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// A long night. 
// Story: Intangible 
// by DtdFIMBrony 
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	Though Dash was quite curious about what Luna initially wanted to do, she was far to exhausted to do anything else, and for another fact, she was sick and tired of being pulled from reality by evil things. These things happening were very annoying, and not fun at all, but for some reason the last one bothered her the most, could Twilight ever do such a thing to her friends? Shaking her head to dismiss that thought, she knew that such a thing could never happen, not in a million years, Twilight was just too gentle, kind, and, egg-heady. These things made Dash realize how much she truly loved Twilight, she knew she had these feelings before, but they got warped by the mind tricks that were played on her. What really brought unease to her though was the fact that it happened so easily, she wasn't weak minded, even Twilight knew that, so what could have done such a thing to her? Fear? Thinking about it, she realized that she was only afraid after this all started to happen. Continuing to evaluate what could have made her so weak, she remembered seeing Twilight sitting with Fluttershy, the pain she had felt from what it looked like made her sad, then afraid, then after that, she lost herself to the darkness around everything.

Dash started to flap her wings to take off at a gentle pace, feeling the breeze in her mane, smelling the clean air around her with the subtle scent of the flowers that were growing in the fields, it was dark outside, and she could hardly make out the ground, but could still tell where she was going. She closed her eyes to let her thoughts roam free, and she was no longer afraid, not because of the presence being gone, but because she understood why she was afraid at first. She did not want to lose the love she cherished so dearly, she couldn't, the thought or idea of it alone was enough to make her shudder. Flying along, she heard a familiar sound, it was quiet, but still there. A gentle hum was flowing through the air around Ponyville, it was soothing, but irritating at the same time, not to the mind, but to the emotions, she was calm, but angry, happy, but sad, it was not a constant flow of hum however, it would eventually subside for a short time then continue as before. Knowing she had heard it before was driving Dash nuts, but she could not figure out from where she had heard it. 

Dash continued to scan the almost invisible ground, noticing a few things here and there, nothing really interesting, but more than enough to keep her mind occupied. One of the items she saw, though it was the most plain, stuck out the most to her. It was a tin bowl, seemingly average in the size of any bowl with no additional features that Dash could tell, but somehow it stuck in Dash's mind more than anything. She looked back, but the only thing she could see was the moon reflecting off of a side of the rim. Looking forward again she realized that the only area in all of Ponyville that had a light on was the Treebrary, smiling, she flew toward the Treebrary, anxious to see Twilight. As she landed on the front porch, she got a nervous feeling in her heart, kind of like that one when you are meeting somepony new for the first time, but she didn't seem to realize it for a couple seconds. Knocking on the door she heard Twilight call out to come in, so she, without hesitation, walked in and pounced on Twilight the moment she saw her, feeling like it had been ages since she saw her. 

Slightly giggling, Twilight said, "Well hi to you too." then she closed her eyes and kissed Dash gently, then rolled over on top of her. Smiling widely she said, "Feels like its been ages doesn't it?" She then paused, kissed Dash again, and continued, "Did you do anything exciting over the last couple days?"

"well, you see, its been rather annoying. You see, at first it was simple, then it got interesting." Dash said, at first trying to sound like it was a funny situation. After she started, she then decided to tell the story of what happened, in as many details as she could, with a serious tone. While talking about it Twilight first thought she was joking but remembered what had been happening around Ponyville with everypony hiding in their homes earlier that week, and it seemed possible, not probable, but possible. She kind of wondered what it was that was going to happen. Dash finally finished the whole story even to the point of her knocking on the door and starting to tell the story, in which seemed needless. 

When Dash had finished the story she looked Twilight in the eye, giving her a look of need. Then turned away, somewhat disappointed that Twilight didn't understand that it was a need for comfort. "I'm just gonna go to sleep," She said, then trotted off to the upstairs room, and lay herself down to go to sleep. She was lying there for what seemed like hours before falling asleep, only to be woken from what seemed like it was supposed to be a nightmare, but she could not recall what it was she dreamed of, by Twilight curling up next to her. Rolling over she lay her hoof over Twilight, and tried to fall back to sleep, but she was afraid of what awaited her within her next dream, however, tonight seemed to feel different, it was more calm than anything else. She felt soothed by Twilight's presence, but at the same time, she was agitated, like her body knew something was astray but she did not know what. It wanted to keep her awake when she wanted nothing but to sleep calmly. 

After about 20 minutes of laying there, failing to sleep, Dash rolled out of bed to get a breath of fresh air. She trotted up to the viewing balcony and sat looking over the quiet Ponyville, there was not a light in sight. She looked up to the night sky, seeing the stars twinkling brightly, they looked to be happy, almost like they were talking to each other, having a happy conversation. Dash wanted to know what it was about, and how the conversation would play out, and what the average day for a star would be like. Did stars have a need to communicate? If so what would each term be showed as? Dash was thinking about this for a long period of time, she did not even know why she thought about it, she only knew that she did. It seemed to fascinate her however. She started to imagine a conversation forming between each star, and it amused her. 

Before long, exhaustion seemed to take place, so she went back and lay on the bed, and quickly found herself passed out, she had been having a long night of nerve wracking unease, now she could finally rest, or so she thought.