Myrrh pulled out her nurv - a gray object with numerous red crystals on the outside. As she tapped them, they let out a clear musical tone. She smiled to herself as she continued to walk ahead of the Prowler - this instrument was the only thing she still had of her home. It made a sound nothing like the instruments she had seen in her travels. All the strings, drums, whistles, magic bells, and that one organic flesh-belcher could not ring a clear, nor produce such interesting tones. Sounds that gave her life, even if it did have a few negative connotations.

"Wow!" Pinkie said, looking down from the top of the Prowler. "That sounds really cool! Like a synthpad! Oh, oh, or a theremin, except more complicated!"

Myrrh looked up at her. "You've... heard something like this before?"

"Yeah!" Pinkie said, smile unfaltering. "There are all sorts of weird digital music that has sounds like that! Though, I don't think any of them were played on crystals. Keep playing, it'll make for good construction music."

"Construction?"

"Play and watch to see."

Myrrh did - she played, and was amazed. With a handful of metal chunks Pinkie had found inside the Prowler, she had crafted a tripod. She had found a metal tube and affixed it to the tripod, giggling. She got lenses from somewhere (Myrrh certainly had no idea, she didn't remember having any inside the Prowler) and stuck them in the tube. "Tah-dah, we've got ourselves a telescope! Come, take a look!"

"The carriage is too bumpy," Crypt said. "We must stop if we are to look through the telescope."

"You might be surpriiiiiised!" Pinkie said with a wink.

"Doubtful."

"Just try it!"

Crypt refused - so Myrrh jumped in for him. She put the lens to her eye and was very surprised - she got a clear look at the red texture Ravanah, half lit, half dark, as nearly always. He could actually see the texture of the cosmic body's features, right down to the central point.

"Wow... I'd seen models of Ravanah, but I didn't think... always thought they were a little crazy!" She turned to Pinkie. "Can I see Lurse?"

Antimony laughed. "Ain't no spyglass that can look at it right now! It's too close to the sun!"

"You're only half right," Pinkie said, pulling a pair of sunglasses out of her mane. Myrrh wondered where she'd gotten them - but since no one else was asking questions, she decided not to say anything. Pinkie strapped the special sunglasses to the front of the telescope and pointed it at the sun - which looked a bit like a cookie with a round bite taken out of it. "We can't see Lurse, but we can see it eat the sun!"

"Please, that's ridiculous," Antimony chuckled. "Nothing can be eaten every month and come out unharmed."

Pinkie rolled her eyes. "Fine, Lurse is just moving in front of the sun and they are the perfect distance apart to appear the same size in the sky. Happy?"

"You know much of astronomy," Crypt said.

"Astrowhatnow?" Antimony asked.

"Uh, I think it's the people who study the sky," Myrrh offered. "I ran into a... few of them in my travels. They were usually crazy. N-not that you're crazy!"

"But I am crazy," Pinkie deadpanned.

"Oh. Good thing I like crazy."

"Myrrh, if we keep traveling together, one of these days I'm going to have a talk with you about relationships."

Inwardly, Myrrh started screaming. Outwardly, she just laughed nervously. "Ah... o-of course."

Pinkie nodded, handing the telescope's eyepiece to Crypt. He clearly had no idea how she was keeping the sights stable, but he didn't comment on it.

Antimony pulled the eyepiece to him next. "This really is somethin'! I bet the rustlers could make a fortune off of this thing... Everypony would want one."

"It's just a fancy 'spyglass'," Pinkie said.

"But who'd use it to look at the sky?"

"Lots of ponies."

"Huh..." Pinkie moved the telescope so Antimony could see Ravanah. "Wow... This really is somethin'."

"Usually easier at night," Pinkie explained.

"Is there anything else you can show me with this amazing device?"

"I dunno, is there anything else in the sky right now?"

"Salacia," Crypt offered. He walked up to the telescope and twisted it sharply to the left, pointing it at the horizon. "There."

Through the telescope, there was a small blue dot. It seemed rather featureless to everyone.

"...How many moons does this planet HAVE!?" Pinkie asked.

"...Planet? Moons?" Myrrh asked.

"We are standing on a planet," Pinkie explained. "The things going 'around' us are the moons."

"Then we have five moons," Antimony said with a smirk. "Lurse, Ravanah, the Sun, Endesque, and Salacia. ...And the stars."

"Stars don't count," Pinkie said. "Sun doesn't either."

"What strange world did you come from?" Crypt asked.

Myrrh was pretty sure he was joking - but the smile Pinkie gave him in response filled her with unease. That was the smile of someone who had found what was just said very amusing.

Myrrh shivered - Pinkie was so friendly and likable and beautiful and... and creepy. She almost didn't seem like a person, at times. Myrrh would have thought she was just odd because she was a non-dragon, but the other ponies were nothing like her...

Forget Crypt and his bizarre past, what was Pinkie?

"I... U-uh..."

"You can just ask, Myrrh," Pinkie said without looking at her. "I don't really have too many secrets, y'know."

"What are you?" She covered her mouth. "I'm s-sorry, that's not something I should ask, I sh-"

"Shhhh..." Pinkie said, smirking. "It's okay." She jumped on top of the telescope and smiled. "I am Captain Pinkie Pie. I lead an exploration team with my four closest friends in all of existence to find new friends in the vastness that is reality. I have been to an innumerable number of alien places, thrown a truly unfathomable number of parties, and have encountered evils greater than you could imagine. I have seen the face of chaos itself and I have also seen a pony so pure she could not be challenged. I have been tested by the Watchmaker of Zhui, fought in the battle of Farpoint, and... well, I can see so much more than the rest of you." She smiled innocently. "And yet here I am, still smiling, still looking forward. Basically, I'm not a normal earth pony. I come from another w-"

There was a loud thunderclap that stopped her short. All four of them turned to look back the way they'd come from - back at the silhouette of Ser'ta'ta. Behind the town were the mountains - and the storm clouds that had been brewing overtop the mountains had spilled over the edge, crawling toward the pony settlement.

"...Why...?" Pinkie asked, haunted.

"The Sky King!" Antimony shouted in panic. "Ser'ta'ta is in danger!" He leaped off the Prowler. "We must go back! Now!"

"Myrrh, how fast can the Prowler go?"

"...A lot faster than this," Myrrh said, a knot forming in her stomach.

Pinkie nodded. "Turn us around, get us to Ser'ta'ta as fast as you can."

"O-okay..." Myrrh really didn't want to go back to a place being targeted by evil looking clouds...

But something about Pinkie's tone was impossible to ignore.