As I entered the study, the sweet aroma of freshly made tea tingled my senses. During my time upstairs the professor had made good use of the ingredients he brought.
“So what exactly do you need me for?” I asked.
“Have a look at these,” said Linas, handing me a short stack of letters.
As I fumbled through each letter, I took note that almost all of them had been addressed to Edgar. I pulled out the odd envelope and checked the front and back for any clue as to who it belonged to.
“All but one,” I said to the professor.
“Well...?” he raised his brow.
“You’re right,” I said as I began to open the letter carefully, making sure to avoid any damage of the envelope’s aging contents.
As my eyes fell upon the words which lay before me, only one thing became clear.
This mirror... Does it really possess such magical abilities?
Dear Professor Linas,
You are needed at Canterlot Castle as soon as possible, please come quickly.
Princess Celestia.
“Linas... This letter... It’s asking for you,” I said, my hands shaking.
“Impossible,” he snapped, taking the letter and reading through it quickly.
His face became a pale white as he read the letter, I could tell from his shortness of breath and shaking hands that he was scared. Something I never thought I would see him be. He took a seat in his chair and removed his reading glasses.
“Are you okay, Professor?” I asked.
“Yes, dear boy. I just need a moment to think about this, It’s not everyday you get a letter from a different dimension,” he chuckled.
THUD!
We both stopped in terror and stared at the ceiling, trying to follow the movements of whatever was on the upstairs floor.
Tika, tika, tika, SLAM!
“Professor, what do you think it is?” I asked.
“Let’s go find out, there’s no point in cowering down here,” he said triumphantly.
As we slowly made our way to the staircase, I was extremely baffled as to why there was childlike laughter coming from upstairs. I could hear some muffled talking, it seemed to be coming from the room Linas and I had previously been in.
As I approached the door, I could just barely make out what they were saying.
“Applebloom, this is obviously the wrong place, I can’t see any moomans anywhere,”
“They’re called humans, you moron,”
“What are you, a dictionary?”
“Wait, I hear someone coming,”
“Quick! Back through here,”
I rushed to the door and burst through it, staring at the strange creature that was standing by the mirrors. It turned and ran, slamming straight into the mirror. I was a bit confused at first but then decided to approach the clumsy animal.
“Are you okay?” I asked cautiously.
“Well what does it look like?” it said, caressing the bump on it’s head.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to offend you, do you have a name?” I asked again, feeling rather uneasy at the fact I was talking to an animal that could reply back to me.
“The name’s Scootaloo, I’ll just get straight to the point.”
Scootaloo pulled a small crystal out of the saddlebag that she was wearing and handed it to me. I simply gazed at the crystal with a puzzled expression.
“What do I do with it?” I pondered.
“You don’t do anything with it, it’s a calling beacon,” said Scootaloo.
“A calling beacon?” said Linas, who had slowly inched his way into the room.
“Yes, it will glow very brightly when that mirror becomes a gateway to our dimension,” Scootaloo pointed at the Mirror of Eden. “Whether or not you pass through the mirror is entirely up to you, but Princess Celestia sent us to try and persuade you to come to our world and help,” she added.
“Help with what exactly?” I asked.
“You’ll just have to find that out for yourself,” she smiled.
A bright glow from the crystal caught my attention, I looked down on it as it slowly blinked away.
“That’s my cue to leave, I trust you will make the right decision,” She said as she flew up and began tapping me on the head.
She paused for a moment before spreading her wings to their full extent and soared through the mirror, vanishing from the room. Silence quickly fell upon the professor and I as we gazed around the now, empty room.
“Edgar was right,” said Linas.
“Indeed he was, Professor. Do you think he is still alive in the other dimension?” I asked.
“I’m not sure, but I do hope so,” he sighed.
“As do I,” I said, patting him on the shoulder.
* * *
Both Linas and I spent the next few hours just waiting in the study, anxiously staring at the crystal and wishing it would blink. The thought of seeing another dimension with my own eyes was killing me inside.
“Professor, what if the same thing that happened to Edgar, happens to us?” I asked, fiddling with a small hourglass.
“I’m sure he’s safe and sound, just like everyone else there.” he said.
“I didn’t mean it like that, Professor.What I’m trying to say is... What if we decide that we don’t want to return to our own dimension?” I sighed before getting up from my chair. “I don’t know why, but I have this strange feeling inside of me, but a good one. Scootaloo said Celestia really needed our help. You’re not just going to let an opportunity like this slip by, are you?” I added.
“Of course not, I’m just tired of waiting for this darn thing to start glowing,” he said sternly.
The oil lamp that was on the table began flickering, just like that. There was no way the wind could get to it because of the metal casing. I slowly gazed around the room and could feel the silence drawing closer.
“It’s the mirror!” I shouted.
I grabbed the crystal and ran upstairs to the room with the mirror in it, swiftly followed by Linas. We stopped in the center of the room, the noise had been completely removed by the ongoing storm of silence. I averted my gaze to the crystal which lay as dark as the room we were standing in, I wondered how long it would be before it would glow.
“Can you feel that?” asked Linas.
“Feel wh-” The sensation soon hit me, just as quick as the silence that had fell over the room.
The wind from this morning was back, just like before the wind was coming from the mirror itself, which almost seemed impossible. But from what I had seen and felt in the last twenty four hours, nothing seemed impossible to me any more.
The darkness around us was slowly fading away, I looked down at my hand and saw the glowing crystal that I once held earlier, in this very spot. I stepped up to the mirror and put my hand out, inching closer and closer to the glass Instead of stopping where it should have, my hand simply kept on going. I stopped and pulled my hand back, turning to Linas.
“I guess this is it,” I said.
“Well what are we waiting for, we have another dimension to discover,” he uttered as he joined me by the mirror.
I looked back on the room and without hesitation, I entered the Mirror Of Eden.