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I continued reading on. There was a small side note under the picture that was written in a pen. The bites of a Timberwolf can cause an infection more deadly than just it's sharp bite. The infectious bacteria has been known to cause sepsis.

The world floated around my head. Sepsis...sepsis. "Hey Twi," I said looking down to her. "Do you have any medical guides?"

"Hmm.." Her horn became surrounded by her purple magic. A thick red and white book floated over to us and was set down beside me.

"Thanks." I said turning it over and opening from the back. I flipped through the pages backwards until I found the letter S in the glossary. "S...s...s... Aha, here we go." I thought finding it. "S,e...s,e...Sepsis; page three-forty-one." I flipped through the pages with my magic until I landed on the page. At the bottom of the page printed in blue was what I was looking for.

Sepsis- a blood poisoning - an autoimmune response to bacterial infection that creates clots in the blood stream.

On the next pages was a diagram of a ponies internal organs.

Sepsis initially attacks the heart and lungs, but it eventually affects brain function, causing agitation, confusion, and hallucinations.

Below it was a small caption.

Sepsis has a 40% mortality rate. However, the percentage increases with delayed treatment.

There was a knock at the door, both me and Twilight turning to it in sync. I closed the book and hopped up to my hooves, making my way over to it. I opened the door to see Applejack standing on the other side.

"Uh, hey Applejack whats up?" I asked a little surprised at her appearance.

"Uh, howdy mister. Is James, and Twilight, and all them here?' She asked not knowing who I was.

"Oh, ah ha ha. Very funny AJ." I said sarcastically.

"I didn' mean ta be funny if'n it upsets you." She said plainly. "I jus' wanted to know if ma friends were here."

"Seriously?" I asked as my brow furrowed. "You really don't know who I am?"

"Nope."

I opened my mouth to say something, but stopped myself and looked over to Twilight. She rolled her eyes and smiled, having heard the entire on the conversation. I looked back to AJ. "So just what did you want to tell them?"

"Well, I was gonna invite 'em over fer lunch." She explained.

"Lunch sound good to you?" I asked looking back to Twilight.

She nodded and closed her book, standing up.

"Great, then I guess were going to lunch." I said walking out around Applejack. I could see Spike walking up the pathway. "C'mon Spike, we're goin' to lunch." I said walking past him.

"Cool. Where?" He asked turning around and following me.

"AJ's"

Applejack and Twilight stood outside the doorway to the library, watching me and Spike walk away. "Wait, that was..."

"Mmhmm." Twilight nodded.

"Gosh, and I really thought..."

"Yep."

"He cleans up pretty good." She said with a 'not bad' sort of expression.

"I know." Twilight said smiling.

"You see Kian while you were out?" I asked while Spike walked beside me.

"Nope."

"Damn. Oh well." I sighed. "What do you think Spike? Did Rarity do a good job."

"Yeah." He sighed dreamily.

"I wonder what Kian's up to right now."

He walked along the outside of town through the open grassy fields, a soft breeze blew by, wavering the grass around him. It was a beautiful day and he did what he usually did: explore. So he walked on though the grass. A short distance away was the edge of a thick forest, one darker than he'd ever seen. Something like that would have been 'same-old, same-old' for his older brother. But for him, it was different. He'd never been in a forest or the woods before. Never been camping or on nature trips. Mom always didn't listen when he asked about doing for field trips or vacations, now he knew why.

He'd always imagined what it would be like, but it never involved piss wrenching creepiness. It was so thick and dark, all he could see was the outermost trees and shrubbery. Just the sight of that alone was enough to shoot down any thought of entrance. How could his brother stay sane living in something like that for the majority of his life.

He decided to push it out of mind starting to get the heebie-jeebies. He could not to far away was one of Twilight's friends homes. What was her name? Fluttershy? He could see the yellow Pegasus as she tended to her animals. He'd already met one of Twilight's friends, might as well get to know the other ones too...

We were just outside Sweet Apple Acres, making our way down the dirt road. Me and Twilight walked side-by-side, Spike rode on her back. Applejack walked on the other side of me, a few feet away. We made our way up the pathway to the farmhouse, a picnic table set up with a bunch of apple based deserts covering it. Around it sat the large red stallion and the old green mare. Big Mac and Granny Smith.

"Wow, I uh, don't know where to start." I said as we sat down around the table.

"Oh yeah, apple, apple, or apple. That's a tough decision." Bleak said sitting down in the empty spot to my right.

"And I thought my day might start going a little better. So much for that." I thought trying to pick what to try out. I settled on a piece of apple crumble to my right, levitating it over.

"So just who's this big fella?" Granny Smith asked looking over to me.

"Actually Granny, he's the one from yesterday." Applejack stated matter-of-factually.

"Is that right? Well it's nice to meet you, sonny. Ya look a mighty bit different then how I figured. What are ya, one 'o them Canterlot ponies?" She asked.

"No, but the way I grew up I definitely know my way around a tree." I said looking down at my plate. "And believe me, I didn't really imagine myself looking like this either."

"Well ya sure know how ta bring in apples. Sorry ya got buried in them after all yer hard work." She said sincerely.

"What's she talking about?" Twilight asked with a worried look.

"I kinda...maybe...got buried in apples yesterday." I said smiling sheepishly.

"Eeyup." Big Mac nodded.

"We had ta dig 'em out. When we did find 'em he was out cold." Applejack said looking over to me.

"Yeah, remember all the fun we had?" Bleak asked creepily. My back tensed trying to ignore him, the memory

"Ya didn't tell her?" Applejack asked

"No, I didn't because I didn't want to worry her." I said through a tight smile.

Twilight moved her hoof over to mine under the table. I looked over to her from the corner of my eyes to see her soft smile.

"This was something I wanted to avoid, but you took it better." I sighed looking down at my food. "This looks great."

"Thank ya." Applejack said proudly.

"Well, let's eat."