Chapter 3 – Spitting dust
The chime of your low magic holds to the room like it has for last little bit since stretching your front hooves out to hold a heavyish book became too hard. Next to your side sits a few cups of water and yours and Violet's neatly stacked plate, that still has a few crumbs of cake left on them. Your excuse for eating the cake may have been to help your dried out mouth, but you never really believed it would really help...Note to self Pinkie really does make the BEST sweets.
With your new wet and rested voice and your now more comfortable position reading through the rest of the book Violet pulled from the shelf really feel like nothing...Which is a good thing seeing as how their is no way you're going to be doing anything else other than this today.
But the sound of your voice is broken as the crack of the wooden door to the library comes open behind you. From the noise you and the light purple filly turn your heads as you watch the lavender mare coming into the house.
"Hi Twilight."
Your slightly raspy voice sparks the mare's eyes to shrink as she backs up a little more towards the door, "Oh Celestia, you're not sick again are you?"
You clear your throat as you give a laugh, "What? No no, i've just been talking a lot."
The little filly beside you quickly jumps from her sitting spot as she dashes over towards the lavender mare.
Twilight breaths a sigh of relief as she starts to undo her saddle while she gives a warm embrace to the little filly, "Thats a relief....So what did you two do today?" The mare's voice turns a little foal like as she gives a smile to the filly.
Violet's hooves spark up in quick and slightly incomplete motions as she happily tries to run through the books you've read.
You bring yourself up from the ground as you float the book, cups and plates up from the ground. Twilight's voice comes back as she holds her smile to the filly's excitement, "You did?" But the happy tone doesn't stay long as Twilight cocks her head, "What do you mean the cake was good?"
Her eyes come to you as you trot towards the kitchen, you halt as you speak up, "Don't worry, it wasn't a lot."
Twilight's trot brings her next to you as her horn takes the items from your magical grasp, "I would hope not, that's hardly a good lunch."
You smirk to the comment as you think to yourself, does she really think that was lunch? You push the thought aside as you cock your smiling face to Twilight, "There's still the biggest piece left for you."
Twilight's voice calls back from the kitchen as the sound of plates and cups clanging a little trail in behind her, "HA, biggest piece? What are you trying to do fatten me up?"
A faint chuckle comes from you as the mare comes back into your sight, "So you're done for the day?"
Twilight's playful expression changes as she rolls her eyes, "Ugh, yes but some of the pegasus team went too far south and Fluttershy said she found a few of her bunny friends missing a little bit of the tail's hair...Its like somethings eating hair?"
You blink to her comment but you don't bring your voice up as the sound of fast paced claws come to the room behind you, "Twilight! Twilight your back!"
You and Twilight both just stare to the slightly panted little dragon as he continues to speak, "I got something from Celestia a little while ago." His right claw waves around for a moment as he walks towards Twilight.
But the lavender mare's horn comes up as the paper moves from Spike's hand, "A letter? Oh...Celestia must have been looking forward to Violet's latest training update."
You roll your eyes to the comment as you think it over, I'm sure Princess Do Nothing would not have been following her letters that much.
Twilight runs her eyes across the page for a moment with a hesitant smile, however as she continues down the text her smile becomes completely lost as you look her over with a quick spike of fear that you haven't felt in a few months, "What? What's wrong?"
Theres a moment of silence as Twilight's building voice comes to the awaiting world around her the paper turns towards the rest of the ponies in the room, "Celestia says because of how well Violet's doing that she thinks we should just bring her up in the next two weeks! She already got us train tickets."
You blink to her comment as you breath a faint sigh of relief, "Oh..."
Twilight's voice holds its spike as she floats the paper to the table, "No, not OH, its oh no! We still haven't even gone over egg warming spells!"
You cock your head to her tone as you speak up, "But I thought you said we did everything else?"
Twilight's trot comes over towards Spike as she slightly pushes him into the main part of the library, "Well duh, you always do the harder stuff first, but we still need to go over all kinds of things, enchanting again, spellbinding again, teleporting again, telekinesis again, spell casting- we need to go over everything again...Spike go see if you can bring one of the enchanted brooms up from the basement."
The purple dragon pauses for a second but he moves from your sight as he walks quickly into the other room.
You just stand motionless as you study her words in your head, again...Any bit of worry that you had now drops to almost nothing as you shake your head and turn to the little filly next to you that just stare with her own confusion to the lavender mare's frantic motions, "...I think that mommy is just trying to make you perfect-..."
"Don't just stand there! Help me with these books." You snap back to reality as you move towards the web of books that have started to form from Twilight's floating magic.
Violet just sits with a patient smile as she stares to the magical juggling act being performed in front of her, with no regard to what lays just a week or two away.
End of chapter 3