The doors to Twilight Sparkle's library bust wide open.
Panting, a sweaty and haggard Starlight Glimmer gallops in. She clutches a blue page in her smiling mouth.
Before she's even halfway inside the crystalline chamber, she's stripped of her saddlebag and pulled the blue-tinged tome out.
She slaps it down onto the podium and—still breathless—flips to the very center of the book.
Starlight then plucks the precious page from her muzzle... and drops it onto the open tome.
It flutters like a feather before dissolving in a spiral. The picture frame in the top right corner lights up, and the fuzzy showmare inside appears a bit clearer than before.
Snkrrrkkkkt-scrktttkkk-scrkkttk-“Sirrus? Er... Trixie means Starlight?!-Scrkkkkkt-Is that you?!?-Scrkk-scrkkkkttt!
“I did it, Trixie!” Starlight sings. She grins from ear to ear, despite her teetering tiredness. “I read these journals and I saw these pictograph symbols and they matched stars and I remembered the dates that popped up when I aimed the tower at the planetarium and I coordinated with the images and I pressed the buttons and I raised the boat and it took me to a waterlogged bunch of rocks with some creepy living spaces built underground but I quickly figured out the water pumps and that compass thingy and the wooden trunk that needed to be emptied so it could float and let me put the chained key into the lock beneath the trap door and—”
Scrkkkst-scrkkkkt-“Whoah whoah whoah! Slow down so that Trixie can catch up!”-Scrkkkkkt-scrkkkkt!
Starlight exhales. “I raised the boat, Trixie!” Her cheeks turn rosy. “I raised the boat!”
Scrkkkkst-scrkkkst-scrrttttt-“Way to go, Starlight.”-Scrkkkkkt-scrkkkkt!-“The Great and Powerful Trixie is proud of you.”-Scrkkkktt-scrkkkttt!!!
“I raised the boat, though...!”
Scrkkkkst-“Yeah yeah. Uh huh.”-Scrkkkt!-“Did you bring Trixie the blue pages?”-Scrkkkktt!!!
“... … ...” Starlight blinks long and hard. “Well... uh... yeah.” She raises a hoof, gesturing. “I mean... found one in that stone-y world with the water pumps. I put it in the tome just now.”
Scrkkkkst-scrkkkt-ssttt-“Are you sure?”-Scrkkktttt!
“Yeah... uhm...” Starlight nods, gulping. “I'm pretty sure, Trix!” She leans forward. “Now that I've done so, what's next?”
Scrkkkkst-“Knock Knock.”-Scrkkktttt-sctkkktt!!!
“... … ...”
Scrkkkkst-scctttt-scrkkkt-“Trixie distinctly remembers saying 'Knock Knock.'”-Scrkkkkkt-scttt-scttt!!!
“... … ...” Starlight runs a hoof over her face. “You've got to be bucking kidding me—”
Scrkkkktt-“Come onnnn, Starlight! Trixie promises this is super important!”-Scrtttscttt-“Knock Knock!”-Scrkkkt-scrkktktt!!!
Starlight slumps in place, eyes rolling to the ceiling. “Who's there?”
Scrkkkktt-“Azure!”-Scrkkkt!!!
“Azure who???”
Trixie's fuzzy face shifts in and out of the frame, busting with smiles.
Sccrkkkst-scrkkttt-“Azure there aren't more blue pages to bring Trixie???”-Sccrkkt-stssttt-scrkkk!!!
“... … ...” Starlight's frown could cut diamonds.
The showmare in the book saunters in and out of blue snow.
Scrkkkst-sccrtstkkkt-scrkkkktt-“Oh lighten up, Starlight. We both knew it couldn't be that simple.”-Sccrkkt-scrkkst-scrrttt-sccrkkkt-“Look on the bright side! Maybe there'll be a 'Kite Age' waiting for you!”-Scrkkkt-scrttt-“Now wouldn't you love that? Trixie knows you would. A-wiiiink!-Scrrkcct-scrttt!!!
Thap!
With a lazy wave of the hoof, Starlight slaps the blue book shut.
Sscrkkkt-scttt-“Mrmmmfrrmmf-mrmmmffr-Mrffr-Liffft!!!!”-Scct-ssctt-sccdtt!!!
“Meh.” Starlight picks the book up and hobbles limply across the library. “Cuddles can wait for another day, Trixie.” She blows frazzled strands of mane hair out from her tired face. “Praise your lucky stars that I save-stated.”