If he weren't waiting ouside the house, she probably would have missed it. "Hey!" he yelled out. This time it didn't hurt, so she knew it was real.
"Hey," she said back to him. "I guess I need to stay here until I can fly again."
"Yeah," Nightwolf said. "But you're doing pretty good. Well, good for somepony with your current state of mind."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Rainbow asked.
"It's supposed to mean that your mind is fragile. If you stay as hard-headed as you are now, it could cause you to go insane."
"So you're saying I need to change?" Rainbow continued.
"No," Nightwolf said. "I'm saying that you need to tell somepony about your feelings. You need to get that pressure off your chest."
"I don't need to tell anypony!" Rainbow said. "I'm too cool for that mushy stuff anyways."
"Well that makes me feel bad," said the voice she had heard earlier at the hospital. "I'm here for you to talk to me. If you aren't going to talk to me, what should I do?"
"Rainbow?" Nightwolf said.
"Who are you?" Rainbow asked this new pony.
"I'm the pony your mind had to make for you to release these pent up emotions to," he said. "I'm your imaginary psychologist."
"Rainbow," Nightwolf said, uncertainty touching his voice. "Don't talk to them. It's just going to make them worse."
"What's your name?" she asked, ignoring her brother.
"Well, you have to make one up," said the pony. "I'm only in your head."
"Rainbow!" Nightwolf screamed as he tackled his sister to the ground. "Snap out of it!"
"What are you doing?" she screamed at him. "I was actually starting to get somewhere with this thing!"
"Talking to the hallucinations will only make them worse," Nightwolf explained. "You'll get more and more of them until you finally snap."
"What?"
"If you talk to them, you'll go crazy!" Nightwolf practically yelled at her. "You need to get into the house. I've put up some things that should slow down these things until I can come up with an explination."
"Explination for what?"
"An explination for what these things mean," Nightwolf said. "Every hallucination has a meaning. I need to do some research to find out what the meanings are. Until then, stay here."
"Fine," Rainbow said. As she headed for the door to his house, he spoke up.
"And if you start seeing things again, don't interact with them. It'll only make things worse."
She didn't answer, but instead went into the house. It was kinda small and not really meant to house more than one pony. But it would work.
"You shouldn't listen to him," said a hallucination. "Interaction is actually very healthy. Now why don't you tell me about yourself."
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"I just need you guys to tell me a little more about my sister," Nightwolf said. "It could help stop her from going insane."
"Mostly, she's loyal to her friends," Twilight said.
"I got that when she wouldn't talk to me when I..." Nightwolf didn't finish the sentance. They all knew what he did.
"Well there really isn't much else. She's been flying around so fast, I barely catch her long enough to chat. And she is pretty buisy with her training."
"Training?" Nightwolf asked.
"Yeah," Twilight replied. "She told me all about it when I first got here. She's training herself to join the Wonderbolts for ages."
Nightwolf looked up. "That could be a trigger," he said. "I need to go talk to her right now. Let me know if you think of anything useful." And with that, he ran off toward his house.
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"I just don't know how they haven't let me join!" Rainbow yelled at her hallucination. "I've broken the freaking sound barrier! What more do they want?"
"I think part of what's causing this to happen is your rage toward the Wonderbolts," he replied. "Maybe you should let that out. It could help.
"Rainbow!" Nightwolf screamed into the house, causing the imagined pony to dissapear. "I need to talk to you!"
"What do you want?" Rainbow screamed back.
"I need to talk to you about your training."
"What about it?" Rainbow asked. "Is it a bad thing to do that?"
"No," Nightwolf said. "I just think that you shouldn't be focussing on getting into that team. It's not the best thing to keep as a life-long goal."
"And you have something better?" Rainbow retorted.
"At least I have a backup plan."
"I have a backup!" Rainbow said, defensively.
"And what would that be?" Nightwolf pushed.
"Um," Rainbow said. She really didn't have one, but she couldn't tellher brother that. "It's a secret."
"A secret because you don't have one," Nightwolf said. "You're not that good at lying, you know."
"Well I haven't been able to think of one because I've been too buisy with my first goal," she said.
"You just should try your best to not think about them for a while, ok? It could end badly."
"What are you, my psychologist?"
"That's my job," said the imaginary pony. "He can't have it. Tell him that."
"I'm not going to tell him that!" she screamed at him.
"Tell me what?" Nightwolf asked. "Have you been talking to them? What all did you do?"
"Just talk," she admitted. "He doesn't push any questions and doesn't try to make me somepony else."
"So what," Nightwolf began. "You just made yourself a psychologist? That's not the best plan of action. You need to talk to a real pony. You need real help. This could get out of control too easily."
"And how would this get out of control?" Rainbow spit back.
"Maybe by them telling you lies and convincing you of false truths!" Nightwolf yelled at her. "They could convince you to do things that you would never do otherwise. They could get you to do something you regret. They could change you." He said that last sentance with a little quiver in his tone. He turned away from his sister. "I can't let something like that happen to you."
"What aren't you telling me?" Rainbow asked.
"Something I haven't told anypony. And it's going to stay that way."
"You've beenthrough this, haven't you?"
"I'm not going to talk about it."
"If you talk to me about it, I'll talk to you about it," Rainbow said.
"If that's what it takes to get you to talk to a real pony about your problems. Deal," Nightwolf said.