The room she lead me inside, was where the magic took place at...

From the bright colors, I found myself in a notably paler room, where only purple, dark purple, purplish blue and white dominated everything. The only exception was the curtain on the only window in the room, which was the same strong pink from the previous room. Said window conquered nearly the whole opposite wall from the door; and the window frame made from pinkish wood.

The walls were pale-purple and the carpet's circular stripes were presented in those mentioned blue, white and purple shades. Strangely, the amount of lady-like colors concerned me little. It didn't feel as girly as one would have pointed out, however, highly indicated the owner's gender and job...

To my left, a workbench; sewing tools splayed around on it, as if the busy fashionista have been occupied greatly, recently. Before the grand window, mannequins... equine mannequins, to be precise. Parts from different cloth-materials were wrapped around them at certain places, acting as a display for me, to have a good look at Equestrian attire-making. However, I understood little from it, for I was no tailor, who also had no knowledge about even the Humanoid cloth sewing. Nevertheless, witnessing this was interesting...

And finally, on the left, wardrobes. Some open, some closed; rolls of silk and many more type of materials hanging out from them. She stored the materials inside them, along with already done orders. Homy, even at work... nice...

''Alright, then!'' Declared Miss Rarity, drawing my attention. ''You can place your things there and tell me what you need me to do. I'm up for a challenge.'' She told me, tilting her head towards the unoccupied area by the workbench's leg.

I noted what she had said. Challenge. Looks like the spa ponies weren't alone with that, I noticed. I was glad they weren't unwilling to take my contract or request, too. It showed how open-minded they were, having the ability to overlook the changes of pace, every now and then. Unlike a certain portion of the town...

After putting down my boots there - mourning over the now bedraggled carpet - and unstrapping my little backpack from the Stabilizers trap, I pulled out the now clean underwear and pair of socks. ''I would like multiple copies of these. That is a first priority.'' I told her, whilst presenting the three garments.

It was at that moment, when the Element of Generosity shed her previous appearance and in her place stood, Miss Rarity, the fashionista. By simply placing a pair of glasses onto her nose... snout, maybe? Anyways, putting the finishing touches on, a measure tape, she completely lost her once elegant look and instead, a mesmerizingly stylish, secretary-like unicorn stood before me, ready to take the order. And they say one attribute cannot change a look... if only I could change my appearance that easily. It was a pain on Earth, to hide my identity, whilst staying casual. Blessing upon that reversible Assassin Gear, for it saved me from many difficulties in the past. Sadly, that wasn't the gear I currently had in Equestria...

''Hmm, so you brought a sample? You just saved yourself from having to stay still for the whole night, it seems. You have no idea how many ponies hate that part...'' Finishing her sentence, she levitated the tape back down to the table.

''Aww...'' Dhanthas let it out in disappointment. I did not dare to even try to find out the source of this disappointment. It ought to be in connection with pervert hopes...

''In that way, it would be easier and less embarrassing for both of us.'' I told her the truth in short, letting her know the reason.

''Please, this is what I do for every costumer, dear!'' She informed me with a light giggle. ''But if that really concerned you, then now you have nothing to fear from.''

''If only you would know what touched that thing...'' Dhanthas pretty much summed up my thoughts with that...

''After those are done, I would like you to copy each piece of cloth of mine. As I had stated, those are the first priority ones and I would like to wear new of those each day. The rest will come after this two...'' I explained to her, letting her know the rout right there and then, if she might have to get done another contract sooner than my request.

''Oh, you're supposed to wear new clothes each day?'' I nodded in comfirment. And in that moment, under a split second, her eyes sparkled in excitement. Being a fashionista truly was her treasure in life...

Then, the realization hit her. ''Then I shall cut short your discomfort, immediately. If you need clothes in such a way, then I MUST make you more quickly.''

''There is no need to place my order forward.'' I quickly spoke up. ''If Miss Rarity has other contracts, then it is perfectly fine from my end. I merely need clean clothes for each day, which I can have right now, by cleaning them. This has no connection to fashion by any means at all...''

She just smiled reassuringly. ''Do not worry, Outsider. My schedule just got cleared before your arrival. Your order is the single one I have right now and to tell the truth, this challenge is simply calling for me. I would be pleased to work on these... strange socks and...''

''Underwear.'' The moment I helped her out, she quickly realized the purpose of it. Thus, Dhanthas's laughter began...

With a nearly nonexistent blush on her snow-white cheeks, she nodded at me curtly, wincing with one eye. ''Now I understand...'' Regaining herself rather quickly, saving herself from leading the moment into 'disaster', she resumed talking in a normal volume. She felt no shame in her work, so I anticipated she just pictured the event and that is what promoted her the minor embarrassment.

''As I was saying... it is my pleasure, darling.''

Folding my arms, I gazed into her starry eyes, looking for lies. Unfortunately or fortunately, I found none and I nodded in approval, giving into her words. ''As you wish...''

She smiled gratefully, hiding the great amount of excitement behind the mask. Honestly, it did not surprise me, however, I was still in disbelief. Were these ponies actually that merry with their work, even though a soul like me strolls into their lives? And it was what confounded me the most, exactly. ONLY when I was around, was the time for their joy to falter and also the time for them to act as hive-minded mob. Some of them greatly expressed their discomfort around me, yet when I was out of sight, they seemed to forget everything! The same with those, who were kind enough to overlook my presence... maybe I was the one, who hardly forgave and forgot, whilst over-analyzing everything, down to tiny details? Possibilities... possibilities...

But I digress; Miss Rarity, along with the spa ponies, jumped right into the challenge, head first. They lived from the job they loved the most in their lives and they let the world to marvel on it. It was amazing to behold it - even though I prevented the twins from doing so, yet I'd seen that earnest attitude of theirs - and further increased my hopes, in connection with this town. Patience, that was all I needed, along with trouble-less times...

She placed down the clothes I had given her not long ago, wearing the same, pleased smile. Her expression in question swiftly shifted into a grin, when she let out some sort of coo in her raging excitement. In my already warm-hearted state, I could recall Dhanthas commenting something about watersports, but due to me swimming in my hopes, I did not register it at that moment. Some ponies were willing to treat me as one of them... at least they were trying. So far, there were only a few of them, however... it was allowed to hope for more and in my perspective, things were looking up, finally. Yet, I remained alerted, not leaning back completely. I preferred to stay on edge, if something might throw me off guard.

Although... I could not deny how well the night has been going... A pleasing revelation and another one, which I haven't said out loud yet... it was great...

While Generosity was having a great time at dealing with a completely different order, savoring every moment of the unique and challenging change, I drifted away from her focus and my mind wandered over to the environment. Patiently waiting for her to start up a conversation or picking up my attention for additional details about the fabrics, I zoned out the happenings inside the room.

Out of habit, I locked her outside my head and shifted my attention through the window, first. Coincidentally, the window faced towards the East horizon, granting me a perfect view over to the rising, blue glory of the moon. It may had been my imagination, but I could have swore that the celestial body was for a guarding purpose. Because at that moment, the event reminded me about the iris of an eye, getting revealed as someone's eyelid just slid open in the night. The setting sun's rays were acting as the eyelid and the moon itself was the iris, watching over Equestria and its inhabitants... including me...

''I hope she can see us. The night chick, I mean.'' Dhanthas most definitely surprised me with his tone. His way of speech and deeply sinister voice gave away who spoke up, however... was that lounging in his tone?

For your information, Dhanthas was a highly independent being, unwilling to worship any soul. Said soul could be anyone, it would not matter to him. He may act out of pure tactics, but truly respecting any higher ups was missing from him. Behind these higher ups or anyone else, he could easily criticize the unlucky person down to yellow ground, if he oh-so wanted... and by that, I mean he did that really often...

The only exceptions were Theilesathe', Thelestial - though, he only started respecting my once mentor after I got a hold on him - , The Grim Reaper and my loved ones... and of course, Dhuradhan and me...

Only his personality could give the impression of a complete asshole, but as I've come to realize it, his comments were harmless jokes... most of the time, that is...

But at that moment... I just couldn't find the secondary thought behind the sentence. He was serious, nearly as serious when we were in battle. Except he sentimentally said what he desired and did not carried hatred in his roaring sentence.

''I bet she's hot.'' And back to 'normal', again. A few seconds... progress, it was. No matter how little, it was progress and when it came to Dhanthas, it meant a lot, for obvious reasons. At last, Equestria was voting for me and not against me. Dhanthas was slowly developing his own personality as well, 'getting back' the positive emotions...

A thought rose from this another positive revelation...

If Dhanthas was full of negative emotions and he was just starting to process the positive ones... then that meant Dhuradhan was... oh, for fuck sake!

Before I could actually get into details, foreseeing a not completely positive Dhuradhan... I heard the commotion from behind the door, alerting me to turn away from the majestic scene outside the window and investigate the rapidly approaching hoofsteps.

For a time now, I've been picking up on the noises upstairs, but thanks to living with the thought of two soon-to-be completed souls were inside me, I excused said noises to them, continuing to worry myself over the potentially changing Dhuradhan. To my relief, it wasn't my Light self letting out frustration at last, as he was possibly trying to cope with the negative emotions appearing inside him, but something else. Now, the noises were coming from the previous, large room, since they moved down from upstairs, down the stairs and arrived on the ground floor, reducing distance between the door.

The noises themselves reminded me of several little legs, rapidly carrying something on them. Like listening to the movement of hundreds of insects behind the wall. Maybe several ponies were inside the house? Only for a short moment, was I able to get into absolute focusing mode and realizing that three children were creating the ruckus...

Before I could find out about their intentions and reasons...

... the door was blasted open, revealing the same little kids from a few days before...

''CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS MONSTER HUNTERS!''

In a perfect sync, all three of them declared the first puzzling, then tediously offensive title, at the top of their tiny lungs. Granted, Miss Rarity let out a yell in fright, letting go of each and every one of her tools from her magical grasp, snapping her head towards the uncalled intruders.

And me?

I found myself looking through the holes of a net...

Dhanthas was already laughing at the fashionista mare, her close-to-heart attack experience visibly taking a good toll on her. But upon spotting the three innocent looking kids, wearing wide grins on their muzzles, like they just succeeded in the most fun game in all of Equestria and they let loose of a group cheer... my Dark self bursted into painful laughter, which easily beat the one he had in the afternoon.

''Yay, we did it!'' Their cheering completely made them ignore the deadpan stare of mine.

Then they looked at their sides...

''Awww...''

... which extended Dhanthas' laughing time...

''Pffff, whaa-hatta-fák was thahahaat?! Holy shihehheeet!''

Agonizingly slowly, I rotated my head towards the now aghast Generosity, while with the same snail-speed, I easily took off the net from myself. Believe me, I contemplated on pretending on actually taking the joke, just so I could reassure the now fearfully presented mare, whom expectations were now filled with a lost costumer and an incredibly furious monster of the town. It was plastered onto her face, pretty much. She watching me intently, her posture rigid in a state of running and she was unable to say anything, in fear I might get ignited by rage. Trust me, the first idea of mine was reassuring her...

But not this time. I chose to acquaint all of them up, instead of choosing to surrender against them and showing that much submission. It would have only lead me into further 'abuse' , because I didn't put an end to their freedom. Being tolerant was one thing, but giving up was not the same! I was able to imagine myself in the near future, where these ponies pushed me around on their own will, all because they thought they were allowed to do so and the monster of the town does not mind it... Just. No...

Instead, I tried my best to let her know my intentions. Staring intently at the mare, further accelerating the building tension's speed, I took my time to glance over to the now conversing children and back to the Element Bearer. Her heart was most definitely up in her throat by that time and ignoring this, I watched the inability of hers on deciding upon the best course of action. Her thoughts were racing with every kind of disastrous pictures about me, committing something terrible and still, I was simply reading it down from her features. Not exactly what I was planning on doing, so releasing her from the grip of my dangerously looking expression, I made my move...

The conversation halted and a gasp cut short the beginning of a loud 'No!', which could be heard from Miss Rarity, who wrongly predicted my upcoming actions, for I merely threw the net before the three. Possibly, she thought I was going to hurt the young trio, which would have been right in a way, if not for those three's young age and the actually low damage done by them. Scolding was in need in this moment, directly from the 'victim' , in order to carve the lesson into their little skulls, without their relatives sugar-coating it.

Besides... physically hurting a child was NOT amongst my actions... anymore...

It took me great amount of will power to bring myself to a calm state and voice, before beginning my speech. To be honest, at first, I oh-so wanted just... destroy them via a harsh and ground-shaking monologue. To have them regret everything they've done and make them- no... FORCE them to think twice or trice, before making a decision. To show, in Dhanthas' words: Who's the boss. Such careless and cheek move from children, as usually, irritated me to no end. I know I turned into an adult at an early age, but this behavior could have been easily incinerated by the parents in a MUCH earlier age, without the need of supernatural events!

However, as I had mentioned, no matter how much it took me to ease myself from being a cruel critic, I succeeded in the end. And instead of partially giving them a good scare, I went with the educational route. I wanted to have them thinking about my words, not to have them haunted by them. Pondering on something was way more productive, then those mindless 'beating the kid to behave' methods. Those are for creating puppets out of the youth and control them in their adult lives, just so the politicians get more votes. But I'm getting off topic, the point is, I decided upon a quick lesson, for the sake of sharing knowledge and gaining a better reputation.

Since my actions were beneficial to earning the trust of the citizens, it was the best course of actions I could come up with...

Regarding them with merely an earnest gaze, no sign of the once irritation from before, I spoke up...

''Young ones, why do you see me as a monster? Does my presence carries the scent of a threat? I am just like you, a sentient being, who seeks no trouble. A different kind of creature with the same interiors and traits like yours, but with - for you ponies, only - an unnatural look. I can think, speak, dream, improve, grow and feel, wielding the abilities, knowledge and traits of a sentient being. My appearance is merely new for you Equestrians and the same could be said from my end about you, ponies. Do you understand?'' With a bit of struggling, I managed to stop myself there, before I swing back to a harsher mood.

Also... I said I can feel... let's just not define it further and see if I actually meant that in THAT particular way...

While from the corners of my eyes, Miss Rarity sighed in relief and half-visibly rearranged her posture to one of a casual one; the young ones shared looks, looked back at me, turned towards Rarity for help and repeated the process in bewilderment. I predicted right, they blindly jumped into conclusion, being no different from the pre-judgmental equines. This time, however, blaming this three would have been a mistake, for they were merely following the elders' words... thus, the blame flew right towards their relatives, for letting them giving into those false rumors.

The one with the red mane spoke up, at last, seemingly finding a proper response for their sake. ''Well... 'cause tha town folks sayed so.''

''Eeeeeeh, the children's truth. It hurts... hehhehhee...'' I couldn't have expressed it better myself. That would have got me right in the heart, if not for the truth behind her sentence. Still... this is how lies can be revealed. However, using the youth for interrogations, could be considered as a terrible action, which was against my morals.

And what was against my morals, it was a sin for me... something, which I punished rightfully...

Miss Rarity's little sister found the will to speak up next. ''And we thought we could get out cutie marks if we give it a try, Mister.'' Maybe it was the presence of her big sister, or she truly meant the regretful way she spoke. Also... cutie marks? So her silence back at the entrance door, was merely for a temporary chain of thoughts, filled with this plan? For some sort of mark? It was certainly too risky to actually pull such a move, however, it showed that they pretty much relied on the town's opinion in a way in this case, not really believing in the rumors, but not possessing their own opinion about me...

''You can't really blame us for this!'' Suddenly sounded out from the pegasus filly. ''It was really important to us and it's not like we caused that much trouble. It was just a mistake, no big deal...'' She nonchalantly told me, rivaling the style of a certain rainbow.

In that case, the blame was only theirs. From what I've gathered from this three's story, they knew I wasn't really the creature they hoped for. Yet, foreseeing this came rather quickly from their part, thus, it was their stupidity and ignorance. And it had NOTHING to do with the saying: 'Foolish youth.'

They weren't even sure in their actions, yet they did it anyways... typical child and teenage logic...

''Correction: I CAN blame all of you for this, for you three blindly came to the wrong conclusion. I disagree with your reasons, because instead of letting yourselves to be fooled by the rumors in town, you could have made up your own opinions about me. Such ignorance won't be an advantage in your future lives, I can tell you that much...'' In here, I abruptly halted, turning to another path in this speech.

Again, reminding myself whom I was talking to and whose relatives they were - and the fact that one relative was present at that moment - , I stepped close to them, reducing the distance and the intimidating look of my movement and posture. Sighing, I crouched down before them, approaching the event with a recollected mind, with no fuel remaining at all. Using the same pedagogical method, I didn't just lower myself to their level, but my voice as well, before resuming talking. I would say... some positivity, in the name of educating, if you will...

I started out with a white lie. ''Before I begin, allow me to advise you, that I am not mad. Merely taken aback, so do understand my offensive first-approach.'' I sighed again, making sure to swindle them even more. In between this brief pause, I - again - reminded myself about their age and so, I decided to regard them with their level of intelligence. They were the youth, not the grown ups, who were able - or unable, hence the majority of the town - to understand me. And as it was obvious, I needed them to understand me as well... the reason why children weren't my business, in case you were wondering...

''Now tell me, do you consider me as a monster? Even after all of this? I've proven myself to be like you, not such beast, who should be treated as such. Believe me, if I would be one, then Miss Rarity here wouldn't be talking to me at all. Even so, I wouldn't be in town at all, because a beast would not feel at home in this place...''

''If you think I'm only metaphorically a monster, who is sentient, but a terrible person - in your case, terrible pony - , then there won't be any pony in this town, who would tolerate my staying. The citizens of Ponyville heard rumors, and have seen a misunderstanding of mine. Aside from those, my time in here has been spent in peace, not looking for trouble. Sadly, most of the town either doesn't know me enough or simply ignorant... and this is something you not want to be, I tell you...''

''Now that I've explained this to you three and informed you about certain things, I ask you again... do you consider me as a monster? Tell me the truth, please, for you have nothing to fear from. Everyone... everypony have their own opinions and you three have the rights to voice them out, just like... everypony else. And take everything I've said and done into consideration, before making your OWN opinions and not repeating... somepony else's.'' Struggling a little with the Equestrian language, I stood up and took a few steps back, allowing some space for them and showing patience.

Three little heads were tilted to three different angles, as the monster hunters were making up their minds. While I positively noted how they were actually considering my monologue, proving themselves to be more than those ignorant teenagers on Earth, it also prove to be a hard task for the trio. My speech could be acknowledged by the elders, not by the youth, for I was no expert with children for once and twice, the processing ability of the older ages were more developed.

Before I get into biological concepts, explaining how the brain hemispheres weren't fully connected until adulthood, allow me to repeat myself again. I preferred adults. And one of the reasons behind it was because of the successful preaches I've declared and shared in my life. The youth usually remained uneducated by my words in each speech and thus, my inability to teach the youth with the same potential like with the adulthood, forever stuck onto me.

I was no pedagogue or parent, who understood children. My childhood and teenage years were recently left behind, yet I cannot speak from experience, in order to provide just a little knowledge, some advice or wisdom for guidance.

I am not a good example for none of these subjects...

I would have let the little ones ponder more, if not for Miss Rarity. Apparently, she decided upon tacking in and helping the children to make up their minds easier, not being the one to stand there idly like I did. This also proved that she had FAR better abilities at dealing with the young ones, having those instincts to properly help the youth out, softly...

''To tell you my opinion, girls, I think Outsider is certainly not a brute, like the ponies say.'' She started out, at first, clearly targeting her words at the three little ponies.

While Generosity generously voiced out the many things she's come to find out about me, Dhanthas decided to correct her after each attribute or sentence...

''Just destroyed nearly the half of the city under one night. And no fucks were given that day...''

''Ponyville has a new citizen now and the ponies only overreact by the changes. He is no threat at all, I say.'' She sounded demanding, doing a fantastic job and getting her point through.

''He's willing to kill all of you and wields the power to destroy your little lives.''

''There was indeed a little conflict on the day of his arrival, however, it was a misunderstanding. And it is still happening with the poor thing...'' Dramatically - and for me, comically - , her voice dropped, creating an effective, morning voice. A bit too much for my taste, but knowing these ponies and how much they express their emotions, it did its charm...

''He only wanted to see your pretty faces, before ripping them off from your muzzles! And he's dirty rich with Powers, lady! Poor thing is my ass!''

''I think he is a gentlecolt, from the way he behaves. I believe he would be a helpful and trustworthy citizen, if the other ponies would just realize how peaceful he is, actually.'' Voice drastically sounding genuine, she turned to face me, instead. So she too realized how this course of action could turn out to be 'cheating', I see...

''He just likes your goods, woman. He gives no shit about your opinion and how you treat him. He'll come for you the other day...''

''That is the reason why Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie, Fluttershy, Rainbow and I, have decided to wash his name. As of this moment, there are more ponies than before, who are on his side. And I believe he will be fine by everypony under a couple of days.'' And there, she outright ignored the now interested children and instead, reported the status of the town to me.

''LIES!''

''Oh, but I am getting off topic. What I was trying to say, is that I trust in him, in case you were curious about my opinion.'' Turning her gaze over to the three, she was thoughtful enough to summarize it for them, being aware about how short-timed the youth's attention can be.

''And HE will thrust something in YOU, in case you were wondering!'' Oh my fucking goddess...

''But this shouldn't change your minds, at all. I merely told you girls some more info about him.'' She sweetly finished, resuming to waiting out their turn to speak.

''Yeah, like we wanted you to ruin their already made up opinions. Way to control the kids to your desire's, ma'am... I would still thrust you.''

''You mean to tell me...?'' Dhuradhan suddenly spoke up, letting me know about his arrival, at last. For how long has he been listening, I had no clue...

''In that and that way, yes. Depends on how it would feel, if I were to touch her...''

Even with the uncalled corrections from Dhanthas - which most of them were sadly true, or hyperbolic - , somehow I remained at ease in mind, instead of becoming aggravated. Just like before, it took me great amount of will to keep their age in my head, of course; constantly reminding myself about how impressionable they actually were. Other than that, I was certain that I was over with my slight outrage. No harm was done and they truly mused about the words they've heard. This was a triumph so far...

However, the thing I wasn't sure about, was if they were better than Earth youth and if Generosity's dramatic monologue affected them at all. If it did, then as a result, we just swindled these three, committing that certain sin, which I was working on not committing in any ways possible. I'd have liked to hear their opinions, made up by them and not building it into their brains, like that chip in my nape...

Maybe Miss Rarity, interfering was not the wisest step and I should have silenced right there and then... her part felt unnecessary and after she had finished, the momentary silence appeared to be empty, yet it carried a certain tension. Even if those three were no use of me, I still felt the need to educate them, by revealing a 'secret' lesson. It was the only reason, why I found myself intrigued to hear them out...

Quite on the contrary, the fashionista's speech smoothed out the path for their train of thoughts, instead of blocking it completely. Well, my anticipation was wrong and her action played a constructive role, actually. My worrying was might coming from Dhanthas' comments, I trust. Many times I've forgotten how others weren't able to hear him and Dhuradhan inside me, thus confounding me a little. And just like that, as it was an Illusion, I made myself believe that every other soul present in the room, heard each and every word he has said and that is why I believed that this was the source of their troubled expressions...

But I was wrong, for they were visibly having a much easier time at working out their replies in their heads. And before I knew it, they were singing like birds, victoriously informing us about their opinions.

Possibly due to the presence of her sister and having raised by a well mannered family, Miss Rarity's sister took up the first turn to speak. ''Well, I don't think he's a monster, if we put it like this.'' She started, more like talking to no one in general. ''A nicer minotaur. Better than Iron Will, in my opinion.'' She finished with a smile and I took it as a positivity.

Although, it was the second occasion, when one of these ponies mentioned the creature, Minotaur. I was most definitely missing something...

Gaining courage from her friend, the Apple child was the next one. ''To be honest, Ah don't really know what he is, but Ah'd say he's alright, I guess...'' Unsure, yet slightly positive. I took it as a heritable trait amongst the Apple family, that the third aspect was in their blood. She was most definitely developing it, so this explained why she wasn't like her sister and with that other two little ones, desperately trying to achieve something, it played as an effective influence, to not let her make up her mind.

As the saying goes: ''One fool makes hundred more...''

And lastly, the little pegasus remained. Not one to lag behind, she didn't even give me time to explain to them what I was as a creature, she nonchalantly cut short this exchange. ''I still think he's a monster, but an okay one. At least he's fine by me, whatever he is.'' She highly reminded me about a new friend of mine...

I decided to not argue and take what I've received. They accepted me and I cared less about anything else, for it was the most important for me to get accepted...

Before I could close this case and call it a success, Miss Rarity revealed to me her secondary - or primary - intentions about her previous speech. ''In this case, I would very much appreciate and - I believe Mr. Outsider would too - , if you three were helpful enough to spread the words amongst your classmates. You don't mind if he's staying in Ponyville, right?''

''Of course not!'' Cried out happily her sister.

''Yeah-ha~!'' The Apple child let out, comically, making the perfect impression of a stereotypical western girl.

''Why wouldn't I? It's not like he's a bad guy.'' And shrugged the small pegasus, yet carrying a positive attitude about this matter.

Again, I was met with these Equestrian's open emotions. The way they expressed themselves was so unreal for my taste, however... only in Equestria, yes, the same running joke from before. Not like I mind it at all, but the high differences between this joyful world and mine, just forced me to note it every time... more like in every second...

''So you three are alright with this task? Can we count on you?'' Generosity pressed on, sounding like a coach, while she was pumping up the team and filling them with motivations. I had to admit, it worked without a hiccup, as the three took this mission seriously, yet they cheered in enthusiasm. ''Splendid! Now, if you all excuse us, we need some privacy, if you will. Off you trot, girls and don't forget what we've said!'' She ushered them out of the door, calling after them, before they could reply.

''Yes, sis!''

''Ya can coun' on us, Miss Rarity!''

''Yeah!''

And the three was swiftly out of the door, their little legs carrying them all the way up the stairs and through a door, which got slammed shut under a second's delay.

''Using the children against the idiot adults? What a cheap move, but effective. In the end, those midgets will follow you around, if they go overboard with this helping out and shit.''

''Doubt it and agreed...''

Miss Rarity let out a sigh of relief, before regarding me with a sheepish smile and a nervous giggle. Blaming her was impossible, after all, she just nearly lost a costumer by this previous event. However, I was in no need of her apology...

I cut her in, before she could speak up. ''Drop this topic and forget the past. Something we all should do as of right now.'' It was for the best and hardly containing myself from telling her my opinion - since we got into it so much - about asking those three for help, I moved to one side of the room and next to the window, where I was out of line of sight for the outsiders, before beginning to dress down. I decided to leave the trouser on for now, sensing as I was suddenly in need of the nicotine...

''O-of course, darling.'' She agreed quickly, getting to work on the already presented pieces of clothes. I heard her picking up the measure tape and the clothes, focusing on four objects at once with that single horn of hers. Meanwhile, I sensed her Energy at five different places, as I was taking down my body armor, with the throwing knives holsters attached to it.

Her magic... it carried no power at all. Brute strength was nonexistent, only gentle touch in her Energy flow. She was less than experienced with combat, that is how foreign it appeared to me. It wouldn't have been such an oddity for my part, if not for her profession. Still... I dared to state, that she has never experienced magical combat...

However, she caught on the events and turned to watch me dressing down, while sporting a troubled expression...

''You let them decide if you were a terrible creature or not... is there a reason behind it?''

The cat was out of the bag... I decided upon a drastic action...

I dropped the armor, my holsters and each cloth for my upper-body to the ground, spilling out a few of my throwing knives and the blades from my belt. A second passed, before the glimmer of the metal caught her starry eyes, promoting her to shift her features to an aghast expression and hiding her teeth behind a hoof, in a taken-aback manner and posture...

Her magical grip left the objects to fall back onto the table...

''It is up to you, to find it out...''

My voice drawn her attention at me and the sight before her widened her eyes, even more. She had the privilege to behold the sight of a half-naked A'nforian. And the ordinary features of each A'nforian like me, are the wounds, adoring our body and leaving less and less intact area...

''I'll be outside, smoking.'' I walked past her, tossing the picked up T-shirt and unique long-sleeved shirt at the workbench. ''Those are secondary importances. I need the other two, first. Take your time, Miss Rarity and I shall wait outside.''

She either trusted me still enough to not flee in fear, at this sudden realization of hers, or I struck her this badly, that she froze in place, pretty much mimicking the other citizens reaction, when I was in sight. Whichever caused her to stand her ground, I was glad for it...

Stopping in the doorway, I glanced back to her over my shoulder, for one last time. The stupefied expression on her features never faltering, nor her gaze leaving me for the slightest moment.

Sighing, I spoke up...

''For your information, you have nothing to fear from, as long as I am around... and this talk with the children could have been a worse scenario, if not for certain positivities this day, your relationship with the Elements and your very being, Miss Rarity... I shall leave you to your work, while I let out some well-needed gas...''

And with that said, I left her to her own, walking away from the room in silence...

While it did its charm and reassured the lady of the house enough to regain herself, I had a slight suspicion, that the moment I get back to the main room, she will MOST definitely demand answers, while she will bombard me with questions...

The disadvantage of mine, when visiting a tailor...

Maybe this night was about to take a turn from pleasant to troubling?