An unusual encounter (QuickLime and Nexar, Closed for now)

[Nexar]

To many ponys the Everfree Forest was a dark and scary place and the source of haunting nightmares. A place where nopony would willingly go into if they had a choice. This given, the whole forest was just perfect for the young Changeling. Surrounded by all those dark trees and the possibility of a predator somewhere close, he simply knew that there was nopony around that could find out about his secret, noone he had to hide from. Of course he knew that he wasn't invulnerable to the creatures inhabitant to the forest, but everytime he got to see someone of those, it resulted in avoiding each other, and during the past two weeks that Nexar was already in Ponyville and therefore almost every evening inside the Everfree Forest, he grew the feeling, that the creatures could somehow sense, that he wasn't the unicorn he was disguised as.

After a few minutes of trotting into the forest, Nexar went off the road and between the trees. His horn started to glow bright green, emitting a small radius of green light as it quickly became darker when the sun set and the moon was rising. The Changeling wasn't really afraid because of this and continued his search. In a small saddlebag on his back he still had the book where a certain potion and all the needed ingredients were described. All he needed right now was a small bundle of a plant called Silverleaf, and then... Nexar could feel his desire for love inside his chest rising at the thought of the potion he would be making. A love potion... something that was able to ignite the feeling of love in somepony. Of course it was just a theory, but the thought of being able to drink such a potion instead of steeling someones energy made his body shiver in excitement. To never again feel hungry again...

Nexars thoughts drifted for a moment, but a movement at the edge of his sight brought him back to this world immediately. In exception of an attack, he raised a shield surrounding the side from which he had seen the movement, the same shield he normally used to protect himself from a crash to the ground, but nothing happened. There was no surprise attack, no threat that wanted to hurt him, and so he lowered his shield again, and just as he expected, as far as he could see around him, there was nothing except for the plants of course. The Changeling sighed out in relief and turned around to walk into a different direction and search somewhere else for that Silverleaf that he needed. But instead he found something else, a clearing in the forest with a house in it. Nexar tilted his head a bit to the left, surprised to see something like that in such a place. But it quickly got his curiosity, and so he walked right to the house and to the door where he gave his disguise a quick check if everything still seemed alright, before made his horn stop glowing and raised one hoof to knock at the door. Nexar was sure, that he could still search for that plant later on, as it wouldn't run away from him, but that house right now just had caught his curiosity.