Oh, Sweet Silence

Fluttershy walked into the warm library, breathing in the smell of old paper and leather binding. As soon as she walked into the front hall, she felt her body begin to thaw off. It felt nice being all warm and toasty, instead of being a pony-popsical like she was becoming outside.

"Ok Fluttershy, what I need you to do is stand here and watch Owlicious. Its not hard. Plus, you love animals!" She exclaimed. "Hehehe... can you do that?"

Fluttershy smiled. Twilight was right, and Owlicious was a wonderful pet to take care of, she never need much attention, and slept most of the time. Fluttershy would watch her anytime.

"I'm just having a guest over to help me with some organization." Twilight mentioned.

"I could help with that..."

"Oh, no silly, hehe, your watching my owl!"

Fluttershy shrugged and walked over and sat on the wooden stool next to Owlicious's stand. The brown owl was already sitting on the stand, sound asleep. Twilight sat across the room, reading a book like she normally did.

Fluttershy grabbed a random book off the shelf behind her. The dusty leather cover read the faded black words "Pony Sociology", and from what she could see, many pages were ripped out. But, from the pages that were not torn out, Fluttershy could see writing in all of the page's margins. She didn't take the time to read the writing, but the pegasus four this situation very peculiar.

Minutes passed, and Fluttershy suddenly felt that someone was watching her. She looked at Owlicious, only to see the owl in deep sleep. The only other being in the room was Twilight. Fluttershy looked up, only to see the purple mare with her nose in a book. But, Fluttershy swore to herself that she saw the unicorn's eyes staring at her for just a split second.

More time passed. Fluttershy had to do something, anything to break the silence. She could not take sitting and doing completely nothing forever. She looked around the room and observed her surroundings. Everything was in its place, all tidy and orderly. But, something was missing... Spike.

Fluttershy coughed to get the unicorns attention. Twilight looked up from her book, eyes fixated on her friend, a smile growing on her face.

"You okay Fluttershy?" She whistled through her teeth, never letting her smile fade.

"Oh, nothing"

"Oh, okay." Twilight went back to her book.

"Actually, um, I was wondering... wheres Spike?

Twilight stared up from her book.

"Oh, hehehe, he was snowed in over at Rarity's."

"Oh..." Fluttershy responded. I bet he's happy about that! she thought.

There was a knock at the door. Twilight levitated her book onto the correct shelf, and stepped towards the door. Fluttershy wondered why Twilight would need an assistant to organize book, if the library was already so neat... perhaps some new books came in...

Caramel walked in the door, dressed up in his snow gear.

"Thank you for coming Caramel!"

"No problem."

The stallion looked around the room. Confusion showed in his eyes, Fluttershy guessed he was wondering where the books they were going to organize were as well.

"Follow me Caramel," Twilight beckoned to the tan pony.

"Uh, ok. Where are the books?"

"I said FOLLOW me..." Twilight preached.

Twilight walked up the staircase up into her bedroom. Caramel showed an expression that seemed even more confused then before. Twilight then used her magic to levitate the bookshelf in her room away from the wall. Behind it revealed a ladder that, from what Fluttershy could observe from her position, went below ground...

End of Chapter 2