Coming Home [Twilight]

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Dawn was just breaking by the time the train from Canterlot pulled into Ponyville Station. Granted he was still new to this area, but now that he had a house here and his daughter knew about it. It felt a little more like home.As the doors opened he looked over to his daughter to check on her. He wondered how well she slept after the Nightmare of the Red Crystals. He was a visitor in her dream and walked in with a knowledge that it was all figments, but it still kept him from fully resting. He could already smell the apple pollen in the air, and bakeries fired up. Just via olfactories, Ponyville was alot different from Canterlot. Getting one more cup of coffee from the roaming cart, he smiled to the stewardess and stepped onto the platform. Thier bags were being unloaded and immediatly caught in the stallions magical aura. This was going to be a new Ponyville for him. Cause now he had to meet his daughter's friends. And he didn't need to sneak around town to avoid her finding out. Part of him wished he didn't reveal it in the dream, but that was mainly because of how pushed ot the side it was. But then again, Twilight was used to more pressing matters.

Really sorry it took this long.

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After the nightmare of sorts and her father stoking in to help her 'snap out of it' as it were when she faced her fear, the purple unicorn couldn't really sleep for a while after that, considering she had plenty of 'sleep' already. Sure she tried sleeping on the train, but her mind wandered, wanting to know what caused these red crystals to show up, and what caused certain ponies to fall asleep in the first place. Nothing was known about them in any of the books she read, so for a good portion of the trip, Twilight was being her usual self: documenting what she could remember about the event, and what others have told her to compile into a information booklet in case something like this should come up again.

The smells of food from the train station didn't catch her attention, although her stomach growled from the nasal stimulus. Still, her dad was in a bit of a hurry to get off of the train, no doubt to finish getting his house in order. Still, why did he want to move to Ponyville? It couldn't be just for her benefit, right? Twilight was a grown pony; she was more than capable of handling things herself...and if not, she had her friends and the Elements of Harmony to ward off any threat that came their way. Closing the notebook she had been writing in and stowing the supplies in her bag, Twilight caught up to her father and grabbed the rest of her bags...which only consisted of one, and it held more books.

She was back to her usual self, for the most part...at least on the surface.

"So...what made you and Mom get a house here in Ponyville?". She finally asked.

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Seeing Twilight at least looking like her old self made him smile. And then there came the immediate hard hitting question. Why they moved to Ponyville. He stood next to her and sipped his coffee. "Well Twilight, a fiunny thing happens to adults after, for 25 years they have had others living with them and then suddenly they find themselves at home alone and barely talking to each other for lack of new events. I hear some of the house wives call it Empty Nest Syndrome." Looking over at a nest with a bird keeping the eggs warm, he pointed his horn to kind of direct her attention. "You two were our excitment and what we basically revolved our lives around for so long. Then your Brother moves to the Crystal Empire and you move to Ponyville." Sure there was stages to this but the first two his daughter didn't need to hear about from the old stallion.