"I don't know!" Jenny says. "I thought maybe my friend Soph did it, buuut you are definitely not Soph!"

"Your friend Soph puts bars in hallways?"

"Wellll no. But she is the only witch I know! And I don't know why someone I don't know would do magic at me."

"...Okay, I admit this looks pretty magic, but you know of other magic, also?"

"A little? Soph hasn't really shown me much. She turned a seashell into a cool magic knife for her sister? Ooooh! And magic glitter! There was lots of magic glitter."

"That's a silly thing to do with magic."

"The glitter or the knife? The glitter was silly, yes, but that was sorta the point! Her sister really likes the knife though, it's easy to hide and it works on vampires." She grimaces. "And yeeeeah, vampires are apparently a thing, that was part of Soph's welcome to magic speech dealie."

"I meant the glitter. Vampires? Like, bloodsucking creatures of the night?"

"As far as I know! I have never met one and I am really okay with that. I will happily leave them to Bella and her knife."

"Yeah, makes sense, I don't know anything about vampires but I wouldn't like to meet one. My sister's named Bella but she probably wouldn't like to meet one either."

"I feel like most people probably agree that we should avoid the evil bloodsucking demons!"

"Then most people are pretty sensible. Why a knife? Aren't you supposed to use silver bullets? Is that werewolves?"

"I don't think silver is a thing?" Jenny says doubtfully. "Holy water is! I found Soph getting some one day, that's why she told me. Crosses, stakes, sunlight, that sorta stuff all works. The knife's to cut off their heads, I think? That's a thing too."

"And you didn't know about it before because the vampires are... hidey?"

"Pretty much!" She agrees, then looks around. "Okay but really, vampires aside for a sec- what is this place? It doesn't look vampire-y. Is that a word? Whatever, I proclaim it a word."

"Vampiric," says Lexi absently, looking around. "I do not see any Draculas wandering around. Yeah no idea. Bella's asleep or I'd get her. Maybe I should wake her up. Except when I came in I was leaving the bathroom and she was not in it."

Jenny giggles. "I was leaving the bathroom too! Weird bar likes bathrooms, I guess." She trots over to the bar. "Maybe there's a bartender we could ask? Hellooooo, anyone here?"

Jenny eeps rather loudly. Once she's recovered, she inspects the napkin. "Er, hi...?" she says questioningly. "Where did you come from, little napkin?"

Jenny joins in the squinting. "The napkins are cute!" she tells thin air. "So, er, do you know where our hallways went?"

"Huh? Various worlds?" Jenny peers at Lexi now. "Is- hey, fellow bathroom person, what's your name? Are you not from Earth? You totally look like you're from Earth!"

"My name is Lexi and I'm from Earth!" Pause. "Hiiiii Lexi, the first step is to admit that you have a problem?"

Jenny laughs. "Hi! My name is Jenny and I am also from Earth!"

Jenny is not nerdy enough to make a joke about Earth 2. Instead, she glances back at the original napkin before settling herself onto a bar stool. The stuffed unicorn may have its own place on the stool next to hers. (Fancy was hers before he was Anne's, she is allowed to be possessive.) "So, how do beverages work? I don't carry money in my pajamas or anything... And I can't, like, pay you in magic or anything. I am boringly magic-free."

Jenny receives a bright pink smoothie with a ribbon of white yogurt in it. There is a straw.

"I am very pleased with the results of my not at all specific order! Thank you, nice bar."

"Oooh, what'd you get?"

"It's chocolatey. And hot. It's not exactly hot chocolate, I think? There might be other stuff in it. Hot... chocolate... eggnog? You can get another straw and taste it, fair's fair."

"I mean, I don't know what eggnog tastes like or anything, but- sure! Thanks." She retrieves a straw from bar and takes a sip. "Awesome. Chocolate!"

"Chocolate's the best thing."

"I know, right? So good."

"Chocolate and stuffed unicorns and magic hallway bars."

The door is engulfed in a golden glow and in trots a small quadrupedal mammal.

"It's a magic bar and you are the cutest tiny unicorn! Hi tiny unicorn!"

"...Hi? Why am I in a magic bar? I did not see this coming," says the tiny unicorn, shifting her weight from hoof to hoof.

"Don't be sad tiny unicorn," urges Lexi, "it's okay, the bar says that when you go out it'll be just where you left."

Awwwww sad unicorn face! Jenny's heart is melting. "We don't know why we're here either?" she offers. "It's just a friendly magic bar with tasty drinks, I think!"

"But I didn't see it!" says the unicorn. She peers around anxiously, then her horn glows gold and she shuts her eyes.

Er. Is she blind? Is there a polite way to ask? What's polite for a unicorn? (unicorn unicorn unicorn!) "But... don't you see it now...?"

The unicorn opens her eyes again; her horn dims. "I mean I didn't see it in advance with my spell. And it doesn't work here at all!"

"You're a future-seeing tiny unicorn?"

"Is that why you have the star? That's adorable!" Jenny says enthusiastically. (Unicorn!) "Also. Hi! I'm Jenny! I'm sorry about your future...seeing...thing?"

"The star isn't because of my name, it's because of my talent," says Guiding Star. "Uh, it's nice to meet you."

"I'm Lexi," Lexi puts in. "I have never met a unicorn before!"

"Yeah, I, uh, noticed that you seem to find it awfully exciting."

"It's very exciting! You are many wonderful bedtime stories come to life! Seeeeee?" Jenny nods at Mr. Fancy next to her.

"Why did you bring a doll with you to the bar?"

"It wasn't on purpose! I was returning it to my little sister and then the door wasn't the door it should have been and now I'm here. Me and Mr. Fancy both."

"Ah-huh."

"Are you from Earth too?" Is there an Earth with unicorns, Jenny might have to move.

"I'm from Equestria. Where's Earth?"

"...Third planet from the sun?" says Lexi.

"Must be a different sun. That or we had different lessons about the solar system growing up."

"Yeah, plenty. About a third of the ponies in Ponyville where I live are unicorns."

"What are the other ones?"

"Pegasi and earth ponies."

"Ponyville, awwwwww, that is completely adorable. It sounds so nice! Can the pegasi fly?"

"Yeah? I mean, it'd be pretty weird if they couldn't, wouldn't it?"

"Well, in our world, the larger something is, the harder it is to fly! So I wasn't sure." She reconsiders Guiding Star's size. "Maybe it's not as much a problem for you...?"

"I can't fly, I'm not a pegasus. I have some pegasus friends, and they have wings, and they're about my size, maybe a little bigger because I'm pretty skinny, and they can fly."

"Eep, sorry. I meant collective-you, not you-in-particular. I promise I am not hallucinating you wings!"

"I mean, not that I wouldn't be flattered if you thought I was a princess, but I'm not."

"A princess?"

"Princesses - there's three - have wings and horns. And earth pony properties, but those are harder to see."

"Earth ponies are tougher and stronger and they're good with plants and animals. My friend Cordy is an earth pony and she has a cherry farm and she can understand animals, it's very cool."

"I don't suppose people who aren't earth ponies can learn how to do that," Jenny sighs.

"Well, sometimes a unicorn or a pegasus will have a special talent that lets them be good at something specific animal- or plant-related," says Guiding Star. "Cordy's talent helps her. Otherwise not really. Do giant apes have special talents?"

"I'm not sure what you mean. I mean, we can be good at stuff."

"I have a friend who's a witch, but I think it's more general?" Jenny offers. "Like, she made this magic shapeshifting knife gadget, and she can throw glitter at things, and there's probably other stuff but she hasn't shown me."

"You probably don't have them like ponies have them if you don't know what I mean. Ponies are all especially extra good at a thing, and when we figure out what the thing is, we get a cutie mark - mine's the gold star - that represents it. I'm good at predicting the future. Usually. I can't seem to make the spell work here."

"How does that work?" Jenny asks, fascinated. "Like, next day, next week, a thousand years?"

"Usually just a few hours. Sometimes a few days."

"Is that really super awesome? Or annoying? Or sorta both?"

"It's useful! People who need to know what's going to happen ask me, and then if they don't like it, they can do something else, and if they do like it, they're happy."

"So you can change stuff after you've already seen it?"

"Yeah. Gosh, it wouldn't be much use otherwise, would it? I see what'll happen if everything goes along pretty normally. People who behave in weird ways can throw me off, like my friend Joy does that sometimes, and if you don't like what I see you have a chance to do something about it."

"Soooo, paradoxes not a thing for you? Must be nice."

"The spell doesn't do the definite no matter what future. So there's no paradox."

Jenny is not an expert in temporal theory, and is happy to take her word for it. "I guess that makes sense!" She looks around, but sees no seats that look well suited for a unicorn. "Er, not sure how you'd sit really, but do you want to join us? I mean, I'm sorry if I'm being weird or annoying, it's just so cool. Unicorns are like my favoritest thing and I never thought I'd meet one. And now you are here!"

Guiding Star manages to climb up a barstool and sit on it. "I can just, you know, sit on things, it's not suspension bridge engineering. It's not every day I get this much attention just for being a unicorn."