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Dear Diary,

It is a very, very good time to be in Canterlot. Granted, I probably still should have come back earlier, but in terms of happy accidents, this is about the happiest I’ve run into in a while.

Kelantis is launching from Horseshoe bay soon. After over a year of steady work, the Kelpie capital is finally back on its feet. Er, tentacles. See, Kelantis was originally called the Kraken, back during the first age of Discord, and it was a none too friendly symbol in the eyes of, well, everyone. Once that era ended, Princess Aurora and the Kelpies rebuilt it into their capital, Kelantis, but that was all done in secret, down in the depths. For the longest time us land-locked ponies didn’t even know they were out there. It was only recently when the stars fell that we were reunited with our distant cousins. Kelantis took horrific damage in that battle, and it’s been crippled in Horsehoe Bay ever since.

In a show of racial cooperation, Equestria has been assisting in its repair, and over the past year the coastal locals and the Kelpies of the capital city have been growing and working together. Kelantis has become more than just their roaming aquatic capital, its a symbol for all of us now. Ponies from all over Equestria are coming in to watch the launch of the Palace that helped save the world, and Windswept tells me every ship in the fleet that fired shots in that battle are going to sail escort for it on its way out. Its also the first time the world has seen the Kraken fall as a hero and rise as one too, and every race and creed that participated in the Starfall or the first age of Discord have been arriving in Canterlot to seek some final closure on an eon old wound. griffins, Kirins, Kelpies, Deer, Ponies, dozens of others, all marching off toward the coast.

And a Sphinx.

A Sphinx.

As far as I know, there isn’t a pony in Equestria that has ever laid eyes on a Sphinx up close, save for Princess Celestia. Not one. I know of at least four, through story and rumor, who have sailed or flown south to their lands and never returned. I know of a dozen, myself included, who have spent days camping at Equestria’s southern border in the hopes of catching a glimpse of one, and considered it a triumphant success when we caught even the hint of a vast, winged silhouette against the desert sky. But this. She was walking down the street. RIGHT THERE. Windswept got to walk next to her. So help me, if she rubs that in my face I will take another chunk out of her ear.

They’re enormous. Much bigger than ponies. That, in and of itself, isn’t new to me. I’ve met many large animals in Equestria, I’m rather used to the difference in scale. But this was…different. I think it was the density. She was wearing gold. I don’t mean gold chains or gold jewelry, I mean she was WEARING. GOLD. It looked as thick and solid as gold can look. The color was pure, it had all the scuffs and scratches of a soft metal, it appeared to all the world to be solid pieces. I cant even fathom the value. I’m not a pony who’s easily swayed by money, I don’t have much use for the stuff, but her head dress alone, JUST THAT, could have been molded into a solid statute the size of Windswept. Her clothing could have bought and sold Ponyville six times over. And the WEIGHT. I could hear other ponies around me trying to figure it out. Most decided it had to be enchantments, something to make it lighter. We know next to nothing about how Sphinx magic works, its entirely possible. Had to be, they insisted. It would have weighed over a ton. They’re probably right.

The romantic in me hopes they’re not, though. How impossibly strong must that creature be, to carry that so gracefully? And the way that much metal caught the fading evening light, or the turquoise on her mask…

…My kitsune is staring at me. I have stuck my tongue out at her. She has laughed. Shes right, honestly. It says something about me as a pony that I don’t swoon in front of a fine looking stallion, but a terrifying mask-wearing faceless force of nature that can walk in silence with two tons of metal on her back makes me melt into a heart shaped puddle. I don’t know WHAT it says exactly, but it says something.

Alas, I don’t merit the importance to walk up close to her, and I’d be too embarrassed to anyway. I’m not entirely sure how Snowblind got up their either, come to think of it…And the griffin in front is the same one I sorta…got acquainted with, during my three week stay in a fantasy world while asleep in the Frozen North. It occurs to me that, in light of it all being a trick, he doesn’t actually know me.

Yeeeah…that’s a whole big row of awkward-for-Stormy down there…

((references in today’s post relate to http://www.fimfiction.net/story/4773/synchronicity ))

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Posted previously at: 2016-01-20T20:15:51 | Posted previously by: kleptomage