"Twilight, it's so good to see you awake!"

Twilight heard Luna's voice after the man's voice. Twilight stared at Luna, who was walking towards her now. Luna draped her large wing over Twilight's much smaller body, and gave her a little smile. "It has been a very chaotic couple of days, I must say. It has been so confusing, why, I think Discord might be a little jealous. How have you been feeling? I see you've found Rex."

Twilight's brain wasn't functioning at that moment. Her mind was racing from Rex, to what had happened before she woke up in the bed, to what was currently going on. Luna was tapped on the shoulder by the man. "Now Luna, I'm sure your friend has gone through quite a shock recently. The doctors sure looked terrified. Plus, she is in no shape to do much. How are you feeling, Twilight?" The man asked.

"Fine." Twilight finally responded, though she definitely didn't feel fine. She felt weak, and she was also starving.

"What caused those doctors to run so frightened like that, if I may ask?" The man asked.

"I didn't know what their intentions were, or who they were. You try waking up in a bed in an unknown room, with two people standing right outside and see how you like it."

"Twilight! This man here is our friend. What is with the rude tone?" Luna asked, obviously confused by Twilight's hostile tone. Twilight looked at her, a scowl resting on her face. Truth be told, she didn't know why she was in an upset mood, but she didn't stop it by any means.

"Are we friends? No. I've never met him. He's never met me. Maybe you have, but I was sitting in that damned bed, burning from the inside out from mana poisoning!"

"Twi-"

"-and where is Starlight? How do I know you haven't turned your backs on us like Celestia? You going to turn back into Nightmare Moon or something? How do I know he's trustworthy!"

Luna felt a surge of anger well up in her throat, but she didn't let it out. Whatever was ailing Twilight's mind was forcing her to say things she surely didn't feel. Luna looked at Anderson, who now had his arms folded in a questioning, yet intrigued manner. He didn't seem put off by her words one bit. Luna looked back at Twilight and shook her head. "Twilight, I do not know what has gotten you so upset, but you must go back to your room-"

"I'm not leaving this room! I'm staying right here, with Rex. You're welcome to try to get me out, but you'll fail!"

Twilight knew she couldn't stop Luna, or even the man from forcing her out of the room. The both of them knew it too, but Luna simply nodded. "Then you shall stay in this room. Nopony here is trying to force you to do anything you don't want to."

"You're damn right i'm not doing anything I don't want to!"

"Twilight-"

"Shut the FUCK UP!"

"TWILIGHT!" Luna shouted, her royal voice coming through a little. Twilight stared her down, but went silent. "What has gotten into you?! Anderson here had found us in the forest, willing to help tend to you and Rex, and you wake up and start causing a ruckus! I've never seen such a display of disrespect from you. I'm starting to think this world is poisoning you!"

"IT HAS!" Twilight shouted, stomping a weak hoof onto the ground. "You don't know what I went through! You're lucky, you know. You have me, Rex, and Starlight. I had no one! I was alone- and yeah, I am getting poisoned. That's what getting a knife slashed across your face does! That's what seeing the person you trusted all this time get beat in front of you does! That's what hearing that one of your friends was used and abused does! Do you know what that feels like!?"

"Perhaps not in-"

"NO! You don't!" Twilight interrupted. "You don't know what that feels like. You never will. It's funny- the two most powerful rulers in all of Equestria, and yet one becomes a killing machine, while the other is blindly naive! It's starting to make sense now. It's all starting to come to me. I miss my friends more than you know, Luna. I miss Spike, I miss my castle, I miss being able to just grab a book and read it in the corner of the library, but NO! I can't! Those days are gone- luxury, is gone."

"You know what I've finally realized, Luna?" Twilight continued, her eyes squinting at her verbal opponent. "You're weak."

Luna's face scrunched up at the words, before shaking her head. "Anderson had just told me earlier in the day that you eventually become like the kind that live on this planet. That you will be plagued by their rules. It seems you are no different. Perhaps Rex wasn't as good of a friend as you made him out to be. Perhaps, he was all you had. Perhaps, you were weak to trust a killer."

"Don't act like you haven't killed, Luna. I've read the forbidden history books."

"Oh? And do tell me, what it was that I fought for."

"Nothing." Twilight said with a smile. "You fought for nothing. In fact, you fought because you were upset that the people didn't treat you equal. You fought because you felt like you didn't belong, and that they didn't come to fear you like they feared your sister, my mentor. And, honestly, I see why that is now. You're despicable, Luna. No wonder the Moon was the only lover for you."

Before Luna could retaliate, Anderson stepped in front of her. "As much as I'm glad you two are getting back to knowing eachother, very well might I add, we must attend to other business. Twilight, do you perhaps have any requests? Painkillers, drinks, food?"

Twilight stared up at him, giving a wide smile to him. "Anything that you can get me, I'll be happy with. Thank you for being so well spoken, unlike my friend behind you."

Anderson gave an awkward smile, before nodding his head, and pulling Luna and himself out the door, closing the door with a small click. Luna stared at Anderson, a bit angry at what he had just done, but before she could speak Anderson instead spoke first. "I know, I know. You didn't get the last word. But what you are forgetting Luna, is that your friend is experiencing mass amounts of Trauma in a short period of time. She hasn't been here for as long as I have, and I understand that going through so much of that trauma so quickly will leave devastating effects."

"I don't get it though." Luna said, giving a loud sigh. "I've never seen her, or heard her speak like this. Ever."

"She's a different person now. You see that. The person she used to be is still stuck inside, somewhere, but it's all protected by the equivalent of a billion pieces of reinforced metal, just in the form of a mask, and emotion. You must remember, Luna, that you are no longer on your world. You are in a different world entirely, and the worst one of them all. She's gone through a lot, and eventually so will you. Don't let it swallow you whole."

"Like it has to her?" Luna asked.

"She hasn't been swallowed yet. You see how she is clinging to your friend, Rex? That means she isn't completely gone. Somewhere, somehow, she still cares for that man in that bed. The context doesn't matter. That feeling of friendship, or love, or whatever it may be shows that you're still alive. That you've got something worth living for. We've all got a motive, hm?"

Twilight stared at Rex, finding herself laying on the floor beside his bed. Her hooves were too weak to support her body any longer, and the manaburn inside of her was still hurting. It was definitely poisoning her at this point, but it wasn't so strong where it'd kill her. She felt that kind before, and it was much more painful than this. She chuckled at the memory. After the entire Tirek incident, and the 'party' afterwards, she felt like she was going to die.

Well, the doctors actually told her she would.

She wondered if Tirek would ever survive in a world like this. He was known for being greedy, which was almost every person on the planet here. Yet, would he be able to commit the crimes against nature like everyone else here had? She didn't know if he would. Sure, he was a 'villain,' but atleast villains were able to be redeemed. Somewhat. Atleast in Equestria, their motives were more tame than simply killing someone just to kill them.

Now that she thought of it, she hadn't seen any real death yet.

Sure, she was involved in countless fights, but even in dire events such as the Tirek event, or even the changeling invasion, there wasn't a single recorded casualty. There had been records in the past describing bloody wars, yet in recent times Equestria hadn't seen a single bloody war. Sure, wars that definitely affected people in negative ways, but nothing that would've had someone impaled with a ten foot spear.

She shook her head. It was time to stop thinking about home. It'd only make her more homesick, and definitely sick. She might be able to find a way home, but she didn't know if that's where she belonged now. If her friends found out what she was like here, would they be able to be friends with her?

And here she was, on the first few days here on the Rimworld, thinking that eating meat would've made her friends hate her. Now, it was almost a guarantee that her friends would've hated her. Or, atleast disliked her thought process. But, what would they know?

"They don't know anything. They don't know real pain. They don't know what I've gone through..."

Perhaps she was being too crazy and insecure. She shook her head once more. She just told herself to stop thinking about her friends and home, right? Why was she continuing this path in her mind that would only cause her great amounts of pain?

"I miss reading..."

She whispered to herself. She missed all of life's normal benefits. Like being able to get a hot meal every night, and being able to sleep comfortably without having to think about what might happen tomorrow. Where you could get a nice, big book with a red smooth cover, and all you had to worry about was a presentation that you had to perform the next day. She knew she took those things for granted, even back then, but she didn't know exactly how much she took them for granted.

She tried to remember all of the books she read, ones where she could practically recite every word on it, yet she couldn't remember. She knew she had the memories, the knowledge, but it was as if it was locked away behind a safe in her mind. There were too many things going through her head at that moment.

"When will there not be?" She asked herself.

"Guess never..." She answered shortly after.

Everything's perfect!

Atleast, that's what Starlight thought. She wasn't so sure what Luna would think of the place. It didn't matter what she thought anyways- she got furniture! She did it all by herself, and she was damn proud of it. Luna was off having fun and doing all that, well she loses out on deciding what furniture they get!

Yeah! Starlight was the Furniture Wizard!

"Furniture Wiza...rd..."

Sounded much better in her head.

She flopped onto their new couch and stared up at the ceiling. What was taking Luna so long? The sun was almost at the horizon. It was definitely late afternoon, and all she was able to do was wait! She could go out and explore the city but- by herself?! Who do people think she is, crazy?

No, she's going to do the safe thing, and sit right there on that couch.

Ah, yes. Comfort.

"At least I get to sit on this super comfortable couch while she gets to stand up right and deal with... whatever it is. I get to laze about and do whatever I want!" And whatever she wanted, she could definitely have! The only problem was, there wasn't much she wanted to do with the very small amount of options she had.

"Ugh... Life is so boring- almost makes me feel like 'our town' had more things to do. And it was in the middle of nowhere!"

Here's to hoping that Luna would hopefully get off soon.

Author's Note

Shorter chapter.

Sorry I can't stay consistent with the wordcount. I just never really cared about reaching a certain wordcount per chapter. If the chapter feels like it needs to end for me- it ends.