Philosopher of Earth

+++ Ponyville hospital, two days later +++

Silver Star awoke with a start. The last thing she remembered was leaving Twilight’s castle for the Apple Families orchard... Everything else that night was blurred out.

"What happened?" she asked, hoping somepony was nearby to answer.

"Beats me, you were just carried in here a couple of days ago and was out for most of the time..." said a strange pony. Silver looked towards the speaker, a light blue pegasus with  a rainbow colored mane, she had a cast on her wing.

"Where are we?" asked Silver.

"Wow, did you knock your head or something? We're at the hospital!" exclaimed the pegasus.

"Hospital?" Silver looked over her chest at her body, no bandages... Then why... She saw the cast on her right hoof. She suddenly realized it hurt, alot.

"Ow!" she yelled. A doctor ran into the room as soon as she cried out.

"Is there anything wrong Ms. Star?" he asked.

"My hoof hurts... A lot..." said Silver.

"After a break like that, I'm not surprised!" said the doctor.

"Break?"

" 'Ey doc! I don't think she remembers anything!" shouted the pegasus. The doctor sighed, clearly wanting the blue pegasus out of his ward.

"You, had a major bone break in your right hoof, I'm told it had even pierced the skin!" said the doctor as he gave Silver some pain killers.

"How..." started Silver, but then Twilight burst into the room.

"Oh good! She's awake!" she exclaimed. Twilight and the doctor must've had a prearranged agreement as the doctor quickly backed out of the room.

"What... How..." stumbled Silver.

"Okay, before you ask any questions. Yes, we caught him, yes you were injured in the conflict, yes he is in a secure location, and you've been asleep for two days." stated Twilight.

"Him?" asked Silver, confused about not calling the alien "it".

"I've identified his species, and he's harmless... For the most part." said Twilight. Silver thought for a moment.

"How'd I break my leg?" she asked.

"You're sure you want to hear?" asked Twilight.

"Yes!"

"Fine," Twilight took a deep breath. "The alien, who we now know is a human, was running through the orchard. You, must've thought it would've been a good idea to tackle him while he was dodging magic blasts from the rest of the unicorns. I guess it worked as we lost sight of both of you as you two fell down. Then, we guess that you chased him through the woods, and somehow you tripped and broke your leg, really bad."

"Define really bad." dead-panned Silver.

"I could see bone poking through your skin."

"Then how..." asked Silver looking at her normally shaped hoof.

"Well..." Twilight took a deep calming breath. "It wasn't any pony who saved you."

"What?!" asked Silver, in disbelief.

"The human was the one who stopped the bleeding and set your bone straight." Twilight admitted. Silver could not believe it, the thing she had chased, almost killed in the Everfree Forest with magic blasts... Had saved her?

"Can I speak to...him..." Silver stumbled over the gender pronoun as she was used to calling the human "it".

"I'm afraid even I haven't talked to him yet..." said Twilight sadly. "He fell asleep after he helped you and hasn't woken up yet..." Silver was a little disappointed. "I've had Princess Luna enter his dreams, but she won't say anything about them..." continued Twilight. "Anyhow, I don't think I would let you talk to him yet anyway, you've got to get that leg fixed before I'll let you near him. Good seeing you Rainbow..." Said Twilight as she started walking out of the room. She then left Silver alone with the also wounded pegasus.

"Good seeing you too!" called the pegasus, then she saw the look on Silvers face. "Ah, don't worry... The food's not that bad..." stated the pegasus, now nose deep in a book. That wasn't what Silver was worrying about at all, she had some pretty disgusting food in the wild and never complained... No, this... human, whatever that was, had saved her, AFTER, she had tried to kill or capture it, him, her, it, whatever it was. And why was it still sleeping? Wasn't she the one who got seriously injured?

+++ Extract from the personal journal of Princess Luna. +++

After the dream dive the night the human was captured, Twilight wanted me to visit its dreams, still unaware that I had already visited them twice. But I obliged the newly crowned Princess, and went into the humans dreams again. He didn't speak to me, all he did was play on that strange organ that doesn't sound like an organ... But each time I visited, he appeared weaker and weaker than before. I could see the lights in his eyes dimming... While I knew it couldn't be any injury sustained during his capture, Twilight had examined him and found him with barely a scratch, I suspect that it is some sort of mental trauma that is causing him to fade. The sustained act of keeping a beast locked up perhaps?