Blue Syringe

You know, I'm going to start thinking more positively about this.

I'm still alive, not in prison, not exiled and still have an avenue forward.

I mean the avenue is through a frozen mountain range with limited supplies and if I run out of them, I am most likely dead.

But it's an avenue forward!

Managed to leave the cave when light was just creeping over the mountain-tops about three hours by my estimations.

My leg still hurts, which isn't helping with the speed, but I was able to redo my bandages and splint in such a way that there is a lot less pressure on it.

Guards are still probably an issue but my mentality going forward with that is if they spot me then I am screwed anyway, it's not like I can run away and I can't imagine they are going to have issues tracking me.

Looking around, I find myself in some quite nice sun-rays warding off the chilling cold while I walk along a mostly flat valley floor.

You know if I do leave the country, I should make it a warmer climate that I head too.

Probably could get away with making my services more public and then my clients could rest in some lovely place for a period of time, I think that Equestria is the only country to my awareness that necromancy is strictly prohibited though my understanding of aspects of the law is very limited,

Actually that sounds quite nice, at least I might be able to spend some time sleeping.

Saying that, my mind keeps going back to what on earth was going on with my dreams last night.

It felt so… fuzzy? Like when you look at a bright light too long and then your vision gets spots all over it.

And I can't remember any images from it, I genuinely feel like it was just somepony speaking.

Maybe it was a headache, I've read reports of similar medical phenomena with headaches.

Yeah, probably something like that.

I think I can see something moving in the sky.

I glanced behind me as I saw a shadow moving across the slope and then noticed it in the sky.

I try to stick close to the rock face, I am now eternally glad my coat isn't a colour that would stick out and while I can see the hair dye already start to come out of my hair, it's still quite dark.

Looking around, I notice a cave opening that isn't that deep but seems to have several clusters of rocks I might be able to hide behind.

As quick as I can hobble, I make my way over without incident, though I do notice the figure has lowered in the sky.

I get into the cave and noticing nothing seems to be in here as well, I decide to lay behind some rocks.

Hopefully they just buzz away and leave me to it.

I hear the sounds of hooves hitting rock about fifty meters away.

Oh come on!

Turning my head towards the back of the cave, I hurriedly looked around for another entrance in the hope of escaping this.

There is none.

Sod positivity, the world hates me!

"You around here?" I hear a stallion call out.

I hold my breath and try to press my body into merging with the stone floor.

"Come on, I know you're here. Let's not waste time" the stallion calls out again.

Well I am going to make it so easy for you, I'll come out of here kicking and screaming.

"BOO!" I hear another voice say in the valley, to no reaction.

"Yeah yeah, you can keep trying it Snowpetal, it ain't happening." the first voice says.

"One day I'll get you, mark my words" the second voice says.

"They are marked, now stop being an idiot. Seen anything yet?" the first voice continues.
"Some patches of blood from the incident, some scraped rocks. I'm pretty confident she didn't get out of the range yet, looks like she's moving by hoof but I am not confident we are going to be able to find her like this. At one stage, her wounds are going to heal and if what the elements said is true, then she knows how to care for them and checking each nook and cranny in a whole mountain range is going to require at least thirty guards doing double shifts. I'd suggest a divining spell but I've spotted a lot of patches of iron around, tends to interrupt spells and even if it gets through it has a bunch of interference." the second voice explains.

"Good points, I hadn't thought about the iron myself. Forgot you did that theoretical magical studies course." the first voice says, with a tone

"Was aiming for a comfortable guard job within the canterlot elite, I hear they even let you stay in their manors during your shifts! But apparently according to our ex-commander, bear in mind before he ran off to go rule a very comfortable city, that I was too valuable for a job like that."

"Crying to the choir here, but trying to steer this conversation back to the point. I got confirmation from the other two that they've sent off the elements back to Canterlot about half an hour ago and we are supposed to meet with the reinforcements to plot where we've searched on the map back towards the town."

With the sound of order, I noticed the second voice say in a more professional tone "Yes sir!"

Hearing the sounds of what I think are two sets of wings taking off, I take a few moments in case they decide to look backwards and then I stand up.

Well that was lucky.

Good to know that divining spells get interrupted by iron, maybe I should start bringing chunks of iron with me.

Though that does sound heavy.

Also, I should probably stop just standing here. It sounds like there are a lot of guards that are going to start looking for me.

With a generous dose of numbing agent injected into my leg, I actually made some decent progress after the brief liaison with the guards.

I hope it's enough.

I think it's been about four hours since then and it certainly feels like I've managed to travel several miles.

Makes me hungry for my half of a dried carrot for today but I must save that for now, even if I really want to eat it.

Damn tempting, I can tell you.

But alas, according to my mental math on a rationing equation that I think I've got correct, though I am hoping I read that out of a medical textbook and not a fantasy novel, if I eat my half a carrot at sundown then I shouldn't feel that hungry until day ten.

And I am supposed to only have six days left in travelling, so will have plenty of food left.

I am putting a blocker on the sadness that tried to creep up when I thought about doing this for six more days.

That's future Blue's problems.

Same thing as getting back into my house, that's also a future blue's problem.

I have some spare keys stored in some places but not having my main set is going to be an issue.

And my damn key charms are gone.

I don't think they can get anything from my keys, it was pretty easy asking them for a set of unbranded ones when I'd asked the key cutters for a pair and it's not like the keys had a street or number on them.

And it's not like the lock was going to stop them from getting into my house anyway, I just have them to make sure nopony tries to rob the place when I was travelling.

What happened to the first place I ever lived when I ran away was a run down shed I'd rented from the owner before I had got enough money to live anywhere and one day I got back and all my bits and several pieces of some rare medical supplies I had were taken.

The starting years on this whole thing were rough, I think even as perilous as things are now I still wouldn't trade it for then.

This mountain trek is really bringing out the old memories, if I am not careful I'll start introducing myself as Blue again.

Though I am not going to do much introducing for a while, unless I want to start talking to the various rocks.

Their conversation is a bit stiff, sadly.

Well the rest of the day was genuinely quite boring.

At least the guards from before gave some excitement but endless gray slabs of stone really get boring to look at and you can't really look at anything above you because there are more mountains.

The terrain used to have these beautiful huge red,almost rusty looking, patches piercing the stone colour but that seems to have disappeared over the hours.

I've seen nothing else about the guards that were hunting me, I ain't getting comfortable but maybe their re-grouping has given me enough time to get away.

As it had started hitting nighttime, I looked around for a cave but none seemed to fit the bill so I've nestled myself into a small alcove for the night, I think that the rain shouldn't be able to hit me from the angle I am at but if necessary, i can see a place I can go to that has less moving space sadly.

I put my head on what's left of my bag and find myself drifting off.

Opening my eyes, I find myself in a blueish void.

I can't feel anything below me and when I look down at myself, I look translucent.

Am I falling? It doesn't feel like it but I've got no idea.

Glancing around I can see twinkles of light, kinda like stars, in the distance but no matter how much I try to move myself closer nothing seems to change.

Well, at least it's not more stone I suppose.

I hear a rush of… something?

It sounds familiar.

I look around and after a few moments, I look down.

I see a flurry of snow heading downwards underneath me.

A voice around me says "Beautiful to see from a distance is it not? A force of nature comprised of one of the weakest materials on the planet that cannot be stopped, at least once it gets going."

I glance around once more, not seeing anypony and call out "What's going on? Where am I?"

"I are glad to see the connection fairs better this night, I barely felt your presence previously." I hear the voice say "though to your second question, tis is answer I believe we both would like to know."

I feel the hairs raise on the back of my neck at the end of my sentence.

I don't know why but I need to be careful here.

"Who are you?" I ask, I need more information here before I can do anything.

"I are not surprised you do not recognise us but we had hoped otherwise. Very well, I will show you my form" I see a flash of darkness, not sure how darkness can flash but in this void apparently its possible, and I see a figure standing there.

An alicorn figure.

Oh Equestria, Its Luna.

"I sense recognition" Luna says "I think I recognise you, but only by name."

I try to pull backwards, trying to get anywhere else.

Luna steps closer and says "Blue Syringe, I'd like to ask some questions."

Author's Note

Three chapters in three days!

Yeah, taking a break for this week after this otherwise I am going to burn out...

Well actually, lets see how I feel tommorow XD

Thought I could sneak in the interrupted dreams last Blue chapter but you all picked that up straight away, need to hide my setup better XD anyway its luna