You pick yourself up, thoroughly unembarrassed, and drape your copy of
‘300 More Advanced Sudoku Puzzles’ over your back as protection
from…moondust or something.
Oh, who are you kidding, you just like playing dress-up. With a little help from ‘300 More Advanced Sudoku Puzzles’, you
shatter the observatory window and fling yourself dramatically from its height.
You are not a clever pony. You peer closely into the large snowglobe. Inside is a depiction of a heartwarming
scene between two ponies on a winter’s day.
You proceed to shake it violently up and down while pretending you are
a capricious snow-god raining your frozen wrath down upon the helpless peons below. You settle down with ‘Underwater Basket-Weaving: a Foal’s Guide’ and read it cover-to-cover.
You have gained a new ability! You can now weave baskets underwater.
There is no possible way that this was a waste of your time. You fling the old, probably priceless tomes recklessly to the ground and peer
behind them.
It’s part of a note! It reads:
‘The key is in the shell./ soon / ss / ou / ia’
That doesn’t make any sense! There aren’t even any shells around here.