AUG 22 Friday.

As my mind wakes up I stare at the ceiling and for a blissful moment I don't remember last night, but inevitably those memories come back as I drag myself out of bed.

I'm glad I don't have work today as I have several things I need to think through and several questions that I need to ask myself, but before diving head first into all that I head to the kitchen to fill my stomach, and as I'm making some eggs and toast Entropy comes in from my bedroom.

"What?" I hear her mimic a new word.

"I guess you're getting the hang of talking ay? Well no matter," I grab her bowl and fill it with some berries, raw fish, and a few nuts, I've been trying to feed her a variety of things to keep her healthy, "Eat up," the words barely leave my mouth and she's already digging into her food.

As much as she harasses me for food I can be thankful she's not a picky eater, I go back to making my food and when It's done I make some tea to go with it, I just eat in silence deciding to relax as best I can with my mind wandering around so much, when I'm done I clean up and head to my workroom.

I grab a blank book and take it along with the tea to my bedroom, I get on my bed and wrap myself in a blanket to fight off the cold, it's already fall and it won't be long before the snow starts to fall again, but that's not what I should be thinking about right now is it?

After last night I have started asking myself many questions, but I need to think through this properly so let's do this the best way I know how, with a decent plan, I flip open the book and start writing my questions down one by one until I have a good place to start.

First, what is my main goal?

Second, what should I do?

Third, What should I be doing right now?

Fourth, what do I want?

Fifth, what have I been doing?

After writing these out I draw a line under each of the questions, I flip to a new page and start filling it with my thoughts.

First, what is my main goal?

It is and always will be stopping this world from losing its magic, Why? Because the suffering and death that something like that would cause just from happening would be immense and if I even have a chance at stopping it I won't let myself stand by and do nothing.

As for how I can even try to stop something like that? I don't know but I must try, not just for my sake but for those I've come to know and care about, so what can I do to help myself stop this? I'm already doing it right now, training and preparing for what's to come as best I can.

Second, what should I do?

I don't really know, but I do know that I need to change the future and what is to come, I have been doing this in a few ways already, how? Equestria is at the center of all that is to come and if it is stronger and better prepared then it could massively help.

I've helped the crown and Celestia govern the empire more efficiently, I've helped with light, helped them with water, and food and all that comes with that, but is all of this enough to really make a difference when fighting fate? I don't know and I don't think I ever really will, at least not until it's far too late to change anything.

And I suppose all that brings me to the next question.

Third, what should I be doing right now?

Just like the previous questions I don't really know, what do I know? I know I need to make more changes and keep helping Equestria prepare but the real question is how I should do that? Make more things, improve more lives, and help this world be ready.

What do I need to accomplish that? I need information and power, I have some of the first and a little of the second right now but I'll need far more, what kind of information do I need? It's been clear to me for a while that this world IS a world and is much more complex than a children's show.

That comes with both upsides and downsides, the downsides? Things outside of my knowledge aren't things I can control or influence, I can't plan for something that I don't know is out there, so how do I solve that? Discover what is out there and do what every human before me has done, go poke that something with a stick until I understand it.

The upsides? While this world is full of the unknown and that can be a threat it can also help me, a good example of this is runic magic, if it didn't exist I wouldn't be able to cast spells or invent the things I've made that have helped so many, and that's just the things I know of.

This world is full of magic and history, the things that have been lost or found are amazing and could save this world just as easily as it could end it, to put it simply this opens and closes many doors for me.

Fourth, what do I want?

Beyond saving this world? I want to be happy and do what I love, exploring this world and learning more about it, I honestly think that part of me is still the most human, it's said we came from nomads and I can't tell you the number of times I've just wanted to leave this city and see this bountiful world.

But I can't do that, I want to one day but I have a life here right now and responsibilities to take care of, but one day I will wander this world I promise myself that if nothing else.

Fifth, what have I been doing?

I think I've been doing my best, could I do more? Maybe? But if I live my whole life for nothing, could I even call that living? I don't think I can live like that, doing nothing but worrying and interfering in the lives of others all day every day, how can I save this world if I don't live in it?

I stop writing and stare at the page for a moment, after a moment I add another question.

Sixth, what is my plan?

I only have three real advantages over others in this world, first my knowledge of the future, second my past lives knowledge of how the world works and how it can be changed, third my human perspective on this world, and with that seeing things in a different way than others.

So knowing all of this, what can I do? First leverage all my knowledge as much as I can, if I know how to do something that others don't I need to use that to my advantage, second plan for as much as I can, and I think that starts with me documenting all I know safely.

If I die before canon starts then my planning goes out the window, so I need a way to leave behind what I know because if I don't then everything I've done might be for nothing, the information will need to be stored in a way that others can't find it before it's needed.

I also don't want anyone with bad intentions to ever find it, I'm not sure if I can make something like that yet but it does need to be done so I'll try and think of some solutions.

And the other thing I need to do is change the future in a slight but improved way, how? Well I'll just have to go on a case-by-case basis and plan around things as best I can, I think that's the main thing I've learned from writing this all out, I need to plan for EVERYTHING.

After I finish writing this all down I stare at the page, why not start now? I flip to a new section of the book and start on the first thing I need to plan around, changelings.

I have a few things I need to think about when it comes to them so let's do this again, I start writing out different points of interest and concern.

First, what do I know about changelings from the show, and what more have I learned about them?

Second, what is their current condition?

Third, their leader Chrysalis, what do I know about her?

Fourth, are they a threat right now?

Like last time I underline all these questions and start thinking my way through each one.

First, what do I know about changelings from the show, and what more have I learned about them?

I know their abilities and roughly what they are capable of, but like with many things I can't be certain that what I know is right, they can change into many different shapes and sizes, does this ability have limits? I don't know but with my experience in magic I think it does.

If nothing else I presume that the larger the change from their normal form the more magic it takes to maintain it, I also think that learning how to change is something they probably know on an instinctual level but still need to train with to improve.

I can also guess that Chrysalis's is either much better at this than other changelings or is simply more powerful, probably some combination of both.

They eat emotions, how and why? Well I don't know where they came from or how they came to be, I do think that they could have come from evolution, why do I think that? Well emotion is a really easy way to get food, why hunt for food when you can just blend into a population and feed off of others without them knowing.

I know emotion affinity magic is released into the environment when someone experiences that emotion, I'll need to look more into that, but my point is that I don't know the full history of this world so changelings could be something that came about naturally or were created.

Another thing of note is their smaller size and ability to fly.

Second, what is their current condition?

Well I think that right now their hive is probably a lot smaller than in the show, and I think that for a few reasons but the main one is simply food, they attacked a fucking alicorn you don't do that unless you either have the power to know you stand a chance or your just that desperate, and I don't think they had the power.

That means they were so desperate for food they were willing to risk it all on one hell of a move, that strongly implies that they didn't have enough food to support their current population, and raising a population that big takes time, I don't know how long a changeling takes to grow.

But if we assume that because they are insectoids or at least similar to insectoids it's probably faster than a pony, I'll just use ten years as a placeholder for now, that's probably overstating how fast they can grow but this is just for an example.

If we assume a changeling takes ten years to grow enough to start working or fighting for the hive then if they wanted to vastly increase their population they'd have to start right about now to be ready in a decade, why do it now though if they don't know the Crystal Empire will reappear?

Well the Crystal Empire is only one place, and there are other places a changeling army could go to invade, all this combined with the fact that I've been seeing changelings more often means that they are probably trying to gather as much love as they can to feed their growing population,

This theory still leaves several unanswered questions but I find it likely that this is happening so until I find evidence to the contrary I'll plan around this for now.

Third, their leader Chrysalis, what do I know about her?

Well I know she's not stupid, maybe a little off her rocker but she can still plan well enough to almost succeed in taking over the Crystal Empire, someone like that shouldn't be underestimated even if they aren't the strongest beings around, humans only had our minds and look how far that got us.

But beyond that a lot about her is unclear, and with my intentions to change things I'm not sure how much my knowledge will help me, I do know one thing for certain though, she wants her changelings to survive.

Fourth, are they a threat right now?

Yes and no, as long as you aren't a threat to their plans or try to stop them I think they would rather not draw attention to themselves, and in that regard we are very similar.

I closed the book after making sure I was done for now, my thoughts are rambling and I'll probably need to add more to this book over time but this is enough to start with and I need to get some things done today, I get out of my blankets and make my way to my workroom, I have so much work to do and so many plans to make.

Author's Note

Thanks for reading.

And good job to a certain someone for somewhat guessing what I was literally writing about as I was writing it, I swear you lot can tell the future sometimes, seriously I just started the part about changelings and tab over to see a small wall of text with several things I just wrote about.

Or maybe I'm just that predictable? Hell if I know.

Also this is not in anyway a bad thing, in fact let me just take a moment to thank that certain someone for the help, thank you.

Ps, if that certain someone is reading this and would like me to remove this mention of them tell me and I'll do so immediately.

Also, nearly four thousand views and three hundred likes, I honestly don't know what to say. :D