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// Act I; Scene II: The Lost Knight 
// Story: Old Wounds 
// by Sylpheed Dashstep 
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	When Sylph woke up, he didn't know where he was. He was in a bed, which was actually kind of soft he noted, and was covered in a blanket that had apples sprawled all over it. Sylph got out of the bed and remade it, then began to examine the room. He saw some pictures on a table and walked over to look at them. He saw a picture of an orange mare with a blonde mane that was wearing a brown hat and had some apples for a cutie mark. She looked like she was wrestling with a filly. She was pale in color with a red mane that had a bow in her hair of a lighter red color.  She's a blank flank he noted and she's also kind of cute. He heard a shuffling sound behind him and turned to find the filly behind him.
"So, you're the filly Pinky Pie and Big Mac brought in," she said.
"Uhh, who's Big Mac," he asked.
"He's my older brother, there's a picture of him over here," she said as she trotted over and picked up a picture, showing it to Sylph. He saw a red stallion with auburn hair. He also had something around his neck, but Sylph couldn't tell what it was because of the close-up on the stallions face. 
"Oh, uhh yeah," he said through a light blush. He reached up to rub his neck and instantly noticed something. My headphones are missing he thought as he searched the room for them.
"Are you ok there," the filly asked him as the scoured the room, "it's not very polite to snoop through other ponies things you know."
He stopped and blushed again, "Sorry, you wouldn't happen to know where my headphones are, would you," he asked hopefully.
The filly giggled, "Nope, AJ put them somewhere."
"Uhh, AJ, could you help me out here," he asked as he tilted his head questioningly.
"Oh, yeah sorry, I keep forgetting you're not from here," she said. "Applejack is my older sister, the one in this picture right here," she indicated to the picture Sylph had been examining earlier. "And I'm Apple Bloom, now who are you," she asked. 
He was getting tired of introducing himself, and he had only introduced himself to one pony so far, "I'm Alex, but I-" he managed to say before Apple Bloom giggled. "What," he asked her.
"Oh nothing. So why are you so protective of those headphones," she said as she surveyed the room he had recently tore through and sat on the bed.
Sylph sat down where he was and said, "It's the last thing my mom gave me before...she left." Well, at least I'm not telling a complete lie he thought.
"Why did she leave," Apple Bloom asked him.
"It's nothing," he said. "You know, you never let me finish introducing myself," he said as he tried to steer the conversation away from his mom.
She giggled and said, "Well I got your name, right Alex?"
He visibly flinched at the name, "But I prefer Sylph, everypony refers to me as Sylph."
Apple Bloom stared at him blankly, "But, Alex is the name your mom gave you, right?"
Sylph sighed and said, "I've grown used to Sylph though."
Apple Bloom smiled and patted the spot on the bed beside her, "Well I'm going to call you Alex. I like Alex better than Sylph."
Sylph sat down beside her, "Fine, but if I don't respond to Alex, don't blame me."
She giggled, "Well, like I said, I like Alex not Sylph."
Sylph blushed a little and laughed, "I got multiple meanings out of that you know."
She punched him lightly and began laughing so hard she fell back into the bed. She sat back up after she had regained her breath with a mild case of the hiccups and said, "Take it however you want-hic-, but I'm serious, you should go by-hic- the name your own mom-hic- gave you-hic-. It's suiting for you." She gave him one last smile and hopped off the bed.
Sylph, no, not Sylph, Alex, hopped off the bed after he and asked, "So do you know where your sister is?"
Apple Bloom seemed lost in thought before saying, "Well, today's Thursday, so she should be in town selling apples most likely."
Alex smiled and said, "Care to lead the way my princess," then laughed harder than he had in a while.
Apple Bloom rolled her eyes then giggled and said, "This way my lost knight." 
And that's exactly what he was...