At this point of my life I was about 17 or 18 in human years Lyra told me, and I was quite big for being that age. After Lyra left though I went into my room, and grabbed my pack.  Zecora was right I am actually getting quite large to live here. I use the detecting magic to see if Zecora is home. She isn't, so I leave her a message with a pen using magic to write down the message on a scroll.

I walk out of the door, and head towards the exit of the Everfree Forest towards Ponyville where I know I can live in peace, and partially safety. I stop casting magic after I felt the first presence of a changeling, because I don't want to believe in pinkie that I have bloodlust. I stick to the canopy, and not the path to heighten the chance of me not running into any hostile creatures. My efforts were futile, because a changeling wandered onto the road, and started looking around, until it saw my darkened blue coat in the canopy.

When the changeling launched itself at me I was ready to stop it, because the changeling didn't come anywhere near me as I stop it in it's tracks with magic. I push it against a tree trunk with magical force. I controlled my magic to choke the changeling until it was dead, because I didn't want to get any blood on my coat, or mane to make sure I was presentable in ponyville so I don't look like a murderer.

I exited the Everfree Forest much later, after debating whether to be a pegasus or a unicorn. I did decide to be a unicorn since being able to levitate multiple things at once is more helpful than being able to fly.

I am on the outskirts of ponyville right now, and I can see that there are a few places uninhabited on the edge of ponyville, so i head over to one of the uninhabited houses.

There was a sign in front of a run down forge that read "700 bits to purchase" then an address to go, and pay for the home. I head on down the road to find the address to pay for the home. On my way there I sort out enough bits that I brought with me from the castle to pay for the rundown forge.

I found the address but no pony was home so I decided to just leave a note with the bits telling I bought the place in their mailbox.

I came back to the rundown forge, and looked at it before I started wondering to myself why I picked this place over all the others. With that as my final thought I began repairing the place to make it shine. I first started off buying supplies from the nearest markets. Supplies like, bricks,glass,cement,and wooden boards. I pulled out a paper, and wrote on it for awhile making plans to make the forge look better, after I had made the plans I started to get to work using magic to make the bricks fit perfectly in the right places, cut the boards with ease, settle the glass in the right places,and mold the cement to make everything stay firm.

"Seems like you have been busy." A voice behind me said to me, as I got a bit startled. I turn around to see Twilight opening her pack to pull out some books. "Here take these, I can't pull any more knowledge out of these books, but I will need them back once your done with them." Twilight told me levitating a few books that seemed to be spell books. "Thanks Twilight, but how did you find me all the way onto the edge of town?" I ask her getting back to working on the forge. "I found you, because you are using a lot of magic, which is easy for any unicorn that knows how to detect magic to find ponies easily." Twilight finished turning around, and leaving.

When I had finally gotten done with fixing up the forge, I moved a bed in to my room, and placed the spell books on a dresser nearby. I went back outside the forge to fix up the smeltery part of it since It was one of the main reasons I chose to live in the forge.

The lava was still boiling hot since no pony would want to move it out of the place, the armor racks were a bit bent along with the weapon racks, the hammers were just fine, but the anvils were broken into pieces. I checked one of the spell books on the dresser to find out how to restore things. I walk up to the shattered anvil, and tap it with my glowing horn, and move away as it reforms into it's usual look, I do the same to the armor, and weapon racks, after doing all that I set up a barrel full of water by moving a barrel with magic, then filling it up with water, and placing it in the smeltery.

In the end of the day I was completely drained from working on the smeltery for so long without rest. I slowly trotted my way over to my bed, and kinda fell on it, kinda fell down on it. I slowly close my eyes, and start to fall asleep without noticing I had finally gotten my cutie mark for forging weapons, and armor.