I am Twilight Sparkle

I am Twilight Sparkle

Day 3

Day 3

afternoon

Sweetie Belle and I have slept in pretty late today. It has been a long night afterall. The place she cuddled up to me is completly dirty. I think that she did not really care about washing during her time in the cave, so I decided to give her a good scrubbing. Ofcourse she was less then amused by this, all the time telling me that she was no foal anymore, but I didn't change my mind. It wasn't only the dirt that was the problem, but also the smell Sweetie emitted.

After washing her, with the water from the whole in the caves wall, Sweetie was recognizable once again. I also cleaned myself as best I could. Thank Celestia for small favors. Being able to wash oneself regulary, even if the water was cold as ice, I felt much better already.

After a short while I discovered something interesting. My mind played a trick on me. I was already thinking of this place as "home". My subconcious was telling me that this place was safe. I discovered this, when Sweetie asked me what I was doing. I hadn't even realized that I had started to clean the cave up with my magic. I mean there is no harm in that, since we will most likely stay here for a little longer. Still, it made me realize that I have to set my mind to things that lay ahead of us.

Sweetie practicly devoured one of my dried food conentrates. I did offer her some of the other things I had, but she had insisted on trying them. I better not tell her, that the fat in those is animal fat... Even I had to get adjusted to it, since the thought alone of devouring something that once was a part of another beings body, makes me wanna puke. Those things really just are consist of fat, salt and vitamins. It's called "dried", but it's more of a paste actually. I don't like them, but I think Sweetie has found her new favorite food, since she actually asked for more. I would have loved to give her a second pack, but we have to ration our supplies.

Most of the time, since we have eaten, Sweetie has been sleeping at my side. I think she may not have gotten much sleep since the dragons death. Every now and then, her head jolts upwards, when my quill makes a loud scratching noise. Her unwillingness of leaviong my side, is cute, but also a problem. Earlier, when I had to relief myself, and Sweetie pointed me to a part of the cave she had used for a latrine, I practicly had to shove her out to wait outside. The room was far from sanitary as it was, without both of us stumbling about in there.

It's basicly nothing more then a small hole in the ground, through which a bit of water streams, so everything that goes in there is washed out again, and right down a cliff. It looks like it goes down atleast two hundred hooves there, and the smell coming up from there, is sickening. Sweetie has used it for three years afterall.

Day 3

evening

I talked to Sweetie earlier. When I told her about my plans of going to Canterlot, she gasped. She told me that Ragnok, the dragon, had told her that the place was crawling with the undead. Still, even so I am gratefull to the dragon that he kept Sweetie safe all this time, there is no way I can trust what he had told her. It could also be, that the dragon just hadn't wanted to be alone and therefor had lied to Sweetie. I tried to explain that to her, but she got all mad, and told me that he had been her friend, and that I shouldn't talk about him that way.

I feel bad. I don't know what to do. I tried to convice her to accompany me when I went there, but she doesn't want to. She is too scared I suppose. Only twelve years old, and she is already as stubborn as her big sister. I think, maybe I should leave Sweetie here, while I do my investigations in Canterlot and the surrounding areas. Re-reading what I wrote up to now, I remembered that the facility this curse originated from, is not too far from my current position. I could be there in less then an hour on hoof, and it is in range of my magical senses, so a teleportation is also an option.

Even so a teleport spell would draw more of them there. I can sense about ten of them in the vicinity of the facility. But, since my senses reach only that far, I can't know if there are a thousand, or a million in the forest surrounding it. Getting there might be verry dangerous, but I there also is the possibilty that there is some documentation about whatever they were trying to do. I could do that trip while Sweetie is sleeping, but after last night, when she awoke every now and then, I can't help myself to think that she would notice my absence pretty quick. Also I don't really want to leave her here all by herself. Even if I leave all of my supplies behind, if something were to happen to me, she wouldn't be able to get out of here. She doen't know how to teleport, of that I'm sure....

No use thinking about it... I can't leave her alone, not just like that. Maybe tomorrow I will try and talk to her about it again. We can only stay here for another two days anyway. After that we will be out of food, and would have to go scavange something somewhere, or try to find food in the forest.