[Video]

[letteropener]

[What's showing in this feed? Well, it appears to be a sword. A sword made entirely of golden light, flat and without distinctive marks or flaws -- a Platonic ideal of a sword, hovering in midair and swathed in the same golden light it is made of.]

Well. This is new. I am not certain if I could have created such an effect before I came here, but if I had the capability, I certainly never used it.

The question is -- did I gain something new, or is having my magic so weak leading me to find new ways to use it?

Comments

Re: [video]

[universal_charm]

Seems kind of unfair, foisting a thing like that on you ponies.

_{[ Aka, he doesn't believe you, but he's not going to fight you overly hard on it anymore either. ]}

[video]

[letteropener]

To my mind, it seems unfair that humankind has to constantly struggle with never knowing when a bad rainstorm will hit or when winter will end and spring will come.

[video]

[universal_charm]

Suppose it's like that for some humans. Where I'm from we can accurately predict that, so we're not as in the dark as we once were.

... So does that mean you've never once taken a vacation? Since, you know, you're in charge of the sun.

[video]

[letteropener]

That's correct. I have raised the sun each morning for two thousand years or so.

[Barring some special circumstances, like being kidnapped by Nightmare Moon, but that definitely doesn't qualify as a vacation either.]

Re: [video]

[universal_charm]

Doesn't it get... boring then? I mean, doing the same thing over and over - just seems kind of unfair that you alone shoulder that.

_{[ Still doesn't believe it, but what the hell, right? ]}

[video]

[letteropener]

Oh no! Not at all -- I love raising the sun. It is a joy, it never gets old. Have you never felt there was something you were absolutely born to do, something that inspires and delights you no matter how many times you do it?