LIBRARIAN: Good morning.
DITHER: Hey.
LIBRARIAN: ...Can I help you with anything?
DITHER: Yeah, -cough-, I’ve reserved a book from the Canterlot Archives.
LIBRARIAN: Oh. Name, please?
DITHER: Uh, Fussbudget, first name Ditherer.
LIBRARIAN: (suddenly realizing) Yes! We got it in this morning.
[SFX: Tome being set down on wood.]
DITHER: Great. This was written by the Zebras, right?
LIBRARIAN: (agreeably) As far as I know.
DITHER: Perfect.
[SFX: Flipping pages, then stops.]
DITHER: ...It’s in zebra.
LIBRARIAN: That’s why no one requests it. If you want, I can put you on the list for when a translated copy gets made...
DITHER: No, no, hold on.
[SFX: cutie mark appearing, pages flipping]
DITHER: There we go.
LIBRARIAN: What... did you just do?
DITHER: I gave myself a cutie mark in zebra translation. Now…
The seeds of truth will cure most any illness
Except those ones which leave the heart in stillness
The patient must speak truth to make them grow
The truer what is spoken, the sooner they’re bestowed.
LIBRARIAN: ...Huh. I didn’t know the translations would rhyme too.
DITHER: It doesn’t. I just have to do that every few minutes.
LIBRARIAN: Oh. Uh… that’s interesting.
DITHER: (poring over the book) Heart’s desire… cutie pox…
[SFX: wristwatch beeps]
DITHER: Ah, shhhit. Look, do me a favor, just get the definitions on this list for me.
[SFX: paper rustling]
LIBRARIAN: (baffled) Wh, b-, I can’t read Zebra!
DITHER: Oh. Hold on.
[SFX: fingers snapping, cutie mark appearing]
LIBRARIAN: (seeing a cutie mark appear on his body) Ah!
DITHER: (leaving rapdily) There, that should help you, thanks a million, man!
LIBRARIAN: (calling after him) Wait, what the fuck is this thing?! Who are you?!
DITHER: (at the edge of earshot) I wrote it on the card!
[SFX: book closing]