Being Lyra

"C'mon, we must not linger, we have no need to stay any longer and we're not going to gather any more evidence of this mystery here," Princess Celestia said as she beckoned towards Bon Bon.

"Your highness, with all due to respect, but I don't think there is a way out, you said it yourself, we cannot until the next summer solstice,"

"Who said anything about the summer solstice?" Princess Celestia said as she grinned.

Princess Celestia levitated the scroll over to Bon Bon in which she started to hold with her mouth, then Princess Celestia walked over to one of the four corners of the room with Bon Bon behind her. Princess Celestia placed her right fore-hoof onto one of the bricks on the brick wall with applied pressure. A small section of the wall slid back and then the left and right side of the small section of the wall which was spread parallel to each other revealing an open passageway.

"Why didn't we just come from there to get in here?" Bon Bon asked.

"Because you can only leave the archives using this passageway," Princess Celestia replied retracting her hoof from the wall.

The passageway smelt like Bon Bon's basement, dust was scattered along almost every corner, it was soggy and moist one the ground, and the fact that it looked like a dungeon wasn't very reassuring either.

"Couldn't you just use magic to teleport us out of here?" Bon Bon complained before taking another look inside.

"I would if I could, but the magic protecting the archives is far more advanced than even the power of the Elements of Harmony, let alone my magic capabilities," Princess Celestia replied.

The first step into the passageway was not so pleasant for either of them, especially for Bon Bon. Princess Celestia easily got over the thought of the room being disgusting and started galloping in a hurry. With the thought of peril for me, Bon Bon got over the room's disgusting sight as well and started galloping behind Princess Celestia.

Without stopping either due to their disgusting surroundings or being tired from galloping, both Princess Celestia and Bon Bon made it to an exit of the, what seemed to be endless, passageway. With a similar entrance to the passageway at the other side of the giant door that lead to the archives, both Princess Celestia and Bon Bon nearly stumbled when coming out of the passageway, both smelling rather repulsive but the princess remained as professional as ever as if she wasn't smelling at all. Bon Bon could hardly smell it considering she is covered in the stench and has been in what she could consider as her hell.

When Bon Bon got the first glimpse of what was to be revealed, a corpse dangled upon the door which originally sealed Bon Bon and Princess Celestia behind. Bon Bon was the first to gallop towards the corpse in tears.

"No, we're too late!" Bon Bon said as she began snivel.

"Bon Bon, don't worry, had your friend truly died the contract would of faded into oblivion, Neither Lyra or Shane have died," Princess Celestia stated placing a hoof over the shoulder of Bon Bon.

"So, she's not dead?" Bon Bon asked.

Princess Celestia nodded.

"Although she is not dead, we'll still need to revive her to good health before we can even figure out a way to separate these two," Princess Celestia said as she retracted her hoof.

Bon Bon nodded in agreement as Princess Celestia walked away to gather some medical assistance. After nearly an hour, a medical team dispatched from Canterlot's hospital arrived to assist the sobbing mare.

It was almost midnight and the sight was not pretty; imagine this: an entire team of medical staff pulling with their hooves locked onto each other, Bon Bon, a few unicorn medical staff members, and Princess Celestia using her magic all trying to pull one unicorn's fore-hooves out of a door.

"Argh!" Everypony grunted.

With several pants, nopony could pull the mare's fore-hooves out of the door.

"This... isn't working," Bon Bon said almost out of breathe.

Almost everypony there was out of shape and fell to the floor, even the unicorns trying to help were out of shape.

"We can't... examine the... patient... if she is stuck to a door," One of the pony medics said trying to catch their breath.

"Princess Celestia, has the door ever opened for an elite before?" Bon Bon asked.

"Only once, but for them to get stuck onto the door is quite puzzling, it certainly didn't happen last time," Princess Celestia replied.

"Well, at this rate, there is no way we can just remove her, she's adhesively stuck in there," Bon Bon complained.

"We'll have to come back tomorrow, it's already 11:48 at night your highness," One of the pony medics said grabbing their things.

"It's almost the last night?!, Lyra being inert and in a coma during the situation isn't going to make this any easier for us," Bon Bon complained.

"Bon Bon, just get some rest, we'll think of something in the morning," Princess Celestia said.

"But..." Bon Bon said only to finally give the situation a rest to allow themselves time to figure it out the next day.

"Bon Bon, you can stay in one of my guest rooms, thank you for your help and it would be very generous if you came again tomorrow morning, now I've got a sun to lower," Princess Celestia said dismissing the medical staff.

Bon Bon spent the next few hours grabbing several buckets of water from the well and pouring them on herself hoping to get the stench off her along with the grime all over her body. With very little luck, she still smelt terrible and most of the grime did not come off. With a soaking wet mane, a wet fur coat, and a rather angry tone suiting her very poorly, she trudged back to the castle with what little energy she had left of the terrible week she had been ensuing. With a deep sigh, she bounces on to her bed and falls into a deep sleep.

Linger - Stay in a place longer than necessary

Reassuring - Say or do something to remove the doubts and fears of someone.

Dispatched - Send off to a destination or for a purpose.