JAN 10 Friday. I sit at my desk modifying a spell matrix, but before I can continue I'm interrupted by Entropy making a fuss in their small cloth nest next to me, I let the spell dissolve and turn my head to them, Entropy was hatched on December twenty eighth making them two weeks old now.

In the past week their feathers have grown in, Entropy now looks like a black ball of fluff that's double the size they were after they hatched, they have also become much more attached to me whenever I'm home they demand to be in the same room as me, and if not they'll make their displeasure know by chirping until I bring them with me.

So as I go about my day I keep an eye out making sure their fine, they seem to be growing at the same rate as a normal crow, so I'm guessing they'll be able to fly in two or three weeks, I feed Entropy and take them with me as I head to my bedroom for one of my books.

I borrowed this book from the library, It's a healing book I need to learn pony anatomy as if I want to create healing spells as I'll need to know what I'm healing in the first place, so I go back and forth between books on healing magic and anatomy knowledge.

This book is about pregnancy and helping with foal birth, although the process of birth is somewhat easier and less dangerous for ponies than humans due to the different body structure, as I read through the book I find a spell matrix for a spell, this spell is to tell what gender a foal will be.

The spell is a little complex for me but not impossible to cast just time consuming, I read through the spells description and find an interesting fact about the spell, when cast it glows two different colors green for male and blue for female what's interesting is the spell can be used on anypony of any age and it will still give a result.

I could use it on myself and it will tell me I'm male, after reading this I get an idea and start memorizing the spell matrix, I don't have much use for this spell but I can use it to answer a question that I've had for a while now, what is Entropy's gender.

I don't know if the spell will work on something that's not a pony but I have some free time as it's still morning so it's worth trying, I spend the next two hours going through the spell making sure it's safe and will work correctly and after I've finished I started drawing the matrix in the air above Entropy who watched me the entire time.

As I finish the spell matrix I see it take effect and see a blue aura around Entropy, I then cast the spell a few more times to be sure and yup as far as the spell can tell Entropy's female, I'm not one hundred percent sure as the spell was made for ponies but from what I've seen of the spells matrix it should work on almost anything with two genders.

So for now I'll assume Entropy's female until I can prove otherwise, I spend some more time reading before checking the time seeing it's eleven, I get up and place Entropy back in her cage before heading to the main room hearing her displeased chirps at me leaving her in my room.

I grab my saddle bags placing them on my back and leaving my apartment and heading for the bank to withdraw a decent amount of bits then walking to the lower city markets, I reach the market after some time walking and make my way to the edge, I'm here looking for more gems as I only have two sapphires left and no rubies.

I'm going to need more gems so I'm looking for the diamond dog I've bought my last gems from, but after a while I don't find them I guess they're not here right now which isn't surprising as they seemed like a caravan so they probably left to resupply their stock or to a different city to continue trading.

I look through the market and find a few different traders selling gems, they're more expensive but of the same quality and after going through a few gem sellers I go back to my apartment, I enter my room and check on Entropy who seems happy to see me as she moves around her nest.

I bring her with me to the work room before placing her nest and my bags on a desk, I shift her to the side of the desk and open my bags organizing and counting out the gems I've bought, I've found out through my shopping that gems are sold in certain sizes, small gems are half inch to one inch cubed, medium two to three inches cubed and finally large four to five inches cubed.

I find how large gems can get in this world to be amazing, for some perspective while gems in this world are still expensive their value doesn't come from their rarity but the time needed to mine cut and transport them as while the gems themselves aren't rare the work required to make them useable keeps their price fairly high.

The good news is that gems can get big, really big, some of the largest gems measure several feet in size, although the larger the gem the more work it takes to sell so most gem sellers stop at large gems.

I empty my bag and in front of me I have my new gems, seven small rubies, three small sapphires, two medium rubies, one large ruby, and my best find a six by six inch amethyst this cost a fair amount of bits, five hundred bits to be precise, even with the bits I've made with the magic lights I put a dent in my account

But even with this being a weaker type of gem its size is more than enough to make up for it, I place all the new gems on shelves before taking some time to work on two projects, the first one is a small thing I want an easier way to check the time as while I can cast the temporis spell with ease it's still annoying to draw the matrix so often.

I grab the simple copper bracelet that Daisy gave me, it has a three topaz gems imbedded in the copper I want to enchant the bracelet to tell the time but because of the small size of the gems I'm going to have to get a little creative, I start by enchanting all three small topaz gems to hold a small reserves of magic.

I then enchant the copper band with a modified temporis spell, adding a very weak illusion spell that I modified onto the band and spending some time supplying the illusion enchantment with magic while shaping the illusion into a small clock that will float above the copper band when activated.

And finally I link all the enchantments together, the three topaz gems should provide just enough magic to power the illusion for a few minutes every hour or so, the spell takes too much power to be active all the time but is enough for small amounts of time throughout the day.

I fill the topaz gems with magic and see a small modern looking clock much like an alarm clock appear in the air, I wait for a while before the enchantment runs out of magic and the glowing white numbers dissolve into the air, it lasted five and a half minutes before stopping I mark the time and place the bracelet on the side of my desk to see how long it takes to fully recharge.

I start work on my next project, the last of my environment spells this one for the juniper berry bush, I need a dry and somewhat cold environment for this plant, I start with a small ruby enchanting it with the monitoring and control spells, and then I add the weak shield spell before starting work on the last spell.

I need a cooling spell to keep the environment cold, I don't know any area of effect spells so I'm going to have to modify yet another spell for my work, I start with the spell I've used in the past to create ice and use it as a base working from there.

After a an hour I'm done and finish my enchantment adding it to the ruby before leaving it in the original juniper berry's pot leaving the one I've been breeding alone, I look around and not seeing anything left for me to do I decide to take some time to go to the park and grab a book to read and my bags before leaving.

I leave and walk to the park letting myself relax on this nice day, I pass many ponies going about their business on a path in the park before leaving the path and moving to a quiet part of the park laying down in a grass field under a trees shade, as I lay there and open the book I brought with me.

I spend some time there reading before I see something coming near me through the corner of my eye, I quickly turn my head just in time for a wood frisbee to hit me right on the side of my muzzle, I react how one would expect flinching in pain and spending a few moments letting my brain catch up with what's happening.

I rub the side of my muzzle trying to ease the pain from the impact, I turn my head down and see what hit me, seeing the frisbee on the ground I pick it up in my field inspecting it, I look around me trying to see where this frisbee came from and after a moment to my left I see several young ponies staring at me a few dozen feet away.

A few colts and filly's stare at me as I hold the frisbee and after a moment I give them a small smile and throw the frisbee back, one of them catches it and after a moment of nopony moving I wave them away letting them get back to their fun.

They leave, going back to their game as I continue reading my book, after some time I start feeling hungry so I leave the park making my way to the market to buy some supplies, I shop for some fish, potato's, carrots, spices, and a loaf of bread before making my way home.

I get home and place my ingredients on the counter before as always checking on Entropy, she greets me by demanding food and after feeding her I bring her with me to the kitchen placing her nest on the island counter to keep her away from anything dangerous.

I grab my pot and fill it with water before placing it on the stove to boil, as it heats up I peel and chop the potatoes and carrots into pieces, I cut the fish into small cubes and season it before adding it to the now boiling water along with the potatoes and carrots before brining the pot to a slow boil and letting it cook.

I spend the time it takes my soup to cook by reading with Entropy in between my forelegs resting, after an hour I smell the fish soup and get up to check on it and seeing it fully cooked I turn off the heat and let it cool down for a while before placing some in a bowl and cutting some bread eating it with my soup for dinner.

After I finish and clean everything up, I use my bracelet and seeing that it's still a little early spend the next two hours growing juniper berry bushes and breeding them, and after draining my magic I place Entropy in her cage and take a shower before heading to bed.

Author's Note

Thanks for reading and have a good day.