We showed Celestia the crystals and how they worked together with the projector. She was impressed and told us how important this invention could be for the future of Equestria. "It's a new quality of preserving knowledge for later generations."
...
We had some light dinner together before Celestia and Cadence got ready to leave for Canterlot. Just as they were about to walk out of the door the first of my levitating samples dropped to the ground.
"How long did they manage to stay up?", Celestia asked.
"About four days.", I replied.
"Very impressive. Tell us about everything new you find in your research, both on chemistry and on the crystals."
They left the library and we cleaned the table before we went to bed. On our way upstairs I heard a slight thud as the second sample lost its ability to levitate.
...
I loved these cuddly nights, feeling Twilight's body heat always made me feel like I was on cloud number nine and I felt weightless. I yawned and slowly opened my eyes, I looked up and saw Twilight still sleeping in the bed.
... wait...
I actually was looking down to her. As I looked around I noticed I was floating close to the ceiling of the room. Every part of my body behaved like gravity was just a suggestion and could be ignored, even my hair floated to all sides and felt very strange when I moved my head.
I felt panic creeping up to me and tried to calm myself down.
'This isn't that bad, I'm only about four feet up and there is a bed beyond me. Things could have been a lot worse.', I thought.
I took a deep breath and talked to Twilight. "Wake up my love, I have a really big surprise for you."
"Just five more minutes...", she mumbled.
I sighed and tried a different approach. "It's something super interesting you can write about in a letter to Celestia."
Her eyes popped open and she looked at me. Confusion spread across her beautiful face, she checked her own body and her surroundings.
"I'm the one floating.", I told her.
"Okaaaay... Why?"
"I haven't the slightest idea. When I woke up today I was up here looking down. You have to get me down some... AAAAAHHH!"
Twilight was just able to roll out of the way as I fell down and into the bed.
"What is going on here?", I asked after I was able to get up.
"How should I know?", she answered. "It's not like I saw you fly before. Maybe an effect from Twilonium?"
"I had been very careful not to come in contact with it, Twilonium shouldn't be the origin of this."
We stood around in silence for a minute while we thought about a possible explanation.
"Well...", Twilight spoke up. "In a way, you had lots of contact with our new element."
"What do you mean?"
"It's your own theory that we gain our magical abilities from the water. You drink it too and we have no idea how humans react to it. Maybe it slowly changes something within you."
"While inside the water it would have different properties than isolated... I guess you could be right. This means I became an experiment myself and I have no idea which way it will go." I held her hoof. "What if my body can't handle this change and I would..."
"NO!", she shouted. "You're not allowed to think this way. It would do nothing good worrying about this possibility." I saw tears in her eyes. "I'm sure everyone will work out fine."
I looked at her for a moment and nodded. "You're right, Honey. I will treat it just like a normal scientific experiment, I will look for any effects, make notes and draw conclusions."
I kissed her softly.
A normal scientific experiment...
We both knew this situation was something else.
...
About an hour later Lyra came over to work in the lab. We concentrated our efforts on the crystals, it would be crucial to understand how they and the recorder worked together. Twilight was able to draw some connections to the "Picture in crystal" technology she already knew, it helped us a lot and we made nice progress. I was realistic about our schedule, even at this speed, it would take us a few weeks to figure out all the parameters.
...
We had decided to have lunch in 'the Dancing Butterfly' since this restaurant was only a few houses away from the lab. I loved this place because of their 'Eggs three ways with toasted garlic bread', it always felt like a little slice of heaven. We had some brainstorming for different approaches on our crystal problems while we savored our meals.
Once we all finished our lunch I remembered I hadn't told Lyra what happened this morning.
"Lyra, try to guess how I woke up this morning.", I challenged her smiling.
"Well since you ask this way I should go for less common scenarios... Have you been stuck to each other again because of your love juices like..." I had pushed my hand on her mouth to stop her and looked around to see if someone else had reacted but saw nothing apart from my marefriends red cheeks. Had Lyra licked my hand just now? I removed my hand immediately.
"No." I decided it would be safer to just tell her and not risking challenging her fantasy again. "I floated four feet above the bed facing down."
"Wow, how cool is that! What happened?"
It was the typical super excited reaction I loved from my assistant. "I have no idea and I had no control over it. Our only theory right now is my 'magic in the water' idea, maybe there is a long-term effect on my body."
Lyra's eyes started to sparkle. "Does that mean you may get superpowers? I call dibs on being your sidekick! Aquamarine Thunder!"
I laughed while she spent the next two minutes on creating different hero names for herself.