>>30392634Twilight moved toward Spike again now that the thing was gone, but in a flash the creature was back, staring her down. Twilight grimaced and stepped away.
“It seems we’re at an impasse, but I fear the creature has much more time than we do. I will have to sleep eventually, so we’ll need to find an answer before that happens,” Twilight said. “Let’s go back to the library, where I can search for some answers. It seems it’ll leave Spike alone if I stop trying to get him out of the time freeze.”
Rose followed Twilight back to library, not saying much, but watching the thing as they left it behind. It didn’t follow them, much to their confusion, but they continued searching through Twilight’s books for some sort of help to their predicament. Without the weird pony there to stop her, Twilight could float books out of their slots from outside her bubble, and was able to research that much faster. Rose, not knowing what else to do, stayed next to Twilight inside the bubble and just waited. It was all she could really do, seeing as how she had no special abilities to help out, and a distinct lack of knowledge on time and space.
Twilight kept researching, and Rose kept waiting, and time passed for them. Rose was unsure how much time, seeing as how the day did not pass. Nothing moved, not even the sun, so there was no way of marking it. True to her word, Twilight didn’t stop studying, but she was growing more and more frustrated as time went on, unable to find anything about what it was that was happening, and what the creature was that was hounding Rose.
Unfortunately, Twilight’s prediction came true, and she was starting to feel the weight of the many hours she had spent studying beginning to weigh down on her. Her yawns became more frequent, and her eyes were starting to look heavy. Rose, conversely, didn’t feel tired at all, which she found strange.
