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// Nightmare 
// Story: Singular Entities 
// by Cynical 
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Rainbow Dash laid next to Twilight, a foreleg wrapped around her as she tossed and turned in her sleep, grunting every now and then. She felt so… helpless.

Give her a Dragon and she’d buck it in the face ten times over.
If it threatened her friends, she’d beat it to a pulp to protect them.
If it dared to threaten Twilight Sparkle, she’d damn well try to launch it to the moon.

But she couldn’t help her now…
Not in her dreams.

They’d started a week or two ago. It really wasn’t surprising that Twilight could have bad dreams, if not worse than her friends. She’d been through hell and back once… literally, and Rainbow suspected that there was yet more she refused to share.

They’d asked Princess Luna to help, yet she’d revealed that Twilight Sparkles dreams, and all elements of harmony, were no-longer under her domain. She’d have to fight them herself.

But she didn’t have to sit next to Twilight every night before bed and coax her to her nightmares.
She didn’t have to lay there next to her as she tossed and turned, mumbling at horrors Rainbow herself could only dream of.
She didn’t have to feel the guilt every morning as Twilight woke and vowed not to sleep that night, even as she made plans to make her do so.

Yet she could not be mad at the Princess for something which she could not do… no matter how hard she tried.

She just had to wrap her hooves around her marefriend and hold her tight, protecting her against the unspeakable horrors of the night.