Fighting Freedom

I soaked in the water for a few minutes, just mulling over what I had learned. Martin reached the bottom of the hill, but refused to join us.

"I don't even feel remotely sore, or tired."

"Sometimes the mind needs rest too. You've been studying all day right? Well relax your mind. Let all your problems float away."

Martin shook his head, "Sorry, I can't just clear my mind or whatever. I'm focused on real problems right now. I can't just wander off like you do."

"First of all you don't need to do that. Secondly? You need to calm down. May I suggest taking a look around. You might notice that you're in a whole different world. Your real problems are just an illusion my friend."

"What are you, some kind of monk?"

"Not really. I'm just extremely smart."

Rose was either asleep, or was just listening in on our conversation. Either way she didn't offer any input in until now,

"Well don't you have a big ego?"

"And an even bigger…"

Martin interrupted us saying, "Look I'm just a bit anxious. Me and Twilight are working on something big. If it works it'll be the best thing. I don't think relaxation is what I need right now, even if my mind is tired. Maybe once this project is finished I'll relax."

I shrugged, "Fair enough."

Martin walked away from us, and back to the road. His footsteps faded away leaving me and Rose alone. She didn't seem to be moving anytime soon, and I wasn't planning on it either. Normally I would relish the chance to relax in silence, but something was nagging at me.

"Rose can I ask you something?"

She giggled and said, "You already did."

I just sighed at the joke, "What did you think when you first met me?"

She opened both her eyes and stared at me for a few seconds.

"What's bothering you?"

I sighed, "Some wizard told me he was manipulating the emotions of those around me."

She gave me a blank stare, unsure if I was serious or not. She giggled a little bit before saying,

"You're weird."

"Just humor me. It'll make me feel loads better."

Or worse depending on the answer.

"Alright. Well when you were at the fountain I thought you were weird, in a funny way. When I talked to you after I just got this feeling."

I lowered my eyes, "Feeling?"

She shrugged, "Nothing too big, but I got this feeling that you would be friends with anyone friendly, but that you wouldn't give anyone who wasn't a moment of your time."

I looked away from her and laid my head back. I guess that made me feel better. I don't think I was ever going to really figure it out though.

"Nothing else?"

She splashed a little bit, "Well that depends."

"Depends on what?"

I felt some of the water splash over my face. It was hot, but it didn't burn.

"On you."

I raised my head to glare at her, and saw that she was giggling. Well as long as it depends on me, that means I don't have to worry anymore. I laid back my head, and smiled a little bit. Sometimes the simplest things in life can be the greatest moments.

I probably only soaked for around 10 minutes, but for some reason, I couldn't relax. Thoughts were racing through my head. I was eager to read through the book and begin learning. I was also worried about the core thing. Then a final part of me was happy. Just that blissful feeling that flooded through me.

I stepped out of the water and dried myself off. I dressed again and headed for the pool. Rose had apparently fallen asleep, and I decided to leave her there. I looked across the pool and into the waterfall. I couldn't tell that there was a tunnel behind it no matter how hard I tried. I was trying to figure out the best way to get the stuff out of that tunnel. I couldn't just swim back with it.

I tried to inch around the pool, but that didn't really work. I was more likely to fall in than to get across. I wondered if there was a way in from the top, but even if there was, I would have to climb up and down again. It was possible that the tunnel went all the way through, but there was really no way for me to know how far. Eventually I came to the conclusion that I would have to leave the stuff in there. Until I could walk across water or something.

My mind wasn't going to calm down anytime soon at this rate. I mean there was potential fireballs to be throwing around. It was almost a dream come true. Magic, right there in that cave. Well assuming I figured everything out.

I removed my shirt and pants again, and swam across the pool. I went through the waterfall and into the tunnel. The robes and book were laying right where I had left them. I dried as much of myself as I could using the robes. When I was satisfied I picked up the book.

I read through quite a bit of the book, and a lot of it was very interesting. I'll sum it all down for you though.

Elemental magic is one of the most common forms of magic. Anywhere where magic exists, it exists. There are several ways to learn and perform the magic, but It's the same in the end. Many start off their magic career learning elemental magic. At first it is the easiest to learn, and understand. Eventually it reaches a plateau where you can't advance any farther until you really master it. Then it becomes exceedingly difficult to learn and perform.

Other magic such as the magic Twilight does is more complicated. Every spell is different and takes a different understanding. A levitating spell is very different compared to a spell that controls wind speeds. Whereas lifting something with air magic isn't much different from throwing air around. Although a levitation spell is much easier to control than lifting something with air magic.

I was just starting with the basics. Apparently there were limitless amounts of elements out there. However the most common would be what you expect, earth, air, fire, and water. The book suggested picking out one element to learn first, instead of trying them all at once. It said that choosing an element most like yourself would make it the easiest.

I think it was all pretty obvious, but I'll explain it to you just in case. On most worlds, elements represent certain philosophies, or personalities. Air is a free element. Unbound from the things that keeps others down. It never stops moving, and it's everywhere. Earth is the very opposite. It is stubborn, and moves for noone. It is also very reliable and strong. Water is somewhere in between the two. It can move freely, but can also solidify. Water can be found in many places, but not everywhere. It is an element of change and adaptability. Fire isn't always considered an element. It is oftentimes referred to as the element of heat. Fire in itself is uncontrollable. Fire magic is much the same. It takes discipline to master, and perfect control. However, for all of this, fire is very powerful.

There are some worlds that do differ from this though. On some, controlling one element is no different from the next. Sometimes air is referred to as the most violent of the elements. Usually it is accepted as the most peaceful. Most of the time air magic is used to redirect something. However, under the hands of a master, air magic can sharpen winds so much that it can cut anything clean in half. Even more deadly as one cannot see the invisible blade.

In the end I couldn't pick which one I wanted. They all sounded like fun to use. In the end I decided to just go with practicality. While air was my preferred element, water would be the better choice. If I learned how to make ice, I could get the stuff out of the tunnel. The book wasn't very clear on how to perform the magic, as it mostly depended on the world one was on. It did however give tips and basic ideas based off the most common usage of elemental magics.

The first was that controlling an element was much easier than creating if from thin air. The second was that elemental magic that focused on controlling an element, instead of spells, was much easier to perform when in a calm state of mind.
Finding my element wasn't really a big issue. There was a waterfall right next to me. My mind however wasn't likely to start calming down anytime soon though. The first thing the book recommended trying was to simply change the direction of a current. It just so happened that the waterfall was going down. My goal was to make it go back up.

I put the book down with my page marked. Water was a recommended first element. Learning it took aspects from both earth and air. So learning it would make learning those two a bit easier. I wasn't really sure what to do at first. Like I said the book was vague on how to actually perform the magic, since it was depended on the magic the world had. Obviously a world without magic would be out of the question.

I knew that ponies had to have a medium to perform magic, and that medium was a horn. It also seemed like it took a lot of concentration to use the magic. At least from what I had seen. It didn't really look like pointing the horn really affected the magic though. I looked down at my bracelet, considering on what to do. It had absorbed the wand, which assumedly gave it the ability to control the energy of the world. When this energy is controlled to do something, that's when it becomes magic.

At first I just made a lot of physical motions and said things. I would point my left arm at the waterfall dramatically and say,

"Up!"

That didn't work at all. The bracelet especially didn't do anything. Next I tried sitting down and imagining the water flowing up instead of down. I didn't feel anything, and when I opened my eyes the water was still going down.

I could pretend like it took weeks of practice to do even one trick. However, once I got the hang of how to do magic, it became incredibly easy. I had just tried doing a rather radical physical motion, which involved a lot of arm swings, when I was about to give up. Nothing I had tried seemed to be working.

Frustrated I threw my arms in the air and said, "Why won't this water go up!?"

The bracelet heated up, and the symbols in it glowed. I turned around to see the water was stopped. It wasn't going up, but it had done something. In the end what worked for me had been to imagine the situation, and then with a physical motion, will for it to happen.

After I stopped the water, I was able to do all kinds of things. I took some water from the fall and began spinning it around me. This must have been the plateau the book was talking about. You learn how do something, and everything related comes easy. However when you try to learn something different, it becomes much harder.

I had learned how to control the water. However I quickly learned that turning it to ice was nearly impossible. Still though, to see water flying around wherever I pointed was pretty bad ass. I could control it in any way I wanted to. The bracelet glowed brightly as I did this, and was only somewhat annoying. It might just have been the light level of the tunnel though.

I was busy tossing a ball of water around when I heard voices from outside. I lost concentration of the water and it splashed on the ground. I put my book back on the robes and left the tunnel. I swam back across the pool to where I had left my clothes.

I didn't bother to dry myself or put them back on. I followed the voices to the hot springs. The shed was starting to get on my nerves. Only half of it remained standing, and the roof had caved in. It was so rotted that it looked like it had been scorched. I rounded the corner to find Rose chatting with Lily and Delilah in the spring. All three of them must have been in there for a little bit because they were soaked.

When I came into view Rose waved at me. The other two turned around and Lily said,

"Oh hi Silver."

I waved at them, and got into the spring. I pushed Rose aside so I could take my spot against the cliff. She huffed at me and said,

"So you three have met already?"

I said, "Ya we met here yesterday when I found this place. They've apparently been coming here for awhile. I was relaxing when they showed up and joined me."

Rose watched me suspiciously and then said, "So where did you go? I woke up and you had left."

I scratched the back of my head and said, "Oh you know, just playing with water."

Rose just nodded and said, "Uh huh."

The three of them began to chat and I laid my head back. The water was slowly swirling around the pool. I put my arms behind my back, attempting to hide the bracelet. I started making the water swirl ever so slightly faster. Oddly, the bracelet didn't glow this time, just heated up. The girls failed to notice, and I just sighed in relaxation. I blocked out their chatting for the most part. Just simple introductions and idle chatter.

Swirling the water around slowly was making my mind start to slow down. I was starting to drift off to sleep. Everything became background noise to me. Lost in the swirling mess that was my thoughts. My eyes closed and I lost myself to the universe. Well until I was brought back to reality by a splash in the face.

I shook my head to clear the mist inside it. I looked up to see the three ponies giggling. I was kind of upset. I felt like I was in touch with all of existence. I guess that's what sleep really is. Coming into contact with the collective consciousness of everything. Or the collective consciousness of nothing.

"What was that for?"

They continued to laugh, and I felt tempted to use my new found powers. I stopped myself though. One I didn't want to show off that I could do magic. Two, what kind of person would I be if I fell to temptation that easily? Resist temptations for so long, only to be given magical power and abuse it right away. I know I'm not perfect, but I'm not that bad.

Rose said, "We couldn't resist. You just looked so peaceful."

"So you decided to ruin that?"

Lily said, "Well ya. We were bored and in need of entertainment."

"So entertain yourselves. I was trying to communicate with the cosmos."

They all gave me odd looks, and decided to ignore that statement.

Delilah took her turn to say, "Besides, we can't entertain ourselves, we need you to do it."

Lily mumbled something in Delilah's ear, and she blushed. Rose eyed them warily and scooted closer to me. I stayed put against the cliff, which put Lily and Delilah opposite me. Rose stopped close to me, but a comfortable distance away.

I put my arms to the side to hold myself up a little bit more, and I sat up straight on the rock shelf beneath the water. I was still relaxed, but not so much as to fall asleep. Lily and Delilah seemed to be preoccupied with something, but it wasn't bothering me. Delilah's face got redder and redder, and I looked over at Rose who was also blushing.

"Am I missing something here?"

"Not- not at- not at all." Delilah stammered.

Lily pulled away from her and was trying to contain her mirth. She then looked directly at me and smiled innocently. She bumped her hoof against my leg and said,

"Don't worry about it."

Rose suddenly pushed her head against my chest. I was a little bit pleased by this, but mostly confused. Rose pulled my arm around her neck, and gave Lily a death stare. They were probably having some territory fight or something. A bit unnerving that I was the territory in question, but whatever. Truth is, the only person I belong to is me, and that's a fact. Rose was half laying on me and half sitting down. Lily gave her a sour look, but shrugged it off. Nobody said anything after that, and it got a bit uncomfortable. Delilah was still blushing furiously though.

The sun finally started to set, and I announced that I was getting out. Aware that all eyes were on me, I got out and picked up the towel that had been used several times. Luckily it had mostly dried out. I put my shorts back on, which didn't really smell that great anymore, and pulled some food out of the bag I had brought. I munched on a piece of fruit while I waited for them to finish. I had just finished it when Rose said,

"Silver, could you do me a favor?"

I turned around to look at her with my mouth full. She had the towel in her mouth, but was still soaked. Her mane clung to her neck, and her tail drooped heavily.

"Could you dry me off?"

I shrugged and swallowed my food. I walked up to her and took the towel from her mouth. I put it around her head, and laughed a little. I remember when I used to give my dog a bath. He was a big dog, and he hated getting wet. He would always run away from me splashing water all over the place. Eventually I would have to cover his head with the towel just to get him to stay still for a second.

I began drying her off, making sure to not push on her too hard. I dried her head, and her back off completely. I stepped back from her, but she said,

"Aren't you going to finish?"

Her stomach was still wet, and so was her tail. I was stuck looking at her face. Her face was all poofed out, and it was quite comical. She lightly kicked me with one of her wet hooves and said,

"Well?"

I wiped a tear from my eye and said, "I'd really rather not."

She shook herself and said, "You already started though. Come on just finish me off."

I just shrugged again and bent down on one knee. I dried her legs off one by one. I stood back up and wrapped the towel around her stomach. She giggled as I rubbed her down. I stepped back and threw the towel over her head. She moved it with a hoof and said,

"You didn't finish."

I shook my head saying, "And I'm not going to. You can do that part yourself."

She gave me a sour look and said, "How am I supposed to do that?"

"Figure it out. Ask one of them to do it."

I pointed to Lily and Delilah who were still in the spring. Rose looked back at them and back to me. She motioned for me to come closer. I kneeled down next to her again. She motioned for me to come even closer, and I bent my ear to her mouth. Suddenly she grabbed my head and twisted it. I tried to pull back, but her leg muscles won over my neck muscles. Which I suppose as a pony, isn't that surprising.

She turned my head to face hers. Her eyes were closed, and she pulled my head to hers. My eyes went wide with surprise when she began kissing me. I tried to pull away, but she pulled on me even tighter. I won't lie, it wasn't very pleasant. Her lips on mine felt very weird, definitely not normal. Her mouth opened a little as she continued to kiss me. I glanced at Lily and Delilah who were staring at us. I just kneeled there until Rose pulled away from me. When she did her eyes were half open, and she was smiling stupidly at me.

When I did nothing, her smile faded. Tears started to swell in her eyes. She looked down at the ground and sobbed a little. My brain was screaming for me to do some damage control, but my body was still confused as to what had just happened. If my body could talk I think it would say something along the lines of,

'What the fuck just happened, and why?"

When I still didn't move, Rose ran away from me. She galloped past the shed leaving me behind. I looked up at Lily and Delilah. They both stared at me like I was an idiot. My face was probably still in its shocked state. Lily finally shouted at me saying,

"Well go get her!"

I was still confused as to what was going on, but I did know that Rose was probably feeling worse than me. All this probably took about 5 seconds. It just looks like a long time in text. I ran after Rose, only stopping to grab another piece of fruit. I sprinted back to the road, and saw Rose crying as she walked down the road. I stepped in front of her, and thought of several options.

One I could fix this fast by kissing her. I didn't really want to do that though. It would send all the wrong signals to her. Two, I could pick her up and hug her. That also seemed less favorable as I would probably be physically injured a few times. I really wanted to avoid hurting this body anymore as it was. Third option was to try and talk sense to her. However that just wasn't going to work.

She looked up at me with tears in her eyes. I decided to sacrifice my own comfort for hers. I knelt down and put my hands on her head. She tried to shake me off, but not very hard. I took a deep mental breath and steeled my gut. I brought her head to mine and kissed her furiously. It wasn't any more pleasant than last time, especially because she had been crying. However I ignored my body's reaction of disgust and kept it up. Some part of me had hoped she would just stand there in shock as I did. No such luck though. She put her hooves around my neck and began kissing me back.

I tried to pull away after a bit, but again she held me down. I mentally sighed, and complied. It was when she opened her mouth that my mind shouted at the unfairness. Praying that I wouldn't vomit, I opened my mouth as well. Her tongue clashed with mine and she pushed me on my back. It would've been very weird if someone had seen us.

I was laying on my back and Rose was laying down on top of me. Her hooves ran through my hair and down my neck, and my hands did the same with her mane. I could feel the heat coming off of her very closely. Somewhere in my mind I realized I hadn't thrown my shirt on. She must have explored every section of my mouth. After what seemed like forever she pulled her head away from mine and took a deep breath.

I did the same, but for a different reason. My mind was having a total war on itself. One side was screaming that I had just kissed an animal, and the other half was screaming that since it was intelligent that it wasn't really an animal. Regardless of what my mind was thinking, my body was not happy. I kept taking deep breaths to make sure I didn't spill the fruit I had eaten. I hadn't realized that the situation would elicit such a response.

Most of it was probably because she was a pony like creature, but a part of it was that I didn't like kissing in general. Do you know how many germs are in the mouth? The only thing I wanted in there was my own tongue and food. It was supposed to be off-limits to anything that wasn't edible.

She smiled down at me, and I smiled nervously back. She didn't get up though to my disappointment. My mind eventually told me that I needed to say something.

I looked up into her eyes and said, "I'm sorry about earlier. I was just so shocked that I couldn't even move."

She still didn't get off of me and said, "You more than made up for it. I was worried that you were disgusted by me."

Her worries were well founded. I wasn't about to tell her that though. It would probably take some time before I was used to that, or a new body. Besides I wasn't sure if I wanted to get used to it.

"I wasn't prepared for that."

She tried to kiss me again, but I held her back and said,

"I think we should get off the road."

She smiled at me and finally got off. The loss of contact was disappointing, but also appreciated. I stood up and looked down at myself. My pants were soaked and I raised an eyebrow at Rose.

"That better be water." (Is that another quad entendre?)

She blushed and giggled. I pulled the piece of fruit that I had grabbed out of my pocket. It didn't look that good anymore. I handed it to her and said,

"I'll be right back."

I walked back to the springs and grabbed the rest of the stuff I had left. Lily and Delilah gave me questioning looks, and I gave them a shaky thumbs up. I still wasn't sure if that was the outcome I wanted. They turned their backs to me and I left. I caught up with Rose who had apparently eaten the entire fruit, and walked back to town with her.

She walked slightly in front of me, and I followed her. She led me to her house, and led me inside. She motioned for me to sit on the couch and I did so. I was prepared to run out the door though. Sacrificing my comfort would only go so far. My stomach had finally seemed to settle on not throwing up. I was glad it had decided to come to this decision.

I sat back on the couch and Rose walked back in. She pushed a tray inside the room with two cups of tea on it. I would've preferred something cool, but apparently ponies are tea crazy. I took the cup and began sipping a little. The best thing to do was make this last as long as possible. It was hard to do so, because that stuff was amazing.

She laid against me as we drank the tea. She just nuzzled her head into my chest every once in awhile, but neither of us said anything. She finished her tea first and put her cup down on the tray. Mine was still almost full and she sighed as she laid into me. This I was okay with. The comfort of being close was good enough for me. She got tired of waiting for me to finish though.

When Rose saw that I wasn't going to finish my tea anytime soon, she took it from me. I tried to grab it back, but she put it on the tray out of reach. The couch allowed me to sink into it and get comfortable. At first she just laid against me again. I probably could've fallen asleep in that position. However it only lasted a few minutes. When I didn't move for a bit, Rose did.
She got up and maneuvered herself so she was sitting on my lap. She put her hooves behind my head again, and mentally I sighed. Out loud I said,

"Now Rose, let's not rush anything. I don't want to do anything that we'll regret."

Rose looked deep into my eyes and said, "I won't regret anything."

I certainly was going too. She leaned into me again and started kissing me again. I was really starting to wish this place was as mature as a kids show should be. My mind had given up arguing, but my body was giving very mixed signals. As she leaned into me she wiggled a little bit. She had positioned herself in a very precarious position and part of me really liked that.

I tried to kiss her back for awhile, but my stomach was starting to make its displeasure known. Rose began running her hooves around my chest. It was like she got drunk or something. That was how she was acting anyway. She invaded my mouth again, and my stomach let out a jolt of pain. Rose thankfully pulled off of me after sometime.

She was searching my eyes when she pulled back. I gave her a nervous smile, and she smiled back. She tried to keep the situation going, but I was starting to get scared. If this kept going I was pretty sure I knew what would happen. I put a finger on her lips and said,

"While this is fun, I told Martin I would help him with his research."

Rose gave me puppy eyes. Or pony eyes rather. I just shook my head at her and said,

"Maybe some other time Rose."

She winked at me and said, "Well if you ever need a place to stay, you could always sleep with me. Tomorrow maybe?"

I missed good 'ol Rose that just laughed when I did stupid things. I was going to need to talk to Morkar to make sure he removed that spell thing. I got up off the couch and made to leave. Rose stopped me and kissed me one last time. Another jolt of pain later, and I was out the door. She closed the door leaving me alone. I started to walk back to the library, when the urge to vomit overcame me. I ran to the nearest bin, which wasn't too far because every complex had one outside of it. I emptied my stomach into the bin, and grimaced when I saw it. Blood was mixed in with the rest.

Rose must have taken off at least a week with her actions. How could she have known though. Besides I was probably over reacting to this whole situation. I reached the library as the sun went down. I opened the door and felt the urge to vomit again when I did.

Twilight was laying on the couch in the hooves of a deep purple unicorn stallion. They were very engrossed with each other's mouth, but when I opened the door they leapt away from each other.

I covered my eyes and said, "Sorry! I was just looking for Martin."

Twilight got defensive and said, "We were just kissing, you don't have to cover your eyes."

I kept my eyes covered and said, "For my continued health, I refuse to look. Also that was more than simple kissing. You two were exploring every inch of the other's mouth. And who is this stallion anyway?"

I peeked through my eyes to see Twilight looking between me and the stallion. The stallion sighed and said,

"Silver, it's me. I'm Martin."

My hands dropped to my side and my mouth dropped open. I pointed at him and then at myself.

Twilight huffed and said, "Take him outside and explain would you?"

Well she certainly wasn't under the influence of something to like me more. Her tone was nearly seething with venom. Martin, now as a stallion led me outside. We sat down on the grass, and I waited for him to explain.

He eventually started speaking, "Well, now you know what spell we were looking up."

"Did it hurt? Or does it feel really weird now?"

"Well it did a little, and ya it feels as weird as you would expect. Are you weirded out by this?"

I shrugged, "I was just surprised is all. I wasn't expecting this after everything else. So you and Twilight eh?"

"Well, I mean we really hit it off well when I was human before you arrived. But as you know she had an issue with the age thing. When we found out that we could convert me and age me, well she expressed her opinion quite physically. That wasn't the best experience."

I laughed and then said, "I know what you mean."

Martin looked at me and said,

"I hadn't realized you were involved with anypony."

"Neither did I till tonight."

"Was it that Rose mare?"

"Yep. Took me by total surprise."

"So… how did it go?"

"I vomited."

"Ouch…"

"Yep."

"How did she take that?"

"Oh she didn't see me do it. Luckily I was able to get away first."

"So what are you going to do about it?"

"I really don't know man. I'm so lost it isn't even funny. Maybe I'll just avoid her like the plague."

Martin shook his head, "That isn't a very good idea."

I looked at him, "Why not?"

"Well besides the obvious? Ponies here have a weird look on things like that. Basically if you get them started, they nearly have to finish it with you."

I gulped. She had been serious about the tomorrow thing.

"Did you ever… start Twilight?"

"Oh no. After she kissed me the first time I told her I would rather be a pony than continue on."

"Well crap."

"I'm guessing things got out of hand."

"You could say that."

"Well you can either man up, or run like hell."

For some reason this seemed hilarious. The entire situation I was in even. I've been told that the entire world is in danger, and that I could drop dead any moment, and I was worried about a mare. I let out a great roar of laughter, and couldn't bring myself to stop. I had always imagined I would never get into situations like this. Where I would be having issues with a romantic interest. Back on Earth I had avoided relationships at all costs.

When my laughter died down I said,

"Well I might just choose the running option. I can't see myself doing the other option."

"You could let Twilight transform you into a pony. Then your body would probably be much more willing."

"I was more worried about my mental state of health. I don't think that certain body part will be an issue. Besides no way am I turning into a pony. I'm keeping my hands thank you."

Martin pointed at his horn, "But you might get one of these. You could do magic. Or you might get wings."

News flash, I can do magic. I have yet to accomplish the flying aspect though.

"Not worth it. I like my hands to much to let them go."

"I'm out of ideas then."

I stood up and said, "Well I don't want to keep you from Twilight. She seemed pretty started when I walked in."

Martin blushed and stood up as well. He was even shorter now that he was a pony. It was kind of weird knowing at one point he had been human, but I would get over it. He went inside the library and closed the door. There was no way I was going to go in there the rest of tonight.

I walked around the town for a little bit wondering where I should go. Rose had offered me a place to sleep, but I got the feeling sleep was the last thing on her mind. Besides going back would just be tempting fate.

I supposed I could just sleep outside again. I would miss the comfort of a blanket though. Or the comfort of anything really. The sun had cast its final rays, and the moon was rising. I stared up at it and was mesmerized by its light. It seemed to infuse me with something, I can't say what though. I was tempted to try and grab the light from the moon. Not sure how that would work, but it sounded like a great idea. I ignored the pull of the moon, and headed towards the hill where I first arrived. When I reached the top, I laid down on the grass.

Until I eventually drifted asleep, I stared at the moon. Maybe it was because Luna was using magic to move it, but that thing felt weird. It gave off this odd vibe that flowed through me. Not a powerful vibe, or a weak one. It just made me feel, odd.

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