It had been a lot to take in, at first, but I'd been offered the guidance of Princess Celestia, who had taken responsibility for her student's mistake. Celestia had given me a space to live in and had placed the staff of Canterlot Castle at my disposal, while she had worked with the erstwhile student and the heads of her school to find a solution to the magical problem. None had been immediately forthcoming. Apparently, magic was complicated. Go figure, huh? It was something of a science, I'd learned, and the spell needed to be reproducible in order to duplicate the initial effect and hopefully find a way to make a counter-spell. The ponies at Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns had been concerned that in the process of reproducing the spell, they could accidentally bring another person into Equestria. I didn't want to take a chance of stranding another person in a new world, so I'd asked them to find another way. They'd ensured me that there were other things they could do, theory-crafting their way through the problem, but it would take longer. Much longer, unfortunately. Apparently the student responsible for my summoning was already writing a thesis on the whole ordeal.