"Princess Celestia!" twilight called out as her eyes came in contact with celestia's beauty, She ran
out to meet her with a hug the other five lagging behind. "It's so nice of you to give us all a free trip to
mare-a-topia" The princess only reply was a smile, twilight pulled away from the hug and continued; "I think
the rest of us are deserving of a long break after the zombie alien bumble bee invasion and the frequent
breakouts of fire in the ever free forest" -- "So many fires, soo many." Rainbow interjected. Everypony
paused the silence still until twilight's next words, "you have no idea how exhausted we all are." -- "I can
imagine" said the laconic princess, "I'm glad for your bravery and how you handled the situation, no telling
how bad the disaster could have been had not you stopped it." Staring intently at twilight for the remaining
half of her sentence, slightly unerved twilight ignored a nagging feeling of discomfort from the princess which
she pushed the thought to the end of her mind, paying it no attention. The moment was interrupted by a
high pitched whistle echoing through celestia's vast kingdom, grasping each of the ponies' attention, "The
train I prepared for the six of you has arrived, you best be on your way." Twilight walked over to the
princess giving her a final hug until they'd meet once more. Her hug was tight enough to bring show twilights
great gratitude, The message seemed to be perceived as twilight intended. She begun to pull away from
the odd princesswho seemed reluctant to let go as twilight starting pulling away, once again another of the
princess' antics which she often ignores. twilight and the others wished her farewell as they departed, trotting
merrily on their way to relaxation, Heading off to the forming column of steam that for sure sourced the loud
whistle from earlier. By the time the train was spotted the sun had only passed a small fraction of it's path
as compared from their departure.
The train was a heavy large implausible looking object with pipes and other such odd objects
shooting from the metal mass that nopony could describe. Each of them had a different reaction to the
whistling and grumbling iron beast however they each shared a similar amount of interest. Twilight though,
was too interested. this "thing" sparked an intense feel of curiosity to go uninspected and attempted to find
the conductor who would hopefully inform her further on the large contraption. But upon reaching a window
like opening in the mechanical obscurity she saw that inside was nopony but a metallic stallion. Twilight
stared confused and despite her quest for answers she figured striking a conversation with a robot didn't
seem feasible. Displeased she continued to the first car immediately aft of the machine. The others following
close behind she stepped inside, they were pulled to the beuty the interior produced. The inside of the car
was a beautiful multi-faceted ceiling of glass where light seeped from unknown crevices behind the glass
decor, eyes shifted just below the ceiling to catch sight of an even more intriguing part of the car interior,
sliding squares and rectangles re-arranged themsleves along a pattern known only to them. Seemingly
unattached the shapes skipped along a black and silver band encircling the room, the rest of the car was
equally an odd sight to see. Complex steel outlined wood shapes joined behind an prison of rusty iron bars
which stopped their downward progression into the natural grass floor. The wonderful car interior fascinated
the departing six. Soon the convoy of machine and metal begun creeping forth at a very sutdle speed not a
minute after each of them stepped aboard the magnificient carriage. It took the machine seconds from
leaving the station and reach maximum speed which it maintained throughout their journey. Excited For their
vacation adventure each of them located a couch or chair to rest at. They begun to sort through their bags
and such, checking not a thing was forgotten or misplaced.
Among the six of them twilight carried the most luggage. Heavy duty triple layered thick fabric
craddled an abundance of books securely but only a few hygenics. Applejack couldn't help but notice while
admiring very important pictures. She paused what she was doing to question why it was she took so many
books yet so little neccesities, things that would prepare her for parties and general relaxing. "These are all
books I haven't read yet and I'm hoping many of them will be interesting to read, I've been saving them for
a time like this." She smiled proudly, letting out a squee. Applejack left her to her passion, returning to
family pictures and what not laying in her saddle bags on a nearby chair. The books sparkled a darkish
pink lined themselves up infront of twilight to scrutinize. inspecting only the spines making sure they were
indeed not familiar, Once done the books stacked themselves neatly into their proper baggage.
Soon the car grew active with jokes about the fictional character "molestia", the latest stories of
the cutie mark crusaders and followed by a questionable game of "would you rather", Though they had
plenty of fun for the majority of the trip boredom began settling amongst the friends. But it didn't have long to
stay. A bright gleam of light broke through the window scattering into many rays of individual light, directing
the ponies to search for the source, they met up at a window where the suspected light beam came from
and wonder fell upon them as they were graced with a sight of deep emerald green forests which
surrounded their assymetric glass and metal counterparts, structures that spread evenly with the bodies of
nature. Excitement accumulated in the deep pools of their colorful eyes. Nopony expected their vacation spot
to be this gorgeous. The train came to a speedy stop, halting their admiration and appreciation for the city
they would gladly enjoy. Few were launched forth by the train's sudden stop, none injured but a oddly
shaped pink package adorned with balloons launched to the front of the car crashing, It's momentum sending
it forward with great force, cracking the front of the car. A faint pony's voice could be heard beyond the
damaged wall "sorry!" called a female voice. Silence fell quickly followed by a disapproving look from
many shot toward a apolegetic looking pinkie pie who really should have restrained such heavy items. The
ponies happily hopped out of the car, heads spinning to observe in disbelief the wonder of the land.
Twilight's exit was delayed as the sudden stop misplaced her luggage. Once located she left for the front of
the train to rejoin her waiting friends, her walk interupted halfway. "Is everypony okay?" a voice called as
she was passing by. She stopped. looked back, right and forward to see nothing until facing left where her
eyes met with a short, red maned bright dull yellow pony. "Hi" Said twilight nervously, "my name is summer
and this is my train, I was teaching my bolt-brain friend how to operate it, Real sorry if anypony was hurt."
-- "Everyone's fine, but a large heavy object hit the front wall damaging it." -- "Darnnit." Replied the
frustrated pony. "Well you six have a wonderful time I should be getting to the shop." -- "Thanks, good
luck" -- "Buh bye!" Twilight broke away from the conversation to meet up with her friends, "Hey twilight?"
said a concerned pinkie pie. "Didn't you want to ask the conductor something?" -- "Oh yeah." twilight
turned around but the trains presence was no more, It's speed left it to disappear easily. "Dagh, pony
feathers. There goes my chance." The six continued out of the station where they were directed by two of
celestia's guards to a sleek metal vehicle on three wheels that would take them to their living quarters during
their stay.
(city arrival)
The vehicle stopped afoot a looming tower suspended by it's upper levels from another nearby
building too high to spot the end of, the conjoined tall beings shared skin of glass and the twins' bones
were of a speckled shiny metal. They would have to finish their sight seeing hurriedly as celestia's two royal
gaurds had little patience forcing them to keep moving. Leading the excited six into a incommodius chrome
sphere. They were unsure about the room's purpose if any, it had the appearence of a bare room nothing
about it stood out. "ELEVATOR!" a gaurd shouted, "TO ROOM THREE HUNDRED TWELVE TB!" added
the other gaurd, the silver room suddenly became quiet then hummed as it ascended. The humm known
only to the strange place grew louder and faster. From the bottom green lights ascended, slow at first but
not for long. Not much time passed when the lights had nearly reached their implied meeting point above
their heads. A powerful green light emerged from the meeting of the quieter lights, in opposing action the
humming quickly silenced, a pop and squeal opened a circular door before them, their apartment. The two
powerful grey ponies in armor disappeared behind only a second or two since their lack of presene in the
silver machine, and for the last time a humm sounded as the elevator departed. Their luggage already there
to greet the arriving of thesix. Waiting on a table behind a large television. Pinkie was the first to claim her
baggage, walking over to the neat pile and pulling out the large pink object collapsing the once tidy
arrangement. Pulling backwards the pink object from earlier to corners unknown. Everypony else fecthed their
things and set off in the large two level apartment in search of a room to claim their own. Exploring the
many chambers, hallways and other rooms that filled the area.
(pinkie pie)
So I was dragging my party supplies suddenly as I went to place my left hind hoof down it
couldn't find solid ground. I had to find out why and quickly turned around, maybe a little too quickly, I found
myself in a pool, some sort of liquid, wasn't sure what it was, I opened my eyes thinking it was water and
found my next action to be an attempted yelp, but it was stifled by the liquid. Whatever the stuff was it stung
and wasn't clear, I hurried to the surface and looked back at the liquid before getting out, the liquid's
appearence seemed familiar but still looked odd, staring back at the odd dark pools I dropped my head to
the level of the liquid and sniffed deeply, I now knew what it was and charged back to the living room
paying no attention to my forgotten luggage. "SODA FOUNTAIN!" I yelled as loud as my excited voice
would limit me to. frequent clicks could be heard in various directions to meet where they originally departed.
Applejack was the first to speak "D-did you say, soda fountain?!" My reply was a confirming nod and
without a word thereafter they followed my enthusiastic bouncing. We stopped at a melliflous pool of dark
amber liquid. I was to excited to attempt finding the kitchen where I supposed cups would be, so
submerging my whole mouth would have. I stared back at the others who refused to do the same, "Just
stick your head in it no time for cups its delicious!" My words didn't encourage any action, they remained
still. So for the time being they only admired it's presence. Except applejack whom with considerebly more
grace than I sampled a small portion from her waterproof hat. Eyes closed, mouth submerged, the small
helping dissapeared quickly. "Come on ya'll grab a cup, ya need t' taste this." She announced after the
last drop left her tungue and placed the hat back where it belonged. The rest went after their cups eagerly,
while I collected my things and set off around the appartment for a place to stay for twelve nights. Not too
many steps of backwards dragging travel and I found myself near an unoccupied room. A large window that
doubled as an entire wall caught my attention while entering the room and soon as I delivered my supplies I
left only thinking about the soda fountain.
(fluttershy)
I grabbed a cup from the large complicated room of cooking supplies twilight unknowingly guided
me to and returned hastily to the dark golden fountain. There it was again, the heavy amber liquid, Nopony
was as happy as I was, Nopony. even though I couldn't exactly show it. As i reached the edge of the
delicious pools. My wings unfolded and beat the air with powerful thrusts freeing me from gravity, I lowered
myself to the center of the fountain capturing sugary goodness in my modest cup and not a single second
was wasted to enjoy the contents of the now full cup and a wide grin found itself on my face, I don't believe
it did justice to my love for the flavor, and so wider it grew. My cup was empty so I departed for the
kitchen determined to find the biggest storage device possible. I returned with a wide tall cooking pot that
seemed good enough for a small village. I happily flew the large akward device back to the fountains of
flavor. Quickly the large pot filled with the delicious liquid straining my barely used wings. The pot's weight
was now comparable to a bucket of lead but I gladly flew the heavy brew to my room to enjoy it's fleeting
presence. The room I had selected only featured the neccesary furniture and a small window at eye level to
my right, the window was no bigger than I and I'd have to close it every night. It's not the darkness that
scares me, it's what the darkness hides. The thought frightened me nearly as much and , it's not the kind of
thought I would associate myself with, my attention then turned to the private supply of soda I brought in, my
cup serving me a small helping, My face of happiness blankened soon after, not for saddness but for lack
of any emotion at all. Some time passed as I stared out that window and an early moon began to rise,
The full cup would appear to last not very long. I filled my cup again to continue my thougtless stare, and
many cups later had thoughts finally begun to generate in my mind seizing my attention from the window,
Another cup filled and another thought or two floated into my mind. So infrequent are the times that I am
allowed such quick and open thought to my own consciencenous. And so more thoughts and cups passed. I
started on how often I actually think I came to the conclusion that my words of thought actually brought more
weight then my words of mouth, at first I was doubtful but then as more time passed I found it easy to
believe. After all most of my reactions do stay in my mind, they're not usually expressed unless it need be.
Another cup raised to my lips. Why do I stifle my emotions so often? Perhaps I should practice by talking
my thoughts to myself but even after the idea conjured in my head every idea that followed remained behind
closed teeth where only my beloved drink passed. thoughts and time disappeared. Another cup, the last
one emptied faster and this cup would share a similar fate enduring a few sips shorter. How much easier
would it be for me if I could just express myself? I began sorting through the many "what-ifs". Another cup
passed. How much happier I'd be to express all my feelings instead of hiding the bad ones in my mind, A
lighter cup raised from the pot. Why can't I even ask for help? I need to sort this out but I don't know how.
The cup emptied and went back for more, the cup delivered few drops and returned to the pot where the
soda had already been consumed. My mind paused, it dawned on me that perhaps the pot was empty.
Terrified I inspecteed the light well, I peered inside to find it's contents missing. This was unacceptable, It
wasn't a craving that drove me, but the realization of an apparent need. Out of desperation I grabbed the
pot and fleww the fastest I've ever flown, atleast to my memory. Finally I reached the room where thought
and bliss itself flowed in rivers. Horror filled me to see my beloved no more, "The soda, i-is gone?" My
wings collapsed to my sides as I fell to the empty area once occupied by the drink my mind craved and
could not stop forcing me to fighting, Could it be that the soda had already disappeard so quickly? I landed
and my usually modest face returnedas I slowly walked back to the main living room where the rest of my
friends where relaxing, transportation by wing once again restricted as I reluctantly strolled in. the other five
including a soda stained pinkie pie was sitting at a half round couch surrounding a television. I announced
my presence quietly with the question "I-is the soda really gone completely?", rarity was the only one to
answer me with a "yes dear we enjoyed a drink party while watching the best shows that only the princess
herself could offer." "AAAAAAWWW YEEAH!" cried out rainbow dash. "It's back on!" said twilight then the
celebratory cheers quickly grew faint as not to upstage the obviously great show. I wondered if I should dare
ask why it was the soda lasted so shortly in our presence, and for a moment it remained a thought. But to
my dismay I found myself shouting out the thought. I reacted quickly, barricading my mouth with my hoof to
keep anymore nonsense inside. The instant I realised I messed up. Rarity and twilight stared at me, the
others still occupied with the tv. "Calm down darling soda is no big deal" rarity said in a comforting manner.
"Uuuh fluttershy?... the soda's been gone thirty minutes ago. It only lasted two hours." added a confused
twilight sparkle. Surprise overwhelmed my emotions prompting my leave, first stop, the bed and it's small
rightside window. Was I really thinking for two and a half hours? As I entered my room I stared at the very
spacious spot where I easily recognized the lack of a tall wide pot. I sat once again on the bed pulled my
head back to the window and resumed to my thougths. At most I was thinking two or three thoughts how
could that occupy nearly three hours? I stopped, An unusual lack of thought came over me, I vaguely
remebered watching the early moon rise from that very window to my right.It was a fleeting memory, the
moon's smooth ascension into my vision then quickly out of it again as a window border would block from
me it's pale dead flesh, passing in seconds as it would in many many minutes maybe numbering up to an
hour and making notable progress towards the next. I quickly regained motion in my muscles and wings for
fear I would again doze of at a single sight as I did before. I begun wondering how or why I could or would
stare at a single spot for so long. The thought was interupted, I looked around looking for the source of
interuption. At the door was a concerned looking twilight sparkle. "Oh-Uhm, how long were you standing
there twilight? I-I hadn't noticed-" "Are you allright fluttershy?" She said. "Fine, i-is there something I could
help you with twilight?" she didn't wait long to reply "You've been acting weird lately are you sure nothing's
troubling you?" My reply however delayed. It seemed like an eternity until I broke my silence. "I-I'm Just
fine..." That was lie. "You don't have to worry about me..." ...I don't know if that wast. I wanted to express
my thoughts and heavy feelings just to get them out, I wanted to say everything I felt, and everything I
thought before, and I had never wanted to say what I wanted to say as badly as I did right now. But, how
could I? I couldn't. I couldn't tell where to start, despite how desperately I wanted to start, it was as simple
as "I can't". So I replied with a fasle smile. I was disappointed, and she wouldn't get to know that, so
instead I asked her what she needed. "We were about to go to a dance party on the beach! Dj-Pon3 is
going to be there! Can you believe it?! Can you go?" "I-I don't know twilight I don't really think tha-"
"Please-please?!" she pleaded. My defenses were breached and I allowed her to drag me along.
(Dj-Pon3)
"But I see no problem with playing d'Un Autre Été- Die Fabelhafte Welt Der Amélie at the party."
By this point I'm not surprised with her response, she's very stubborn. So I replied "welp, my party my rules
and we're opening with Raise Your Weapon and Strobe." She was quick to reply. "Can not we perform a
duet?" her answer surprised me slightly, she would annoy others easily but I liked the odd way she
annoyed me. "'Tavi you know that we always duet on Raise Your Weapon, don't worry I'm not forgetting
about you." I was busy setting up my turntables on the platform while she was busy fixing up the computer
which handled our instruments, so our conversation continued across the room. We rarely ever get to do
performances together like this, both of us being musicians and all, she continued; "I know, I might have
just forgotten a little due to my nervousness" -- "A little?" I shot back. "Vee!" she scolded, I turned and
our eyes met, I noticed a her disapproving look "Sorry 'tavi." I must've been nervous too. I was pushing a
tall speaker next to the platform it's just big enough for two and their neccesary equipment, She must've
known I was struggling with the tall thing. She quickly appeared to my side to pushing with all her might.
Even with her help pushing the heavy box was still ardous work, Moments of pushing finally got the thing into
place. "Why didn't you use your magic?" she asked. I replied with a gentle smile. It was all I could do until
I caught my breath "cause reasons" -- "Vee would you please mind your grammar." Even through
burdoned breathing she still bothers me about that. Amazing. "Nah" I replied. She scoffed at the response. I
turned my attention to the next neccesary thing after hooking up the wires to the enormous speaker, a
medium console in a hidden corner left of the platform. It was decorated with various buttons, holes and
pertruding wires, I approached and the whole thing sparkled red as I flipped switches, played with knobs
and plugged cords to various holes. "Could not you have done that with the speaker?" octavia asked
approaching my side. "What do you think would've happened if it fell?" she added after a brief pause I
love that she cared, and I loved the thrill of danger. But she couldn't know that she'd worry. The lights
backstage faded, I had forgotten to reply and wouldn't need to. The show was starting I pounded a large
button at the back playing a recorded message and powering the machines. "HEEEEEELLOOOOO PONIES
OF MARE-A-TOPIAAAAAAAA!! PLEASE WELCOME OCTAAAVIAAAAAA AND VINYL SCRAAAAAAAATCH!!!
ABOUT TO PERFORM THEIR SIGNATURE DUET RAAAAAISE YOUR WEEEAAAPOOOOOOON!!" The
curtain slowly rose revealing the largest collection of ponies either of us had ever seen at one time. Shortly
before reaching halfway up it's ascending length two objects on the far side of the stage began to sparkle a
deep garnet red, they began floating in our direction, A violet pair of shades for me. And for "tavi" her
favorite electric cello. Equipped for the coming musical challenge we walked slowly with one another. Side
by side we approached the platform which seemed to agitate the crowd, their volume tripled. Finally in
position, our words drowned out the dense noise the fans produced, even before either of us spoke. "You
ready?" she asked, her nervousness overtaking her, I lowered my violet shades over my eyes and locked
eyes with her, guess well have find out. The baseline skyrocketed then dropped to mark the start of our
performance, dense crowd before us cheered wildly.
(rarity)
"Waiter!" I called out "What happened to the performance? Wasn't octavia supposed to make an
appearence here tonight?", "She, uhm, hmm... oh yes she is performing with a pony called vinyl scratch on
the Topaz Beach for the Penumbra Music Festival" -- "Oh okay, thanks for your time, eheh"... Oh great I
had been looking forward to her performance ever since we were givin this vacation and now a performance
of a lifetime won't show up. My head fell towards the now empty plate as I let out a dissapointed sigh.
"Rarity!" My head sprung upward, I searched for the pony I knew addressed me. "Why hello twilight so
nice to see you here, what brings you down? I thought you were at the musical festival thing, oh darnnit
what was it called again? anyways did not you enjoy yourself?" -- "I did, but not as much as pinkie, AJ
and rainbow dash." -- "What about fluttershy?" -- "She said something about feeling kinda sick and went
back home." -- "Oh poor dear I hope she's alright." -- "Must've been all that soda she drank" -- "My
goodness she had an absurdly large pot with her" -- "Soda usually gets her to act odd, I hope she's
allright." -- "She gets better in an hour or two if not by morning, she did drink a lot of soda after all" --
"What is that pony's deal with soda anyways?" -- "She says it's a sentimental thing, That or an odd sugar
rush." Our conversation was cut short by a sharp tall stallion. "What would we be having today?" Nothing
for me, I answered, then staring back at twilight as if to direct him where to turn his attention to next., "And
of you?", "Oh I-I'm not hungry." She replied I contested her reaction and insisted she order somethng, she
didn't have money and I assured her I would pay for the meal. "Thank you rarity" -- "You should enjoy
yourself while you're here darling, treat yourself as much as you can. It's not every day we get to relax in
the most beautiful city in equestria" -- "I know rarity, I'm still a little stressed is all" -- "You brought a book
with you right?" -- "Oh shoot I forgot my book at the beach party" -- "Tsk tsk tsk, you really must keep
better track of your things twilight. By the way how was octavia's performance?" -- "How did you know she
was performing at the festival?" -- "Because she isn't performing here like I had hoped." -- "Oh darn, that
stinks. But her and vinyl scratch had a beutiful duet at the start, octavia didn't play much but her singing was
glorious! The two made a great performance." -- "Oh pooh, I know it's not my style but I've always wanted
to go to one of her performances" -- "Well rarit-" An anouncment interrupted her and everypony was all
ears for it. "Excuse the interuption everypony but we have a very important announcment, We are delighted
to present to you a very special performance. Every one give a gentle round of applause for octavia" The
room grew loud with more than just applause but also cheers and yells, I never expected that reactiion from
this group of ponies but that I can easily understand. "I don't understand." Said twilight, "Wasn't she
supposed to be performing all night with Dj-pon3?" -- "Who?" I interjected, "Oh Vinyl scratch, her stage
name is Dj-pon3, with a three instead of an Y" -- "What for?" -- "It's a style thing" -- "If you say so,
they must've hit a snag that caused them to split up.." -- "Must have." We stopped in our conversation to
enjoy the music when it played. For a minute or two it proceeded in it's beutiful manner. Until ittook and odd
turn, the music sped up and started skipping and replaying as if it were a broken record, around the same
time I noticed a cord pertruding from octavia's cello. "Uh oh" I said, hoping my suspicions were wrong
despite the immense evidence fighting my claim. The bass dropped and a platform rose in the stage behind
octavia stopping waist high above the floor, It was vinyl scratch and her signature turntable set up. The base
dropped and the odd thing is, even though I've never heard of this genre of music I was liking where it was
going. Boom! the music got louder and more eratic "Whoo!" was the common cheer among ponies in the
room, I wasn't surprised to find myself to be one of them and before I knew it the exciting new experience
was over and so was twilight's visit, her food arrived untouched and had been remaning so for quite some
time now. The epic duo didn't perform an encore as the whole "high class" resteuarant had cheerfully
demanded, neither octavia nor vinyl was seen the rest of the night, neither of them returned to their original
post at their music festival either.
(twilight sparkle)
"All this music and so much noise, ugh I just need to rest. I should be fine to party tommarrow, I
still didn't get any rest from last nights fire scare." The moon's near full glow filled the night sky but most of
it's presence could be seen from the reflections of the intricate towers sorrounding me. The ones you could
see tjhat wasn't blocked by tree cover that is. I continued walking down the hollow city whose residents had
more interesting occupations at the moment. Even from this great distance the loud cheering synchronised
with the powerful bumbs of bass could still be heard, even felt in the ground beneath my hooves. I kept on
walking completely exhausted. The trip here alone had sapped a great deal of my remaining energy. My
head began to droop down as I lazily walked along the empty streets partially lit street lamps above the
vegetative canopy. But still At the corner of my eye something called out to me. What little details I could
make of it at the time still intrigued me and I moved in for a closer look. I attempted to I dentify the odd
thing on a sidewalk corner I was about to ignore. I didn't know how else to describe it but a narrow metal
pole stick up from the ground where at head's height mounted the lower half of a red conical shape, it's
widest possible end connected to the pole. Above that was a glass sphere with many more colorful spheres
hidden inside. I encircled the odd thing and on one side I saw a silvery interface of sorts, A knob with two
pertruding fins stood an inch above a square hole protected by a matching door. On the knob was an arrow
implying it's direction of rotation and it begun to sparkle and shine pink as I slowly turned it waiting
forsomething to happen. *PLINK PLINK PLINK* The door nudged a little and rocked back in forth in it's
hinges, That too sparkled pink and out three small colorful spheres from inside flew out. I didn't know what
to make of it so I collected a few more for study and noted the odd machines location incase I needed to
observe that too.
Once again I was back at the appartment, humming elevator, soda fountain and all. "Fluttershy I'm
home!" I called out, half expecting no answer. I wasn't really relying on her response so I took my time
finding a place for the colored orbs to rest until I could get to them later, a bookcase behind the couch
would do for now. "Hello twilight." She caught me off gaurd startling me. My sudden jump caused the orbs
to fly across the room. "Oh I-I'm so sorry, d-did I startle you?" She said again. "No I'm alright fluttershy,
how about you feeling better? "Much better" she replied. "What was the deal earlier was everything okay?
we've been worrying about you." She frowned at the question, "Twilight, I need to talk to you. Really I
need to talk to anypony who would listen. This is something I need to get off my mind." Her words were
built. It sounded like she had them planned out. "Sure fluttershy, I'm ready to listen." We sat down on the
couch, silence drew over the air as it grew heavy. Only the humming of a fly in a distant space somewhere
dared to contest the powerful silence, until fluttershy's words broke the silence." I've been having a hard time
expressing myself lately, A-and, it's not making me very happy." Engaged and concerned I urged her to go
on. "I sometimes have these random thoughts and I don't know how to describe them and I-I'm just so
confused what do I do twilight?" -- "Well what kind of thinks do you think about?" -- "I think that I can
never express myself and I keep thinking on how nice i-it would be to do that." -- "Aand you think stuff
like this often?" -- "Y-yes." -- "Well I guess we should work on that shouldn't we?" -- "Well that's not the
whole problem." -- "I know, but once were done you can tell us how to help you." -- "O-oh... uuhm
okay, where shall we start?" -- "well writing it down helps, writing is an intimate form of self expression
when your done I can just read it or you can read it to me." -- "W-will that work?" her words seem to fall
back to their frail old selves. "it worked for me when I had trouble making friends, course it was my parents
I read to." -- "O-oh, ohkay, do you have some paper and a quill?" -- "Sure do!" I located the
neccesaties with my magic and from the other roomed they rushed to fluttershy's reach. On the spot she
immediately started writing. She wrote so quick and precise, she knew the words and how they were going
to look on paper. As if by instinctive purpose not a letter was out of place, soon more paper was required,
and more, and more. Five sheets of paper and she finished writing. she seemed tired and she craddled her
strained wrist. I began to read aloud and the night silenced.
