I wake up in my cell, it’s open. I’m not dreaming. I’m in Equestria. I spoke with Celestia and she almost kill me.

Yesterday’s events come to my head. Canterlot is hygienic, spacious. It’s easy to see that its urban design is infinitely better compared to my world’s cities. It’s still weird to be in another world. I’ll get used to it.

I met Celestia, an imposing and powerful being. So smart, protective and benignant that gave me a chance. I would condemn me to the gallows. She knows about my species, about the show. It was deductible. She’s not surprised with the fact that I know Canterlot and I didn’t freaked out when I saw what for me are very weird beings.

I’m in Canterlot’s castle. This building’s architecture is unique. The cells are spacious, but they feel like a prison… I don’t know why I’m surprised, it is a dungeon.

I go upstairs. I can see the stained glasses that decorate the walls. I recognize some of them and the stories they tell.

“G-good morning, y-you must be Reason.”

I see behind me an earth pony, is a female. Her fur is yellow and her mane is green and red intermingled. Her big and red eyes seem to fear me.

“Good morning. Yes, I’m Reason. May I ask your name, young lady?” I wonder why I picked the word young. I don’t know her age, but she doesn’t look like she’s old.

“I’m Lyn.” She answers. “I’m in charge to left the food in your cell… I mean bedroom.”

“It is a cell. Don’t hesitate in calling it by its name.”

“Uhm… Ok… Your clothes are being manufactured. I’ll let them in your… cell tomorrow.”

“Thank you, Lyn.” I understand her fear at me, but I’d like to stop making them to fear me. I’d not be able to be accepted if they fear me. I failed once in adapting me in human society, I don’t want to fail again.

Lyn left a basket in the cell and left the castle. I open the basket and beside some apples and desserts there’s a letter.

“I’m conscious about your feeding habits. If you want to live here, you have to modify them.

Princess Celestia.”

I already knew that. I think I can do it. I eat something and go upstairs again. I see the exit to the backyard. I recognize some of the statues. I don’t want to be near this place. If my thinking frees Discord or any other being of its prison, I’ll lose my opportunity to live here.

I explore the castle seeking for places of my interest and memorizing a map. To find the room that works as a bathroom was a priority, I won’t deny it. Luckily the building is not complicated and I found it very soon. I finish my task and find myself alone in the castle, lost in my thoughts. Ponies avoid me, I can’t blame them. I pass a few hours that way until I see someone who seems to be in a very similar condition than mine.

Princess Luna descends from the sky and enters the castle as if nobody else were there. This ruler of Equestria emanates an aura very different from her sister. Her appearance is fragile. Her pose is not… How to say it? ... It doesn’t look… royal?

“Princess Luna, your majesty.” I say.

She opens her eyes as if she just woke up from a dream. “Hello, thou must be the human my sister told us about. Would thou kindly remind us thy name?”

“Call me Reason, princess.”

“Yes… Reason. What can we do for thee? What is the purpose of our conversation?” Damn, I didn’t think an excuse. And again, a lie would have no sense.

“I don’t have a purpose. I just wanted to talk to you, her highness.”

“None of our subjects have ever offered to talk to us. We art intrigued.”

“My apologies if I offended you, your majesty. The truth is that when I saw you land, I thought I saw a lady who wanted to talk, but hasn’t with.” Damn! What I just said? I’m talking with a god just if I knew what’s in her mind!

She looks down for a moment and then looks at my eyes. I think I’m going to be punished for my daring. She starts to laugh delicately.

“Thou have not offended us. We art happy to have this conversation. It is just funny to us to hear those words. Nopony have ever wanted to talk to us.” Her manner of speaking is a bit confusing, but I think I understand her.

I smile slightly. “You have a contagious laugh, your majesty.”

She holds her laugh. “Thanks. It is strange to us to speak. Our ponies still fear us. We art interested in talking, but we do not know about what.” She makes a small pause. “Would thou mind to move to the garden? We would like to be able to see the sky and know when we have to do our duties.”

I nod and follow her to the garden, there we sit down.

We are in silence. I can appreciate her appearance. The anatomy of the distinct types of ponies is fascinating. She’s beautiful. In this world everything has a lack of details I dislike of my world. Everything you see in earth is uglier the nearer you are. Here that doesn’t happen.

I better take off those thoughts. Remain stupefied while I watch a member of the royalty can be wrong.

“What do thou want to talk about?” She breaks the silence.

“Since I’m just a mortal, I don’t know what kind of topics of conversation may have a pony with your knowledge and wisdom.” I say. “Is there something you want to ask? Something you want to talk about?”

“Yes, we have one doubt. Why thou have spoken to us?”

“I imagine your sister has told you about my… condition.” She nods. “Well, this condition makes my acts be guided by what I consider correct, regardless everything else. I admit that talking with a princess and goddess of a universe is something intimidating, but talking with who seems to need words is correct.”

“Do thou need words?” That’s a simple question with a lot of implications.

“Yes, but I don’t talk to you nor to anyone to satisfy that need. Don’t get me wrong.”

“We do not understand. If thou need something, why thou do not seek for it?”

“If I focus in satisfy my own needs, I can forget to help others.”

A gentle breeze blows above the garden moving her mane and my hair. She looks at the horizon for a while and then she looks at me. “We do not think thou art evil as everypony thinks. Thou art different, just that.”

I wonder what I should be feeling in this moment. But I don’t feel anything; I just think that this is a great first step to be accepted.

“The reason why they fear me is because I don’t feel. Everything is based in what I think. Someone normally would be happy at hearing those words. I just think that this is a good start. It seems to scare them.”

“We have to admit that this is not common, but we art not scared.” Says the goddess. “Anyway, it is thy time to ask. We won’t accept a no for answer. We have asked, thou know that it is correct to ask to us.” Our first conversation and the alicorn uses my codes to control me. I should be upset, but I find it funny.

“How have you created the harmony that reigns over Equestria?”

“We have not created it. We just protect it. Harmony is a creation of the mortals.”

“The idea of harmony being reachable without divine help is comforting. The idea of it having the protection of beings like you is even more reassuring.” The worst of this sentence is that it’s true, I didn’t lie. I could have lied, flatter her, make her confide in me just to be free. But instead I’m enjoying talking with a goddess.

“Most of them express their conformity with our acts, even more with our sister’s. But just a few of them think in the facts. We are the guardians of their creation.”

We are in silence again.

It’s funny. I really have the need to talk and I noticed that Luna seems to share that need with me, but the time passes and this silence is just more and more long. But I don’t feel it uncomfortable and my need of talk is decreasing.

“Maybe is not words but company.” We say at the same time. We smile to each other and keep in silence.

The sunset is near. I’m about to witness for the very first time the creation of a night.

Luna stands up and let the sun behind her. She closes her eyes while the expression of her face changes. She looks peaceful, motherly. A tenuous smile appears in her face. It’s like watching a painter mixing her palette. Her horn glows and in the horizon the tones of orange intermingle with the blue of the night whiles the moon rises itself. A minute later the sky is brighten just for the moon and stars, I can’t recognize any constellation. I’m in another world after all, so far away from anything I once knew. I don’t miss it. In fact, I think I can forget it without remorse. Not because this world is better, and I think it is, but because it’s not with me anymore. If it’s that easy for me to left anything behind, maybe now I understand why they see me as a monster.

I left my thoughts behind. “Your majesty, your creation, the night is beautiful.”

“We will ask thou two things.” Her voice sounds relaxed. “First, stop using royal terms with us. We never liked to be treated as more as we consider“. Another sentence with a lot of implications, I’ll think about it later. “Second, stop withholding thyself when thou ask. If thou ask something inappropriate we will tell thee. Thou have no reason to fear us, we don’t fear thee.”

“Very well, Luna. Does this mean that we’re going to talk again?”

“We admit that we want it.”

In my world this kind of situations end with a hug, I always gave them. I never understood it at all, I just comprehend the protocol and the effect it had in others. I never understood what they were supposed to make me feel. I’m glad I’m in another world, maybe that confusing protocol doesn’t exist, and if it does I can say I don’t know it.

We say goodbye and I go to sleep to my cell.

The princess of the night definitely connects more with the mortals than the empress of the day does. I suppose that both are needed in so many ways to protect the harmony in this world. Anyway I’m just a mortal. I could never understand their reasons.

Author's Notes:

If you want to read the original version (in spanish), click here

Writing Luna is complicated for me. Please tell me if I had mistakes in her dialogues.