Discord woke up first. Not surprising given Fluttershy’s state, but it still caught his attention. Yes he knew sleeping was normal given the circumstances, but the past few days he’d been here she’d slept through most of them. He might’ve protested if she didn’t look so tired, but he honestly didn’t know much on the subject. He slowly unraveled himself from her side and quickly replaced the space with some warm pillows. While sleeping was nice, and he wanted nothing more than to keep her company, Discord had grown antsy from all the time he’d spent at a slow pace, and he needed to move. He pulled at his arms and stretched his neck, slowly getting through his whole body. Yes, he definitely needed to get out and shake himself off a bit and burn some energy. What time was it? The sun hadn’t yet reached its peak, but it was still pretty high, warming the town as much as it could on the winter day. Though foul weather didn’t affect him much, he appreciated the sun during a dreary season. He wanted to pick something up anyway, and he’d be able to study it on his flight back while stretching his wings some more.
Discord snapped his tail and a note appeared next to the fireplace, the flames reigniting to a steady, warm rhythm, and he flew out a window, flicking it shut with his tail on the way out. He didn’t plan on being out long, but thought it better not to disappear without a notice in case Fluttershy woke up.
The flight to the library was a refreshing one, the winds whipping at him and giving him something to fly against. Normally something so simple and mundane as a gust wouldn’t have been enough, but he always tended to appreciate more simple things after time with Fluttershy. It may not have had the same punch as flying through an electric current of rainbows, but she had reminded him how to see the complexities in something more simple. She had even gotten him excited at the random knots in trees at one point. The scattering of them was always different on each tree, and there was a beauty in how the bark wove around the holes, small branches popping out between the tight knits and splaying out. Not the most chaotic thing, and there was some sense of order to it, but it was infinitely more complex than he remembered. He hadn't thought about such things in a very long time. And being able to look for and sense all the small changes in the currents he rode was almost calming, in a sporadic way.
Discord stopped suddenly in his tracks, dropping to the ground with a weary thud.
He had forgotten.
The library had been nearly disintegrated, because of him… How could he forget so easily...
A tremble ran down his spine. It dawned on him that he had damaged much more than Fluttershy. Everyone had forgiven him so easily the whole… nearly destroying the town escaped his mind. He caught some ponies glancing his way and, after another involuntary shake, shot back up into the sky.