After walking around for twenty minutes Aria finally saw a building with a "help wanted" sign in its window so she headed towards it. On the door it said, "Dr M. Colgate, D.D.S."
Aria saw this and headed in. When she got inside it smelled just like the dentist's office in the human world did so that reassure her a little. She headed to the check-in window and rang a bell, alerting to those in the back that they had a customer. Very quickly a mint green unicorn with gold eyes arrived. She asked, "Hello, how may I help you?"
Aria replied, "Uhm, hi. I saw the help wanted sign and I'm wondering if I could talk to Dr. Colgate about applying for a job."
Lyra said, "Well let me go see if she is available." Lyra headed back to find Colgate going through patient records and continued, "Sis, you have somepony up front who wants to apply for a job."
Colgate sighed, "Well it's a slow day so I'll go up and meet her."
Colgate headed up front to find a light purple unicorn with a dark purple and light blue mane and tail. She asked, "Hello, I'm Dr. Colgate. My sister told me that you are looking for a job?"
Given that the dentist had introduced herself to her, Aria figured she better do the same. She replied, "My name is Aria Blaze and yes I am looking for a job."
Colgate grabbed the proper paperwork, a clipboard and a pen and handed them to her. She said, "Well fill out this paperwork and given that nopony else has applied, I should be able to hire you on the spot."
Aria's pupils shrank when she saw this. She thought to herself, "How in the world am I going to fill this out? I can't even grab a pen!"
As Colgate headed back into the back, she sat down and grabbed the pen with her front hooves and began to try and fill the application out. She was frustrated because her writing wasn't even legible and as she looked down the application she realized her terrible writing was the least of her problems. She didn't have an address, she didn't have a phone number, she hadn't had any prior jobs in Equestria and to make matters worse, she didn't have an Equestrian ID number and she had no clue what her date of birth was. She did know that she couldn't just put some random date from over a thousand years ago.
This was the most nervous Aria had been in her life since her encounter with Starswirl so long ago. She called out, "Doctor Colgate, I need some help."
Colgate came rushing out and asked, "You filled it out already? That was quick."
Colgate looked down to see that all she had done was attempted to write her name. Colgate frowned, "What the hay is this? You can't even write your own name and you expect me to hire you?" She pointed at her horn and continued, "With as bad as this looks I'd swear you just used your hooves to try and write this."
Aria was very nervous at this point. She replied, "We-well, I did. I don't know how to access my magic."
Colgate's jaw dropped open when she heard this. She gasped, "What? You're a full grown unicorn and you can't even access your magic?"
Aria replied, "No, I can't." Before Colgate would question her further on the issue she told her the same lie that she did Pinkie, about how her parents never taught her.
Colgate threw her hooves up in the air and asked, "What about your school? Didn't your school teach you any magic?"
While Aria was able to lie to Pinkie about her schooling she knew she couldn't do the same with Colgate given that the job application asked about her education so she had to come up with a different lie, "Well you see, my family lived in a very remote part of Equestria. I didn't even see much in the way of other ponies until my parents died a couple of months ago and I headed out on my own."
Colgate gave Aria a sympathetic look and replied, "Tell you what, I'll take you into my home, I'll help you access your magical abilities and we'll go up to Canterlot and get you some paperwork based of what you know so you will be recognized as an Equestrian citizen."
Aria knew how things were in the human world regarding things like this and knew that it wasn't just that easy. She asked, "Doctor...."
Colgate interrupted, "Just call me Colgate. It would make me more comfortable."
Aria continued, "But Colgate, don't I have to have all sorts of documents to prove that I was born here?"
Colgate replied, "Don't worry Aria. I went to Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns and she knows how I am. She knows that I would not go in and simply lie for somepony."
Aria replied, "Well that's good."
Colgate looked up at the clock and noticed that it was 4:45. She said, "Tell you what, I close in 15 minutes so how about you wait here and after work my sister and I will take you out for supper. After that you can come home with us and I can get you situated in your new room."
Aria asked, "So when will you help me with my magic and help me with the citizenship issue?"
Colgate replied, "Tell you what, I'll reschedule some appointments for the next week and we can head up to Canterlot tomorrow and get you started with your magic. On Monday we'll go see Celestia and tell her about your situation and hopefully get you your papers."
Aria grabbed her and joyfully replied, "Thank you Colgate, you are the best!"
Colgate, who has never been a fan of physical touch embraced her back lightly and replied, "No problem Aria, no problem."
That evening and night was the best night that Aria had ever experienced. It was even more comfortable and her meal was more filling than she ever had as a siren and everything she experienced that night put the whole human world to shame. As she laid in bed that night trying to go to sleep she was ecstatic. She had a pony in her life who genuinely cared about her well-being, which is something that she had never had before.