Harmony gasped and panted for air as he stumbled into the front door of his small cottage. It was one of many small homes in the smallish village where he lived.
From the front it looked simple enough, a two story building with a door and a single window above it.
Inside though, the door opened up into a very homely little room, with a small table set out in front of a small cooking area.

Presently in the cooking area was Harmony's mother Erin Heartbeat, when she wasn't around the house she was caring for others in the village as a nurse of sorts, since the village wasn't quite large enough to have a hospital. She was a tan earth pony with a darker tan mane, her emerald eyes always seemed to have a certain joyful sparkle about them. She looked up from what she was doing before smiling warmly at the young colt who wheezed from the doorway.

Harmony put a hoof to his chest as he continued his exhausted gasping. After while he stumbled over to the table and plopped down on a stool, his head laying out on the table like a large orange dog.

"Did you and Soni have a nice time Harmony? You've been out there for hours", Harmony's mother asked as she brought over the soup she'd been cooking not long ago. Harmony, however, still reached out and levitated a spoonful of the steaming liquid to his muzzle immediately regretting the decision and quickly began chugging the orange juice that he found beside his bowl. Surely, he thought, his tongue had melted off, right?

Seeing as his tongue was still very there, Harmony concluded it was safe to speak and responded to Erin's question,"Yeah we had lots of fun! We-".

The colt stopped, a look of confusion drifted over his features. What HAD he done before he woke up? Harmony only seemed to remember bolting out his front door on his was to Soni's but, nothing after that.
"I- I'm not sure...", he closed his eyes in a last ditch effort to bring up the memory.

Nothing.

"Honey, is everything alright?", his mothers voice had taken on an edge of urgency. Harmony shrugged his shoulders and shook his head in response.

"No it's fine!", he said while giving his mother a thin smile. He could figure this out later,"Me and Soni played tag on the way here, but she always wins! Whenever I get close to getting her she just uses her wings to speed up!", the young colt threw his front hooves up in defeat.

Erin simply nuzzled her son before tapping softly on his horn,"Maybe if you practice your using that horn of yours you might not have to chase her at all!", Harmony grinned at the thought. "From what I know about magic, with enough practice, she won't even have a chance".

The day had passed quickly and the sky darkened to a deep purple, the stars just barely visible through the window in Harmony's bedroom.
The colt was just pulling up the covers when he remembered something, or rather the lack of something.
He still couldn't remember anything from before his waking under the tree. As he thought, he was hardly aware of his impending drowsiness until his eyes slid closed and he fell asleep once more.

That night he had a nightmare of being bullied in a dull world. And there, in his dream, there was no mother to tell him it was going to be fine.

Author's Note

Hey guys! Back with the second part of the second chapter! And sorry for the short chapter again. Writing things on your phone tends to shorten things drastically.