The Rasp

Twilight is doing much better today! I was worried there for a moment, but today she's up and walking around. She hasn't gone outside or eaten anything, but she's talkative and that's a good sign. She's got this cough now that she seems to have gotten over night. She says she's not congested, and she doesn't sound congested, so she doesn't know what's causing it. It's this raspy, hissing choke of a cough that alternates between lung suffering horror and a strange clicking sound. Seriously, I've never heard her...ANYONE make a sound like that before. It's mega freaky.

Sometimes she goes into these scary fits of non-stop coughing. It sounds like she's trying to hack up a lung, and then she takes a huge breath like she were suffocating. I went to fetch Nurse Red Heart but she wasn't in. She was out making house calls or something. I haven't seen much of her since the party.

Twilight's been asking for medical books and symptom guides. I already know where this is going. This is going to be a repeat of that time she convinced herself she was a psychopath just by reading symptoms from a magazine. Every time Twilight gets her hooves on a book of medicine she's suddenly dying of anything and everything. She once convinced herself she had a terminal illness after stubbing her hoof on a stone outside.

At least this is familiar. After a few days everything will be back to normal, I'm sure of it!