A Quiet Rune Scribe

MAY 30 Friday. I'm sitting at a desk inside the workroom, and breeding Moon Glow plants right now, specifically the dimmer strain, I've had a decent amount of success in creating the two different strains, the difference is now much more noticeable then before.

I stop and move the plants back to where they belong, then I grab a small ruby and my notebook on runes, I've spent the last week thinking about what I can make and I realized that I've had something sitting under my nose this whole time, my water flask.

Stone is right in what he said about me, I think like a unicorn, that's why I didn't remember that not all ponies can just use a spell when they want to find some water, but the vast majority of non unicorns can't do that and need to find and purify water when they are traveling.

This is why the next thing I'm working on is a reliable source of water, and for places without much water to find I already have the perfect thing, my flask gathers water from the air after all, it would probably work slower in an environment without much water in the air but it should still work.

That means the harder type of water gathering is already done, the other type of water gathering I want to help with is ponies who can find water but it's dirty or they don't have a way to purify it safely, so I want to make an enchantment that purifies dirty water sources.

I bought a second flask yesterday for this, I started by refamiliarizing myself with the water purifying spell, it uses a lot of symbols and could use some work to improve them so I'll start there, I start by deconstructing the spell into its base symbols and math.

I'm able to remove all but two runes and replace them with supporting math, the two runes I left as a base for the spell are, a rune of purifying, and a rune for water, when I'm done I have a spell that costs much less magic and even works a bit faster, when I'm done with that I write done the spell matrix and start modifying it.

I'm modifying the matrix for the second flask, I'm going to enchant it to purify water that's been added to the flask, a pony using this will still have to find water, but as long as they do find water they will be able to drink it no matter how contaminated it is.

The reason for modifying the matrix is to make the spell weak enough to hopefully work without a gem, I start by enchanting the flask to gather magic without holding it, I then add the new water purifying spell and link both together, now I just need to see how long it takes to purify water.

I take the flask to my kitchen and fill a cup with a little dirt and some water before mixing them thoroughly, I may have added to much dirt but that's fine we'll just start testing at the high end, I check the time and fill the flask with dirty water before waiting, after eight minutes I pour out some water.

It's clear and seems clean when I drink some, I guess we have a success, I spend a while doing several tests with different types of contaminants, it takes several minutes but it seems to purify the water regardless, as I'm doing these tests a thought strikes me.

Where are all the contaminates going? after that I realize something both amazing and terrifying, I look through my notebook and don't find anything to prove what I'm thinking but I can't see any other way it could work.

The runic context around the purifying rune is simple, remove anything that doesn't belong, but either on purpose or more likely on accident whoever created this made it remove contaminants by destroying the matter completely, which may be the most terrifying thing I've found in all the spells I've seen.

I think whoever created this wasn't aware of just what they had made, they probably just saw that it worked and like me never thought about where the contaminants went, I'll have to experiment with this rune more, I'm not exactly sure what counts as a contaminant but I should find out.

With that somewhat terrifying discovery out of the way, I spend some time updating the enchantment on my first flask with the improved purifying spell, before writing a letter to Celestia and grabbing both flasks, I don't really need my old flask and the new one was always going to be sent to her, so I spend some time writing a letter to her and copying the spells used onto some paper before putting it all in an envelope.

I take both flasks and the sapphire connected to one of them and grab my saddlebags, Entropy seems to want to go with me as always, "stay here girl, I won't be gone long" I give her a few berries and leave, I've been trying to train her to not follow me and it seems to be working well.

I make my way to the closest post office, I could just leave them in my mailbox to be shipped but I rather not have letters between me and the ruler of the country be shipped through the mail, so when I need to send her something I go through a post office as It gets there much quicker and isn't laying around were somepony could steal it.

After sending the package I head back home, when I enter the apartment Entropy is there waiting for me, "told you I'd be back soon, now how about some training?" I set up the shield and grab some meat chunks to give her, we train a little before stopping.

At this point the shield we are using blocks all line of sight, she had a few problems teleporting without being able to see where she's teleporting, but after a few tries she got the hang of it and can now do it just as fast as before, so I think it's time to work on a new type of training at that involves a trip.

I want to train two things right now, first how far she can teleport and second how well she can teleport other things, and I have a plan for both, after a little training I grab my saddlebags again and bring Entropy with me as we leave, we leave the apartment and make our way to the market district.

There are many different businesses in the market district and one on the outer edge caught my interest, they let you rent a storage room of different sizes, and for different lengths of time, the most important thing is that it's around five miles from my home.

The first time Entropy teleported she moved both me and herself several miles, I'm not sure the exact distance but it was at a minimum four miles and that was before she started practicing and she's also grow some so she should have more magic, that's why I'm going here to rent a storage room and use it as an in between point for training and to see if she can move that distance.

I just need a way for her to understand what I want her to do and I have a plan for that, I walk in and go over to the front desk, behind the desk is an older looking unicorn mare, "hello I'm here about renting a storeroom?"

She looks up from some papers she was reading to look at me, she looks me over before giving a slight frown, "you have to be an adult colt now scram."

I pause at this as while several businesses have denied selling me things based on my age before, I normally just show them the card I have that gives me permission, but I've never had a pony reject me like this before, "mam I hav."

Before I finish I'm cut off, "I told you colt your too young, now leave" she says her voice holding an annoyed tone.

I'm annoyed at all this but decide it's not worth dealing with her, so I leave as there are several places like this one and while they are a little further away but they should still work fine, it takes me a while to find another place that will work.

Like the last place the pony at the counter says I cant rent a room, but unlike the last place they let me get out my card and I successfully rent a small storage room for the next few weeks.

The room is small, only ten by ten feet but it will work for us, I let Entropy look around the room before using some ink to draw a circle big enough for me to lay inside, I take out a small piece of meat and place it inside the circle and let Entropy eat it.

Next I sit down on the hard floor inside the circle with Entropy on my back "ok girl I'm not sure if you can understand me enough for this, but try and bring us home", she tilts her head at me "take, us, home, and, get, meat" I say slowly to her.

She seems to understand that enough to realize what I want her to do, I feel her talons grip my coat through the bags straps and then a minutes later I see nothing but darkness, like last time it's only a single moment, and then all the color rushes back like I blinked, we are inside my apartment I look back to Entropy to check on her.

She seems only a little tired but is otherwise fine, "amazing job girl" I tell her while feeding her some meat and giving her scratches, I make some tea for her and after resting for a while I get her to try again, this time is easier as she seems to know she has to teleport to get some meat.

We do this five times in total before stopping, when we appear home again I make her a full meal to enjoy for all her hard work, after five teleports she's definitely tired, I make sure to keep an eye on her for the next hour before she falls asleep, I put her inside her cage and leave her to rest.

I think it's safe to say that this day went well and I'm not even done yet, in my search for things to do I decided to research my plants and different uses they may have, while doing this I found out something about the Moon Glow.

The plants light comes from the plant absorbing ambient magic and converting it to create luner magic to create the glow, but if you pick the flowers and supply them with a source of magic it will still do this, this effect only lasts a few days after the flowers are picked and the glow is much weaker.

And I'm curious so I'm going to run some tests on this effect, I take some time to grow a basic Moon Glow in a pot, the plant's flowers are similar to Lotus flower is shape but much smaller in size, they are thick and white with a small cluster of white stems in the middle.

I pick the petals and place them to the side before decomposing the plant and growing a new one, I repeat this until I have a decent amount of petals to work with, when I'm done I grab my mortar and pestle and grind down the petals, I have an idea but I don't know if it will work.

From what I've learned of things like alchemy, you take plants, or parts of plants, that keep their magical effects after killing them, and mix them to create a new effect or use the plants effects better, I want to see if the glowing comes from the plants flesh or it's fluids as the book never told me which, so I use a small cup and pour the plant juices into it.

I keep the plant pulp inside the mortar and place it to the side, I then push some of my magic into the fluid and watch as it gains a slight glow, it's not strong but definitely noticeable, I try the same with the pulp and it glows a bit stronger, I decide to empty the mortar into a bowl.

I mix a little bit of both inside of the mortar, crushing and mixing them thoroughly, I end up with a thick paste that glows bright enough to be seen in the day, I spend some time drawing things with it and pushing magic through it to see it glow, seeing this gives me an idea.

But it's late already and I have work tomorrow so it's best if I get some sleep.