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She combs and combs the world aside and there is another world, just ahead, and she steps in.
The combed-away hole closes behind her. She puts her comb in her pocket.
Thanjen (Unbitwise)
Blueberry (kappa)
Hivers (Rockeye)
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Here is a small round library that looks like it might be made out of a very large tree indeed, with shelves full of books lining its round walls.
There is a tiny blue unicorn flumphed on the floor reading a book nearly larger than she is - it's a pretty big book, but it is also a very small unicorn - and a few seconds after the traveler arrives, she looks up and blinks with surprise.
"Goodness me," she says. "I wasn't expecting that at all."
"You're a unicorn," observes the visitor intelligently.
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"I am!" she agrees. "I'm not at all sure what you are. I don't think I've ever heard of a sort of person who looked like you."
"I'm, um, I'm a human."
"I'm fine," she says, smiling. "Sorry, I've just never met a unicorn before! And I didn't think they came in blue!"
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"We come in all the usual colours," she says. "Of which blue is one. But I guess if I've never heard of humans it makes sense that you, reciprocally, have never heard of blue unicorns. In fact, you're a step ahead of me in having heard of unicorns at all. Where are you from, and how did you get here from there?"
"I came from my friend's house, but if I'm not supposed to be here I can go."
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"You're perfectly welcome in my library," the unicorn assures her. "Oh - I forgot to introduce myself, silly me. My name is Blueberry; what's yours?"
"I'm Emily Lark."
"No, I just got here."
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"Did you come to the library in particular for a reason, or are you just sort of wandering?"
"Just sort of wandering. Books are great, but I wasn't looking to necessarily get one today."
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"Well, I happen to think the library is an excellent place to wander to," she says. "What kinds of books do you like? I like most everything."
"Oh, lots of different stuff, the last thing I read was for school and it was about some old-timey humans."
"They were going from one human country to a different human country because the first one had people from a third human country all over it getting in their way."
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Blueberry giggles. "That does sound like the sort of thing that happens in histories."
"It was a fiction book," Emily clarifies. "But it was about real countries."
"Denmark and Sweden and Germany."
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"I've never heard of any of those. They must be very far away from Equestria."
"Well, they're all human countries, and you hadn't heard of humans," says Emily reasonably.
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"Yes," she agrees. "It's perfectly logical, it's just also really interesting."