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[want_a_vacation]

*The unicorn stallion on the scrolls isn't anything special. In fact, he looks so generic you'd probably ignore him if you passed him on the street. Even the three sprawling lightning scars over his torso seem unremarkable at first glance.*

Right...seeing as the entire town is different and this isn't the usual cell phone, I'm going to take a wild guess and say this isn't a moon event. On another wild guess, I'm going to assume that I've been kidnapped to another world that isn't mine and doesn't like people that don't fit in with the natives.

So can anypony lend me a hoof and tell me where I am, who I should blame this time and anything relevant to the apparently never-ending quest to get back to where we belong? And anything else that might be important for a newcomer to know, like strange monsters that appear at midnight or headache-inducing changes happening on a monthly schedule, while you're at it.

And just in case anypony that already knows me is here, it's me, Allen Ridgeley. Apparently I'm a unicorn now, because why not.

*He rubs a hoof over his face and then rolls up the scroll.*

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[kind_to_all]

... Have you talked with Twilight or anypony about using your horn for that?

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[want_a_vacation]

My...horn?

*Sorry, he doesn't know unicorns have magic yet.*

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[kind_to_all]

... Well, yes? You're a... unicorn. You might be able to learn to hold things with your magic.

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[want_a_vacation]

I didn't know this form had inherent magic. Then again, I don't know much about unicorns at all. Back in my world, the closest thing we had was a monster that looked like them.

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[kind_to_all]

Well, I don't know very much about it... or about your world. But with time, you might be able to learn how.

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[want_a_vacation]

I probably will. It wouldn't be the first time I've had to learn how to use magic not native to my own world.

...Speaking of which, I wonder... *He closes his eyes and calls out.*

Hadraniel!

*And in a shower of feathers, a tall pegasus appears.*

Ah...this might sound like a strange question, but can you see him?

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[kind_to_all]

Y-yes. [ She stares curiously at the apparition. ] Who is he?...

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[want_a_vacation]

He's me...sort of. He's a fraction of myself called a Persona, but this is the first time I've seen someone who couldn't summon one of their own able to see him. It's also the first time I could summon him so easily during the day.

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[kind_to_all]

Oh, I see. Well, Equestria has its own magic, so it's probably affected yours... I know that, um, not everything is quite compatible.

... what's a Persona?