The Assistant: Release

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It was a terrible night. My mind was assaulted by constant images of the defiled Luna and that sick grin. I could not meditate with the image flashing every minute. I just stared at the sky in constant thought. It has been a while since I could stop and think about stuff.

“You can come out now Twilight.”

I hear a small gasp from the purple unicorn. She was standing in the balcony doorway watching me. She thought I couldn’t tell.

“Are you okay?” She asks.
“I’m… fine.”
I hear her step towards me slowly. Her hoofs making small clops with every step.
“Are you sure?”
I don’t respond

She finally makes it to my side. I kept my eyes on the sky. Any sign of trouble from the moon or stars would make me rush to the castle. Twilight joined me, but still with a little concern.
“Why are you staring at the night sky?”
“……… reasons.”
She slams her hoof on the deck. I look over a little to see her looking at me with a stern look. I quickly look back to the sky.
“Assistant!”
I look for a few more seconds before turning my attention to Twilight. She still had the same stern look.
“You never say anything when I ask questions!”
She looks me in the eye with the same look. I can see in her eyes that there is only one way to stop it. I breathe in deeply before turning fully towards her.
“Okay…. Ask away.”

She loses her stern look and looks a little confused.
“What do you mean?”
I close my eyes and bend my head down.
“Ask me anything and I will answer it for you.”
I open my eyes and look at her. She now looks very happy. If there is one thing I learned about Twilight over the time I spent with her, it’s that she loves to get answers.
“Really!?” She asks with very bright eyes.
I smile a little at her joy.
“Yes. But there might be ones I can’t answer yet.”
She began to clap her front hooves together.
“Hooray! Hold on!”
She jumped up and ran into the library. She quickly came back out with a quill, ink, and a scroll floating ahead of her. She places the ink down and had the quill and scroll positioned in front of her. I chuckle a little at the enthusiasm shown in her face.
“Okay, let’s start simple. How old are you?”
“Well, I am about one thousand, sixty-one in my years which are the same as yours.”
She quickly scribbles down on her scroll.
“Okay, now how do you use your magic?”
“Oh that’s simple. I was granted the ability to pick up many abilities when I started, and over time, I learned many tricks senses, and skills.”
“Oh, that’s neat!”
She continues her writing.
“Now, how do you know when a problem is happening in a different dimension?”
“Ah, now that is also a skill I got over time. I got it about 130 years after I started doing this.”
“Okay.”

She dips the quill in the ink and continues.
“What are some other senses you have?”
That one was a tough one. I have so many that it could take days to say them all with some description.
“Well, I have the main five which most living things have, but I also have advanced versions of those along with multiple senses of danger, distrust, lying, and loads more.”
She looked up from her scroll. She looked disappointed by that answer.
“Is that it? What about that book?”
I exhale deeply before making a move. I slowly reach for my left chest pocket and flick it open. I reach in and pull out a small worn book with a large symbol on the front. To her, it was a symbol that looked like a square with one side missing and a big x in the middle. She looked at the book with small amazement. She lowered her quill and scroll down a little. She began to reach out to it with her hoof. I quickly pulled it back.

“Sorry, no touching.”
“What!? Why!?”
“It has an effect when someone or something touches it. It would flood your mind with everything it’s seen, and trust me, that’s bad.”
“Oh. But what does it look like inside?”
I bring it back to me and flick to the first page. I hold it out to show her. She looks at the page a while. She tilts her head and squints her eyes but she still can’t make it out.
“All I see are small scribbles.”
“Those are all the things I have learned and have seen in text. Almost a thousand years of knowledge compressed onto a single page!”
“Whoa! But how did you write all that in the book?”
“It writes itself as I travel! Pretty convenient.”

She looked even more amazed at that. She tried again to reach out to touch it, but I quickly pull it back.
“Ah! Like I said, it would most likely destroy your mind.”
I put it back into my pocket.
“How do you know? How come only you can handle all that information?”
I look over to her once I got the button back into place.
“Well I learned all these things slowly and over time, but this book would instantly zap your mind with all that knowledge in a second! It could overwhelm you.”
“Oh…”
She slowly picks up her quill and scroll and writes down some more.
“I think I will answer one more question for you Twilight.”
She stopped writing and looked up.
“Aw! But I have so many more!”
I wave my hand at her.
“I know, I know, but the more questions I answer, the more you’ll have.”
“Well, okay.”
She looked down at the scroll and thought for a minute. Finally, she looked back up to me.
“Do you know why your hand pulsed a red energy?”
Her question was a shock to me. I would have thought she would have forgotten about that. I tried my best to keep a straight face.
“…….. No.”
She stopped and looked up.
“You don’t know why?”
“Nope. Must have been some sort of energy disperse or something.”
She looked at me a little disappointed about my answer.
“Well, it’s getting late Twilight and you need your sleep.”
She rolled up the scroll with her magic and picked up the ink.
“You’re right.”
She lets out a large yawn followed with a small exhale.
“Time to get some sleep! Goodnight Assistant! And thanks for answering some of my questions!” She says with a large smile.
I smile back in return.
“You’re welcome! Now go on.”

She slowly walked in and closed the door behind her. I made sure she was out of sight before I turned back to the edge of the balcony. I looked back up to the sky and continued my night. All I could think was how I lied to Twilight. All I have to do now is hope. Hope nothing bad happens. Hope that nothing goes wrong.

Hope….