I awoke to a knocking
Upon the galley door.
I wiped the sand from my eyes,
And opened them to a surprise.
Finding frost upon the floor.
The knocking came again,
And I went to see the matter.
‘Twas Endless Sky at the door,
Her teeth were all a chatter.
‘By Celestia’s sun, this isn’t fun,
I’ve never felt this freeze.’
Quote the yellow Pegasus,
Whom then let out a sneeze.
She zipped past me into the room,
Like evading a rainstorm.
Wrapping in my blanket,
Desperate to get warm.
I asked her where Cat’s Eye had gone,
In this cold and snowy pickle.
Quote she: ‘If you ask me,
Of what her cutie mark should be,
I’d say a hammer and a sickle.’
Upon asking further,
I found out where Cat’s Eye be.
She held up in the engine room,
Not letting the heat free.
I walked out onto the deck,
To find a wonderland of snow.
As every inch of my fair ship,
Emitted a white glow.
The cold bothered me little,
Being a pony of the Earth.
My companions on the other hoof,
Would rather stay in berth.
I looked over the starboard side,
To find we were still moving.
Even in the winds so calm,
The silence eerily soothing.
I traversed then to the engine room,
Through the snow piling high.
To check upon the status,
Of the dear crewmate Cat’s Eye.
I stamped my hoof upon the door,
‘Cat’s Eye, it’s me!’ quote I.
Till silence once again took hold,
As a minute soon passed by.
The handle I tried, but wouldn’t move,
So I gave the door a buck.
It fell right off its hinges,
I’m not sure if that was luck.
Inside I found poor Cat’s Eye,
Covered head to hoof in soot.
With the black of coal on her white coat,
Looked like a fancy suit.
Speaking of coal, I looked to see,
From how much she had drawn.
But to my surprise, before my eyes,
I found it was all gone.
‘You used up all the coal!’ said I,
‘How will we stoke the fire?’
What first was simply cold and snow,
Now became much more dire.
Once the fire ran its course,
We would be set adrift.
For without them and no wind above,
Our sails they would not lift.
I quickly tightened all the valves,
To regulate the steam.
Then glaring upon Cat’s Eye,
My eyes did surly beam.
She didn’t say a word to me,
But let out a bad cough.
From all the soot she doth inhaled,
I decided not to scoff.
I led her out and to the galley,
Going back to fix the door.
From the freezing cold, and pounding nails,
My hooves did grow quite sore.
Now back inside, I joined the two
Sitting down to eat.
And looking out the window pane,
My eyes viewed something quite insane.
The snow doth turned to sleet.
From snow to sleet, then sleet to rain,
The weather sure changed fast.
Not even a weather pony,
Could have foreseen this forecast.
As the rain continued to rattle on,
It began to make me think.
With all this water and melting snow,
I sure hope we don’t sink!
With the snow now gone, and rain still falling,
It became a little warmer.
Cat’s Eye stood up and walked outside,
To let the rain adorn her.
The rain mixed with the soot,
As the two slid down her curves.
Endless’ wings gave a pomf,
From her obvious observes.
For some reason Cat’s Eye did dance,
A leap, a hop, a questionable prance,
‘Twas a silly little jig.
Endless’ eyes however, could not avert,
As if caught by the dancing flirt,
So into her food her face did dig.
As funny as both were to savor,
I should have done them both a favor,
And thrown them in the brig.
Throughout the day the rain still fell,
And well into the night.
The clouds eclipsed the skyward moon,
And with it all our light.
We lit a lamp inside the galley,
The helm, and bedroom too.
But out upon the raining deck,
Only darkness was our view.
Shadows began to play our eyes,
As strange things did appear.
Disfigured shapes, and even faces
Brought onto us much fear.
We slept our best throughout the night,
Heads under covers to hide our fright,
As the ship did waterlog.
But when time came and we awoke,
A greater fear did in us invoke,
We wish had been from grog.
We stepped out upon the deck,
A chill ran up from spine to neck,
From near and far and all between,
Was a dense and eerie fog.