“Oh,” I said as I opened the door and saw none other than Twilight Sparkle standing in the entrance. “Uhm, what can I-”
“What happened to your home?”
I sighed. “It’s...” I stopped myself from saying ‘complicated’. “... the thing I didn’t tell you about. Don’t worry about it.”
“Okay,” Twilight said, “a crater in your house is less disturbing than a lot of other stuff that’s going on. Listen. The angels.”
“Yes?”
“I think it'd be good if we could summon them.”
“Uhm,” I made. “How?”
“I was hoping you’d tell me.”
“Well, one of them said they come when someone is in danger, I think.”
“You think?”
“I know,” I corrected myself. “She did say it.” It was an annoying habit to say ‘I think’ when I really was sure, but I couldn’t help it.
“I see,” Twilight said. “Hmm...” She gave me a long look. “Lynn-”
“Let’s do it,” I interrupted.
“What?”
“I know what you're thinking. If you can keep it safe, I'm up for it."
“This is boring,” I complained. I was standing a few hundred yards north of Ponyville and around thirty yards above ground, on a purple web of energy. That wasn’t the boring part, though. The boring part was that I had already been up here for at least twenty minutes, and anything was yet to happen.
“We don’t know how far away the angels are away,” Twilight's voice came from below. I think she was trying to sound encouraging. “They might be here any moment.”
“Or it doesn’t count because I’m not in real danger.”
“Maybe.”
I sighed. Despite my words, I got increasingly nervous as I watched the web getting thinner below me. Twilight had cast a self-sustaining spell, but it wouldn’t sustain itself for too much longer – which, of course, was the whole point.
Hopefully, if I did fall, Twilight would be quick enough to react in time.
Five more minutes passed, and I could feel the web bending a bit under my weight.
Two more minutes passed. Then I could see somepony – no, two ponies – flying towards us at record speed.
"Twilight?" I asked, causing her to first look at me, then at the approaching angels.
"It worked!" Twilight exclaimed, giving a cheer.
"Yeah. ... let's just hope they had nothing else to do."