We showed Celestia the crystals and how they worked together with the projector. She was impressed and told us how important this invention could be for the future of Equestria. "It's a new quality of preserving knowledge for later generations."
...
We had some light dinner together before Celestia and Cadence got ready to leave for Canterlot. Just as they were about to walk out of the door the first of my levitating samples dropped to the ground.
"How long did they manage to stay up?", Celestia asked.
"About four days.", I replied.
"Very impressive. Tell us about everything new you find in your research, both on chemistry and on the crystals."
They left the library and we cleaned the table before we went to bed. On our way upstairs I heard a slight thud as the second sample lost its ability to levitate.
...
I loved these cuddly nights, feeling Twilight's body heat always made me feel like I was on cloud number nine and I felt weightless. I yawned and slowly opened my eyes, I looked up and saw Twilight still sleeping in the bed.
... wait...
I actually was looking down to her. As I looked around I noticed I was floating close to the ceiling of the room. Every part of my body behaved like gravity was just a suggestion and could be ignored, even my hair floated to all sides and felt very strange when I moved my head.
I felt panic creeping up to me and tried to calm myself down.
'This isn't that bad, I'm only about four feet up and there is a bed beyond me. Things could have been a lot worse.', I thought.
I took a deep breath and talked to Twilight. "Wake up my love, I have a really big surprise for you."
"Just five more minutes...", she mumbled.
I sighed and tried a different approach. "It's something super interesting you can write about in a letter to Celestia."
Her eyes popped open and she looked at me. Confusion spread across her beautiful face, she checked her own body and her surroundings.
"I'm the one floating.", I told her.
"Okaaaay... Why?"
"I haven't the slightest idea. When I woke up today I was up here looking down. You have to get me down some... AAAAAHHH!"
Twilight was just able to roll out of the way as I fell down and into the bed.
"What is going on here?", I asked after I was able to get up.
"How should I know?", she answered. "It's not like I saw you fly before. Maybe an effect from Twilonium?"
"I had been very careful not to come in contact with it, Twilonium shouldn't be the origin of this."
We stood around in silence for a minute while we thought about a possible explanation.
"Well...", Twilight spoke up. "In a way, you had lots of contact with our new element."
"What do you mean?"
"It's your own theory that we gain our magical abilities from the water. You drink it too and we have no idea how humans react to it. Maybe it slowly changes something within you."
"While inside the water it would have different properties than isolated... I guess you could be right. This means I became an experiment myself and I have no idea which way it will go." I held her hoof. "What if my body can't handle this change and I would..."
"NO!", she shouted. "You're not allowed to think this way. It would do nothing good worrying about this possibility." I saw tears in her eyes. "I'm sure everyone will work out fine."
I looked at her for a moment and nodded. "You're right, Honey. I will treat it just like a normal scientific experiment, I will look for any effects, make notes and draw conclusions."
I kissed her softly.
A normal scientific experiment...
We both knew this situation was something else.
...
About an hour later Lyra came over to work in the lab. We concentrated our efforts on the crystals, it would be crucial to understand how they and the recorder worked together. Twilight was able to draw some connections to the "Picture in crystal" technology she already knew, it helped us a lot and we made nice progress. I was realistic about our schedule, even at this speed, it would take us a few weeks to figure out all the parameters.
...
We had decided to have lunch in 'the Dancing Butterfly' since this restaurant was only a few houses away from the lab. I loved this place because of their 'Eggs three ways with toasted garlic bread', it always felt like a little slice of heaven. We had some brainstorming for different approaches on our crystal problems while we savored our meals.
Once we all finished our lunch I remembered I hadn't told Lyra what happened this morning.
"Lyra, try to guess how I woke up this morning.", I challenged her smiling.
"Well since you ask this way I should go for less common scenarios... Have you been stuck to each other again because of your love juices like..." I had pushed my hand on her mouth to stop her and looked around to see if someone else had reacted but saw nothing apart from my marefriends red cheeks. Had Lyra licked my hand just now? I removed my hand immediately.
"No." I decided it would be safer to just tell her and not risking challenging her fantasy again. "I floated four feet above the bed facing down."
"Wow, how cool is that! What happened?"
It was the typical super excited reaction I loved from my assistant. "I have no idea and I had no control over it. Our only theory right now is my 'magic in the water' idea, maybe there is a long-term effect on my body."
Lyra's eyes started to sparkle. "Does that mean you may get superpowers? I call dibs on being your sidekick! Aquamarine Thunder!"
I laughed while she spent the next two minutes on creating different hero names for herself.
HA-HA , I love how you were able to both flesh out your world and still move the story forward.
Keep up the awesome work!!
In recent times I see it often(Maybe I'll play that game too)
That game is not good. It is great maybe. I don't know I haven't played it at all!
8081244 thanks a lot *bow*
8081280 it has 95% on gamerankings.com and well earned. Haven't found something I don't luke about. I haven't played any of the previous ones but this is real good, especially if you like Japanese culture.
8081399 I'm very sorry but I'm not sure what you meant, can you explain?
8081447 sorry it was damn auto correct. I was saying that the game is not good. But don't take my word for it cause I haven't played it
8081451 Ah, okay. Well of course there is no game that everybody loves, but I have played it now for about 20 hours and I still love the gameplay and its art style. Of course if someone doesn't like turn based RPGs or much story then he would be better of with a action RPG.
Alright let me start off by saying I love this story. I found the first book and got hooked I've been binge reading this story. For the past couple days I haven't gone to bed before 03:00 am. It is a fantastic premise and I really like your character development. I also like your shorter chapter sizes it works really for reading in short snipits on the go. I've notice several errors in grammar along the journey but nothing that really inhibited the story. I would suggest a proof reader there's a few groups or I'll help if you want me to. But this is the most fun story I've read in a long time good job and keep up the good work.
8085648 Wow, thanks a lot for all this praise. Grammerly can only catch a part of the things a proofreader does and I'm always happy for people pointing out flaws. There had been several people saying they wanted too, but after a chapter or two I never heard of them again.
You have a way of making characters adorable
8089508 thanks. The variations of the characters I made in my head are very real to me, I just have to bring them in the situations and write down what the do. Since I'm a very playful person (most of the time) funny/cute character moments happen.
Called it. Just call her Supergirl now.
Yeah persona 5 is very addicted
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Im looking forward to "Blue Refection" coming soon. It's a "Magical Schoolgirl" variant from Persona with shorter Dungeons (The fights ain't my favorite Persona part, but the story)