Philosopher of Earth

+++ At the hopefully temporary home of Silver Star +++

Silver had been gone for nearly four hours. She walked up the stairs to check on Cheese. Much to her dismay, his door was open, and light was coming from the third bedroom.

"Celestia damn that human..." she whispered to herself. She looked into the room and saw Cheese sitting at the desk, reading as if she had never found him that morning. She coughed. Cheese whipped around. "Bed." ordered Silver as she pointed down the hall towards the humans bedroom.

"You got a new cast." He observed.

"Thank you for noticing... Bed." She replied. Cheese sighed and put down the book.

"Fine..." he moaned. He got up, stumbled into his room and closed the door behind him. Silver stood in the hallway for a few moments, making sure Cheese wouldn't sneak back out immediately. Silver sighed. I wonder if all humans act this way... She thought to herself.

+++ The next morning, Twilights' castle +++

The room was stuffy. It was fairly large over all, but somehow it was still seemed tight and close. Twilight was seated in the middle of the room, with scrolls of parchment and bundle of quills at the ready. I stood by a chalkboard. I extremely disliked chalkboards, mostly because of a former teacher who loved to scratch one... But that's one of my pet-peeves. It would have to make do... I'll try not to scratch it. Silver was sitting on a chair near the door.

"Cheese!" Twilight shouted. I realized I had dozed off for a few moments "Are you okay?" I shook my head to clear my mind, which WAS being more prone to clutter recently...

"I'm fine Twilight, I just spaced out for a minute..." I said nonchalantly.

"You were standing there for nearly ten minutes..." Silver said bluntly.

"Was I? Weird... Any way... After the emergence of microbes in Earth's early oceans..." I said, trying to move the lessons along.

"Cheese... I was calling to you for nine of those ten minutes..." Twilight stated. Huh... It felt like a few seconds of silence to me... Me zoning out is normal... But for me not to respond when I'm not listening to music or something? Or still standing? Not normal at all...

"I'm sure it's nothing... Merely staying up a bit late probably..." I said, trying to keep calm.

"He does stay up very late..." Silver murmured.

"Cheese, I stay up late all the time... And blacking out is not normal..." Twilight said. Curses, she was right... But I couldn't let on that it was abnormal. Who knew what sort of psychological hooey... I mean non-sense... like shock therapy, they had. Also... I would prefer to stay out of psychological hospital run by miniature horses, even if they were sentient aliens.

"It happens to me from time to time..." I lied. "Usually when I get deep into thought..." The best lies have a grain of truth in them.

"Oh." Twilight whispered. Silver on the other hand didn't look like she bought it.

"I've lived with you for a week now... And I've seen what you do when you have a 'deep thought'... And that isn't it." She said accusingly. Fuck, she saw through it...

"Trust me... No you haven't." I said, half telling the truth and half trying to convince them otherwise. I haven't had a clear deep thought since I arrived in Equestria... I should probally fi... Rectify that... Is my vocabulary slipping? Fuck, I didn't have time to think about it now... "Any way after the emergence of microbes in Earth's early oceans..."

+++ That night, the ramshackle house +++

Silver sat straight up in bed. Something had awoken her, but what was it? Suddenly the crack of thunder made her realize what was happening. The scheduled storm had arrived, and Silver was deathly afraid of lightning and thunder. She quickly ducked her head under the blanket.

"Nonononono..." she whispered into the darkness. "Come on Silver! You’re a fully grown mare! You shouldn't be afraid of a little light and noise!" she tried to encourage herself. Her words didn't hold water as lightning cracked overhead. "Eep!" she cried. She tried to hold her ground, but the next boom tore through her fragile courage against lightning. She suddenly sprang up and dashed to the nearest living thing, the human Cheese. As Silver burst through his door, she saw that he was sitting up in bed, leaning against the wall. She did not care however. She clung to him like a scared cartoon cat.

"A little afraid of lightning are we?" he asked after a moment.

"Shut up!" she shivered

"Make that a lot scared." he corrected himself. Another flash and boom. Silvers grip tightened. "Ow." said Cheese. He sighed. "Oh come on, it's not that scary..." he said. Silver was about to tell him to go buck himself, but a wave of thunder silenced her. Then she realized something.

"Wait... Are you listening for thunder??" asked Silver, unable to comprehend it.

"You could say that..." he replied.

"What the hay is wrong..." Silver began, only to be interrupted by another sonic boom.

"What's wrong with me? You'll have to narrow that down some." smiled Cheese. "When I was young, I was scared of lightning as much as everyone else. But then I realized, it's quite... enticing in its own way..."  He continued. Silver still clung to him like a scared cat. Cheese started patting her on the head, trying to calm her down. "It's not going to hurt you..." he whispered consolingly. He suddenly started hearing a wave of thunder approaching. "Here, listen to it get closer..." he said. Silvers ears perked up. The wave rolled smoothly over the house, and retreated into the distance. Her grip tightened slightly, but not as much. "That wasn't so bad was it?"

"Buck you." she stated.

"I suppose that is technically an answer..." he thought out loud. More thunder rolled overhead. Cheese sighed peacefully. Silvers grip however tightened. "You know, eventually you'll be unable to grip any harder." he stated.

"I don't care!" she yelled. Cheese aparantly saw no point in trying to reason with her.

"If you want I suppose you can stay the night in here... But no funny business!" Cheese said as he laid back down. Silver had no choice, if she were to keep her grip on him, and followed suit. Cheese was soon sleeping. Silver remained awake, keeping her limbs around him. She tried to see what Cheese had meant by "enticing" whenever thunder rolled overhead, but she couldn't do it. Eventually however, her limbs slackened, and she fell asleep.

+++ The Alien +++

After I fell "asleep" Silver eventually gave up and fell asleep as well. It was... Honestly weird sleeping with another living thing, even more so with a talking pony. While it was obvious that she was afraid of lightning/thunder... Her timing couldn't have been worse. She had assumed that I was staying up listening to the thunder. While not a lie, it wasn't exactly the truth ether... What had happened earlier today was... Fuck I can't remember the word! Unsettling! That's it! ... And it's getting worse... Anyway, it was unsettling. Recently, all of my thoughts have just seemed, muddy... I can't really explain it, they just aren't as they should be... And it's unnerving. I've always relied on thoughts and guessing what everyone else was going to do. If I could guess, I could react earlier, and just save a whole bunch of pai... Hassle... God dammit. If I couldn't think straight, I was... Fucking hell... GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER! ... I was, bluntly put, royally screwed. Ugh... I needed to get this cleaned up as fast as possible... If I didn't... Well... History has always, without fail, repeated itself...