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[trueempress]

[Sanaki's handwriting is immaculate and elegant. She clearly has had many, many lessons.]

People of Equestria, answer me this.

What have you learned here?

I speak of both the practical knowledge of skills one picks up, the making of objects not found in one's home, as well as the personal changes that affect anyone who lives and breathes for a time.

What do you bring home from you, if you go without chance to bring anything material?

[Signed with a flourish:] Sanaki, Empress of Begnion

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[lovemguns]

[ In turn, Butch's handwriting is as rough as his tongue slips into when he speaks. ]

I definitely learned how to use a hammer while like this. It's a lot of new being in horse form.

Also I've found out about loads of new music, and seen so many odd things that's invented after 1908.

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[trueempress]

Using a hammer while a horse seems an unlikely skill to be useful when you're no longer a horse. Music you can keep.

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[lovemguns]

Haha, yeah, but it'll be useful if I ever lose both my arms, right? Music is great, I love music.

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[trueempress]

It would be more important not to lose both your arms in the first place.

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[lovemguns]

It's just a what if. I don't WANT to lose them, then I can't use my gun.

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[trueempress]

A gun?

[She doesn't know what that is.]

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[lovemguns]

Yeah, I have several, but only ended up with one of them here.

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[trueempress]

Explain what that object is.

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[lovemguns]

It's a firearm weapon that fires bullets.

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[trueempress]

I see. I don't believe that's been invented in my time.

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[lovemguns]

Really? So there's someone from earlier times than me around now? I missed that. How long have you been here?

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[trueempress]

About two months now.

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[lovemguns]

So you showed up sometime right before I returned, then.

How do you like the place this far?

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[trueempress]

It is a far cry from the comforts of home. But I cannot hold that against its people.

[mechmadeoflove]

I learned how to function in a working civilization, for starters.

We tried - Merry would add "bless our little hearts -" but the Resistance back home was an army playing at being civilized.

-Lt Joshua Preston, T.I.R. A.N.I.Ma Corps

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[wizardofharmony]

I have learned all manner of alchemical and magical practices. This world has fascinating and effacacious traditions.

- Lucia Bolido

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[lovemguns]

I guess it would be. It is for me too, but possibly in a different way. Not everyone used to be ponies before they came here, and it's a big adjustment and this place has a lot to take in. The people here are nice, though.

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[trueempress]

That I could find tremendous use for. I will have to renew my efforts in study while here.

[trueempress]

I have been part of an army for a brief period. I would not recommend it to anyone for longer than a few months.

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[trueempress]

I would be more favorably inclined if I brought my palace along.

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[lovemguns]

Wow, you have a palace?

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[trueempress]

Of course. Where else would I rule from?

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[lovemguns]

Ye're a ruler?

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[noxequus]

[Returned is an equally elegant reply:]

What I have gained is newfound knowledge of who I am, and how I am defined by my achievements, not my failures. This knowledge has granted me far greater control of my darker impulses, as well as acknowledgement that those impulses are still part of who I am, even should I deny them.

I admit, I did not expect other royalty to be amongst those who were brought to this Equestria. How do you fare?

-Luna

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[trueempress]

[She can sympathize with that first part...]

I find your Ponyville to be quite the relaxing place. Perhaps I was merely in need of a brief vacation from my duties, but mingling among the people is a pleasure I rarely receive.

[She'd probably be assassinated trying it at home.]