Prologue: Rise and Fall (edit: 3/26/2015)
"I know I say it every time, but you're crazy doing things like this, V. Crazy and weird. Still can't figure out why you love running off into the woods just for training and tooling around with your six stringer, or even just for reading. Remind me...
Chapter One: Answer The Call, Enter A Coma
"I see you have woken up again. Feeling a little stronger than last time, I presume?" The first thing I noticed upon my return to the waking world was the now familiar feminine voice of one of my two mystery visitors, and the only other company I've...
Chapter Two: Awake Enough To Be Startled (edit 3/27/2015)
Apart from a few brief moments of disturbed sleep, when I was able to be woken, from hospital staff checking in on my roommate and myself, I seemed to have woken somewhere around mid-afternoon the next day. The first thing I can say I noticed was a...
Chapter Three: Explained Extractions, Unknown Reasons (edit 2/13/2015)
A nurse brought a small meal for us, some sort of dense veggie mush near as I could tell. It was rather bland. She took care of getting us out of the hospital within a couple minutes after we finished eating. I was thankful someone had brought my...
Chapter Four: Impactful Morning (edit 4/9/2015)
As I began to wake, the first thing I noticed was my bed felt different than I was used to and was somehow shorter than it should be. Taking a moment to have a lazy stretch, my eyes opened to a room I didn't recognize. For several very long, nervous...
Chapter Five: Toughness and Bonding (edit 4/11/2015)
"No! You will _NOT_ take our Princess off to a private room! There is an additional magic condition to consider that requires these two patients be kept in close proximity, just like I put on their charts while we were on the way here! Have I made...
Chapter Seven: Old Traditions, Trust Transitions (edit 5/2/2015)
A smile spread over me when I woke, the feel of Twilight nuzzling against my chest in her sleep like the previous morning made it so very tempting to drift away again, despite my now being well awake and alert. I felt a small amount of exasperation at...
Chapter Twelve: Marvelously Moderate Mayhem
I listened to the soft scratching of the quill Twilight was using as I looked up from my growing book of special notes I kept on the nightstand beside our bed. Nearly a week had passed and she was still adamantly making me remain in bed or on the couch...
Chapter Ten: Weirdness & Ancient Shadows
Groaning quietly as my capacity to process reality returned, my eyes didn't stop rolling around in my head for several seconds and I felt things I was not expecting. Why exactly I felt like I had a large bar pressed against my stomach as if I were...
Chapter Eleven: Recovery
Chapter Eleven "You know, I am starting to worry you like landing yourself here, lad." Dr Hoofmeister commented gently as he came in the room, "This time around, you really shouldn't have survived. You've proven incredibly durable but it's still a...
Chapter Six: Poingant and Playful (edit 4/21/2015)
Beginning to return to the waking world, I noticed a warm, soft weight resting against me. After another moment longer, I noticed said weight was breathing in the slow rhythm of comfortable sleep. My mind next took notice of the substantial stiffness...
Chapter Nine: A Good Match
I grumbled a bit, the knocking just wouldn't stop and I doubted I would be allowed to fall back to sleep until answering whomever was at the blasted door. Twilight gave her own grumble, nudging me to finally just deal with the interruption. Slowly...