A/N: First off: I love ponies. Just don't tell my parents they think it means I'm gay. This is not a self insert. When I said OC I meant literally original. I have allot of fun writing these things because it gives me a chance to make my own world instead of worrying about the one I live in. Try to enjoy this please and also give critique and comments that are helpful. (No ragers or flamers pl0x) Also check out The Herd. (Link is this here: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/4917/1/The-Herd/ )That one was a self insert kinda but it was also fun to write. ONTO THE STORY!

The knife before him shone dully in the night air. It had to be almost midnight and Selen was walking towards his goal, determined to make it to the only chance of getting away from all the hostility. That was until he was mugged, but as stubborn as Selen was, he didn't allow the mugger to take his wallet or his rings.  The mugger had pulled a knife and forced Selen down to the ground. After that, Selen’s assailant rooted through his backpack, only to find nothing there.

“You want me to kill you? Is that really what you want? Because if you don't give me your cash, I'll just take it from your cold dead body.” The mugger explained the situation calmly. The blade inched closer to Selen's neck.

“No.” he replied calmly. This was all he had left. He had no home to go back to. Granted, he did have a place to sleep but nothing was there. The only things he owned were what he carried now. The mugger growled lowly and brought back the knife dramatically, attempting one last time to scare his victim out of his bravery. Even though the mugger knew he could kill him with no real remorse after, he was against it for the most part.

Selen took the opportunity to fling himself to the side. He grabbed his backpack and tried to run away from the pier. The mugger saw this and sped up the swing, catching Selen's ankle. The previously silver blade exploded in red. The whole of it was covered in blood all the way to the hilt. Selen pushed away with his other leg and managed to rip the knife out of his attacker's hands. He limped off as fast as he could. The mugger saw how badly he had injured the poor man and sprung from his place on the ground. Selen felt a tug and then a rip as his attacker tore the knife from his ankle. Selen refused to scream and allow any weakness to show. However; tough as he appeared, he did move away twice as frantically.

“I have to get there. I have to make it. It's all I have left...” He looked at his rings. The three of them glittered in the night, and each one carried a different stone. The largest one bore a small emerald and sat on his index finger of his left hand. It seemed a bit disproportional to him, the silver band of the ring almost completely enveloped the gem. But the next one seemed a little better. It lay on his middle finger of the same hand. The blue sapphire was rectangular in shape and sloped up into a trapezoid. Black carvings flowed along the silver band and they all touched the gem when they ended. The last one was the most elegant of them all. The memory was also the most painful. The whole ring was a solid ruby that had been smoothed out and bore through by the waters of a river. It wasn't thick or jagged and it fit nicely on his ring finger and glowed more than the other two. If he didn't know better, it would have looked like an  plastic band. Selen slowed to look at his reasons for making the trek, and in his pause, the mugger stabbed him through the shoulder. The small tip of the knife protruded through the front.

“Of all the times to die... It has to be when I'm so close...”

“Twilight Sparkle, your presence is requested immediately in the Princess's courts.” A guard stood before the library door. He was clad in black armor that looked more like it was made of obsidian rather than iron or steel. Twilight still held onto the doorknob and stared the guard in the face with her mouth agape. He was taller than the Princess herself and his coat was a deep brown. “If you do not begin packing your things I will be forced to carry you by your tail to the castle. Celestia will not be happy with me if I do that so could you please just grab your girly things so we can go?” the guard's voice boomed and the frame of the door shook from the bass.

“You... You're not a guard for Celestia. And you're an... an...” Twilight stared at the horn atop his head and then glanced quickly at his wings.

“Alicorn. Yes I know. Move, I'm packing your things for you. Also, do not doubt my position for Celestia. She does not let guards like me out of her sight often, mainly because we often do our job to well. Where do you keep your backpacks?” The guard pushed his way past Twilight and forced himself in through the doorway. It barely fit him and his armor scraped against the sides, crushing the wood.

“Why do I need to pack my bags?” Twilight asked tentatively. She had so many questions but that was the only one she could get out. The alicorn before her did not answer. Instead he bent down on one knee and his horn lit up. The aura around it was completely black. Soon after the whole tree lit up with the same terrifying glow. Even Twilight seemed to have the shadow cast across her and if that hadn't worried her what happened next would have scared her to peices. The whole tree that the library was staged in, began floating. It suddenly fell to the floor as the guard released his grasp upon it and pulled out Twilight's backpack.

“What do you need for a week? Food and water will be supplied. Also do not ask me to put any of your petty books in here.” The alicorn did not turn to face her and instead talked to the wall before him.

“I just... uh I just need my brush... Are you sure I can't bring any books?” Twilight moved to the side to try and get a look at the guard's face.

“You may bring three, but I will not touch those filthy things. You will put them in there.” Twilight was stunned. Her books? Filthy? This had to be the rudest guard in all of Equestria. She put her books into her backpack quickly, attempting to please the powerful pony.

“And now we go.” The guard turned to face the door and  looked at it in dismay. The whole frame was splintered and instead of looking like it would support the original shape, it only looked as if it would fit a diamond shaped piece of wood. “I am sorry about your door.”

“It's okay. I'll just...” Twilight began to use her magic to try and push the pieces of wood back into place when the whole wall exploded outward. It crashed into the street. Twilight sat with her mouth agape for the second time in the past few minutes. After the problem with Discord, she had put up a few magical barriers to keep the tree house together. But the pony standing next to her had completely obliterated them. All of them. In one swift blow.

“Celestia will have me or another of my brethren fix that later. Now we go.” The alicorn was about to teleport them to the castle but he was interrupted by what was quickly becoming the most annoying voice on the planet.

“Shouldn't the elements of harmony come too?” Twilight was searching for a reason to see her friends again. She hoped that maybe they could come with for she knew she would be gone for a while. Mainly because the guard had asked her to pack a bag.

“No. Unless you want them to die.” The alicorn replied. He cast the spell that would take them to Canterlot just as Twilight screamed. They appeared before the huge doors that gave way to Celestia's court.

“Twilight can’t I just sleep for five more minutes?” Spike had been woken by the wall falling to the ground and was still mumbling to a Twilight that wasn’t there. He soon fell back asleep, not noticing the missing wall.

“What do you mean?! Am I going to DIE?! WHY AM I HERE?! TELL ME NOW!”  Twilight's voice became more and more escalated. She asked several more questions after that and Celestia listened in mild amusement behind the huge doors.

“I wonder how Burgundy is doing...” Celestia thought to herself. A smile grew on her face as she imagined Twilight backing the huge alicorn into a wall with a verbal assault. “I guess I should probably relieve him.” She burst through the big doors with a disdainful frown that had replaced the smile. Her imagination did not yield the truth as Burgundy stood strong and tall with his side to the frantic pony.

“Leave the guard alone, he has done nothing wrong. Burgundy you can go. I would like you however to fix the library before you retire for the day.” The Princess addressed the guard. He nodded.

“Who was watching me then? Alabaster?” Celestia nodded. “Why do I always get the hard ones?” questioned Burgundy.

“I will also probably be needing your services again soon so do not rest heavily.” The princess excused the guard with a wave of her head. He walked a bit before teleporting back to the library in Ponyville. “Come with me child.” Twilight followed her teacher into the hall which usually held Celestia's advisers and informants. It was now empty.

“Where is everyone?” asked a very tentative Twilight. It was one thing to be brave towards a guard who had been rude and destroyed her home, but the ruler of all Equestria was a different story.

“I have told them to leave. This is a matter just between you and me. Also while we walk I want you to ask as many questions as you can. We might not have much time other than now to clarify.” Twilight already knew her first question.

“Who is Burgundy?”

“Part of my own personal guards. Handpicked from a set of thousands of his brethren. The reason you haven't seen him or his comrades is because they do their job too well.”

“He said the same thing. What does that mean.”

“The wall of your home is completely gone. He lifted up your house to search for a backpack. He stands a whole three hoof breadths above me, Twilight. He is scary. If my subjects saw him constantly then no one would trust me.”

“Who is Alabaster?”

“I send two of them at a time. One to do the job and the other to observe him.”

“Are they all males?”

“Yes. I choose them when they are in the most desperate times of their lives. I take care of them as if I am their mother and now they serve me.”

“Why are they so big?” An uncomfortable silence ensued. Celestia stopped walking.

“Because they aren't ponies. Not originally anyways.”

“Then what are they?”

“You will find out sooner than you think. Now Twilight Sparkle. Are you ready to meet your new friend? I also think that I will keep Burgundy around to keep him in check. Sometimes these new ones are a little... rambunctious. But for now you will have to deal with him yourself. Any last questions?” Twilight realized that she was standing on an obsidian platform that allowed her to be eye level with her teacher. It seemed to have purple electricity flowing down the sides of it. There were also a few red tinged pillars on the sides of the platform that also carried the same purple energy.

“Why cant the rest of the elements come?”

“If I had all of you go then only one or two of you would be guaranteed a return. I cant expect him to protect all of you. Goodbye for now Twilight Sparkle.”

“What no! I don't even know why I'm he...” she was cut off by the purple energy arcing towards her. Celestia charged her horn and when the ball that had formed on the tip touched the purple magic, Twilight was teleported to a distant planet.

“No no no no no... Not another one... I have to get away. I have to keep moving...” Selen said aloud. He sat next to a bloody mess of a person. The head was completely crushed as well as one of the feet. A leg was completely fine (except for the destroyed foot) while the other one was bent upwards and flush with the torso, which had a few ribs sticking out of the flesh. “I have to go. I have to keep moving...” Selen stood up and looked over the body for what he knew he was sure to find. A ring. It was much duller than the ones he was currently wearing but it was definitely silver, no matter how many scratches adorned it. There was no gem, no soul to the ring, but Selen put it on his pinkie finger anyways. He also took the knife and kept walking. The early morning air cleared his conscious. It wasn't as if he hadn't killed others. And if anything this one was easy. Out of the four people he had brutally murdered in his life, this one was the least significant.

“Not like Ann...” he was cut off by a white flash of light in front of him. “It was this pier?! This one?!” He hadn’t even gone ten feet from the dead body. Selen knew something out of the ordinary was happening, which was what he had been looking for for the past year. A screaming pony appeared. Her mane as well as her body were obscure and unorthodox colors. Not like the horses that he was accustomed to. “They’re ponies? And they have tramp stamps?” he thought as he gazed at the star on the flank of the foreign being.The purple pony stopped screaming and fell to the ground. Selen ran over and picked up her head and noticed that she had very human like features. Even the nose seemed to be snubbed compared to that of one of the horses he was more familiar with. Selen poked her head. No reaction.

“Are you dead little pony thing? Because that would really suck. Can you not be dead please?” Selen had never been good at talking to baby animals or small delicate things. Twilight began to open her eyes and a smile crossed Selen’s face. The opposite was true for Twilight, for she gained a frown, which turned into a gaping hole very soon. She screamed right into Selen’s face and he dropped her head as he quickly backed away from the purple creature.

“Ouch! My head... As if seeing all of space whizz by you isn’t bad enough...” She looked over at the stunned thing that stood before her. It was like nothing she had ever seen. Tall, about four hoof-breadths above Celestia, lean and it seemed to be wearing clothes. The lower half of the clothes were torn and ripped and the creature seemed to be leaning away from an especially dark spot on the bottom part of one of its appendages. A red drop fell from the torn cloth and she soon realized that it was blood. She hadn’t seen very much blood before. It seemed like so much... It went up the dark blue fabric in bursts and streams of red. She also noticed another dark spot on the creatures shoulder. The being held it with an undying grip and a long stream ran down what looked like regular skin and ended at a few pegs of flesh. Another drop hit the ground and Twilight winced. She felt sick and wanted to throw up badly. But that would not be a good first impression and Celestia had said that she was to make a friend out of this thing. And even as out of context and instruction she was, she would do her best to please her teacher.

“My name is Twilight Sparkle. Pleased to meet you.” She stood up and stuck out her hoof. The creature before her looked a little dumbfounded before mirroring the gesture with its injured appendage. The blood splattered on her hoof and she grimaced before her jaw dropped. His taller stature allowed the blood to continue from his arm onto hers.

“Oh god I’m so sorry!” Selen pulled away and the blood pushed out of his shoulder more profusely. “Could you just excuse me for a second. Twilight finished her inventory of her new “friend”. The bottom half was accounted for. Things that covered what must be the equal of feet were black and looked like they had ridges and deep carvings in them. They looked as if they were spiked as well on the bottom. Then it occurred to her that they might not be coverings for hooves, but this planet’s version of hooves themselves. The simple idea of something so odd looking and deformed disgusted her. She avoided the thought and moved upwards. A fuzzy bit of clothing adorned his torso. One sleeve went all the way to where the tubes of flesh connected to the arm whereas on the other side, his bloody shoulder was showing. There was no sleeve on that side. A rip was heard and his sweatshirt was quickly turned into a vest. The other sleeve fell at his feet.

“I just need to wrap this real fast then we can get down to business...”

“Business? I don’t even know your name.” Twilight was confused. She assumed that originally she must seem like an alien as he did to her. But he seemed so calm about it. As if he had been expecting her.

“Well your kinda stuck in an alien world that is filled with corruption, hate, and anger right now. Your magic probably wont work here so your going to have to wait for your friends to save you. My name is Selen. That bloody mess over there was a mugger, which is one example of the rage and hate in this world. He is the cause of the blood on me that you see now. But gallons more have been spilled before this. I would show you scars but you already look like your going to pass out.” Selen paused as Twilight swayed to one side. She looked very pale. He began again. “You are a pony from Equestria yes?” Twilight nodded. “Excuse for a moment.” Selen turned around so his back was to Twilight. “Yes! Mother fucking YES! I was RIGHT!!!” A fist shot into the air in triumph during his short outburst. He turned back around. “Can you hold this with your teeth for me?” He indicted to a strip of his shirt sleeve with his head.

“Uh uh sure...” She grabbed the already blood soaked bandage with her mouth. It tasted a little sweet but at the same time bitter and rusty. Selen worked fast at trying the knot around his injured shoulder. Once done, Selen went over to a pillar with some random missing posters on it. They dated back to before Selen had set out on his journey. He sat down with thud and Twilight’s eyes followed his trail of blood that had been left by his ankle.

“That... that it going to need some serious healing.” He indicated to his dripping foot which he had to drag behind him as he went to his seat. Twilight tried to follow but found that the repulsive thing that was now only a few feet from her friend had kept her planted. The longer she stared at it, the more horrifying details about it she noticed. Like how the white bone stuck out from the chest of the mangled pile of alien. The inside of the bone yielded even more blood. Eventually Selen followed her gaze and saw what had kept her planted. He forced himself up with a few struggling grunts and gave a small cry as he put weight on his ankle. But through the injuries he trudged until he reached the body. He picked it up with his uninjured arm and flung it into the ocean.

“Ugh.... shirts all bloody now...” Selen was about to take it off when he realized that the pony who had just come into his world was a girl. And that the vicious scars he had mentioned before would show anyways. He really didn’t want to scare this poor thing anymore so he uttered a stutter and rolled his shirt back down.

“Oh it’s okay. You can undress. It doesn’t matter to me. We ponies don’t wear clothes normally.” Twilight explained, completely oblivious to the morals that Selen held.

“Uh huh... Okay.” Selen flung off his shirt and tossed it near he pillar. Twilight was overwhelmed with his skin underneath. The first thing that stood out was how underfed he was. His ribs stuck out and he looked overall emaciated.

“Has he ever spent any bits on food?” She questioned herself. The next most prominent feature was the silvery lines that ranged from a hairbreadths width to a gaping arm thickness. The first one she noticed was the huge one across his chest. It stretched from the uninjured shoulder to the top of the adjacent leg. It started small and grew until it almost enveloped the whole of his sternum. Smaller disks and other shapes spotted and carved into his torso. She stared into amazement. He had suffered more than anyone else she had known. The worst she had seen was a scratch from an old sword used as a collectors item. Two small foals had been playing with their daddy’s collection and injured themselves. The slash had gone through the younger one’s cutie mark but it was only small and barely visible. What this thing before her had was disturbing and horrendous. She began to feel nauseated again but held her lunch down. She averted her eyes from his ruined torso and gazed upon his face instead. It also seemed to be a little scarred but not as terrible. Just a small patch under his chin as well as above his left eye. They were so faded that if she hadn’t been looking for abnormalities, she would have missed them.

“If you want I can tell you the stories later. Every last one of these have a memory or a tale. But for now we need to get acquainted. So Twilight Sparkle tell me where you come from. I’m not exactly sure if my information is correct...” Selen motioned for her to sit near him. She walked over and sat adjacent to him.

“I guess to start... Where I come from is the land of Equestria. It is ruled by two princesses, Luna and Celestia. The latter controls the sun while the former controls the moon.”

“Wait hold on... They control it? Are you sure that it isn’t just gravity and an elliptical orbit?” Selen looked at the pony as if she were stupid and uneducated. Twilight saw the look but chose to take no offense.

“That may be how it works here, but on our planet, we control everything.” Twilight tried to explain as simply as she could. If the thing wanted a more in depth description, he could ask for one. Slowly but surely she was becoming annoyed with her situation. She was without her real friends and stuck on a planet in Celestia knows where in the universe with more problems and violence than she was willing to think about. She had no idea why she was sent here, and no idea what she was supposed to do. The only thing she knew was that this was supposed to be her new friend, and that this adventure would hopefully only last a week. That is what Burgundy had said. Pack for a week.

“Who is we? You unicorns can’t be the only sentient creatures there.” Selen relaxed a bit against the pillar. His feet stuck out towards Twilight and it took every once of her strength to keep from staring at the wound.

“No. There are also pegasi and regular ponies. There are some alicorns like Celestia and Luna. And I suppose Burgundy and Alabaster and their brethren...” Twilight was about to be lost in thought before Selen asked a huge question.

“So how long does this ordeal last?” Twilight’s face turned red with anger. Here sat an alien who disgusted her and interrogated her. Instead of answering she asked a question of her own.

“No. I’m done answering your petty questions. I was given nothing when I came here. I don’t have a clue about what is going on. I don’t know what the planet is called or even where the hay it is. I don’t know how I am going to survive because obviously you,” Selen started at the statement, almost surprised at the way she spat out his informal address. “wont be able to protect us! You don’t look like you have any food either. Celestia didn’t give me any instruction and neither did Burgundy. The first thing I see when I get on this planet is the floor and the second thing is a bloody live alien and a bloody dead one. I don’t have a clue what the hay is going on and somehow,” She paused for breath. “you seem to know everything about me and my world. So spill the beans. Give me a history. Now.” Twilight somehow got to be standing during her speech.

“You , my friend, are going to want to sit. And I have just one more question.” Selen began.

“WHAT? What else could you possibly want to know?” Twilight steamed.

“Do you want an apple?” Selen produced a red, juicy apple from his backpack.

“Oh... You do have food...” Twilight took the apple delicately with her teeth.

“I also have a place to sleep. But for now I would like to stay sitting instead of walking. And you’re right. I have been a little...” he searched or the right word to describe his now obvious actions. “Rude... Would you like me to tell you my story?” Twilight nodded while taking a bite out of the apple she had been presented with. “Oh boy... Never told my whole story before... But I guess if we’re going to be stuck together for a while you might as well know. When I was six, this crazy old hobo told me about a place for magical ponies. He told me about how they lived in a land called Equestria and were ruled by a couple princesses. I didn’t believe him. Who would? My mother socked him in the face and we walked off. Life went on normally until I was elleven years, seven months and thirteen days old. My father’s ashes came home that day.” Selen’s head dipped. His eyes stared between his legs. “And as if to add insult to injury, my mother fumbled them in her hands and they dropped. I lost both of my parents that day. I... I killed her... I was just so... so angry. My father had been at war for five years. And all we had left of him were fond memories and those ashes. She spilled them and I just lost control.” Selen looked up from the ground to Twilight’s horrified face. The guilt in Selen’s eyes changed her expression however. Right now he looked like he just needed a great big hug. Even so, she was not about to take a single step towards the killer before her. She understood that the broken and bloody corpse he had thrown into the water had probably been a kill of self defense but killing his own mother? Out of rage? That was not something she was about to forgive. Selen dropped his gaze again as his eyes began to water. “I woke up to a room completely covered in blood. I couldn’t even find the box the ashes came in, let alone the door for a while. There was nothing left of her... All that I could find was her ring.” Selen indicated to the first ring on his left hand. “That’s when I began running. Ive been out here for almost a year and a half, just trying to find the magic place called Equestria. I found that old hobo again. He set me up with everything I would need for the journey.” Selen paused to rotate and play with the ring on his index finger for a minute or two. “He told me to never stop looking. He’s dead now. As he was seeing me off he was hit by a car. An old Pontiac Firebird with a body kit. The front cut him in half... I’m sorry I have to stop for a...Just please.. just one minute...” Selen began crying. “I never even knew his name... And he treated me like I was his best friend... And YOU exist! He was right! But he’s gone... Why? Why did he have to die? And my mother TOO! They didn’t deserve it... None of them did...” Selen took the better part of ten minutes to regain his composure. He still didn’t continue his story. Finally, Twilight spoke up.

“It’s OK to cry. Do you need a hug?” She spewed the question before she even knew what she was saying. She had just now come to terms with the fact that maybe his mother’s death wasn’t all his fault. But that in no way meant he wasn’t a killer.

“No... No... We should probably get out of the,” Selen’s whole body began to shudder as he resisted crying again. Soon the shaking stopped. “Out of the open. I think I can walk now. Do you want any more... Any more food?” Selen was still obviously broken up about sharing his story. Even though he had barely gotten through any of it, Twilight could tell that this was not something he would tell often, if ever again.

“No I’m okay for now. Where are we going? Is it far?” Twilight questioned, hoping that they could continue the story. It was almost as if she was reading a book and had to put it down to do some work.

“It’s quite a few miles from here. Took me half of the night to run here so we might make it there before night as long as we don’t have to stop and rest too many times.” Selen began to stand up. He had to move slowly and use his pack and the stone pillar as cantilever.

“Why were you running? Were you being chased?” Twilight took a look of concern upon her face as Selen groaned loudly. His ankle had to support him for a second and it didn’t like the pressure very much.

“No no. Well not reall... It’s complicated. See I’m just...” Selen began stuttering. He was afraid his new acquaintance wouldn’t like him very much if she knew the reason for his late night running. “Can I just tell you later? It’s a little embarrassing. Hey do you see any pieces of wood around here?” Selen asked, hoping to get more out of it than just a support for his ankle.

“Oh uh I’ll look around? For your ankle then?” Twilight said, already busying herself with the task. A pile of lumber appeared in the corner of her vision and she strode over to pick some of it up.

“Yeah. I figure that if I can make a splint of something like it, or even just hold it stiff, then we can go a little faster.” Selen was on his feet by this time but still leaned heavily on the pillar. Twilight returned with a large plank of wood in her mouth. Without magic, she would have to do allot of manual labor over the next week. Selen took it and broke it in two with his hands and his head. He needed something hard to break it over after all. He tore another strip of cloth off of his vest and the zipper came with it. He wrapped the two bits of wood tightly around his leg. He winced and took a sharp breath in through the teeth when he tightened the strap.

“Okay, I think that will be okay for now. Might need to tighten it later but whatever.” Selen began putting weight own on it at intervals. Each step put down more and more pressure. “Let’s go.” Selen took off at a miraculous pace. He did skip a bit to keep his weight off the injured ankle but nevertheless, he was jogging. Twilight sat stunned for a split second before chasing after him. They reached the end of the pier and turned left towards an industrial part of town. Twlight looked at the huge smoke stacks and the black could coming from them. She had never seen something so ominous and evil looking before. Not even something from Discord could have looked as dark and scary as the towers looming before her. Except for maybe the long legged bunnies.

“What are those things?” asked Twilight in between breaths. Even though she was built to run, she didn’t do too much of it usually. Selen noticed her premature fatigue and slowed his pace.

“Those are smokestacks. They carry the output of factories into the sky. They weren’t really a problem until recently. Somebody finally noticed that the sky was almost constantly grey instead of blue. Hippies threw a tantrum and they somehow got the government to throw a tantrum too. When the big companies actually said “no” to the government everyone realized how serious the problem of money was getting. These huge corporations literally controlling the world and could do whatever the hell they wanted with it. Which in this case, was kill it. Crops don’t grow very well anymore and water doesn’t taste like it used to. Fish are only alive in books now and people have completely lost their minds trying to live.” Selen explained as they made a right onto a street with huge stained white buildings on the sides of it. Railings separated the sidewalk from the street.

“How long did all of this take? It sounds like something I used to read about in books. The end of the world and such.” Twilight remembered a specific one that Celestia had given her when she was just barely her student. Not more than a moon after she had passed the initiation test. It had almost everything in it that Selen was describing to her now. Grey skies and a war over power and money that had completely ruined everypony’s life were the main details she remembered.

“Every last bit of this happened in less than a year. It started about a month after I left home and people have been trying to murder me for my money for a little under seven months I think. It seems like that would be a long time but really I wish it went slower. Then you wouldn’t have to live in this world when it’s like this.” Selen seemed apologetic even though Twilight knew that it couldn’t have possibly been his fault.

“About living here... I think this is only going to last seven days. Or maybe five depending on what Burgundy meant.” Twilight was glad to know that someone else near her would be willing to believe the only truth she knew. It almost seemed to give it more clarity to have someone else believe in it even though she herself still wasn’t sure that it would only be a week.

“A week? You mean after all this traveling I only get to meet my goal for a week? Seriously?” Selen slowed down to a walk and faced her. There was no expression other than misery.

“No no. Why would they send me here if they weren’t going to take both of us back?” Twilight too had been wondering about the reasons behind her being sent here. This planet looked unable to even support life. She had noticed how murky and grimy the water looked and how discolored the skies were. Nothing in this world seemed to be in place. She couldn’t be sent here to explore or anything like that. And why would she need to make a new friend if she wouldn’t be able to keep this friend. After explaining her new found thoughts to Selen they began running again. Selen was temporarily convinced that he would be able to see more of this pony and hopefully more of her race as well. Perhaps he would even see Equestira. But that was not going to be today.