SEP 4 Thursday.

I get out of bed and like all Thursdays I'm still sore as hell from Wednesday, but after making some food and tea I spend a while using the muscle healing spell to fix that, it takes me half an hour to feel fine again.

When I'm done I go to my workroom and start looking through several notebooks all written in English just to be safe, all these notebooks have knowledge about the show or future events, and right now I want to recall and copy a few things to a new notebook.

The new book is where I'm going to put all my theories and knowledge about changelings and what they could be doing, once I've grabbed all the books with the information I need I spend a while copying it and re-organizing it, when I'm done I put all the books back and grab my saddlebags.

Before I leave I grab several things, my tent, food for a few days, a new flask with the water collecting enchantment on it, and several other things I might need, I have a plan for today and that plan involves not being home for a while, after I've gathered everything I call Entropy over and cast the illusion spell on her before we leave.

As we walk through the streets I let my mind wander to what I'll be doing over the next two days, as you've probably guessed it involves camping, I spent a little time checking the records for the small forests that are around Canterlot and it turns out that most of them are owned by the crown.

And after looking through a few laws and boring texts I found out about something, the reason for all this is that I heard that as long as you don't damage the forest and if it's owned by the crown you're allowed to camp there, I didn't know if that was true so I did some research.

And turns out that that's correct, as long as you don't damage the forest in any large way, so something like cutting down a grown tree, but smaller things are just fine, you can even harvest any fruit or herbs you find as long as you don't take too much.

And you also have to pay a higher tax if you intend to sell anything you gather from the forest, this is why I'm heading outside the city as I'm allowed to camp out there, and after my last trip I wanted to do it again but I only get two weeks off a year so I couldn't.

But now with a forest so close I can take small trips out there and be in the forest more often, as I walk I also keep an eye on how far we've traveled and the rough distance, this trip is also to test something else, after we reach a point I stop at the roadside.

We aren't far from the city walls and I can still see the city buildings, when Entropy teleports us to the storage room I rented she moves us about five miles and through much of the city each time, and with four trips both ways that's roughly forty miles at once, so I want to test two things.

First, does increasing the distance multiply the magic cost any, and second, does that mean she will now be able to teleport forty miles at once, I want to test both of these but doing so inside the city could be bad, this is because I don't know what happens when Entropy doesn't have enough magic to teleport but still does.

I rather not appear in the middle of the city, or a wall, so I'm doing this differently, I'll head to two different spots both near the city but in wooded places that are roughly forty miles apart and have her try to move us in between them, I start walking down the road again and head for a forest not long after.

I don't think Entropy will be in danger if she doesn't have enough magic to teleport but tries anyway, the reason I think that is because of my self-scan not long ago, if my body keeps magic in reserve to not kill itself then other beings with magic probably do too.

And if a being develops the ability to teleport I'd also expect it to develop some safeguards against accidents, if she doesn't have enough magic I think she'll either not be able to teleport, or will only be able to teleport a certain distance before collapsing from exhaustion.

As we enter the forest I walk through it heading for a certain spot, and when I reach it I see what looks like an old Oak tree sitting among some grass, this is the tree I grew not long ago and I'm going to use it for the first spot, I take off my saddlebags and start setting up camp.

When I'm done I take Entropy over to the Oak and sit at its base, I look around and start collecting several twigs and small stones with my field, when I'm done I arrange them into a circle around me, Entropy sees this and seems to know what's happening.

She's gotten used to what me making a circle means, "Not yet girl" I make sure she doesn't try to move us yet, first I make another circle on the other side of the tree and sit in that one, "Ok girl move us to the other circle."

She looks at me for a second she then hops off of me and around the tree for a moment before returning back to me, seems she is smart enough to get a good look at where she's moving us, she hops back on me and after a few seconds we move through the void for a moment.

And we appear on the other side of the Oak tree, I give her a berry as a treat and have her do this several more times before stopping, when we're done I let her wander off and fly around the forest, I do tell her not to go too far as this forest could have other ponies in it.

I don't think others will wander into my camp but you can never be sure, so while she's having her fun I start on the next part of my plan and that involves my sketchbook, I take it out of my saddlebags and start drawing the circle and Oak tree as accurately as I can.

If I want Entropy to teleport us back here I want something to remind her what this place looks like, that and it's fun to simply draw, I came out here to test things but also to train and relax some from city life, somedays the constant noise and movement can be overwhelming so it's nice to go somewhere so quiet.

After I'm done with my drawing it's around midday so I still have plenty of time to do other things, and one thing I want to do is make this camp a little more secluded from others, but I don't want to use magic or gems to do that so I will be doing this more naturally, pun intended.

I walk away from my camp under the Oak tree and move a little bit away, I start converting my magic and pushing it into the plants around me, I slowly walk around my camp in a circle letting my magic grow the plants into a thick wall of brush and tree branches.

This takes a long time as I can only move a dozen feet before running out of magic and having to wait for it to regenerate, and that brings me into the next thing I want to test, a plant I've had for a while now is the Companion Vine and I haven't done anything with it beyond letting it help my Iron Oak grow.

But I remember that the plant uses its magical flows to help it gather life magic, and I thought, why can't I do the same? Well I can think of a few reasons but it still seems like something I should at least try, so after another round of growing plants I sit down and let my magic fill before I start meditating on the life magic around and inside me.

I can see my magical flows and they are much more complex than anything I've ever seen before, I take a moment to think about this before deciding to be careful about this, so instead of trying to change the flows inside of me I try to copy the magical flows on top of my skin.

Shaping my magic into the correct flows and shapes takes a while but when I'm done I have a glowing shifting mass of green magic flowing over my skin, holding this takes a lot of concentration, and a decent amount of magic and so I shouldn't be able to hold it for long, but that's where this experiment starts to get interesting.

My theory on how this should work is a small fact I came across, when you are in an environment with more ambient magic it boosts your magic regeneration, the more magic around you the better the result, but the returns are diminishing and too much magic in the air can hurt you.

And as I hold this formation of magic around me as it flows, I'm able to hold it for longer than I should and after a while of feeling my magic I realize that I was right, the magical flows are gathering life magic and keeping it close enough to my body to increase my magic regeneration.

But this whole process takes more magic than I gain, so after I get low on magic and let go of the magic to let it dissipate, I'm very happy and surprised that worked so well, but it seems like many things I train it isn't fully usable right now, I'll need to get a much better understanding of the magical flows of the Companion Vine.

But if I do get better at this I might be able to gain more magic from this process than I'd lose, if that is possible, this is all still relatively unknown to me so I'll have to move slowly and with caution, after taking notes about my experiment I start growing the nature wall around my camp again.

I don't finish it before night sets in but I get about halfway before stopping, and by the time I'm done I'm very tired, my magic may regenerate but my mind still gets exhausted, so after making some food for me and Entropy before I head to bed.

time skip

SEP 5 Friday.

I get out of my tent and sit next to my dying fire before grabbing my teapot as the sun rises up into the sky, gathering water with a spell I fill the teapot and set it above the warm coals, as I'm making fresh tea Entropy flies down from the Oak tree and lays on my back while preening herself as I make my tea.

After breakfast and some tea I gather up my camp before setting out again, I remember to cast the illusion spell on Entropy before we leave the forest and make it to the road again, we continue down it along the city, I take out my map and start trying to roughly judge the distance as we go.

I can't judge the distance perfectly so I try to stop a little under forty miles away just to be safe, this takes a long while as I have to walk a good distance, but these roads are well maintained and traveled so a little after the afternoon we reach the right distance.

I can still see the city and there are a fair few ponies on the road, so after some looking around I leave the road and walk into a wooded area, and after a little more searching we find a good spot to do this.

I've walked from one side of the city countryside to another side, if we travel from here we shouldn't appear inside the city if Entropy can't make the full trip, but I only plan on doing this once for now, I just want to test Entropy's abilities not stress her out with lengthy trips, or endanger her.

If this does work I'll have her move us from my apartment to the Oak tree I grew as they are roughly fifteen miles apart so if she can make this trip she can do a round trip once a day, and after finding a secluded place I take out my sketchbook and open it, I show the page to Entropy and let her look at it for a while.

"Ok girl you're smart and I think you know what I want you to do, so do you want to earn a berry? Just be safe ok? If you can't do it that's fine" Entropy stares at me for a few seconds before closing her eyes and going quiet, she stays like this for almost two full minutes before I see the familiar void greeting me.

I feel like it takes longer this time but it's hard to tell in this place, but we do reappear next to the Oak tree, I keep my eyes on Entropy to make sure she's ok, she's definitely tired from that trip as her body drupes some but beyond that she's fine, "YES GOOD GIRL, YOU'RE AMAZING!!"

After I feed her several berries and a small piece of fish she's looking a bit better, and I think I've answered my main question, it seems that as long as she has the magic increasing the distance doesn't multiply the cost any more.

I'm happy she succeeded and she seems happy too, "You can rest now I'll get us home just fine," she seems to accept that and just lays down on my saddlebags as I start walking us home.

Author's Note

Thanks for reading, and enjoy birb.