>Today is the day.
>After yesterdays dreadfull visit of your parents you and Celestia in her disguise as "Tia Prince" will finally leave your apartment and go to town.
>She is giddy as a school girl you can tall as she paces around from rrom to room and giggles silly while you get ready. IIt makes you happy to see her this exited. As you put on your sneakers she prances into the hallway, actually she is hoovering a bit over the ground.
"You should get ready too, Tia. You don´t want to leave the house as a horse, don´t you?"
>She stops in her track.
"Oh, yeah of course, anon. Sorry, I´m so exited that I almost forgot."
>the now familiar flash of light angulfs her and now she stands there again as the tall gorgeous woman she disguised herself as yesterday., She wears a similar outfit as yesterday, only with a light tan jacket and a black purse.
"I´m ready anon."-
"All right then.
>You open the door and both of you step into the hall way.
>Celly looks around with an expression of suprise and amazement. She looks at the scratchy linolium at her feet, at the flickering neon lights on the ceiling and at the dirty walls. You are a bit ashamed that you live in such a shitty apartment block, but Celly doesn´t mind, she soaks it all in as you two walk to the elevator. She oohs at the rumbeling movement of the old life and chuckles at the horrible sharpie grafitties on the elevator walls. She looks amazed at the dusty hydroculture plants in the lobby and as you leave the building she aahs in amazement. Its a sunny but cold spring day. You stand in front of your apartment block, one of the smaller ones of the blocks in a rather shitty settlement in the northern part of F-city. Everything is concrete in different shades of grey, there is a small playground in one of the corners of the small square, where children havent been playing in years, its dirty and there are broken beer bottles everywhere, yet Celly looks around full of wonder.
>This is going to be a long day....
>You walk from your apartment block to the metro station. Its about 10 am, there are no people around since most people are at school or at work. You have a few days off from work, so you have enpough time for Celly and her discovery of human land. As you walk through a small park you notice that the more you move away from your apartment, the more nervous Celly appears.
>Suddely a Police helicopter flies low over your heads, rushes past like a giant ugly metal insect.
>Celly lets out a shriek and jumps to the ground.
>You look at her dumbfolded.
"That.. was just a helicopter."
- "I...I know. I saw those machines on TV and sometimes outside of the window, flying past. I just startled me."
>You chuckle.
"It startled you?"
She snaps at you angrily.
"Yes. It startled me! Sorry, about that, but my species evolved from the type of skittish flight animals that your ancestors killed with rocks and sticks to eat them!"
>You are a quite shocked by that outburst.
"Geez, I´m sorry, I...I didn´t mean to make fun of you!"
>She sighs.
"No, I am sorry anon."
>You look ar her worried
-"Tia, are you okay?"
-"I don´t know if I can do that, Anon. Frankly, I am nervous. No, not nervous, I am scared. Almost as scared as I am exited. I really want to learn about your world and your people at first hoof, butI don´t know if I am up to it. What if my disguise fails? What if I fumble again and use magic? I was able to handle your parents, but a city in nwhich hundrets, maybe thousands of humans live? Thats something different."
-"Actually there are almost 2.5 million people living in this city with its suburbs, close to 6 million if you count the larger metropolitain..."
>You stop your stupid blabbering mouth as you see that she grows pale and her eyes are widening in shock.
"So many humans in ONE city...?!?! All of Equestria has a population of 1-2 million ponies!"
-"Its okay. Look, who are you?"
-"Come again?"
-"Who. Are. You."
-"I..am Princess Celestia?!?"
- "You are Princess fucking Celestia. The ruler of Equestria. You have been around for centuries and are one oof the most powerfull magical beings in your world and THE single most powerfull magical being in this world. You are charismatic and intelligent. You singlehanded defeated the monsters that are my parents. I have no doubt that there is anything in this world that you cannot handle!
>You reach her your hand.
"Also, you have me by your side. So are we going to do this or what?"
>Tia looks at you and then she smiles.
"Yes. Of course. Thank you, Anon. Sometimes even somebody like me needs a friend. And I´m thankfull to have a friend like you by my side."
>as you walk down to the Metro station you notice that she eased up much, she is not as giddy and curious as before. As you tap in on the touch screen of the ticket machine you see allready the train approaching.
>You give Celly a crooked smile.
"Don´t worry, thats just a train."
>She returns your grin.
"I know, we do have those in Equestria, Our designs are a bit less... utilitarian, thou."
>You board the almost empty train and sit down on the plastic seats. Its a while to the city center, the train runs at first through the urban wasteland of flatbock settlements, suburban officeparks, industral zones and commercial areas. You take that route almost every day to work and back, usually you listen to Pink Floyd or something. Celestia looks out of the window and is mesmerized by the urban sprawl.
>You lean over to her.
"Here comes the money shot"
>The train rushes past an Ikea onto a bridge over a motorway, giving view to the downtown of F-city down in the valley, the skyscrapers with their glass, aluminium and sandstone facades stand proudly in the middle of the sprawling chaos around them. This view is beautyfull in its ugliness, but also brief, since as soon as the train has passed the bridge the skyline dissapears again behind a factory for missle guidiance systems.
"It is amazing."
Celly looks at you
"This is what fascinates me about your species, Anon. You did all this without any magic. Just your hands and brains. This is all you have and yet you created amazing marvels in science, technology, arts, medicine and philosophy. At the same time humans comitted unspeakable artrocities in their history. Evils Equestrians couldn´t even dream of in their worst nightmares. I don´t really know what to think of you humans..."
>She is silent again and looks out of the window again.
>You continiue your ride into the city. After a few stations a mother with a baby carriage tries to get into the car, you get up to assist her.

>You are Celestia now

>Anon is helping a mother with he baby carriage. You are impressed by that little, but compassionate gesture. You nothice that the older human filly... no girl of that mother comes up to you and looks at you. Gosh, you didn´t knew, human foals are that adorable. She must be about 3-4 years old, you can´t really estimate that. She has a pink plush unicorn under her arm, you chuckle at your self as you notice that it looks a bit like a chubby version of Cadance. The girl stares straight at you.
>...
>You wonder why she is staring at you like that, its kinda making you uncomfortable. You give her a nervous smile.
>Nothing.
>This is starting to creep you out. You beging to wonder if your disguise isn´t working properly, or, worse, if human foals have somehow the abillity to se though such disguises.
>Suddenly the girl speaks.
"You´re pwetty!"
>You are so taken off guard that you blurt ou stupidly
"I`m using the train! Are you using the train too?"
>The girl looks confused and then runs back to her mother.
>You facepalm as Anon returns.

You are Anon again.
>You saw Celly with the little girl.
"Hey, it seems you made a friend!"
>Celly looks at you distressed.
"Anon, is my disguise still working? She was staring at me in a way that made me worried if I still look human."
>You are a bit amused.
"No, no, don´t worry. Your disguise is still perfect. She was just curious. Human children at that age do that with strangers, because the don´t know that its kinda rude and disturbing to stare into the soul of others like that."
>Thats one of the reasons why you don´t really like children.
>Celly lets out a sigh of relief.
"Goodness, for a moment I was panicing there. You know, the souls of children are pure, thats why they can sometimes detect things like that."
>Cellys face brightens up.
"But that means the disguise IS perfect. If even a child can´t see through it, adults will in no way be able to do so."
>You can´t really follow her train of thought there, but you are glad to see that her tenseness falls almost completely off her.
>Mean while the train has enterd the tunnel, and after a few more stations you are at your destination, the vast underground station of H-Plaza, the central square of F-city, you get off the train with most of the passengers. The station is full of people of all ages and ethnicies. Celestia is again absolutely captured by the sights and sounds.
>on the the escalator (with which she has just a little proplem with to get onto), she suddlenly scrunches her face in disgust.
"Whew, what is that stench?"
-"That, my dear is the lovely smell of the subway: an exiting and revolting melánge of stale basement air, human excrements of all sorts, old fast food, burnt rubber and poor personal hygene of some of the passengers. If you use the trains every day you don´t even notice it any more."
>You walk though the vast messazine with all of the shops and fast food places and proceed to go up to the plaza. All around you are countless of people, around the square are large offce and commercial buildings with video screens and advertising of all kinds. You look at Celly, she is visibly impressed.
"So, what do you wan´t to do? We could go to the historic city center near the river, there is the city hall and the cathedral, also several museums and art galleries."
>You point down the large shopping street that ends on the plaza.
"Or we could walk down Z-street, there are the big department stores and one of the biggest shopping malls of the city."
>You turn around and point at cluster of skyscrapers behind you.
"Or we could go to the business distric, in this area is the opera and the theater, also on top of that skyscraper is an observation deck from which you have a good view over the city."
>Celly thinks for a moment.
"I think the tower with the observation deck is a good idea, I can get an overview of the city that way."
>The two of you walk across the square and enter the street that leads to the business district. There is some heavy traffic. Celly looks at all the cars, trucks and busses.
"It is like Manehattan, only that the carts are powered by motors, not pulled by ponies."
>You look at her in confusion.
"Wait, ponies ride in carts pulled by other ponies? Do they take turns, or is that some kind of master and servant thing?"
-"What? No, its... It is a service industry, and ponies pull carts as their job, but... It IS kinda weird. You got me there anon, how the hay did that happen? I have to consult the royal archives on the historic background of this as soon as I get back. Ponies have been doing that since long before I was born."
>She is still deep in thought about this as you arrive by the skyscraper with the observation deck. Its a 40 floor tall glass cylinder with an antenna on top. The most famous thing about this builing is that there is a tv studio of the local TV station on the top floor, they are always broadcasting their news from there with the skyline panorama in the background. You enter the lobby of the buildinga nd Celly is allready captured by the modern architecture and the decor. You join a group of asian tourists (who look at Celly amazed, since they probably have never sees a woman this tall before) and go to the express elevator to the observation deck. The elevator is really fast and smooth running, really something different from the rattleing mess in your apartment block. You look at Celly, she looks surprised and a little queasy as the lift shoots up and pushes your guts into your shoes.
>At the top you step outside onto the windy circular platform. The view is breathtaking (You just realize that you have never actually been up here, even thou you live in this city for years).
>Celly is stunned by the view.
>The two of you just stand there for several minutes. Celly lets it all soak in.
"This is an amazing view, Anon. You told me this city was big, but this... It almost goes to the horizont on all directions! What is this? Is this a railway station?"
-"Yeah, the central station. That large building down below at the square is the metropolitain opera and theater complex. Over there is the university, that building there is the museum of natural history. Over there is the historic city center, you can see the tower of the cathedral there. There, beyond the forest is the international airport and there is the stadium..." -"What is that large area over there?"
>You get a little embarrased.
"That..well... That is the horse racing track..."
>You quickly look for a distraction.
" Hey, look there to the north. Do you see the blocks on the hills at the foot of the mountains? Thats where we live"
>After about 20 Minutes you sit down on a bench.Celly lets out a sigh.
"Thank you for taking bme here Anon. It kinda opend my eyes how little I realized how big this world is and how little I know yet. Adapting to this place may take longer than I thought."
>You lay your hand on her arm.
"It will take some time, thats true, but you will manage. You´re a big girl after all. Also you can be sure that I will support you as much as I can."
>You look on your watch.
"Huh, its lunch time allready. We should grab a bite to eat. Where do you want to go?"