//------------------------------// // 11 Green // Story: For science - Book three // by Znegil //------------------------------// I stared at my glowing green hand, I was able to move it naturally just like I used to do… “... Stella!” Someone was calling me, but I had a hard time concentrating on anything other than my new hand. I looked up and met Twilight's face, she looked deeply worried. “Stop this right now, Stella!”, she shouted. “But I have a hand…”, I mumbled. “Please!”, she begged me, looking into my eyes. I looked around and saw Chrysalis frightened face and her glowing horn, I began to understand what I was doing… but still, it was incredibly hard to let go of my magical source, because I didn’t want to give up my hand. With a heavy heart, I cut the connection and saw my hand turn to blue again for a brief moment before it dissolved. I was confused and different feelings fought inside me to get the upper hand. “I’m so sorry.”, I said and started to cry. I turned towards Chrysalis and fell to my knees. “I’m so so sorry for what I did… but I had a hand…” Normally I wasn’t that emotional but I just I couldn't stop crying, not only because of what I had done but I also felt like I had lost my hand for the second time. Twilight put her hoof around me and tried to calm me down. After a few moments, my head was raised by a black hoof and Chrysalis face came into my field of view. “It’s okay now, you didn’t hurt me in any way.”, she said in a soft voice. “You just surprised me… and frightened me a tiny little bit. I won’t hold it against you.” I surprised her once more as I threw my arms around her and cried into her mane. She just let it happen and after a moment she even put a hoof around me. My body wasn’t used to using magic and such emotional outbreaks, it had drained enormous amounts of energy from my body. After a few more minutes of crying, I wasn’t able to stay awake any longer and I fell into a deep slumber. … When I opened my eyes again I found myself in bed, Twilight was next to me reading a book. “Hey honey, feeling better?”, she asked. I tried to remember what had happened and groaned as I finally remembered. “I have made a total fool of myself.”, I said and covered my eyes with my hand. “No, you haven’t.”, Twilight replied and pushed my hand aside so she was able to look into my eyes. “We all make mistakes and it isn’t wrong to show your feelings. You don't have to be the strong one in our relationship all the time, maybe I want to play that part sometimes too.”, she smiled and kissed me much more forceful than usual as to prove her point. It lasted for a very pleasant minute before she continued to speak to me. “You have been overwhelmed by what magic can do, it can be confusing at first. I read a lot about similar cases, mostly with magical artifacts involved, confusion is one of the better possible side effects recorded.” “But it has happened to me before.”, I remarked. “Yes, but in an emergency situation after which you fell into a deep slumber. I felt your strong mixture of different feelings through our connection this time. It had been the reason I came back earlier to see what happened.” She kissed my lips again, softly this time. “Welcome to the club of magic users.”, she told me with a smile. “What about Chrysalis?”, I asked. ”I stole her magic to make my hand appear.” I brought up my stump to look at it and touched its end, it looked the same as ever. “Let’s say you borrowed some of it for a while.”, she rephrased my sentence. “She was incredibly understanding and was very worried about your health as well, I was quite touched by her reaction. ” “How long was I asleep?”, I asked since the light looked so gloomy. “The whole day.”, she replied. “Don’t worry, your body will get used to using magic.” I looked at my stomp again. “Do you think I will be able to let the hand reappear?” She gave me a warm smile. “Chrysalis told me you were able to make it appear for a fraction of a second before you tapped into her power. If you already made it so far, with practice you will be able to do that ‘blinking’ thing she mentioned, maybe even for longer time spans. When I started to use magic it was a difficult task just to turn a single page of my book, practice makes perfect.” It was very reassuring to hear this from my marefriend. I suddenly remembered something. “You said it is already evening, isn't Chrysalis welcome party tonight?”, I asked her. “Yes, but we have still an hour before it begins, you can take your time getting ready.” “Will Lavender come too?” Twilight shook her head. “We received a letter today, telling us the doctors ordered her to stay one more day. She will arrive tomorrow afternoon.” “How has ‘Chryssi’ reacted to this?”, I asked while I started to undress. “She seemed fine with it, she wants her to be healthy first and foremost.” I choose comfortable warm clothing since there still was snow outside… I really should talk to Rarity again, I needed more winter clothes. I remembered something. “Wait, shouldn't Chrysalis dress up as well? I remember her telling me she isn't comfortable in the cold since she got no fur.” We went down the stairs and talked to our guest about it. She looked confused at first but nodded after a moment. “I completely forgot about that.”, she admitted. “I’m so used to change my appearance at will so clothing wasn't an issue.” “When we got to Ponyville it had been a nice sunny day despite the snow.”, I told her. “But now, with the sun already set, it will get very chilly.” “This is a problem indeed, I lose body heat very fast in cold conditions. Is there something from your wardrobe you could give me?”, she addressed Twilight. Twilight looked uncomfortable answering. “You are so much bigger than me, you wouldn't fit in any of them.” We stared at each other, thinking of a quick solution. “I have an idea!”, I shouted. “Give me fifteen minutes.” I ran up the stairs again and into Chrysalis guest room, I opened the closet where we stored our warm winter blankets and pulled a dark blue out of it. I got my basic sewing kit and some scissors and brought all of it down to the living room table. They looked at me curiously. “What are you doing with this?”, my marefriend asked. “I’m making a simple snuggle blanket with sleeves, I did one of these when I was in college.” I used the scissors to cut into the sides of front part of the blanket and sewed some buttons to them so they formed very simple sleeves, the whole things was finished within minutes. I threw it over Chrysalis back and closed the buttons around her front legs. I stepped back a bit to see how the finished thing looked. “Well… it’s very functional and it doesn’t look that bad…”, I carefully described my creation. Twilight tilted her head to the side and sighed while looking at it. “You know Rarity will probably kill us for this, right?”