Before I left Cloudchaser's room, I took a look at the thermometer by taking it out of the patient's mouth. One-o-three point four. The temperature wasn't exactly going down at all, but at least it wasn't as warm as before. He was no longer under overheated levels but it could rise again. That won't happen though as long as he drinks that pack of water bottles I gave him.
Fleet Foot passed by and waved as I was on my way to my next patient. "Hey Rainbow Dash."
"Heya." I waved back.
As I got to Twilight's castle, I lounged in my throne waiting for Twilight, wondering how to handle this combination that white pegasus had. Minutes passed and still no Twilight. I thought it would be hopeless, that is until Pinkie entered the throne room. "Hey Dashie!"
"Hey Pink. Did you happen to see Twilight around Ponyville?"
"Not sure. Oh wait. I haven't. That's because she's with the other princesses." I looked to see Pinkie Pie laying on the arms of her throne as I facehoofed. I quickly regained my composure though.
"Hey, have you ever met this stallion? All white, pegasus?" It wasn't terribly hard to believe Pinkie would know somepony like that stallion.
"JOSTLE JINX!!! He used to be an old friend of mine when I met Cheese Sandwich for the very first time!!! I haven't seen him in so long!!! How'd you find him?!?" Sure wasn't a surprise to hear Pinkie say that.
"So, I'm wondering if you come with me back to Fillywood." I started to get a little scared, but I realized that this was Pinkie I was talking to.
"Okey dokey lokey." Pinkie proceeded to sit so familiarly. And this wasn't reminding me of Lyra, but I had a bit of what feels like a flashback. This other world. I don't know what this was called but it certainly wasn't Equestria.
"Hey, whatcha lookin' at?" Pinkie quickly noticed me staring at her.
"Oh nothing. It's just some sort of alternate flashback of mine. I kinda got a second timeline in a sense." Of course it wasn't true that I did have a second timeline of my life, much less having them simultaneously.
Pinkie only nodded. Phew. That was close. "Back to Jostle Jinx, how's he doin'?"
That put me on the spot. "Eh, he's not doin' so well. He kinda suffered from an overheat on the eighth of July and now he's having nightmares about that day and first woke up just this morning after what happened on July eighth."
Pinkie Pie only needed again. "Well, at least he should be cooled down by now. He was asleep for two and a half months after all."
I shook my head once more. "I'm confident that is not how cooling down works. I flew out a few seconds and got a pack of water bottles for the poor pony for Celestia's sake. I even feel I didn't do enough to cool him off."
"Well, don't worry Dashie. I think some ice cream may also do him some cooling off." I raised a brow when Pinkie suggested giving him ice cream.
"No, Pinkie. Just no. I can't give him ice cream if he's still almost at one-o-four fahrenheit. Cold water will still do though. Reason being, if he has something too cold, his skin won't be able to acclimate and he'll get a brain freeze, worsening the headache. And if that happens, he could have some serious brain damage. It's sort of like if I were to stop drinking cider in the clop of a hoof."
Pinkie thought for a little bit before speaking. "You know Dashie? You're right. The result is exactly the same for giving him ice cream at one-o-four as it is stopping cider at the blink of an eye. Why didn't I think of that before?!? I should probably see if Jostle Jinx could still blink. But of course that's not what I intended to tell but I'll go up and throw Jostle Jinx a cool party!"
I started to grin. "What kind of cool? Entertaining cool or cold cool?"
"Both!!!" Pinkie shouted.