JAN 2 Thursday. I get out of bed shifting as I stand up, I stretch and yawn before my attention is caught by a chirping from the cage, I make my way over to the cage and see Entropy calling out demanding to be fed.

"Good morning to you too" I see their head turn to me, and I see that Entropy's eyes are open, "well now look who's making progress" I smile at them before grabbing Entropy's food and feeding them, after I finish feeding them, I inspect Entropy checking on their health.

I see small pins poking out of their skin "seems like you'll be getting your first feathers in a day or two", I spend a little more time making sure they're fine before placing them back in the makeshift nest and making my way into the kitchen and cooking some breakfast.

I make pancakes and some tea before eating my meal and getting to work, it's my day off and I need to get my new home in order' I start by assembling my other shelfs and the other desk in my workroom, when I'm done the work room has two desks on the back wall and shelves lining the left wall.

I set up my last two shelves in my bedroom giving me space to store my things, after finally I set up my last table in the main room along with a few sitting pillows, I'm done setting things up, so I checked on my little friend again before leaving my apartment.

I descend the stairs and make my way to a small office, after knocking I open the door and see Daisy's grandsire Thistle Rush, I offered him some bits if he could go to my apartment and feed Entropy in the afternoon when I'm at work, and after some haggling, we come to an agreement.

I spend a few minutes showing him how to feed Entropy, after that I leave the apartment building and make my way to the park for my morning run, I stop panting slightly as I stop running at the opposite edge of the park, a spot I've rarely been to before, I sit at a bench to catch my breath and recover.

While recovering I look around and spot a fountain and let my mind wander to a few odd things about this world, the main one being the lack of violence when I first came to this world, I worried that it is not like the show that violence and murder could be as common as in my last world, but I've found that it's not like that.

While violence and murder can and does happen it's just not the same as my old world, a good example of this is the murder rate being almost nonexistent to the point that when it does happen its city wide news and is talked about frequently for some time after it happens.

Another good example is war, on Equis war is a rare and infrequent thing even outside of the continent that Equestria is on, most wars only last a year or two at most and the vast majority end in peace agreements, it's a fairly rare thing to see a war end with a nation being full conquered, armies are also much smaller here even large nations have relatively small armies.

I don't know why this world is so peaceful, but my best guess is a combination of the species of this world being less violent and more willing to cooperate at least to a degree along with probable some of harmony's influence as while not all like each other and wars still do happen from time to time, but this world seems much better at peaceful then my last one.

It does make what the storm king accomplished an outlier from the norm, I will have to keep an eye and ear open for any news from that part of the world hopefully I can find out more about how he came to power.

I focus back on the fountain for a moment before moving on and walking back through the park heading home, I close my door entering my apartment and take a moment to check on Entropy and make sure they are fine before grabbing my bags and leaving again.

I'm heading to the library to look through some books, normally I'd have these books with me but now that I'm not living at the library, I can only check out two books at one time, so I need to go there to research some things, as I enter the library I make my way through a few sections before finding water spells.

I'm here to learn and look for a few water spells, I want to find any spells that would be useful to me in my environment projects as eventually I want to mimic any environment I will need in the future for my plants, and now that I have more space to work with, I can get more plants.

I grab a few books that catch my interest and find a table to sit at, as I read through the books I find a spell that seems useful, the spell uses water to create a small constant stream of water, to use it all you need is a source of water near you that supplies the spell and a target to fire at.

You also have some degree of control over the spell's effects, how fast the water moves and how much is moved, its matrix is a little complicated and uses more symbols than it should but it's not a bad spell and could have its uses in the future I draw out the spell matrix in my notebook before moving on to the next book.

I read through another book this one is mostly just theory, most was useless for me but there were a few interesting symbols, so I added them to my notebook and moved on, I was about to open the next book but stopped as not far away from me I see Daisy leading a pony around the library.

I guess we have a new coworker, I watch as they move through the library before moving out of sight, I read through the rest of the books I picked out before placing them back on their respective shelfs, I leave the library not having anywhere to go I wander the streets for a while looking for anything that looks interesting.

I pass several shops and make my way to the lower city markets, I decide to go looking for plants or seeds in the market deciding to find some simple plants from different environments so I can test spells with them, the lower city markets generally have less valuable and more common things, but many caravans from all over come here to sell their goods.

So, there's plenty to find if you know where to look, I find a stall with different types of plants and find a few that I want, first is a regular cactus it's a small ball shaped cactus covered in thorns and placed in sandy soil, the second is a jungle fern of some type and the soil in the pot is dark and moist.

And third a juniper berry bush, needle like leaves and small green berries on its branches the soil in this one is a dry dark brown soil, after buying the plants along with some different kinds of soil and several pots I keep looking through the market grabbing some necessities and a few clay jugs before heading home.

I enter my room and place my bags down before organizing my new plants, placing my Iron oak in the left corner next to the large window, my Blood Leaf Tea plants in between the Oak and window in a row along with my false daisy and gripping vine, I then place my new plants the cactus in front of the window, the fern I placed directly under the oak, and the juniper berry bush on my kitchen countertop.

I spend a few minutes enchanting a sapphire with the desert environment spell and place it in the pot with one of the clay jugs I bought to catch and collect the water, I finished the spell two days ago and it worked out well its effect is slow, so the gem doesn't need me to refill it and I'm planning to use the water from the process for my other plants.

I don't want to use the sink for water as now that I'm living out of the library I'll need to pay for the water I use, so why not use the free water I'm now making, I'm going to be keeping a close eye on the cactus to see how it reacts as when I bought it, it already seemed to be having problems living in this climate.

After making sure all my plants are well and dumping some life magic into the fern and berry bush to keep them alive, I go to my room and check on Entropy, they seem to be doing well and after feeding them some I pick them up and bring them with me as I go about my work, as I leave the room.

I enter my work room and start taking stock of all the things I have, some Iron Oak wood my large ruby that's still enchanted to hold magic two small rubies with shield enchantments and three unused sapphires, and finally the eggshell that Entropy hatched out of.

I've been wondering what Entropy is and have found nothing so far, even odder is the fact that they seem to be a regular crow, the only difference I've found is that much like with the egg Entropy's life magic is massive holding several hundred ponies worth of life magic despite being so small.

For now, I'm just going to keep a close eye on them and see what happens, I won't be able to watch them when working but I'm going to try and spend as much time with them as possible to try and form a bond with them, I place Entropy and his nest on the side of my desk at work.

I start by disenchanting the two rubies with shields as I don't need them anymore and can use the rubies for other things, after I'm done, I place them back on the shelf before going to the main room for two pots and some soil for cold plants to fill them, I fill the pots and move to the Juniper Berry bush growing two berries until they are ripe and taking them with me back to the work room.

I want to mess around with fruit to see how much I can make grow and If I can change things like its flavor and color, juniper berries have a piney taste and a blue color I start by growing two small bush in each pot, I don't know how to modify the plant directly, but I can speed up the process of selective breeding by picking the right types of traits and breeding for them using my magic to speed up the process.

I make them both flower and pollinate them by using my field to grab the pollen and transfer it to the other plant before having both grow fruit before growing several dozen berries and picking the largest berry I found and decomposing all other berries along with both plants.

I spend the next few hours of the day like this each time selecting the largest berry from each generation, after a while I stop as Entropy makes it known that their hungry by chirping nonstop, after feeding them I take Entropy and my pots out of the room, I place Entropy in their cage to sleep before bringing the pots to the main room.

I empty one pot before placing my new juniper bush next to my first one checking if the berries are any different, I hold one berry from each plant and see that the old berries are slightly smaller than the new ones, smiling at my success before decomposing all the berries.

I make myself some food a basic grilled cheese and some carrots before taking a shower and heading to bed.

Author's Note

Thanks for reading. :D