Fault Beyond Reason

by PettyPonyDearest


Slotted's Soliloquoy

"Your body is a strange resonating machine of pains and pleasures, the precision of its responses to the external world programmed into it long ago before you were even born. You can feel its almost sub-conscious movement. Your mind has been carefully trained to respond in certain ways. You can see its almost subconscious response. Look away from the window. You are experiencing a response. Open the door and walk through it. You can feel your body moving through the air."

A voice whispers in Slotted's addled brain.

'UHHHhhhhh....' His ears perk up, Slotted Spoon turns his head towards you, whoever you are.

"Who's gone?' 'Manticore.' 'Manticore? Uhhhh probably just a, trying to uhhm, trying to uhm.... Pony, trying to lure one, one of them, uhhh... A pony. That is, you know, obviously? I'd imagine, uhhh- I imagine, that for various reasons, and uhh, well that is, notwithstanding about the uhhh-.... thing, He likes to uhhh, eat well and I'm not a uhhh judger for those uhhhh- you know, the various judgers who are more'ly... uhhhh.... constituatooted... for various reasons, against each other, obviously, for obvious reasons, uhhhh, before he uhhh, sneaks up on 'em. He says with a sleepy drawl." Slotted Spoon recites as he dozes off.

"Fascinating." Naught but a forgotten pony, loudly thinks.

"'It's cool... I could use a rest...' Slotted Spoon yawns. He lands on a mossy white rock, as he takes a breather. Soon, he gets up, and uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh- he can just-see ...the... lights of Ponyville out in front of him. He frowns upon seeing that, it makes him homesick; Now uhhh, a group of those whatchacalls, that are uhh, trees-group, uhhh group of-uhh-of-uhhhh... trees and brambles, you know for various reasons, for obvious reasons known as a uhhh,... ' ... , Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh- 'Hedge' coming up. And uhhh-'I guess it's time to Dream.' He begins to uhh, float, or what have you, for phrasing it in the obvious way. Of course uhhhhhmm, in the amount of uhh-.....-levitation, that is levia-tating, for various reasons in the definition of the uhm-. Off into the uhhh- inky uhhh, dark-uh-that-is-uh- blackness of the uhhh...'Nightmares' that is, it being there that it was named uhm, appropriately, by me, for various and obvious reasons! It was named uh....that is, without a single question, you know obviously, for obvious reasons... A flash of red and uhm'purple light, and the sound of mah instrument -thingy- I mean my intstrement, which is my lyre, forobviousreasons- fades away. 'Look, now I know I dun scared me half to death by the sight of that uhhhhhh-well...I guess big pony would be the word in question, being that the creature was in resemblance offf....uhhhh, in resemblance, that is... Was uh- uhhhh well the size, obviously, was there on that deal and he uhhh-well he plumb scared me and uhhhh----' Slotted Spoon says as he hovers amidst his dreamland. Somepony levitates over to him, and whispers in his ear;

But nothing is heard.

"Fascinating." A voice thinks loudly in the darkness.

"Manticore? Uhhhh probably just a...Big Pony, you know, uhhh- forobvious reasons, trying to uhhhh, well that is, with the motivations uhm... it has, to the uhhhhh- to the uh to... uuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH- lure... that is, travelers ... out, obviously... forobviousreasons He uhm... likes to, well that he doesn't like to, hopefully, for uhhhmm eat-eat well uhm, apparently; Uh. ... wellyouknowuh-before he sneaks up on 'em, for that deal uhm, when he, well I mean that, when in the case where it would be for... UH... variousandobviousreasons uhhhh....Notwithstanding. He says with a- uhhhhh, sleepy, a drawl, I guess for what you'd call it for obvious and various-reasons. 'I reckon uh- , ...! ...'ll uhhh- I'll, get a couple hours rest, and uh-well-"

A kind motherly voice booms over Slotted Spoon's Dreamscape. "Yes. You should do that."

Jolting awake, Slotted Spoon drops his lyre and a quick burst of magic reveals;

The creature, smiling, leaning in, observing with great interest, the talking pony.

Shaking a little, Slotted Spoon, endlessly murmurs as he attempts to sleep in the company he's keeping.

"He uhhhh,... nods that is, in an agreement uhh of the situation for various and obvious reasons and uhh- and closes my eyes uh-for the uhhh various- that is uh-, that is not to say that because of the uh... fact, that he was uhhhh-... sleeping, you know. For obviousreasons, for variousreasons... As I, well that is -uhh-in, I or Me, rather uh for Wwelll,youknow....forobvious and various reasons.... return back to my uh..... "sleep" for -obviously,- various reasons about that uh... deal was that uhhhh-you can hear the distant sounds of the uhhhhh, Nightmares, that is the uhh-. Uhh, well for obvious and various reasons it uhhhh- by your side. was uhhhhh...... Uuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

His manic murmurs echo into the night while his silent companion watches in earnest.
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