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[keepcalmandflutteron]

[The screen comes on and there’s… nobody. Ah wait, no! There’s a butterfly. Bouncing up and down and shining as brightly as a twinkling star.]

Whooooa, this is cool! Hey! Can anybody hear me? Hellooooo is anybody there? Wow! This is sooo much more convenient then yelling at the top of your lungs! Now there is no excuse when somebody says that they don’t hear you!

Alright, so, yes, I should probably focus and not waste time on this thing? Can you even waste time here? Hmm… well, that’s a question that can be answered later, I guess. So, right, my name is… Butterfly. Yeah, yeah, I know. Pretty obvious. Wanna argue about it? Actually, that’s probably not a very good idea. I mean, what are you going to say when you lose to a butterfly? That’s gotta be a new low if I ever heard of one. And I spent most of my early life crawling on my belly! Ha!

So, hey, obviously this isn’t the world that I wanted to be around, and obviously that means that this whole thing is somebody else’s doing, so I want to know some answers. Um. Please? I mean you can’t all be displaced people from different worlds, right? Right.

Oh, and hey, if there’s anybody else that also has room for a butterfly in their home, I’m definitely in the market for one! I don’t need much room, honest! Just a dishful of sugar water and maybe an unused corner of the room! C’mon! You won’t even notice I was there!!

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sorry for brain fail |3;

[keepcalmandflutteron]

Your best friend, you say? Then obviously she was a pretty, generous, and well-meaning dumbat. hehe

But no, I'm not now nor have I ever been any kind of bat-like creature. I'm just Butterfly!

Who are you?

[mithrarin]

I wish you could meet Fidget. You two would get along great.

[His smile hints at just HOW they would get along. But it's mostly at Fidget's expense.]

I'm Dust.

[keepcalmandflutteron]

I'm Butterfly.

And I sort of wish I was talking to Fidget right now.

[mithrarin]

Me too... but for different reasons. Still, I could go away if you want. Though I was going to offer you that place to stay you were wanting.

[keepcalmandflutteron]

Nono! Don't go.

It's... nice. It feels a bit like somebody I left back home.

They're a bit annoying, too.

[mithrarin]

Here we are thinking the same thing, for very different reasons, again.

I have a house I sort of inherited from a friend.

[keepcalmandflutteron]

Yeah?

Is it nice?

[mithrarin]

It's nothing fancy, but I try to keep it in good shape.

[keepcalmandflutteron]

Maybe I should see it!

[mithrarin]

You're welcome to stop by any time.

[Digging up a quill from some tucked-away place in his cloak, Dust bends down to quickly scratch out a little map of Ponyville that points the way to his house.]

Someone's living there with me now, but there's still room.

[keepcalmandflutteron]

Sure! I don't mind!

I mean, you guys aren't doing anything weird together, right?

[mithrarin]

Don't worry, we'll keep the necromancy to the basement at specified times.

[keepcalmandflutteron]

Aw! But I wanna see that!

[mithrarin]

Oh, sure, you can see it...

but it'll be the last thing you ever see.

[keepcalmandflutteron]

I've seen worse!

[mithrarin]

Worse than the descending jaws of a horrible pony zombie?

[This is a red-letter day, because Dust is teasing someone.]

[keepcalmandflutteron]

Yes.

[It's a shame she doesn't know realize it, ahh naivety.]

[mithrarin]

All right, now I'm curious. Let's hear the story.

[keepcalmandflutteron]

Well, there's not much to the story. Except if you ever see a dragon called Lord of the Dead corrupted by a shadow of chaotic energy, you should probably run for your life.

[mithrarin]

Funny, that seems like exactly the sort of thing I'm supposed to fight.

[keepcalmandflutteron]

So... was the person that made you or whatever was a bit of a jerk?

[mithrarin]

He was desperate. His entire people were being killed off... and only because of a coincidence did they even have the chance to -- to create me. To save them.