Five of the silhouettes belonged to her friends, Smolder, Gallus, Yona, Ocellus, and Sandbar. The sixth silhouette belonged to her headmare, Twilight. They walked in with tears in their eyes, especially Smolder who often acts as tough as nails.
"You gave us quite the scare Silverstream." Smolder said trying to hold back sobs. Smolder just approaches Silverstream and gives her a hug. "I thought we'd lost you."
Silverstream just embraced the hug her friend was giving her trying to cheer her up. After a while Smolder let go so the others could give out their hugs.
"I'm sorry guys, I didn't mean to scare you or give you the cold shoulder." Silverstream said trying to lighten the mood with a joke, but all she got in response was blank stare with some light chuckles.
"That's not funny Silverstream, we all thought we lost you, I'd thought I lost you." Gallus would say before blushing and looking away only to see Yona in a corner sulking.
The reunited friends looked at Yona until one spoke up.
"Hey, Yona. What's got you blue?" Sandbar asked putting his hoof on her shoulder.
"It all Yona fault." She said before continuing. "It Yona fault that Silverstream was unconscious for three weeks, it Yona fault that doctors help too late." She began to tear up. "Yakyakistan is Yona homeland, I know like back of hoof, I should have been able to find her." Yona's tears were flowing like a waterfall.
"Yona." Silverstream spoke up. "It is not your fault, it was just a freak accident, I don't blame you and neither should you." Silverstream told her grieving friend, she invited Yona over to give her a hug which Yona accepted.
"Thanks Silverstream." Yona said with a shacking voice "you're a good friend."
Silverstream wiped the tears from Yona's eyes like she did with her brother and reassured her that it was not her fault. Yona stepped away letting Twilight come up to the bed.
"Thank heavens you're ok Silverstream." Twilight said with relief in her voice. "When Gallus came to get me and the doctors I was overtaken by shock."
"Thank you for your concern, but why did only Gallus go to get help." Silverstream asked.
"Smolder, Ocellus, Sandbar, and Yona stayed by your side to make sure you were ok, Smolder lit a rescue fire to keep you warm and to signal the help, Ocellus and Yona stayed behind to keep you warm with blankets and their bodies, Ocellus turning into a creature with fur to do so, and Sandbar helped Smolder keep the fire going; they were devastated when they found you like that."
Silverstream with tears in her eyes just laid in silence thinking of how great her friends were helping her out like that and only wished she could do the same for them, she was then overcome by an itch that she couldn't reach. "Hey guys?" Silverstream began to ask. "Could one of you please scratch my left hind leg? It really itches." She asked, but was only met with silence and awkward stares.
Twilight sighed and spoke up "Silverstream, your left hind leg had to be amputated, it was severely frost bit and the doctors couldn't save it."
Silverstream gave a slight chuckle. Good one, headmare Twilight, you got me good, but please could one of you scratch my leg?" Silverstream tore off the covers and didn't see her left hind leg.
Silverstream let out a fit of laughter "Good one, Twilight, you almost had me again, but could you please undo the invisibility spell so I can see where to scratch?"
Twilight just lowed her head "I didn't cast an invisibility spell, Silverstream, you leg is really gone."
Silverstream with tears in her eyes broke into a fit of rage and sadness "No, no, you're wrong, I-I can still feel it, it itches. Please, please undo the invisibility spell, I know you cast one." Silverstream began scratching at a leg that was just not there trying to get the itch, "please I can't reach the it, I can't......I can't." She began to calm down and her yelling died down.
"I can't believe it, my leg is really gone?" Silverstream asked with tears in her eyes.
Her friends just nodded in unison with sad looks on their faces.
"The doctors did everything they could, but the damage was already done, they had to amputate or risk that your blood circulation be slowed." Ocellus spoke up.
Silverstream laid there still feeling the itch. "But why do I feel the itch, it's getting so bad it hurts."
"What you're feeling are phantom pains, Silverstream, it's where you still feel the pain of something that just isn't there." Smolder told her friend in the nicest way she could. Silverstream putting a claw on her chest and taking a breath didn't feel something that should be there, something that is always working.
"My necklace, where is my necklace?" Silverstream started to freak out again to the point of hyperventilating. Until Gallus stepped up and flashed it to her.
"It's right here, don't worry." Gallus stepped closer and gently put the necklace on Silverstream. "The doctors had to cut it off your neck, the string was cutting off circulation, they cut it off and replaced it, saying that once you came to we could put it it on you."
Silverstream now calm looked at Gallus and with tears in her eyes flashed him a smile and threw her arms around him. "Thank you, Gallus, you really are a good friend, all of you are."
Silverstream hugged Gallus for about one minute. Until she released him and wiped her tears with her right claw. She then remembered the kelp fritters her mother had made for her and remembered there was still enough left to share, she grabbed the bag and opened it. "Come on guys, I'd like you to try my mom's kelp fritters." She handed one out to each of her friends and headmare with earnest.
Her friends and headmare took them and took a bite, their eyes lit up as the taste washed over their taste buds and they chewed slowly trying to savor the taste for as long as they can.
Tears flowed down her friends cheeks as they all commented on how good they were and asked if they could have the recipe which Silverstream responded, "that's a family secret recipe." She joked before writing down the recipe on six pieces of paper that lay by her bedside and gave them to her friends.
All seemed well and happy, but though all that happiness a aura of fear and dread loomed. Silverstream being able to sense this tension asked Twilight what was wrong. Twilight just lowered her head and said.
"King Sombra has risen again, but he's weak so we shouldn't have to worry about him for awhile." Twilight said both sadly, but relieved.
Silverstream's eyes grew large, she feared that the events of her dream could become a reality and she did not want to relive it. "We need to still gather an army, train them to fight him. If he's weak we need to prepare now " Silverstream said in an almost crying voice.
"We're already on it." Twilight assured her. "My brother is training the royal guards as we speak, Celestia and Luna are recruiting soldiers, already set up security around the boarders, and enlisted the help of our allies." Twilight told Silverstream who was calming down at hearing this information, but deep in her mind she thought "what if it's not enough."