July 18 Thursday, as I get out of bed, I make myself some tea to start the day off, after pouring my tea into a cup I start checking my things, first the plants, one empty pot from last night, three with blood leaf tea plants, one false daisy and finally my gripping vine.

After giving them water and some soil I decompose the used plant from yesterday and move it to my desk, I move my bag and see the piece of wood still glowing, I quickly cast the temporis spell checking the time just under eight hours since I activated the enchantment, and the ruby is almost empty with only a tiny flicker of magic left in the gem.

I tap the ruby twice, turning off the light and placing the ruby out of the way to let it slowly recharge over time, it seems my experiment was a success, and the spell is stable, after that I head to breakfast deciding to skip my morning run and start my workday early.

several hours later

After my workday ends, I head back to my room and check on the ruby seeing it's a third full, it's been around eight hours since I turned it off, which means that it would take around a full day to charge, and last around sixteen hours when in use, I start making another magic light, this one is the same as the last only using a sapphire instead of a ruby, as for why I'm making another magic light just like last night is to send it to Celestia.

After my meeting with Celestia and thinking some more about how I want to help in canon, I decided that I'm going to focus on being support for the main cast, my plan is to make either spells or enchanted items to help them accomplish their goals easier while also making things to help Equestria at large.

I'll be doing this by making things like this simple light, right now, many ponies don't have access to a reliable source of light and after dark mostly use candles and fire in general, but this light wouldn't be that expensive for the vast majority of ponies, giving them a stable and reusable source of light after nightfall.

The only real problem being that I can't really sell my creations, I simply don't have the time to do so in between learning new things and my apprenticeship, but there is a certain princess who likes to improve her little ponies' lives and who I can trust to not take advantage of others.

So, I'm going to send this and any future inventions to Celestia as she will probably know how best to sell and use what I make, so today I'm sending this second magic light to her with a letter that has instructions and all the spells used including my new light spell.

With this in mind, I start by carving a new wood piece, the process going faster now that I've had some practice with the carving knife, I finish after two hours, then I enchant the sapphire, layering the spells into the gem, and finally linking them.

After I'm done, I rest for a while and write a letter to Celestia adding the spell matrix's drawn on paper to the pages before grabbing my bags and the new magic light and leaving my room, as I walk to the same post office I used last time, I enter the post office and head to the counter.

A gray unicorn sitting behind the counter speaks up "Hello sir what can I help you with?"

"I need a small box, and I need to ship something along with a letter to the same place," They nod and reach behind the counter pulling up a small box.

"Will this work?"

"Yes, do you have any padding?"

"Yes, sir we do" They reach under the counter again and pull out what looks like scrap paper before filling the box and passing it to me along with a weight sticker with a spot for an address and the sender's name.

I fill out both and place the magic light into the box before closing it and passing it back to the mail pony with the letter, they look at the sticker before nodding and taking both, "That will be five bits please."

I pass them the amount and leave the office before heading home.

pov shift to Celestia

I sip some of my tea enjoying the taste, I'm taking a break before lowering the sun and raising the moon, as I drink my tea, I see Clover enter my room with a letter and a small box, I raise an eyebrow at this as very few ponies are on my mailing list, so I have to wonder who it's from.

"Princess, I have a letter and package from Shade Evergreen for you," Clover says in a happy voice as always.

I smile, it seems that Shade has sent me something again, I wonder if it will be as interesting as last time, "Thank you, clover."

I grab the letter and package before opening the letter and reading it.

Dear Princess Celestia, I'm writing to you to give you an invention I've made enclosed is the spell matrix and a list of materials required, the second part of this letter contains a brief description of the item, thank you for your time and have a good day princess. Signed Shade Evergreen

I smile at this, the letter is short but from my time talking to the colt he seems like the type of pony to speak bluntly, I open the second part of the letter and inside are five spells written out on paper along with instructions.

Enclosed are all the spells used in the enchanted object I've sent you, the enchanted object I've sent you is a magic light made by linking a piece of wood with a modified light spell I made, to activate the light simply tap the gem twice, Its reserve will last around sixteen hours and it takes a full day to recharge, the reason for sending it to you is that I don't really have a use for more than one and you will probably know best what to do with it.

After finishing the second letter I flip through the papers, most are spells I recognize the enchantment spell along with the linking spell, the third is a magical reservoir spell, and the fourth is to absorb magic around it, these I know remembering when they were created, but the last one is new to me, It's the basic light spell, just heavily modified, It's almost all numbers only use one symbol for its base.

The spell work is impressive, I've made my share of spells, and this one is well done, I've seen far worse spells from much more experienced magic users in the past one, so young making something like this is definitely noteworthy, the other thing is bringing a large smile to my face.

I myself have tried to find a good light source for my ponies but most simply weren't viable, being too costly for most of my ponies or too difficult for mass production, but now it seems I've been given a solution to this long-standing problem, I open the box and inside I find a small gem with an even smaller piece of wood, I gently tap the gem twice and see the piece of wood light up and start glowing.

After turning off the light I pass the spell pages and magic light to Clover, "Take the gem and wood piece to the researchers, tell them to test it thoroughly, and send the pages to the scribes to add to the library" She nods.

"Good night princess."

"Same to you Miss Clover," I watch her leave with the box and pages, :I really should think of a way to thank that colt:.

time skip

Aug 13 Tuesday, it's been almost a month since I sent Celestia the magic light and the next day I received a thank you letter from her, and only a few days ago I received a package and a letter, the letter was about the Grand Galloping Gala on August 21, and the package had a few rare books on life magic and one on enchanting, along with an invite to the event itself and her asking me to attend.

So, here I am on my day off shopping for a decent suit, and for the first time I'm going shopping in the upper part of the city, as I walk the street, I look at several shops until I find one that looks good, as I enter the shop, I see an elderly stallion unicorn cutting some fabric.

"Hello sir, what can I help you with?" the elderly pony asks his voice, holding a high-class feel to it.

"I'm looking for a good suit preferably in black or a dark gray," He takes a moment to look at me then the old stallion nods.

"I can certainly help you with that sir please follow me," He starts walking deeper into the shop with me following him, we pass a few clothes racks and cloth rolls before making it to the backroom, inside the room was a small round raised platform.

"Please stand on this sir while I take your measurements," I nod and stand on the platform as the old stallion spends the next few minutes measuring me, after a few minutes he's done.

He takes a moment to write down a few numbers, "I have something in your size sir, but it is gray."

"That's fine," He nods and we move back into the shop front, he looks through several racks before bringing a plain gray suit to the counter.

"That will be fifty bits sir," I nod and pass him the bits before he passes me a bag with my suit in it.

I leave the shop and start walking home to put my new suit away, after getting home I put the suit away and head back out, I'm heading back out to the city as I want to test some spells so I'm going to the range I used last time, after reaching the range I rented a room for a few hours.

I'm here to test something with my TK field, my field has basically stopped growing in strength and I don't seem to be able to increase my control either, so I'm done training it now but there is one thing I thought of trying not long ago and I want to test it, my idea is simple, I want to try crushing something.

When I use my field, I normally try to be gentle with the things I hold, but this time I'm going to do the opposite, I walk onto the field and create some ice like the last time I was here, I create a small ball of ice and hold it in my field and try to focus on my field trying to generate as much pressure as possible onto the ice ball.

After a moment I hear and see the ball crack, a small crack running through it and seeing my successes, I continue trying, after a few hours of practice, I stop having broken several shapes made from ice, I made some progress, but I don't think this is viable as even with my years of practice with my TK field the effect seems weak, so I don't think I'll be training this as it won't be very useful to me.

After cleaning up and leaving the range I check the time and see I still have time to do anything I like, so I walk to the park and sit on a bench before pulling a book and quill out of my bag along with some ink and start drawing the view in front of me.

I spent three hours drawing a decent sketch of the scene, seeing the time, I started to walk home, and after making it home I closed my door and decided to treat myself and make some pancakes for dinner, I grabbed my ingredients and started cooking using my field to cook them almost perfectly golden brown.

After I finish cleaning, I make some tea to go with my food and lay down on the floor with my plate of pancakes and cup of tea, I eat while reading my silly crime novel, and after I finish, I clean my plate and cup before showering and heading to bed, same as always.

Author's Note

Thanks for reading my stuff :D