I couldn’t see a thing. The mist was too thick. I could only see the gray mass, which closed in around me. It felt like it tried to hide something from me. I looked around to make out where I was, but nothing was visible. I suddenly felt something coming towards me. I turned around and saw, nothing less than the two lights from earlier, back on Earth, just before... I felt a shake and within blink of an eye, I were someplace else. Or it felt like that. I still couldn’t see anything before me, because of the mist, so in fact I could have moved less than an inch. Again I tried to look around, but this time, right behind me I saw a hand. I could only see the hand and the first few centimeters of the arm, the rest being covered in mist and fog. As I kept looking I soon noticed a small stream of blood. Not much, but it kept flowing very slowly towards the fingers. I couldn’t help myself... I began to cry. Not much, more like letting some tears out, but I felt really sad. Standing there, watching I felt myself getting pulled back very hard, like an arm around my body pulling me out of the mist, up and out. The farther I came, the more dark it became and I slowly fell asleep while crying, still getting pulled back.
“Shhhh... don’t cry... I’m here to help you feel better.” The sweet voice of Fluttershy woke me up. I could feel tears running down my face and I still felt a little like crying. It was only a dream. I didn’t know what to make of it. It felt so real during the dream. Afterwards, you can always see how unlikely things were, but this dream was strong enough to make me cry in my sleep. Apparently I had cried out so loud, that Fluttershy had been taken out of her sleep. She stood at my bedside, stroking my hair. After Fluttershy had heard, that I was really a human, she seemed to instantly have more interest in me and less fears (Like when she first met Spike I thought). When Twilight had left, Fluttershy had brought me some soup and we sat down and talked. She told me a lot about animals and I listened closely. I didn’t tell as much, as it was painful to talk for more than a few seconds consecutive. After all I had broken a rib.
After a while, I calmed down. Sweat still poured down my forehead. Fluttershy asked if I wanted a cup of tea, since we both were awake anyways and I said yes to the offer. She had earlier told me, that she made an excellent tea, which everypony just loved... and it also removed sore throats. Fluttershy had some great recipes concerning food and drinks helping, when being ill. Of course she couldn’t make potions and such, like Zecora. But her soup did help on my pain. I think she told me of a herb or something that grew just outside the Everfree Forest. It surely made her animal friends healthier. It didn’t take long for Fluttershy to come back up with a nice cup of tea for each of us. Its smell quickly filled the room with a nice aroma. She put my tea on the bedside table. She couldn’t resist smiling, when I tried to pick up the cup. I still had not learned to properly pick up things with hooves. Hands were just much more... practical for this sort of thing. When I looked at her though, she quickly removed the smile, “Sorry Phillip. I didn’t mean to be amused.” she said, “Here let me.” She took the cup and placed it between my hooves on my lap. When firmly grasping around the cup with both hooves, I managed to get a sip of the tea. If this sounded hard, you should have seen me, the day before meddling with a spoon. That would have been an instant one million hits YouTube video or something.
Fluttershy and I sat there for maybe half an hour, drinking tea and talking. I asked her, what she knew about humans and she admitted to actually not knowing anything at all. She had heard of us, but only a little, which she couldn’t remember. She asked me, if we looked like ponies and I released a small laugh and told her that we had a lot in common, but did look very different. “We have two arms and two legs, instead of four legs. On the end of each arm, we have a hand, which we use to grab and hold things. That’s why I have a hard time holding on to things here you see.” “What does hands look like exactly?” she asked. I had not thought about how to describe hands to anyone before. Every thing I had ever been able to talk to, had hands themselves, so I had never had any reason to ever think about explaining hands. “A hand is a little like a hoof, except it isn’t hard. It’s skin all the way. On the end of the hoof we have five fingers. Fingers are like long members, we use to grab things. I’ll have to draw it for you one day.” She seemed to understand a little, but it was also hard to explain something to someone, who didn’t have the faintest idea, what I was talking about.
We drank the last of our tea and Fluttershy said just before leaving, “Tomorrow I have to do some shopping. I hope you don’t mind being alone for some time. I can get you a book if you want?” “Do you have Daring Do?” I asked. She nodded and said, “Maybe I should introduce you to some of my other friends? After all, we have to think of something we can do.” “Maybe not all at once.” I said, not knowing how I would react if I saw all the main ponies of the show on the same time. It had already been mind blowing to see one at a time till now. She nodded once more, turned out the lights and closed the door. It was still dark outside and I tried to fall asleep. I couldn’t wait until tomorrow. It was exciting to see, what pony Fluttershy would introduce me to next. I didn’t continue the thought, since I went into a quiet dream about little talking ponies in the most amazing worlds of all.