Trapped in a good book
a sleepless night
Previous ChapterNext ChapterSilver Claw tossed and turned on her mossy bed. She found that she had different pressure points as a cat and she needed to find a new position to allow her to sleep comfortably. She finally settled on laying flat on her belly and she let the soft moss rub against her silky fur.
"...that's nice..." Silver Claw murmured, pleased with the softness of her bedding. She couldn't help but fall straight into a deep sleep.
Meanwhile, a certain orange striped she-cat was having more difficulty falling asleep than her companion. She could hardly sustain a very light slumber, and the slightest rustle would set her eyelids a flutter. Tangle Claw soon found herself thinking.
'Well that's that. My wish is granted. I never thought her magic was so powerful...yet I have so many questions. One is how this is physically possible, but I'm such a sci-fi egghead who am I to even care? Was this a good idea? Is it...okay to mess around with parallel universes? What if this reality collapses and we fall into...a void?' Tangle Claw reached over to preen her wings and her face fell when she realized there were none to be preened.
'Right. My wings...I lost them. It feels strange, the emptiness on my back. Those wings were always comforting to me. Gee, I wonder if unicorns feel the same way about their horns! And what about Peach- I mean Silver. Does she miss her horn? Was this even morally correct to just hop into a completely different universe like this and nearly shatter it like glass? Oh well, I'm sure we'll be ponies again in just a few days.' Tangle Claw thought. She fell into a deep sleep, and she stayed that way for a while, the gears in her mind still turning. At approximately three in the morning, the gears jolted to a complete stop. Tangle Claw's eye's flew open and she dashed down the mushroom staircase to her friend's den.
"GET UP GET UP GET UP!!!" Tangle Claw shouted, shaking her friend awake. Silver's eyes flew open and she barely suppressed a scream. Silver growled at Tangle Claw, ticked off.
"This better be important. You KNOW what happens when I don't get my kitten sleeps!" Silver Claw hissed. Normally Tangle would have laughed and poked fun at her friend for saying something like that, but her mind was moving too fast.
"Actually, no, I don't but I need to ask you something." said Tangle Claw. Silver stood up with an annoyed expression on her face. Tangle Claw kept eye contact and looked very serious.
"Do you think you could still do magic?" asked the striped she-cat. Silver Claw pondered this. Tangle Claw couldn't see it, but Silver Claw was trying to form a psychic connection with the elements that she usually did through her horn.
"I don't think so..." Silver Claw mumbled, mentally exhausted. That did it for Tangle Claw.
"NO NO NO THIS IS SUPER BAD!!!!" Tangle shouted. Silver Claw was astonished by her friend's sudden panic attack.
"What's wrong?" asked Silver Claw, concerned. Tangle Claw grabbed her friend by the shoulders, struggling to keep a grip with her newly formed paws. Wasn't it obvious?
"How are we gonna get back home?!"
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