FEB 27 Thursday. I sit next to the magic shield as Entropy takes a moment to concentrate before teleporting, and after a moment I see her disappear in an instant, with black wisps of something that looks like smoke that disappears almost immediately after she teleports.

I've been training her for over a week now and she's made some good progress, when we first started she would get tired and she still does but I think that will lessen with practice and time, she has improved with how long it takes for her to teleport she needed roughly ten seconds each time before.

And now she only needs five or six, this is massive progress for such a short amount of time, but I think that has more to do with her learning how to control her ability than anything else, I think that whatever her kind is would teach their young to teleport around the time they learn to fly or maybe soon after.

I think this because it would increase a young birds chance of surviving when they leave the nest, but because I didn't know she could teleport she was never taught how, so when she saw me in danger she probably acted on instinct and teleported us, she probably didn't even know what would happen but wanted to save me.

Because she never knew she had this ability she needed to learn how to use it properly, I think that's why she's made so much progress in only a little over a week, I think her progress will slow down soon but she's doing fine for now so we will keep training like this until then.

As for my own training, I've kept up with my morning runs and meditation, I've also been successful in copying a plants magic flow in my apartment, although much like I thought it's more difficult to feel the life magic flow through a plant here but I can still do it and that's what matters.

I've spent my time copying the plants I own, mostly the Iron Oak as it's magic is fairly complex but I expected that even so it still took me three days to even get a decent understanding of the trees magic flows, I've made progress just not much and it will probably take me a few weeks to fully memorize it.

I also took some time to look at the other plants and the results are about what I expected, the Jungle Fern, Cactus and juniper berry plants are regular along with the false Daisy, the Gripping Vine is a little interesting as it's magic flows are fairly complex for such a relatively simple plant but still fairly normal.

The most interesting plants are the Companion Vine and Blood Leaf Tea, as far as I can tell the Companion Vine seems to use complex flows not only to grow itself but also to pull in more life magic from the environment, it's much more efficient than other plants and I have high hopes for this plant in the future.

Then there's the Blood Leaf Tea which by far has the most complex magic flows I've ever seen, I'm still new to copying plants and because of the complexity of this plant I couldn't learn much of anything so I'll have to revisit this plant at a later date.

I've also been spending some of my spare time doing research into a few different subjects, the first subject is about the symbols on my cutie mark, and sadly I've found no other runes that match the ones that are on my mark, I've also not been able to make any since of the numbers other than them being in the pony language.

Another thing I still need to research are the different languages of this world, but back on topic I've also been researching cutie marks again and just like last time I've found basically nothing that would help me understand how they work.

It's odd because you'd think that a species that is almost defined by magic marks they have would try learning more about them, but most seem to just not care about cutie marks beyond what they mean and how to use them, but then again humans did the same not caring about something until it becomes a problem or is needed, still it seems weird.

Maybe I'm missing something but the fact remains that there is little written about the nature of cutie marks and I'll have to try finding my own answers, if I even can, moving on to the last thing I'm researching and that's what Entropy is, I still don't know but I might have found something.

I was looking through a book about myths and legends from a few hundred years ago mostly because I was curious, but while looking through it I found a reference to something that seemed similar to her, A Night Crow, I only found the name and a brief description of what it is supposed to be.

What I found was more of a story to scare foals than anything else, It calls them the birds of the night evil creatures that are made from darkness and hate almost the opposite of a phoenix in every way, well first things first the book I found this in was full of myths and stories so it's likely to also be full of lies or misinformation.

Second I don't think Entropy is evil as she both saved my life and has never hurt anypony, hell the most she's ever done to me is demand food and scratches, but I do think that she might be related to a phoenix in some way as they share the trait of teleportation and are both avian, I'm not sure if this is what I've been looking for but I'll look into the name more in hopes of finding something.

I've thought of asking Celestia but I decided against it, it might be selfish of me but I'd like to keep the true nature of Entropy to myself, my main reason for this is her ability to teleport as I can do many things with her help that I may not be able to do otherwise and I may need her help to stop what's coming.

So unless something comes up I'll be keeping her nature secret for now, moving on I've found a new project to work on a text copying spell to anything on a page really, there are a few spells that do something similar but the ones I could find only copy small amounts of text or a few symbols and none copy art, mine cant copy art either but can copy some simple symbols.

This means that the county goes through a staggering amount of ink and paper because if you make a mistake when copying an important document you need to start over again wasting paper and ink, at first I almost decided not to create this spell as the ponies that make ink and paper would see less business, but then I realized that I could make the spell also use ink but I will probably need to make the spell a little more complicated for that.

The spell was always going to need paper, but I think I could make it use no ink if I really tried, but instead I'll have it use both and like I said earlier the spell will probably be a little more complicated but also use less magic to cast as it won't need to create the letters just move the ink around.

I have found a runic symbol for copy, well technically it's a symbol for mimicking but that will work just fine for what I have planned, I'm going to start with a already existing copy spell as while, it's a little messy and crude but it will work well enough as a base for my spell.

I'm in my work room right now going through the spell matrix, I remove most of what is there and start streamlining what remains, I add four symbols to build the spell off of the symbol for mimicking then the symbol of movement and finally two symbols one for area and the other for light.

The finished spell when cast will create two small zones one green and the other red, this comes from the light and area symbols making a small illusion, then you simply place a filled piece of paper inside the green area and keep it still, then add the same amount of blank paper to the red area, then the spell will use the movement and mimicking symbols along with some math to copy the contents of the paper.

It will take longer depending on how much you're copying but it should still work, although because the spells matrix is small to reduce magic costs it won't be able to copy more then twenty pages depending on how small or large the text is it could also increase or decrease.

It takes me six hours to get a prototype done and it will probably take me several more days to finish the spell completely, I stop to make some lunch at the insistence of Entropy, we go into the kitchen and find little to eat so I decide to leave and go out to eat before buying some groceries.

I grab my bags and Entropy hops on top of me as we leave the apartment, I see Daisy inside the hallway next to her door and approach her, "hey Daisy, how's your day so far?"

"Oh hey Shade, ya it's been fine same as always I suppose, you?"

"I wish I could say it's been interesting but nope just more of the same, any new about Blaz?"

She nods "yup his son stopped by the library today said he should be fully healed in another week or so."

"Good it'll be good to see him again, anyway I hope you have a nice day Daisy" I say moving past her to the stairs.

"You too Shade."

I walk out of the apartment and start moving through the streets, it's late right now so there is a decent amount of ponies on the streets most like me going to get a late lunch or heading home for the day, Entropy decides to fly over head rather then ride me letting me move more freely through the streets.

I walk through the market district before entering the area with many food stalls and restaurants, I head to a place I've been to before the Cozy Clover and unlike last time I enter with Entropy so I ask if she can eat with me and I'm told yes but if she breaks anything I'm paying for it.

We get a table before ordering some food I get baked cod with some steamed vegetables and heyfries, I order Entropy a fruit bowl as I don't think they want a crow eating raw meat where others can see, I get our food a while later and it's great.

The fish is cooked well and there's a white sauce that reminds me of ranch that goes well with the fried cod, Entropy seemed a little jealous of my fish but then after getting a bowl filled with several types of fruit and berries she's far too distracted to care about my food anymore.

We spend our time eating in silence before I pay the bill and we leave, I still need to buy food for home so we make our way through the market buying necessities and a few extra things, Entropy finds a wooden ball with several holes throughout it letting her pick it up with her beak.

She doesn't have many toys so I get it for her, and considering that when I gave it to her she wouldn't let go of it I think she's happy with her new toy, I buy three new blank books and some more ink I also find two things of interest so I buy them, the first is a book about the griffin language.

I've wanted to learn other languages for a while but couldn't decide on which so I just decided to learn the one I thought I would use the most, and out of all the races of this world, not counting ponies, the species I've encountered the most is griffins so I'll be spending some of my time trying to learn their language.

The other thing I bought was a enchanted painting of a forest at night, the enchantment makes the painting give off a soft glow of different colors letting the painting have glowing fireflies and a glowing moon, what I'm mostly interested in is the enchantments used as they look interesting, plus the walls of my apartment are empty so this will add something to look at.

We take everything back home and get it put away, well I put everything away while Entropy throws her new ball around and chases it but I'm not complaining as she looks happy, we spend the next hour or so training her teleportation with berries as treats as she ate a large meal recently so no fish for her.

We spend the rest of the daylight playing or training before it gets dark and I start breeding plants, I've not learned the magical flows of the Juniper Berries yet so that's what I work on hoping to speed up the process of breeding them.

I have some success but it takes me a few hours of practice before I can grow the Juniper Berries decently fast so it will take me a few more days before I can achieve the same speed I normally have, but after a few hours of practice my magic is almost gone and I'm tired so after cleaning myself up I head to bed.

Author's Note

Thanks as always for reading.