MAY 30 Saturday.

I gently move a small piece of paper to the left of me while trying my best not to damage it. But at a certain point I use too much force and once again crumple the piece of paper.

Over the past few weeks, the thing I've focused on improving the most is the magical conversion ratio for space magic. And it has improved some with practice, and it's actually improving at a somewhat decent speed. It's not fast improvement but it's enough to keep my continued interest.

While it can be boring, even more so than anything else I've trained with. A good byproduct of all this free time without the magic to practice other things has led to me focusing on the theoretical side of magic, spell matrices, the math for those matrices, and any other subjects I haven't had time for recently.

I stop moving my magic as I run low on magic and watch as the new piece of undamaged paper falls to the ground. I stand up from a desk in my workroom and stretch out my legs. It's still near the beginning of the day and I have something small planned.

My mane and tail have once again grown too long for my liking, so I'm going to spend a little time today getting it cut. I need to take a shower first so I head to my bathroom and start washing myself, after I'm done and dried off I take a moment to look at myself in the mirror.

Over the past two years my appearance has changed some. I'm in much better shape and have a well-built body. I have been and still am growing taller and at this point, I'm as tall as most unicorns and taller than almost all pegasi, I'm not quite at the size of a lot of adult earth ponies but I'm already taller than a few shorter earth ponies. I wonder how much more I'll grow?

Another interesting thing that's changed, and has increasingly become apparent is the thicker fur on my chin. I'm honestly confused why stallions even have this thicker fur patch, it reminds me of a beard, although I haven't seen it grow as much as a human's beard would.

The fur on my chin isn't thick enough to have to trim yet, but I should probably buy some scissors, or maybe just a razor if I can find one. I stop admiring myself and leave the bathroom. I feed Entropy and myself before playing with her for a while after I put on my saddlebags and necklace.

Entropy sees me preparing to leave and just merges into my shadow before I can even ask if she wants to come with me. I shrug and leave to walk through the streets, trying my best to remember where the place that cut my hair last time is located. And when I do find it, my haircut is a boring affair with me sitting down for an hour and staying relatively still.

I have them trim up and cut down my tail a bit to keep it from dragging on the ground and have them cut my mane just long enough to be tied behind my head, which is how I prefer it. Once that's done I decide to spend some time outside today and take the opportunity to buy a few daily necessities I need.

Once I arrive at the markets I start looking through different stalls and do some window shopping while I'm here.

I stop at a stall and buy some potatoes when I smell a sickly sweet scent that fills up my nose and won't leave. It's an odd scent and I feel like I've smelt it before but can't place it with how distracting it is. I turn my head around a few times looking for the source but there are too many ponies to pick out what it could be.

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But I freeze as I feel something else. I feel the skin of my sheath shift slightly as my blood starts to move downwards. I feel adrenalin fill my veins as I start to panic slightly about what's happening. :What the fuck!: I quickly walk over to the side of a stall and try to calm my body down, I don't want to just be hanging my cock out in public.

As I have this thought a few similar things come to mind and realize what's probably happening. I'm hitting puberty. For mares that means heat season and all that comes with it. And for stallions that means having to deal with mares in heat when they are around you.

To explain I'll need to lay out some context, I start trying to distract myself with an internal rant. For ponies being naked is normal, no pony wears anything to cover their privates and it's common to see them. When I first started living in this world it was awkward, to say the least as I wasn't used to it, but after years of being face height or lower with most ponies hips, I stopped being shy or awkward about it and just moved on with life. Basically over time I got completely desensitized to it all.

But puberty is a bitch, and my body has decided it's time for me to care about having foals so it's doing its best to make that known when a mare in heat is around by making the fact I'm old enough to have foals visible to others in the easiest way possible, and I just got a taste of that. As for my specific situation, what I smelt before was most likely a mare in heat and my body did what it knows to do.

And that would have been embarrassing, not bad, just embarrassing. Ponies live their whole lives naked and understand that this happens, so seeing an unfortunate stallion with an erection in public isn't too uncommon a thing. For ponies, it's about the same seriousness as a wardrobe malfunction would be for a human.

Sure it's an embarrassing thing to have happen in public, but it's just embarrassing and won't get you in trouble. Everypony knows it's natural and has seen it enough to be desensitized and not really care about seeing it. But I'm still human in several ways and modesty is one of them, so that situation sounds like a nightmare.

Earlier I stepped into a gap between two stalls and spent a few minutes calming down and getting that damn scent out of my lungs. I take a quick glance in-between my back legs, I can see my sheath and my member's head poking out a little, but that's as far as it got and I can feel my body starting to calm down.

I breathed a sigh of relief, I got lucky and found a quiet place to calm down before my body started really getting excited. I try to keep my wandering thoughts off of anything that could drag my mind to any thoughts that could cause the same reaction. After a while, my body returns to normal and I can finally relax.

:By magic wasn't going through puberty once enough?:

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Once I'm sure my body has fully calmed down, I leave the gap and try to finish my shopping without that happening again. Once I'm done with buying everything I decide to find a place with fewer ponies and try to relax in an open-air area, plus it's been a while since me and Entropy spent time at the park.

As I walk I let my mind wander to something else, trying in part to forget the embarrassment of what just happened, even if it's likely no other pony even noticed. Over the past two weeks, I've been looking through many different spells and I've found one I'd like to learn, but I'm not sure if I want to.

The spell is called Temporary Pegasus Transformation, or T.P.T for short, and it's a spell I recognize. My memories of the show and its less important events have faded slightly with time, that's why I wrote everything I remembered down as soon as I could, a few years ago. But this spell is one I remember Twilight casting.

The spell falls under the conjuration branch of magic and like all conjuration spells is complex, far more than most spells I know. Nine runes, three larger-than-normal matrix circles, and a lot of math to hold it all together. And this brings me to whether or not I should learn it, on one hoof I really fucking want to.

Why? Because flying sounds both useful and fun as hell. But this spell isn't easy and takes a lot of magic, I think I have enough to cast it, but it would suck to learn that I don't after spending so much time learning it.

And it would take a decent amount of time to learn all the runes and make sure I don't fuck up the casting, it's a body transformation spell so I'll have to be very careful not to fuck up the spell. And it will probably take a few weeks of my spare time to learn fully.

But learning it wouldn't take much magic, just a lot of reading up on the runes, and practice drawing the matrix. I have an abundance of time without much magic available to me, so it would fit my schedule right now. But do I have something more important I could be doing with that time?

I go back and forth a few times as I walk into a restroom near the park, I need to cast the illusion spell on Entropy. This is another spell I've spent some time relearning and after a few seconds, she's all dressed up and ready to be seen in public. She knows how to stay out of trouble so I just let her fly off, while I start walking through the park at a slow pace.

It's a nice day with nice temperatures, a gentle breeze, and ponies having fun. As I walk around I sometimes see Entropy flying in between trees and having her own fun. After a while I stop at a bench and sit down, I don't do much beyond enjoying the view for a while.

Different ponies walk by and do different things, after a while Entropy flies back to me and sits on my head to rest for a bit. But at some point a pony stops to stare at me, not an uncommon thing for most ponies to do, many see Entropy and stare for a moment or two before moving on.

So I ignore it for a few moments, but after nearly a full minute it's getting a little uncomfortable. They are standing in the corner of my eye to the left of me, so I can't really see them. I turn to them, about to ask if they need anything, or to leave me alone, but those words die in my throat. :WHY! Why the fuck does this keep happening? Are parks just cursed for me?:

Standing only a few feet away is a pony I instantly recognize, Fluttershy. She looks younger but it's definitely her, same cutie mark, same hair, same eyes. :For the love of magic, how do I keep running into the cast?: I'm internally panicking a little at this point.

But then I noticed she's not looking at me but at Entropy, and seemed to be ignoring me for the most part. Why is she here? And what do I do? Well, I have no idea about the first, but I think it's best to try and act like normal. I try not to stare at her too long and just speak up, "Can I help you?" I a little loudly as we're a few feet apart, I add a confused face to try and sell it more.

"Epp." She jumps and her eyes snap from Entropy down to my face. She hides half her face behind her mane and shrinks back a little. "s-sorry." Her voice is so quiet that I almost miss it. She's obviously shy, not that I should have expected anything different.

And seeing her like this I can't help but feel sorry she's feeling this shy. I lower my voice some and quiet down, "It's fine, many ponies stare at her and I think she likes all the attention." I say with a calm and quiet tone, trying my best to not startle her again.

She perks up a little at my reassurance and looks back to Entropy. Entropy stares Fluttershy down for a few moments before turning to me and back to her, sometimes even I'm confused about what Entropy is thinking. "She's v-very pretty." her voice is still quiet but I can actually hear it clearly now, but she still seems very shy.

I smile, but before I can thank her Entropy decides she agrees with Fluttershy. "Pretty." Apparently, Entropy liked that word enough to learn it.

"Well, aren't you talkative today?" I take out a few berries and feed her some as a treat. When I turn back to Fluttershy she's much closer and is staring intently at Entropy, she doesn't say anything but her eyes are practically sparkling as she watches Entropy eat.

"That's amazing, does she speak a lot?" Her voice is still quiet but I can hear the excitement in it. But in her excitement, she gets closer to Entropy and is now only a few inches away from me.

I ignore how close she is and answer her. "Sometimes, she mostly talks to demand food from me, but I haven't heard her say that word before." I try to remain calm about being far too close to a future element of harmony than I'd like.

She smiles as I answer her, but before she can start asking more questions a voice interrupts us. "Fluttershy, are you ready to go?" We both turn to see a green-furred stallion with a pink mane standing nearby.

Fluttershy turns back to me and stops, it seems she just realized how close she was to my face. We're now staring at each other only an inch or two apart. I see her face shift and a blush spread on her muzzle, in a second she's backed up a few feet surprisingly fast.

"S-sorry for-r bo-bothering you." She says with a nervous tone and a slight stutter, and clear extreme embarrassment. She looks back to who I presume is her sire before quickly walking over to him.

I watch them leave with only one thought on my mind. :What the fuck just happened?: She sure left in a rush, not that I'm complaining. I'm now thoroughly confused about why she was here, but decided to just take the small blessing that she left so quickly.

I sat there for a moment before deciding to call it a day. This day has been a mess, and I think it's best I just get home before anything else can happen today.

Author's Note

Thanks for reading. :}

Also, NSFW warnings will be added where needed in bold.