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// To Fall Asleep-cahpter (rewrite of ^) 
// Story: The LEGO Bricks 
// by Iroh Legoman 
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Tick
tock
tick
tock

The clock ticked and tocked back and forth, while a certain indigo-maned purple alicorn was laying in her bed. It has been an hour since Princess Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship, went to bed. For an hour, she has been tossing and turn trying to get comfortable. The firmness of her bed has made it difficult the past week to get to sleep. 

A week ago she, along with her friend, had saved Equestria again by defeating Tirek, a power-hungry, revenge seeking, magic draining tyrant. A week ago, their friend, Discord, betrayed them. A week ago that tyrant destroyed her home and the town's library, the Golden Oaks Library. A week ago her friends discovered a new power to defend Equestria with. A week ago, the magic box that gave them the new power, give Twilight a castle and a new home.

But that was a week ago.

It was a hard week for her since defeating Tirek. There was first the Thank You celebration, the House Warming celebration, numerous and long meetings with the Princesses and the council, and dealing with the lose of all of her personal possessions. All of that, and getting very little sleep. 

The first night in her new castle, she fell asleep easily after being worn out, but when she woke up, she was as stiff as the rock* she slept on. The next night she used a sleeping spell, but had the same problem as the night before. she tried sleeping on a cloud, but found it too cold and wet for her; sleeping in the castle and her parents house, only to be woken up by 'emergencies' and fancolts respectively.

She has tried asking her friends and the Princesses what they do to go to sleep (Pinkie's sleeping plan was counterproductive: eating lots of sugar). She even asked Cadence, her sister-in-law and former foal-sitter, how she sleeps, to which they were interrupted by a yellow pegasus of Cadance's guard (**).