first chapter: [video]

[studere.livejournal.com]

[ The video feed turns on to a rather nervous-looking girl in her late teens, though that nervousness is momentarily replaced by a grin. After all, she finally figured out how to work this thing properly. Figuring something out is always something worth celebrating, at least for Twilight Sparkle.

Still, her somber expression returns. ] I wanted to thank everypony who helped me out when we all first arrived. I've gotten much better at walking since then! Really. [ Because obviously they won't believe her unless she adds in that "really." ]

But... [ And this is really where she looks worried again... ] has anypony been outside today? There's clouds out there, and I am one-hundred percent certain nopony put them there. They're even moving all on their own...!

But nopony else has even mentioned it! Don't you all find this strange?!

[ Twilight bites her bottom lip for a moment, but presses on. ] It's strange enough that the sun and moon can rise without Princess Celestia or Princess Luna, but... do you suppose the patron gods are doing all of it? Raising the sun, and the moon, and moving the clouds... creating the weather...?

[ And finally, a large sigh. ] Really, this is such a strange place.

Comments

CLEARLY

[studere.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, not everything. [ Actually, it pretty much is everything. ] Buuut we definitely have to do the weather.

Who does the weather where you're from?

[smartwinchester.livejournal.com]

[ ... he was going to launch into an explanation of how weather actually works, but Sam settles for the simple -- ]

The planet.

[studere.livejournal.com]

Oh!

Is your planet intelligent, then?

[ YUP, here's Twilight Sparkle, gettin' things wrong since 2011. ]

[smartwinchester.livejournal.com]

The planet isn't sentient. The weather is just a natural cycle of what the planet does in order to keep things alive. It's nature, not a conscious decision by someone in charge.

[studere.livejournal.com]

So there's nopony controlling it. The weather's just wild?

[smartwinchester.livejournal.com]

No, it's --

[oh god how do you explain weather to a pony]

-- take clouds. Right? In the sky? Clouds are just giant condensed masses of water. They're not created by anything or anyone -- it's just what happens when the air has a lot of moisture in it and the pressure is right.

[studere.livejournal.com]

So there's no cloud factories, or anything like that?

[smartwinchester.livejournal.com]

No, just big fluffy ball of water.

[studere.livejournal.com]

Oh, clouds are the same in Equestria. It just seems the difference is in how they're made.