JAN 4 Saturday. I leave my apartment early in the morning heading to the library for my day of work, I enter the building passing the front desk and making my way to the breakroom for breakfast.

As I enter the breakroom, I see Daisy and Blaz sitting next to the pony I saw being shown the library a few days ago, I grab some food and sit down next to them getting a good look at the new pony, unlike most who come to work here she looks relatively young.

A unicorn mare, she has a dark gray coat and black mane with dark green eyes, "oh hey Shade have a good weekend?"

Blaz asks me "yup not much happened as always, who's the new pony?"

The pony is question answers me "hi I'm Maple Stone nice to meet you" she says her voice having a steady quiet tone.

"Shade Evergreen, nice to meet you too."

"So what brought you to work here if you don't mind me asking?" I ask curious as not many younger ponies want to work here, I don't count I'm not young.

She stares at me for a few moments before answering "well I'm new to the city and don't have anywhere to stay so this was the best option for me, plus the pay isn't bad either."

"Fair enough" I do wonder why she'd move here with nowhere to stay but I've heard stranger things while living in this city, we spend the rest of lunch talking about various things before getting to work, before we separate Daisy gives me a new schedule for work hours, I now start at eight and stop at four, I guess I'll have more time in the morning now.

I go about my work sorting books and stacking them on carts to be returned to their shelfs, I see Maple moving carts, so I guess she's doing reshelving today, as the hours pass nothing happens just normal work I check the clock and see it's lunch time so I start heading to the breakroom.

When I arrive it's the same as every day spend some time eating and talking before getting back to it, one bad thing about my shift change is me having to work until four today spending an extra hour working isn't so bad though, when the day finally ends, I get the last few books on the table sorted before leaving.

I entered my apartment building and checked with Thistle Rush to see if he had any problems feeding Entropy, he assured me everything was fine so I headed up the stairs before entering my room, I closed my door and headed to my bedroom to check on Entropy.

They seem fine greeting me with a few soft chirps, I feed them some more before bringing them with me, I try to keep them close as I go about my day to form a bond with them, I think it's working some as whenever Entropy sees me, they start chirping and seem to get excited.

Entropy's feathers have started to grow in they now have several feathers on them and many more still growing, the feathers themselves are odd as they seem to be almost made of pure black, finally it seems some of Entropy's strangeness has shown as normal crow feathers don't look like Entropy's.

Normal crow feathers have this slight rainbow shine to them, but Entropy's is pure black similar to their egg although the feathers do reflect some light it's not much, but if nothing else I can finally definitively say that Entropy is not just a regular crow, beyond that they seem to be healthy and growing fast.

I place Entropy on the floor next to me before meditating, I feel the space around me feeling the shifting of Entropy next to me, I start moving a small piece of wood and cast a float spell on the piece of wood letting it stay in the air while I feel the space shift, I've been training my ability to feel space by doing this, it's probably not the best way to go about it but I don't know a better way and I don't think anypony else would know a better one, I stay like this for some time before standing up.

I grab the juniper berry bush I've been breeding and start the process again, I've been doing this for a few days now and have gone through over a hundred generations this has resulted in berries that are almost a quarter larger than the original.

It will take many more generations for the plant itself to change in any large way, but this does prove that this idea is a decent one, I'm also thinking that I could crossbreed different plants, normally you can only crossbreed plants that are similar, but with my life magic I can get a little more creative.

In theory I can crossbreed any plants that have pollen, I'm not sure how well this strategy will work but it's worth a try if nothing else although I won't be doing this for a while as I'd like to focus on selective breeding for now before moving on to that, I keep repeating this process of taking the largest berry and growing it before starting at the beginning again.

After draining almost all of my magic I place the plants to the side and decide to do some carving, I grab some Iron oak wood and my kit before going back to my desk and starting the carving, I shave the wood block down to a rough pony shape before adding detail.

The last carving I made I sent to Celestia as a gift, she sent a letter back thanking me, right now though I'm making a carving for myself, I always liked having collectables so why not make some and practice at the same time, so I'm going to make a model of noteworthy ponies.

I'm starting with another copy of Celestia, I don't want to make anything that somepony could accidently see so I'm only making models of ponies that are well known right now, or ponies that wouldn't be recognized by others, I don't want anypony asking difficult questions.

I spend the next two hours carving away at the wood until I have an alicorn model, and just like last time I carve out a small compartment for the gem using one of my recovered rubies to enchant the new model, and after some enchanting and adjustment I'm finished.

I place the new Celestia model on one of my shelfs, before moving Entropy back to his cage so he could sleep in peace, I head back to my room and begin my next project, my magic has recovered over the last few hours so I'm going to work on a new spell matrix.

This specific spell matrix is for another type of environment, this one being for a humid environment for the jungle fern I have, this spell will be very similar to the desert spell but instead of taking water out of the air it will be adding water along with a very minor heating spell.

The heat of the environment is actually something I forgot to add to the desert spell in the past so I'm going to need to add that to the enchantment, with this in mind I go to the main room and grab the gem out of the cactuses pot and bring it back to my work room after deactivating it.

The heating spell is easy as the gem still has enough magic capacity for a slow and weak heating spell, so I modify the basic heating spell to slowly bring the temperature to a stable level and keeping it there, after an hour of work making the spell as efficient as I can to use the least amount of magic possible I add it to the gem and place it back in the pot.

I move back to the work room and continue working on my jungle environment spell, It's very similar to the desert spell using the same control spell and monitoring spell, the difference comes in with the last spell as unlike the desert I need to create a wet and humid environment.

I'm planning on using the water collection part of the desert spell to drag water from the air and trap it inside a small area, I'll need to add a very weak shield to keep the water inside but the gem should have enough capacity for all five spells at once as they are all weak in effect although it will probably be cutting it close.

I start by adding the monitoring spell heating spell control spell and after some time and tinkering a very weak shield spell, enchanting all of these spells into the sapphire before starting work on the water spell component, I start with the water manipulation spell that I used for the desert spell.

I modify the spell to collect water from the outside of the weak shield and releases in into the inside in as mist, modifying the spell to releases the water as mist took a while to make work taking twice as long as it should, but a few hour after the sun has set I'm done with the spell.

I add it to the ruby before activating it for testing I spend a while testing the spell before realizing a problem, the spell intakes too much water causing the spell to release too much water into the spells area and the ruby doesn't have enough capacity to hold more passive spells, I think for a while before finding a solution.

I modified the spell not to take water from the air but a nearby source until there's enough in the spell's area before stopping, I'm going to place the fern next to the cactus letting the water generated from the desert enchantment to feed the jungle enchantment.

I'll still need to empty the desert spells water jugs just less often now, with my problem solved I set up the jungle enchantment and placed in into the ferns pot before placing the fern next to the cactus, I watch as a small stream of water move through the air and enter the weak shield before becoming a fine mist after passing the shield.

Seeing both enchantments working I grow and pollinate some spores off the fern before growing a second fern in a small pot as the first one may die from the environment its been placed in, I don't know what type of jungle the fern is from so keeping a copy while I tinker with the spell so I don't need to waste time buying a new fern.

After I finish my new enchantment I grab my teapot and add some water before using a heating spell to bring the water to a boil before adding some tea leaves and letting it sit for a few minutes, spending that time checking on Entropy and feeding them some while also grabbing my sketch book.

I sit in front of the main rooms window laying on three pillows, I sip some tea before starting a sketch of the view in front of me, I spend an hour drawing the countryside bathed in the light of the full moon, I draw the stars and hills along with the small lights in the dark dotting the landscape.

I stop and notice how late it is, I have work tomorrow so I put away my things and take a shower, I let the hot water wash over me before scrubbing my coat, after my shower I dry myself off before walking into my room, I see Entropy sleeping in their nest, I spend a few minutes combing my mane before noticing how long it's grown.

I should get a haircut soon this is getting a little out of control, after brushing out my hair I head to my bed and climb under the covers before drifting off to a dreamless sleep.

Author's Note

thanks for reading.