First Daybreak [Audio]

[raging_she_demon]

[Playing safe and going with audio, no way was she showing her face right now. Not after turning her back on everypony long ago.]

Umm... hi. Sorry to bother anyone, but... I just got here. I'm not exactly new to Equestria, but it's been quite a while since I've been here. Plus it looks like Equestria, but I know a thing or two about alternate worlds. So... I guess I just want to ask what exactly this Equestria is the one I think that it is and why I may have been brought here.

I'd appreciate an answer... though you don't have to give me one, I guess. I'll figure it out somehow. But if anyone... I mean anypony could help me, then I'd... I'd really appreciate it. So... thank you. That's all.

[Well she tried. She was still learning to ask out for others instead of relying on herself or manipulation, so give her some time.]

Comments

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[raging_she_demon]

Yeah... umm, thanks.

[Even if Equestria wasn't really her home anymore.]

So... who are you?

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[like_a_dragon]

[Just consider it the wellwishes of a homesick dummy.]

Oh, right! Sheesh, you should have stopped me sooner!

I'm Chie. What's your name?

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[raging_she_demon]

Umm... it's Sunset. Sunset Shimmer.

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[like_a_dragon]

[A little bashful, isn't she?]

Ehehe...

Yeah, that definitely sounds like an Equestrian name.

But I can see it. The mane, right?

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[raging_she_demon]

Yeah, the mane is part of it. Plus my Cutie Mark is a sun, so... I guess it was just very well picked.

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[like_a_dragon]

Really? Cool! Can I see it?

...that's not weird, right?

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[raging_she_demon]

No, it's fine. I don't mind.

[She maneuvered herself a bit so that her flank was showing. Sure enough an eight-pointed sun colored red, orange, and yellow was there.]

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[like_a_dragon]

Wow, that's totally cool!

You know, the circle in the middle sort of looks like another symbol from back home, too.

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[raging_she_demon]

Yeah? What kind of symbol is that?

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[like_a_dragon]

Hold on!

[She repositions the scroll to the dirt. Then she draws a circle in the dirt, draws a curved line between it, and finishes it off with two dots.]

There! See?

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[raging_she_demon]

A yin-yang symbol?

[She took a glance at her cutie mark]

Huh... I guess that they do look kind of similar.

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[like_a_dragon]

Yuh-huh! Of course yours is a little more fancy, because of the sun... and...

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[like_a_dragon]

[BLINK.]

...wait, you know what the yin-yang symbol is?

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[raging_she_demon]

Yes. While I'm originally from Equestria, for the past year or so I've been living in a human version of it. So I'm familiar with more Earth-like things than other ponies might.

...which isn't to say that other ponies don't know! It's just that I've been there and studied about this for a while. I'm probably not even close to being an expert on the topic.

[She laughed sheepishly. Trying to be humble was awkward.]

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[like_a_dragon]

Huh.

[And Chie just stood there, taking it all in. Then again, she also knew other ponies that also said that they went to different human worlds, so this wasn't that unusual.]

You know... [her usually energetic tone became a little meek and sheepish.] ...I used to be jealous of the ponies that went to human worlds, but now that I think about it, maybe they were also just as weirded out about human worlds than I was about this one. [A certain rainbow-maned pony came to mind.]

You... the human world didn't give you a hard time, did it?

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[raging_she_demon]

Not really, no. It took some adjusting, but... I guess that you can say that I adapted pretty quickly.

[If anything, she made everyone else have a hard time when she arrived,]

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[like_a_dragon]

Oh, good, I'm glad to hear that.

We're good and all, but sometimes... well, we're not always at our best.

[Weak laugh.]

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[raging_she_demon]

[She bit her lip a little.]

Believe me... I know that all too well.

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[like_a_dragon]

[She's noticing that, but doesn't know enough to know what it means. Maybe with time. Maybe.]

Hey, sorry about that. I'm being a downer and this is your happy day! I'm sure you've got lots of friends that are looking forward to meeting with you.

So, I hope you have a good one and that you're able to find them! With the way the Pale Pony has been messing around with people... well...

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[like_a_dragon]

[Ugh, no, you're being a downer, Chie.] ...you should enjoy being with friends while you can!

[BIG SMILE.]

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[raging_she_demon]

[Great goin' Chie. Sunset's ears droop down as she looks away formt he scroll.]

I... have one friend here. That's it.

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[like_a_dragon]

Wha--

--whoa--

--really?

But everybody here seems so nice!

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[raging_she_demon]

Well my friend is from the human world that I've been staying. And... lets just say that I used to not be so great at accepting friendship...

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[like_a_dragon]

...huh...

[She's... starting to get a little better picture. And the awkward standoffishness is beginning to come into focus.]

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[raging_she_demon]

But... but I'm trying to change. I've learned that how I was was wrong... but I understand if you'd think otherwise. Plenty of other people do...