//------------------------------// // Recordings // Story: Mistakes and Eternal Silence // by Mocha Star //------------------------------// So, here I am again. Turns out every single gem Starlight made has about an hour of her rambling at the beginning. They're all the same so you can skip the first fifty six minutes and twenty eight seconds. Or not, whatever. Day 1, let's say. Starlight lowered the sun and rose the moon, or so I told her. The day and night cycle is on its own. The sun and moon were even in the sky at the same time, kinda crazy to see, but not the worst. I watched Canterlot burn the other day... maybe a couple weeks ago by normal time. There are clocks, but when I spent the second week sleeping constantly I didn't know morning from night time and I stopped looking at them all together a long time ago. I never thought time would get boring while I was so young, but here I am. I found out why - Ugh, I'm back. Just a little smokey but a little electricity won't kill me, just rolls off my scales. Where was I? Whatever, I'm eating all the gems I want and seeing results like I hadn't before. Without Twilight to stop me, I've started to get my dragon scales. Not the normal ones, these new ones are hard for me to eat when they fall off, and I think they're magic resistant, to a point. Starlight's been spending a lot of time sleeping, finally. I told her to start a calendar to keep time but that's after she wakes up. It's daylight out, but she's going to be the one starting the calendar because Spike the Brave and Glorious is going to save ponykind. Back again, and I'm making progress. Turns out that Starlight remembers what happened that one time forever ago when she cast that one spell and tried to kill me. She spent years floating in some kind of middle space watching the lives of creatures all over Equestria from birth to death. It gave her hope at first, then she went crazy and did some bad things. Well, she tried to, anyway. Kind of hard to affect some alternate reality from outside of it, I guess. She says she was almost through to another world where ponies still existed when she fell out of it and that's all she remembers, she was very sorry to see what happened to the castle and what she tried to do to me. Regardless, I've read another magic tome. Twilight would be proud of me... I'm not crying anymore. She's in the gem, just over there. I feel like she's watching me, helping me look at the right books or do this math when I'm- Hey, Spike. I'm sorry if I'm disturbing you. No, it's fine. I'm just doing more magic stuff. Can I help? I know you're not a magic user and I'm feeling okay tonight. Er, today. If you think you can, Starlight. I mean, I know you can, but if you're up to it. I wouldn't have offered if I wasn't. Let me see what you've got so far? Hmph. You're still such a novice, Spike. Hey, don't laugh at me. At least I'm doing something about all this and not sleeping all the time. Ugh! Look, I'm sorry. This' been a rough couple days and I'm learning to do something I never thought I'd have to actually do. It's okay, Spike. I understand, oh hey! Is that one of my recording gems? Heh, glad you noticed. I figured out how to use them, a little dragon's breath and they're on. Another kiss of my awesome fire and it's off. Watch. That's pretty cool, Spike. Thanks, I know I am. Still have your ego, I see. Hey, you're not the last dragon in the kingdom, are you? Sorry again, I'm not thinking before I talk and keep putting my foot in my mouth. It's okay, Spike. Let me see if I can open a time portal for you, maybe it'll work this time. Yeah, if you don't try to go through it before me or short it out. That's not gonna happen, I'm in a good place right now. I did the breathing exercised you taught me before and after I woke up. Well then, get casting, I wanna hug my friends again! Friends? Hugs. Love. I can cast the spell, but they're gone. Oh no... not again. Starlight, breathe with me. In, out. In, out. In- and she's gone with my notes. Well, I've got nothing to report now so I'll just sign out until later. Ugh, this is the most awkward recording yet. Estrus just started and I'm locked in the kitchen hiding in an oven because without any stallions around, marefriends to help, her agoraphobia, and Twilight's refusal to have any reproductive assistant aids in the castle; that leaves me to scratch her itch. That's what she's calling it but I know what it means, Twilight was pretty bad when she was younger until she learned a spell for it. Starlight can't focus enough to cast it on herself. I can't cast it. No other unicorns are around to cast it. So here I am, hiding in an oven so she won't find me. The fire's going full blast so she won't see me, and if she does the fire might deter her. How long can this last, a couple days at most, right? I'll sneak out when I can to eat some of the castle walls or something. "I... she... we. Uhm, she found me and, wow. Just, wow. She's so pretty when she sleeps, I could watch her all night. Hrmm, I can think of something else to do while you watch me. I think I'm gonna like this time of the year. Who says it only has to happen during my seasons? Ss-s-seasons? Spring and autumn, but for my Spikey? She's been waking up crying in the middle of the night and begging me for our personal time. I don't think it's about what it was, I think she's using me for a distraction. I've grown to almost as tall as she is standing lately so that's a thing. My voice is deeper, too. As long as I don't turn into a giant and stampede again, I think I'll be okay. Spike? Where are you? I woke up and you weren't there when I needed you, please don't leave me, too. Oh no, I didn't make you vanish again, did I? Please, where are you?! Starlight, I'm here, right here. Oof. It's okay to cry, let it out. Let it out. I'm here for yo-ugk. Wait, let me turn off the gem! Let the future hear, I don't care at all. Spiiike! Yes, yes! Rarity! Uh, I mean Starlight. I don't care, don't stop! Well, the future's gonna blush when they hear that. Heh heh. At least there'll be a future, Spike. I'm ready to get back to the spells, let's go. Aww, but I need a nap. No naps, we have work to do. Spike! Wake up. Gah! I'm awake, I'm awake, let it go, owowow. Sheesh, how'd you even get it out? A mare has her ways.