//------------------------------//
// Entry 20 
// Story: The Luna Diaries 
// by The-rogue-shadow 
//------------------------------//

Dear Diary,

This morning was horrible. I woke up coughing as though my body was trying to evacuate my lungs from my chest. My muscles felt incredibly weak, so much so that I could barely lift my forelegs and I somehow managed to split my lip on the floor when I tripped over my own legs as I was trying to get out of bed.

Heartstrings apparently heard the commotion of my failed attempt to get ready for school and came into the room just as I blew a large amount of phlegm into a tissue, making her gag uncontrollably. 

Ignoring my groans of protest she ushered me back into my bed, telling me that I would not be attending school before she galloped away to get the castle physician. I tried to tell her not to, that I would be fine with time, but again she ignored me. 

***

When the doctor arrived, I was surprised and a little nervous when I found that it wasn’t the doctor that I had interacted with before. He was a grey Pegasus with a brown mane and tail who introduced himself as ‘Doctor Neuron.’ He seemed nice enough, and was much gentler than the doctor that saw me when I first came back. 

When he told me I simply had the flu, I was suitably annoyed and tried to convince him to let me go to school. He told me that due to the fact that I had a very serious case of the flu, most likely because I had never been vaccinated against the virus and as a result, I was going to have to remain in quarantine for a week or so. 

***

Tia came to visit me after the doctor had left and tried to comfort me as I continued to go into long coughing fits. She was stroking my mane and simply talking, and I had to fight against the urge to fall asleep. It was so peaceful. 

Swift brought me a stack of books so that I could occupy myself during the week of my quarantine. Some of them had something to do with a one of my school classes, like a book about physics, but most of them were adventure books such as ‘Daring Do and the griffin’s goblet’ and ‘The temple of the Pegasus monks’ which was the first one I read and turned out to be a great story about an archaeologist who was accosted by a bunch of griffin mercenaries and forced to find some sort of magical artefact that was meant to do… something. I kind of lost track at one point because I kept falling asleep and somehow skipping pages. 

Well I suppose that this week is going to be very slow, but maybe I’ll get to spend some more time with Tia if she has the opportunity.