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// The Night After (Yeah I know...) 
// Story: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Unofficially Off-Record Pre-Prelude 
// by The Warrior Of Darkness 
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Celestia's heart began to race as the words registered in her mind, He Spoke! He can actually speak! She looked towards Doctor Heartwind as he mirrored her look exactly, surprise registering in his voice as he spoke:

"If you can speak, why didn't you before?" The stallion said, hoping for an answer directed to him. Skye looked at him, then to her, returning his gaze back to the doctor, and opened his mouth to speak:

"You remind me of them... they were scary... they did things to us..." He said, his voice trailing off into a whisper, cracking into what sounded like, crying? Immediately aware at the current situation the questioning had brought Celestia jumped up, concern written all over her, but she didn't care about that now. She would comfort this colt now, rather than run him to the ground with questioning. She wrapped her wings and hooves around him, caressing the young colt, her voice being a beacon in the night.

"It's alright, It's ok, no one is here to harm you" She began, comforting the child who was in between her hooves, his shaking slowing down as she continued:

"We aren't here to harm you, we just want to find out what happened to you, for us to be able to help you, you've got to talk to us" Celestia finished. Skye had soon stopped shaking, and pushed himself into the fluff of her body, seemingly comfortable around the older alicorn. Celestia allowed him to stay, looking at the approaching Doctor, giving him a look that said No Further. She had wanted to find out from Skye himself but, her suspicions had all been confirmed. Skye was a result of experimentation, she could tell from one glance that both his wings and horn were natural born, but his magic was something else entirely, it radiating similiar to Nightmare Moon's, but without the free-form signature of chaos magic. It was worrying, it didn't copy either Harmonious or Chaotic, and was a mixture of Neither. She could feel that he did possess Harmonious magic, but the one that was going haywire was unknown to her. 

She decided then and there that this alicorn would need to stay in the Castle. Not for the safety of others, but for the safety of himself. If the magic she felt wasn't any known one, then that meant that the experiments the "ponies" Skye spoke of, introduced him and others to something not of this world, and had infused it into their very core. That would explain the magic fluctuations near him. As she decided onward of what she would do, and how to execute it, Heartwind spoke up, voicing a different question to the colt:

"Are there any others? Princess Celestia said she found you in the Everfree, and then you just said 'us". He stated, continuing with his watching of the colt. Skye popped his head out, gazing at the doctor for a moment and then speaking, his voice resonating with a bit more confidence, it seems that staying close to her helped.

"No, there were others. They went with the older ponies, I never saw them again." Skye said while pulling back into Celestia's warmth. She took this moment to ask a burning question that had begun to pop up in her mind, so as soft as she could she asked:

"Do you remember where you were? Whether you had parents?" She asked, certain that she would get a answer. A answer she was dreading to hear. Skye looked up at her, his face seeming to find no purchase in his memories. 

"I don't know. I don't remember. I just know my name, I know I was being looked over by bad ponies." He said, his face coming to rest on her wing. Her heart broke, this alicorn knew nothing about his past, except for his name, even though he sounded unsure about that. It was like his memories were gone, as if they had never existed in the first place. It was heartbreaking, and since he was a special case, that might be the cause of his magic being unique. 'being different' she told herself.

Celestia began to move, and shuffle off of the bad, using her magic to float the colt onto her back, making way to the door, only for Doctor Heartwind to stop her, bringing up various conditions about Skye's health, normally she would have just ignored it, but she found that she should listen, so as to know if there was something that could help her answer the questions she held within. As Heartwind listed off all these conditions, she found that Skye had not said anything, and instead had found interest in the differences of Heartwind's mane like his own. He did not voice any questions much to her hope, seeming to find his answer when looking between his own and her's.

As the Doctor finished up, she felt a small rumble on her back, upon her investigation she found that Skye was looking back at her, with the faintest hint of embarrassment. He was hungry, though he was embarrassed by it, there was no need for him to be at all, so she decided to shift her focus as soon as she could leave the medical wing, deciding that questions she had or anything retaining to Skye's "place of residence" could be put off for later. Instead she would focus on one thing only as she took various routes, going down different hallways to reach one of the castle's main chambers. Skye's eyes followed their route, seeming to focus on all at once as they seemed brimmed with curiosity, it was apparent that he had never seen Canterlot Castle at all, from the inside nor outside. She would figure that out later, but first she would go to the castle's cafeteria, first she would feed Skye, and herself. After all, dinner time was one of the most important meals of the day, right? Right.