It was late at night in Fluttershy’s cottage when she and I decided to go to sleep. In the first few weeks we decided that the couch wasn’t a very good bed for me, angel bunny obviously had negative feelings towards me.
“Fluttershy, I can't thank you enough for trusting me enough to let me sleep in your bed.”
“It is no problem. I know how possessive angel bunny is of the couch.” She said with a smile.
“Is that so?” I asked the small white rabbit, who was behaving himself while Fluttershy was around.
“Oh yes, he is very territorial.” She told me matter-of-factly.
After a minute we were ready for bed when one of the cats came up the stairs and started rubbing against my legs. I looked down to see the feline and smiled.
“Hi, Harley.” I said in a friendly tone.
Then the unexpected happened.
I started seeing flashes of what looked like memories. They were going too fast for me to comprehend them on the spot, but when it ended I had received a lot of knowledge that I did not previously have. I looked up at Fluttershy from the ground, she had a worried look on her face, like I had just had a heart attack and she didn’t know what to do. I was fine, other than the strange memories.
“A-are you ok?” she asked in a rushed voice.
“Perfectly fine, why do you ask?” I answered as I stood up and brushed myself off.
“When Adularescence here rubbed against your leg you called him Harley. Then your eyes flashed a ton of random pictures of a kitty and you fell to the floor and fell asleep, I went downstairs to get the first aid kit and when I came back up you were waking up.” She was talking a little fast so I barely understood her.
“I'm fine, but I did just have the weirdest vision.” I told her, she looked a bit worried as she patted the spot next to her on the bed, prompting me to sit.
“Tell me all about it.”
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Vinyl and I were mixing some tracks together, practicing a new routine we pieced together recently, when I suddenly got a small headache; I ignored it, thinking it was just from the loud music. I turned the music down and continued to mix. The headache slowly grew to an annoyance. I put a hoof to my temple to try to lessen the persistent pain in my skull. Then I hit. It was as if a tidal wave of information had decided to crash-land into my head. The weirdest part wasn’t even the fact that this came from nowhere; it’s what I saw while it was at its peak. I saw random images of a cat, said cat rubbing against my leg, eating food, hiding in a closet. When I came too Vinyl was over me with a confused look on her face.
“You alright?” she asked.
“Yeah, just lost it for a second there.” I assured her as I stood.
“I think we should talk to Octavia about this.” She said, obviously not believing me.
“What are you talking about? I'm fi-AHHHH!!” I yelled.
“What?! What is it?!” she sprinted to me and tried to look in my face, when she finally did she was surprised.
I was chuckling.
“Y-you shoulda seen the l-look on your face!!” I laughed.
“Jerk!” she yelled. “I thought you were in pain.”
I stopped laughing to try to apologies “I'm sorry baby, it won’t happen again.” I told her.
“It better.” She pouted as she stomped downstairs.
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It was early in the morning when I woke up. Twilight had already started preparing for our guests. When she noticed I was awake she approached.
“How’s the head?” she asked.
I had had a mental breakdown yesterday. My mind went blank and flashed with images of a feline. A cat. This cat seemed familiar and when I was done with my little episode I awoke on the floor, Twilight standing over me with a half concerned half intrigued look on her face. I was fine this morning and told her so.
“I feel much better, thanks.” I said as confidently as I could.
Truth be told, I was extremely confused. Why did that happen, and more importantly, what was it that happened?
“That’s good; I don’t want the others to think you finally went crazy.” She jested.
“You and I both know that happened long ago.” I assured her with a similar simper.
“Yes, now, in a few minutes here breakfast should be done. Spike is making waffles.” She licked her lips involuntarily.
“I look forward to it.” I guaranteed her.
“They’re almost done!” Spike yelled from the kitchen.
“I guess we should start getting ready for breakfast.” She stated. I nodded in agreement.
By the time we had the table set Spike was done with the waffles. We all sat down and started to eat. Halfway through my second morsel there was hoofsteps coming from the library. Moments later Silver walked into the kitchen and sat down. He grabbed a plate and a waffle, poured some syrup and started eating. I realized that I hadn’t seen him come home last night.
“How was work at the farm?” I asked him, he turned pale under his gray coat, which was admittedly difficult to see.
“Work was… satisfying.” He said obviously worried about something.
“What was so satisfying about it?” I kept on him, I knew something was up, I just didn’t know what exactly.
“Um… just the satisfaction of hard, physical labor.” He said, proud of his on-the-spot thinking.
“So you worked hard. That’s good. What did you do?” he paled again.
“A-apple bucking.” He stuttered.
“Apple bucking, huh? Which section of the orchard?” he was starting to crack, I just had to keep on him.
“The… uh… west section.” He tripped up.
“Didn’t you do that just a few days ago?” I asked.
“You know how apples grow, and not to mention the magic growing spells some ponies know!” he tried to cover his tracks.
“Apples don’t grow in less than a week, not to mention the Apple family doesn’t use magic growing spells.” I was leaning over towards him, him leaning back.
“B-but-” he was cut off by a knocking at the door and sighed in visible relief.
“We are not done here.” I told him sternly as I left for the door.
When I opened the door I expected to see Octavia and Vinyl or Derpy, maybe Rarity, but what I saw came as a shock.
It was Fluttershy.
This mare had never struck me as the first to arrive to a gathering, nor the last, and defiantly not the one with the biggest entrance.
“I'm sorry I came so early but I have something I want to talk to Twilight about, if that’s alright with you.”