(hope it's not to long. Didn't realize the length till I had finished typing.)
Myrdinn had decided to travel around for a while since he had been done with basic education for a bit. He was unsure what to do and not being able to afford any special training or schooling still left him with lots of options. So he thought he would travel around a while and think things over. No hurry to make a decision.
Though poor is family, being unicorns, did help. They used magic for everything that they could and even had a book or a few books of what uses they had put magic to. Recording stuff they came up with so future generations could still retain it and not loose it. The so called spells were collected into what some called a grimoire. Collected since some so called spells had very little daily use but could be handy once in a while. They had a 2nd book that had bits of information, speculation, lore and such that some had found, came across, ect and thought it best to record. Each member of the family had a copy of these 2 books, hand made using magic since they were not able to afford to have the copies professionally made. He kept these in, also home made, saddlebags.
He, not being able to afford a train, or other ways of transportion, used a spell one of his ancestors had invented for long distance travel, using the clouds as someting simular to trampolines. Not good for short range, but good for long range travel, as long as there were clouds around. The inventor had called the spell cloud vaulting. To not attract attention, since since turning onself invisible along with cloud vaulting would be tiring and difficult, it instead projected a simple illusion of, in this case Myrdinn, being a peguses, with a different color then his real color. A unicorn bouncing around the sky would likely attract attention but seeing a peguses would likely not. A side effect was his horn was disguised beneath an illusion of a hat.
Myrdinn seeing a town in the distance decided it best to land well outside of town and walk in. He could land in the town and find an alley to land in or duck into but it would be even easier to land outside of town, admist some trees and such, & just walk in. The trees hiding the illusion vanishing and his appearance changing.
Seeing a good place to land Myrdinn canceled the cloud vaulting spell and did a slow fall spell. A variant the same inventor of the cloud vaulting had done to keep up the simple illusion one did during the cloud vaulting spell. Since again a unicorn slowly falling would attract attention, be seen as showing off and such. He, like most in his family if not all, proffered to keep their magic ability downplayed. Pretending they only did as much as most other unicorns did. Certainly never letting on the extent of their family tradition and such.
Landing among some trees he stopped the slow spell effect, seeing no one around, and with his real appearance now started to casually walk in the direction of the town he had seen during his cloud vaulting.
