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- >You jolt up to the feeling of rumbling.
- >What's going on?
- >Was this an earthquake?
- >The rumbling stops, indistinct chatter rising up.
- >Undoubtably you weren't the only one who woke up from the rumble.
- >Was that a scream?
- >No, it couldn't have been.
- >Either way, someone else would deal with it.
- >Just as you resolve to lull yourself back to sleep, you spot something odd.
- >An eerie glow emenates from the other side of your curtain.
- >You don't know why, but something compels you to go towards it.
- >Curiosity, perhaps?
- >You pull yourself out of bed, the wooden floor creaking beneath you with each step.
- >That's when you realized that everything had gone quiet.
- >It wasn't a comfortable silence, no.
- >It was almost as if the night itself was afraid.
- >The lights outside your window shift and shimmer.
- >It seems to be steadily pulsing, one color brightening as the previous fades.
- >It shifts between a few select colors, and always in the same order.
- >Blue, green, purple.
- >It reminded you of a lava lamp.
- >It was almost calming.
- >Until you pulled the curtains open that is.
- >Eyes widening, you slam them shut, throwing yourself as far away from the window as you can.
- >You close your eyes and rub your temples.
- >Please, sweet Celestia, let this all be some nightmare.
- >In the second long slice you saw something terrifying.
- >Your friends and neighbors all slowly shambling south, smiles on their faces and colors spiralling in their eyes.
- >All heading towards the source, two giant eyes, and a gaping maw.
- >The sight made you shiver.
- >You hoped that Luna would show up any second now, wrap you in her wings, and whisper into your ear that everything will be alright.
- >Then you'll wake up, and everything will be back to normal.
- >Lungs rising and falling almost as fast as your heart was beating, you waited for your divine salvation.
- >And you waited.
- >And you waited some more.
- >That's when you noticed you couldn't get those colors out of your head.
- >In your minds eye, there sat a pool that shifted and shimmered, swirls and spirals sitting on it's surface.
- >Shifting between a few select colors, and always in the same order.
- >Blue, green purple.
- >Blue, green, purple.
- >Blue, green, purple.
- >The colors kept swirling around and around, snatching what thoughts they could and pulling them into the multi-colored pool.
- >They sputtered and fought, but no matter how hard they tried, not even a bubble broke the surface.
- >Eventually, they all sat still, struggles forgotten, being pulled along by the current.
- >The water rose higher and higher with each one.
- >The colors growing stronger, more vibrant.
- >Blue, green, purple.
- >Blue, green, purple.
- >Blue, green, pu- no!
- >You smashed your head against the floor, the pain jolting you back into awareness.
- >Those colors were worming their way into your head, drowning out all thoughts of resistance.
- >They wanted to pull you beneath the surface, drown out your sense of self.
- >You felt the urge to throw yourself into it, to just give in.
- >You weren't sure whether or not that was some part of you, or whether it was the colors speaking.
- >Terrified, you realized you weren't able to tell the difference.
- >You shook your head violently, trying to scatter those foreign thoughts to the wind.
- >No avail.
- >The onslaught of colors would provide no mercy.
- >The only mercy was to give in to the salvation provided.
- >Your eyes, outside of your control, drew themselves to the window once more.
- >The colors called and beckoned to you.
- >They were a warm ocean of bliss, waiting for you to dip in.
- >One by one, you felt your worries and fears slowly slip away.
- >The colors cradled you in their embrace.
- >You don't remember when you slipped beneath the surface, you don't care.
- >Your lungs pounded and screamed, some small portion of you still struggling.
- >You hear a voice faintly crying out for someone to save them; for Luna to come and wake them from this nightmare.
- >You chuckled, this was no nightmare.
- >How could a nightmare feel so good?
- >You reached out and stroked the panicked pony, shushing their struggles.
- >Slowly, they succumbed.
- >Shimmying sideways through the window, you found yourself staring southwards.
- >You see the source of the colors, two massive spirals swirling in an everchanging, yet constant pattern.
- >Shimmering and shifting colors, singing and signalling you to the source.
- >Blue, green, purple.
- >Blue, green, purple.
- >Blue, green, purple.
- >You smiled.
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