so sorry! I know I can go off with words and slowly sentence derails and becomes a problem and-" she topped before blushing, "kinda like what I'm doing now." Pawing at the ground she just stayed silent.

I was at a loss for words, she was bubbly and energetic yet shy and unconfident. "It's fine, I wasn't doing any of that but um now that we have calmed down, can you tell me where we are?"

She frowned. "You were lost in the woods and, don't know where you are?"

Shit that did sound suspicious, "Uh, yeah, just got lost exploring heh." I started to sweat bullets, knowing she couldn't see me only saved me half the anxiety.

"Hm, well you're currently in Shimmer Summer falls, the forest you were in was what we call 'Humid Breeze' usually nothing comes by. How did you get here if you didn't even know that? And what's even your name?"

"I'm uh-" shit shit, think of something, anything! Wait! Pony names are either puns or direct meanings to their ability or cutie mark! That's it just think of something with shadow involved.

"I'm-" I looked around to see a tree's shadow, "Shadeyyyy-" darting my eyes I looked back and forth to no avail, nothing was in the range! I looked up to the sky to see the sun slowly shift to near dawn. That's it!

"Dawn, Shadey Dawn, and I was exploring, looking for new monuments, and crashing from town to town." I nervously smiled, even knowing she couldn't see me, I was sweating bullets from her eyes singling on me alone.

"Hm, well welcome to Shimmer Summer! If you'd like I can show you around." She smiled obliviously to my heart rate slowly dropping.

"I would love that." Sighing under my breath.

"Great! Let me show you around!" She trotted along a dirt path and as I trotted with her I saw the village in close distance.

Something tells me I'm not going to have an easy time around here.

Author's Note

Now we enter my second favourite part of the story! Well third actually- point is this is where it's going to get wholesome... For most of the part-

Oh and if you'd like to see her character design in a real drawing I have it on my Discord server- cough selling out cough