And It Was a Tiresome Dream, But Only Because She Wished It So

by Ditherer the Fussbudget

TODO

Twilight Sparkle was doing a little morning castlekeeping when she entered the portal’s room and found it was giving off strange readings. The apparatus was quickly-constructed, and she’d been meaning to outfit it with better sensors, but she never found the time. For safety’s sake she checked that it wasn’t immediately dangerous, made sure there was nothing new in the book that linked Sunset to her, and pencilled a checkup into her schedule for later in the day.

When she’d finished cleaning, and bought some groceries, and done her regal workload for the day, she finally returned, ready to tinker. And, surprisingly, she found nothing wrong with her work. She wasn’t foolish enough to jump through and investigate what was on the other side, so instead she tried some scrying. It took her two dozen attempts with various spells to confirm her findings.

The other side of the portal was empty. There wasn’t anything there any more.