[Action/BBS] And then Twilight was a Princess

[marearcana]

[She was certain everything was going to be certainly-

fine?

Twilight's eyes snap open in the now-familiar sight of Garden's infirmary. Quickly coming to the conclusion that she was just dreaming (after all, Princess Celestia would never really release Discord, right?), she silently thanks whoever brought in her laptop with her, and...

...wait, what's this feeling she has in her oh.

Welp. Let's try to break this one slowly. At least she was only out for three days.]


I'm not quite sure what that was about, but it's over. I'm just going to adopt the usual stance of "blame Time Compression aftereffects" for the fact that I've been asleep for three days.

But on that note, has anyone here ever woken up and known that their dream had to have actually happened?

~Twilight Sparkle


[ooc: Action taggers, her wings literally grew like five minutes ago, so if you're rushing over there ASAP, you won't have seen them.]

Comments

[Action]

[fightwinlive]

[Ayla has managed to hurt herself while capturing beasts. She's low on stamina, too low to use her healing kiss, so she's gone to get fixed up. But seeing another pony stops her and she grins. The other two she's met have been nice enough.]

Pony. [Another glance. Wings!] Pegasus. [She waves and goes over, sitting cross-legged.] Ayla meet Bubble Breath and Rainbow Dash. Not meet purple pegasus before!

[Action]

[marearcana]

[GWAAAAAH WHAT THE]

...Um, not quite. [This is, however, a valuable chance to reaffirm her new identity.] I'm an alicorn. [Twilight motions towards the horn on her forehead.]

...Well, I am now.

[Action]

[fightwinlive]

Alicorn. [She nods. Okay, she can remember that.] Alicorn have name? Or like Bubble Breath, have no name?

[Action]

[marearcana]

My name is Twilight Sparkle.

And from what you said earlier, I'm going to guess yours is Ayla?

[She also thinks this "Bubble Breath" has about a 99.9999% chance of actually being Derpy Hooves, but that can come later.]

[Action]

[fightwinlive]

Twilight Sparkle? Like star! [She grins. They sparkle in the twilight!]

[She nods.] Mm. Ayla! Chief Ioka. No more Ioka here.

[And she would be right.]

[Action]

[jointheclub]

[Believe it or not, Slughorn has occasionally poked his head in to see how the poor unicorn was doing in the infirmary. He did have to look out for a student, especially a promising one, after all. Having spotted her BBS post, he elects to wander on by a short time later.]

Ah, up and about again, are we?

[No, he hasn't noticed yet.]

[Action]

[marearcana]

Well, I'm sure I need to be cleared before I'll be attending any classes, but I doubt that'll take that much time.

[She'll just... stay in the bed for the time being.]

[jointheclub]

Feeling all right? Nothing to do while you were unconscious, of course, but now that you're back together we can have you up and about in no time flat.

[marearcana]

Thank you.

[It's mostly out of courtesy, not that much should be wrong with that.]

[jointheclub]

Now then, I've prepared a tonic I think will help with that. [He digs into his robes as he speaks.] Nothing fancy, barely even qualifies as a proper potion. Something to refresh the body after three days of lying motionless and improper nutrition. Ah, here we are.

[He produces a flask of some size.]

BBS

[scatterflower]

Wait, you slept for three days, and you're pretty sure the stuff that happened in it happened for real? Did you just forget it until now?

BBS

[marearcana]

It's not that simple.

At the very end of the "dream", I experienced a significant change, and it carried over.

BBS

[scatterflower]

You mean like getting a scar or something?

BBS

[marearcana]

Exactly like that, except that it wasn't a scar.

BBS

[scatterflower]

Oh... What happened?

[bbs]

[espio]

Yes.

[Short and to the point. Let's just say that. when it happened to him, it was a really bad thing.]

[bbs]

[marearcana]

What happened, if you don't mind me asking?

[bbs]

[espio]

All my friends died.

[Um, Espio? Blunt much?]

That was a fun experience.

[bbs]

[marearcana]

[Um. Oh.

And that's not even the worst of it.]

I... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to...

And because of what happened, I think... I might be in a similar situation much later.

[bbs]

[espio]

It's fine. I try not to bring it up much, but sometimes I just get reminded and then it plays on my mind - basically, my last memory of home was seeing my reality collapse. I lost everything.

That's actually part of the reason I consider Garden my home, and despite everything that's happened lately I'm sticking with it.

[You know. The whole resignation thing.

He contemplates asking what Twilight means, but he's not sure... so he settles for something else.]

I'm probably not the best person to talk about those things with - I barely know you, after all. But if you need to get it off your chest a PM would be fine.

Still, I can say it's not unheard of for people to fall asleep and wake up with new memories. It's happened to a few of my friends.

action

[rewritethis]

[Not too long after the BBS post, Ed marches into the infirmary.

And sweeps straight past Twilight's bed without even glancing at her.

A minute later, he comes back, looking slightly more annoyed than he did on the way in - but at least he does nod in her direction this time.] Hey. You back with us now?

[No sign of noticing the wings just yet. And he seems a little distracted, anyway.]

[marearcana]

Sure looks like it.

[Even in medical care there is room for snark.]

[rewritethis]

[Ed subscribes to the belief that there's always room for snark, but it's still a little unusual for him to brush it off completely.] Unlucky. Caught up on what you missed yet? [He shoots a brief glance back in the direction of the next bed over, the occupant of which isn't visible from here.] Not that it'll take you too long if you aren't. It wasn't much.

[marearcana]

I like to be a little head, so for most of my classes I should be pretty close to caught up already.

[The rest are all practical. Can't exactly study for those.]

[rewritethis]

Uh, right. Good for you.

[He starts to turn away, but seems to be in two minds about it.]

So... did anyone tell you that Dash went and passed out on top of you the other day?