39 - Fixing Him
Silver's eyes came into focus. He was... awake. He knew it beyond even the faintest shadow of a doubt. Whatever world he was in, it was his. He slowly sat up on the pillow somepony had set him on. Luna was asleep, as was Night Watch, her glasses perched messily on her snout.
The scent in the air hinted that the two had thoroughly enjoyed one another's company. Silver tried to spread wings he didn't have, just to have the reality of that settle on him. He wasn't a prince. He was never a prince, or a princess. He'd never traveled the world, or taken dozens on dozens of wives. He was a young pony. A young... stupid pony that had just tried to throw his life away over nothing.
Tears welled up in his eyes and he began to sniffle in spite of himself, trying to hold back those emotions. He was awake. That was one thing he knew for sure, but there was so much more... So much. He didn't want to bother the mares in the room, but he saw little alternative to getting answers. "Night?" His voice surprised him. Even when he had turned back into Silver Lining, it was just that little off. He truly was Silver Lining. Silver Stars was dead, and never was.
Night stirred with a sleepy grumble. She sat up, which was enough to rouse Luna, and soon he had two pairs of eyes on him.
Silver looked between them. "First, Luna... Was that you?"
"You remember that much?" Luna perked her ears. "Most forget swiftly their dreams. Are you well?" While she spoke, Night adjusted her glasses to fit better. Silver smiled a little, remembering she used to do that more often. Did he forget in his dreams?
"I'm... Okay, let's go through this. I have about a lifetime and change in my head, or so it feels like." He pointed at Night. "We had a foal together... twice..."
Night went a bright cherry red. "In a row?"
"N-no... It's not that simple."
Luna reached with her magic, drawing Silver up against them. "You had many dreams, we should think. While you slept, I wove through the thick tangle of your thoughts. I dared not weave them with my own hooves for their intense complexity, so I simply laid them so you would see them, and work through them, yourself. Are you well?"
Silver licked over his lips. "None of it was real?" Luna shook her head. Silver's ears pinned back. "Not even a little?"
"As real as any dream can be, which is not very." Luna perked an ear. "But look inside yourself. Are you better?"
Silver wanted to panic, to thrash and flail, but he resisted. He cleared out his mind as Luna's gentle words commanded, and let out a slow breath. "I feel..." He opened his eyes. "I feel like I'll miss the dream... But I'm a kid again." Silver set a hoof on his chest. "I still have my... wonderful wife... I'm not going to scramble for what I don't have. I want to make the best of what I do, and try to make it better."
Night smiled as she leaned in. "No more hurting yourself?"
Ah, right. That was what got him there. "No! No... Lord no."
"Princess." Luna seemed confused at being called a lord.
"No, sorry, saying, a human saying." Silver smiled, expecting fangs, but they were gone. He was a unicorn. A normal unicorn, if one discounted the human soul residing in him. "Wait, does this mean?"
"It does. You are free to go, and to resume your duties, if you wish." Luna nodded firmly. "It would be a pleasure to have you back as a servant."
Silver felt conflict rise in his chest. He had learned so much of Luna, and her isolation, and the joy they could bring to one another, but to reach for her could hurt Night, or maybe thrill her? It felt like ages ago when they last talked about it. "Night?"
"Yes?" Night's ears twitched softly. "What's up?"
"How was your time, with Luna, while I was dreaming?"
Night sighed softly. "It was a pleasure to serve her, and to reside with her. I have always been loyal to her, but this was... different." She colored brightly. "Please don't be jealous! I didn't mean it in any way like that. You're my stallion!"
Silver bit his lower lip, a gesture he couldn't do easily without bleeding when he had fangs. "What if... I suggested we not let her go?"
Luna raised a brow high. "Young pony, you have no claim to me. Even my temporary claiming of your mate while you were recovering means nothing in return."
Night glanced between them. "Silver, you should be royally cheesed, not... doing that."
Silver looked between them, unsure what to say. "I learned a lot about you, Luna, in those dreams..."
Luna raised a brow. "Much of which was likely false. We are glad you are feeling better, but you can leave us now." She gently waved her hooves to dismiss them both. "A bright young soul as yourself has no need for the Night Mother any further."
With an intense wave of magic, they were evicted out to the hallway, their saddlebags landing nearby a moment later, then the door to her chambers slapped shut. After the briefest moment, it swung open a few inches. "He's cured!" came Luna's shout, then it closed.
The lunar ponies standing there nodded lightly. "Congratulations on your recovery. Are you taking your position back?"
Silver gathered himself up, taking his saddlebag in his magic and fitting it in place. "Night, I did a horrible thing, and you were the victim. I'm in your debt. What would you rather I did?"
Night leaned in and rubbed noses with him. "I want you to be happy, and doing what you can do and enjoy doing, just as you would want for me."
Silver brightly returned her smile. "I don't deserve you, but I'll work on fixing that." He turned to the guard. "Yes. I'll be taking the Ambassador position back. Have there been other human guests?"
The guard pointed down the hallway. "You'll want to talk to Princess Celestia. She would be up to date on any new humans. Welcome back, sir."
With head held high, Silver began to trot, only to slow, looking sidelong at his wife, pregnant... Could it be with the filly he saw? What of his colt? That colt was created in a situation that would never happened unless Silver really bent over backwards trying to make it happen, and even then, it seemed terribly unlikely. Clear Twilight may yet be, but Morning Glory, what hope was there for him?
"What are you looking at? Ugh, I'm a mess right now." Night settled and began brushing her fur out nervously and rapidly. "Is something wrong?"
Silver shook his head. "I'm wondering what could be, won't be, and may be."
Night raised a brow behind her thick glasses. "Wow, Luna really did a number on your head. Are you sure you're alright?"
Silver felt a moment, and knew without doubt... "I'm awake, and ready." Together they strode through the halls of the palace, to announce Silver's return. Ambassador Silver Lining would resume his functions. No prince, princess, half-human, or any other countless things. He hadn't bedded a worryingly large amount of the main six, or ever gotten that close to Twilight Sparkle.
Perhaps it was for the best?
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ok Wow! total inception. that was epic. I cannot even imagine where the future will go from here.
I really do not know what to say this is one of too things a vary perfect ending or a super good beginning to a perfect story.
Harts Fire
time will tell as to what is going to happen.
either way I will be watching.
Does this mean the pony infection universe is also some kind of hallucination since twilight didn't try to reach Earth O_o
6792689 Look, The Text told you not to read this, but here you are. You only have yourself to blame.
So... if I haven't read much into the sequel... will I be totally lost here? I guess the sequel was all a dream, here?
6792740 You can read on, accepting what Silver says/thinks and going on with that. Nothing actually happened. He went to sleep under Luna's care, woke up a new pony.
I stopped reading because permanent genderswap (or maybe it wasn't I didn't read the whole thing) really bugs me. I couldn't push through it.
Do I need to read the dream to understand what will happen next?
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Was he asleep for nine months like the gap in this story?
Or some shorter value?
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6792766 As I'll touch in the next chapter, he wasn't out for that long, or Night would already have her foal all snuggled up to her instead of a potential promise in the future still.
6792765 To be more specific, no. Silver will bring up what he remembers experiencing, but since it didn't actually happen, you lose nothing, except for how it shaped him into who he is.
6792780 Okay, that makes sense.
Duuuu... ehhhhhh... errrrrrrgh....
Anyone that isn't Silver will have this reaction or will develop some form Nihilism... or will become catatonic...
Or either two or all of the above....
I had the stumped expression as well...
I hope that Silver will have remembered all of the Unicorn alphabet. Anyway, the only question remains...
What happens next?
And I literally just went back and put this in my completed folder two hours ago too because I had forgotten to do it
Well, my hat is off to you, Sir Silver.
*doffs their cap with a deep bow*
It seems you had all or at least a part of this planned from the beginning, and we all ate it up like candy.
Silver has a lot to work out and it can go anywhere from here.
Does this kill the tie in with One Step?
6792862 Sleep learning, next level!
6792895 Don't leave us. The drones miss you.
6792898 Even seen in dreams, all realities that are perceived at, for some value, in existence.
6792911 - whoa, an entire world turned upside down by events that happened in Silver's dream.
6792921 I'm sure you've had a world explode once or twice in a dream.
6792908 I'm with the Silververse to the end! Ain't no way some magic all seeing writing in the air is gonna tell me what to do!
Bring it text! Bring it on!
(Not too hard though... I bruise easily...)
While you pulling the 'It was all just a dream~~' think (twice!) might have left me with whiplash (I'll send you the bill if I end up having to go see someone about it) I'm sticking with it. You weave tales like few others.
(Imagine if this was a printed series... open 'Putting on a Silver Wizard Robe' book II, book six in the series and being told that books 4, 5 and the 5.5 novella, as well as the two books in the resulting spin off series were all just a dream and may not have actually happened
)
6792936 I think it was put best when it was said that this is Fimfic's only soap opera in fanfic form.
6792961 I've been a reading a soap opera all this time
*keeps reading* What? Don't judge me.
What... exactly did Silver get up to in the sequel?
I guess aside from those things...
It doesn't sound like my kind of story, actually...
Even if the style of this story is... unusual.
6793017 And they can fade into the realm of dreams, never to bother us.
Ineresting. Let's see where this goes.
This would get fucking confusing for new reader.
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I am thinking any new readers starting out with this story well they will need a map or chapter list to follow.
6793204 Each chapter that jumps says where to go with a happy link. No guides required.
Hot dignity this was forever ago!
Hmm, rewinding our mind a bit, this means that Fast is still hosting the Changelings, right? Hmmm, so many things were different from then, let's see where we go this time!
Keep going! ;)
In spite, though working a spire into this may be cool.
Once more, it was all just a dream. You only get one more of these before you thoroughly piss off your audience. That said, I do kind of like the ideas of these alternatives.
6822736 Fixed, and he was promised the ability to be able to know dream from waking. No more dreams, promise, unless he knows he's in one from the start.
Despite keeping in mind that it was all a dream, I forgot that it was so twice over.
Night broke her glasses in chapter 33, and they were still broken at the end of chapter 38.
6950672 There was a very undetermined but certainly not zero amount of time passed. If at no other point, then while Silver was passed out in a horrific land of dreams and nightmares. She had several opportunities to buy and/or find and/or repair her glasses. It may be worth a sin to those Cinemasin guys, but everything's a sin to those guys.
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and me.
So Luna just fucked his wife and he's just alright with that?
6957932 That is an assumption.
6958053 aa right a bit later Luna explains she kinda just cried right?
6958088 Yep.
remembering?
7160196 Fixed that and another while I was at it.
Here I go on to some thing better ...I hope.
Ok, back to the beginning. And from the chapter count, still kinda the middle of the story.
Thanks for the insomnia, Silver.
Dang it all to heck I just wasted a week of my time reading that crap just for it all to mean nothing
Bring twilight back I loved her parts
With my decision, i will be confused. But I'm one of those readers that hates reading a series out of order. Stories that branch off a singular chapter within a story confuse me. On the one hand, i have to finish the story, but the next in the series continues from that chapter.
This is why i hate stories within stories.
The most annoying part is that silver stars has it's own separate sequel. I dont know how that fits in.
* sigh *
I give up. I have no idea who is what or who did what anymore, and I'm not going to bother finding out.
Well done. Well done indeed. I'll take the rest of the story being somewhat confused because I can't remember what happened and what didn't.
As a side note, congratz. The portion of the story which never actually happened is longer than the portion of the story that happened. Outside of inception, there aren't many GOOD stories that can state that.
Well, I'm going to assume you've gotten most of the insanity out of your system and things will get back to normal. Or, Ponyville normal at least.
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I admit to being unsure if I've made a happy reader or not, but I do hope so! Things get more sane from here out.
7992278 There is a gloriously simple answer to that problem, one that has already been provided by our dear author in fact. Divergent timelines. Both are happening simultaneously, in parallel. It can be a dizzyingly complex mess to get your head around, but as someone who studies and attempts to follow the great web that is the Legend of Zelda timelines, I find it rather fulfilling.
In all things, keep it casual.~
I haven't had a story mess me up emotionally in a long time you are a damn fantastic writer sir