Silverstream awoke gasping for air and struggle to get up, she felt something on her like little snakes and shook desperately to get them off, but found that she could not move. She heard doors open and saw two ponies in white come in and hold her down telling her to calm down and breathe, she did as she was told and took a breath and stopped struggling. The ponies left the room leaving Silverstream alone for a moment.
Silverstream now calm surveyed her surroundings and noticed an IV drip, she could move just enough to follow the cord and find it attached to her alone with what she thought were snakes was really monitor cords. There she laid deducing that she was in a hospital and those two ponies in white were doctors, she felt a bit weak, but she didn't know why.
The doctor's were outside and Silverstream could barely make out what they were saying, but could hear them.
"Please, let friends see friend" she heard a gruff voice say along with even more desperate pleas.
"Just listen, the patient has just woken up and is a bit weak. We'd like to monitor her overnight to make sure she's ok, but we regret to inform you she ain't all there. If you'd follow my partner she'll tell you the rest."
Silverstream thought the doctor was crazy, of course she was all here, all it was; was a dream the doctor came in dressed in white and introduced himself.
"My my my, you certainly have us a scare Miss Silverstream, you had your friends worried sick. My name is doctor Fros T. Byte. You're very lucky to have friends like you've got, any longer and you would've been climbing the stairway to heaven and knocking on heaven's door." He said as he examined her vitals and wrote on a clip board. "You're very lucky to have survived this hypothermia, you were asleep for at least three weeks."
Silverstream's eyes sunk "three weeks?" She asked with tears in her eyes. "How did this happen?" She asked.
The doctor finishing his examination set down the clipboard on the bed and told her. "You were on a class trip to Yakyakistan, while flying around you clipped your wing and landed in the snow breaking a leg in the process. When your friends found you you were already in the stages of hypothermia and unresponsive. They wrapped you in blankets while Gallus came her to get help."
Silverstream with tears in her eyes just nodded
The doctor looked down and said "I must get this report to the files, I'll leave you a for a while, oh but before I go your parents and brother wanted me to give you this." He put down a brown paper bag beside he bed on her table. "I think you're calm enough so let me at least remove those restraints, but remember you must stay here until we know you're well. You can move around the hospital if you want, but you can't leave. Got it?" Silverstream nodded and the doctor took off the restraints. "You'll have visitors her shortly, so you might want to eat up." He then left the room without any more words.
Silverstream sat there thinking "eat up? You didn't give me any food, just this bag from......my parents." She looked at the table with the bag the doctor had left by her bed as she was finishing her thought.
The doctor's words echoing in her head she grabbed the bag from the table and opened it, looking into the bag tears begin to fill her eyes, her nostrils were bombarded by the familiar smell of the food she really loved around the holidays; as the sight of kelp fritters stared back at her, her mother would even make them on ordinary days. Reaching into the bag she pulled out a kelp fritter which was warm to the touch, and with watering eyes and trembling lips she took a bite as she let out a silent cry, after the first one she took another, she was surprised on how many her mother made, like she knew she'd be hungry, she soon found that she'd had eaten half the bag and decided to save the rest for later. She wrapped up the top of the bag like it was and set it on the table beside her while she waited for her visitors.
The first of the visitors for Silverstream was of course her family, her mom and dad walked in slowly while Terramar, Silverstream's little brother came running in with tears in his eyes and hugged Silverstream from the side of the bed.
"Oh, sis, I thought I'd lost you." He said as tears flowed from his eyes like a waterfall, hugging his sister tight, not wanting to let go.
"It's ok Terramar, I'm better now, come on and wipe those tears." Silverstream said as she wiped the tears from Terramar's eyes and planted a kiss on his forehead.
Their parents with tears in there eyes just watched the reunion of brother and sister as they took a seat.
"You sure gave us a scare." Sky Beak said with tears in his eyes. "I thought I lost my little girl." He said causing her to blush.
"Now don't embarrass our little kelpie." Ocean Flow said causing more of a blush from Silverstream.
"Mom, dad, please you're embarrassing me. You haven't called me that since I was a little girl." Silverstream said
"We know, but you'll always be my little girl." Sky Beak said with tears in his eyes.
"And you'll always be my little kelpie, I remember how you would lure your friends in the water pretending you were a kelpie from those stories." Ocean Flow said with tears in her eyes as she and Sky Beak joined their kids in a hug
There her mother, father, and brother talked for what seemed like hours, they laughed and cried together talking about old memories and telling jokes and stories of what happened while Silverstream was out for those three weeks.
After awhile Sky Beak put his claw on Silverstream's shoulder.
"We better get going you have other visitors who want to see you. Get better soon."
Her family left after giving her hugs and kisses and departed out the doors, then the doors opened again revealing six silhouettes.