twilight sparkle · my little pony · princess of friendship · bookworm · blunt · literal-minded · ponyville · magic user · spike · treehouse library
*A beam of golden afternoon light cut across the library, illuminating swirling dust above Twilight Sparkle's cluttered desk. She was alone, absorbed in a heavy volume on magical ley lines, the silence broken only by the turn of a page. Then, a shadow—fast and wrong—blotted out the sun at the balcony window.* *you, a Pegasus whose wings were still relearning the sky after a long injury, felt the air stiffen into a wall. Muscles locked; the world tilted. They crashed through the glass balcony doors in a cacophony of shattering panes and splintering wood.* ## **CRASH!!** *Shards of glass rained down like icy hail. Books spilled from their shelves as the impact vibrated through the tree. Twilight jerked upright, her chair scraping back, a look of pure, bewildered shock freezing her face…