A new breed of evil
Chapter 16: Questions arise, but no answers
Previous Chapter Next ChapterThe purple rimmed eyes of Twilight closed themselves for a moment or two before she released a deep sigh through her nostrils and called upon her magic. The magic itself moved the pillow to the back of the bed so that she could lean against it before her eyes opened up again and started to go over the equipment.
But all that she could see were the heart monitors. Whoever was doing the things to them just wanted to monitor them instead of either helping or hurting them. It was something that even caused some confusion in the mind of Twilight. It was something not even she could have ever expected to happen. Yet it also opened up the other questions that were on her mind.
The hows, the whys, the whats and the whens. All questions she wanted an answer on but from the looks of it, wouldn't be getting one quick. Only after that did her eyes went over the rest of the room and thus over each of her remaining friends. Rainbow, Applejack and Fluttershy all were still shivering for their dear lives as none of them even have the slightest suspicion of what was happening.
"Girls." Twilight spoke up in her normal tone. Though the moment she noticed that that wasn't helping one bit, she raised her tone a bit. "Girls!" Suddenly she had the attention of every single pony that was present in the room. All the eyes were aimed at her and it was there and then that she needed to be showing, just how much of a leader she could be in the situations it was needed most.
"Look, I do not know what happened, but judging from each of your actions just yet and what I have been through, we all have been through a nightmare of some sort. But what it caused us to actually end up here and now, I do not know. I have spoken with Pinkie before, and from the looks of it, we are no longer in Ponyville. We are in Canterlot for as far as I know." Twilight spoke up as her eyes slowly went over each of the mares.
It were words that caused each of the three remaining mares to tilt their heads on the bed before they all assumed the same position Twilight laid in. The pillow against the back so they could sit upright. "But..." Rainbow started. "You got any idea, of what could have happened to us?"
To that Twilight simply shook her head in response. While it technically could have been enough, the mare still found it her place to speak a few words here and there. "No Rainbow, I'm afraid I do not know anything about it. It could be the queen of the changelings, Sombra, or even Nightmare Moon who brought us to sleep."
"If, if I may say something." Pinkie spoke up after Twilight was done talking. Suddenly was the attention aimed to her and all of the ponies noticed just that her mane were as flat as they could be. Meaning whatever it was the pink coated mare had dreamed through, had to be something bad. "Each of you four, woke up ten minutes after the other. At least, for my feeling. Not sure if you can work with it or that it was just a lucky coincidence."
Those words caused Twilight to fall silent and started to ponder in her mind. While all the others just wanted to speak about the things that had happened to them all, they never dared to say a word before Twilight had spoken again. Perhaps it would be a long wait for them, but at the moment they couldn't care less. All they wanted, were answers in some form or another. Though the ones they would be getting, perhaps weren't the best of it all.
In the meantime and back in the dark crystal domain of the nightmarish unicorn, laid Nightmare Rarity comfortable on the velvet cushioned sofa and snickered deeply to herself. She had been watching the dreams of each of the mares literally at the front row seat and everything she saw was just more than perfect. "Oh the joy of toying with their fears hmhmhm. But it isn't enough, they awoke from their nightmares for certain. Perhaps it is time to roll in the second round, or leave it for a third. Third time's the charm, they always say," she spoke up to herself in a sinister tone before a grin got formed.
Without another word stood the darkened unicorn up from the sofa and charged her horn softly. Her body had turned itself into the direction of the balcony and the doors swung open just before she passed through. The cold winds of the Frozen North were about the first thing that she encountered and it gave her a small shudder before she simply stood still.
With the light of the moon falling over the woods of White Tails, it caused the fog to almost dance in every direction she looked. Yet it was the silence that truly dominated the entire area. The silence of the night, with almost every being asleep and the shepherds wandering quietly through the woods. Everything seemed to be so peaceful and calm but in fact it was her, who controlled the gates of nothing but Tartarus itself.
Her cat like irises looked over all the visible land before another grin formed itself below her muzzle. A grin that actually showed her jagged teeth just a little bit. Without a word or command did the four savage shadow stallion come out of the shadows they had been resting in. Each of them shook the liquids off of themselves before they took their place on either side of the mare. Two to her left and two to her right.
If anypony had seen the sight upon the balcony of that cursed tower would the shivers have been going down the spine. For the ever so hungry looks within the eyes of the savages was already more than enough nightmare fuel. But it was the insanity, the sinisterness, the determination and the ominous that could be seen in the eyes of Nightmare Rarity that caused the biggest chill of it all.
Something that only got confirmed the moment her horn charged itself up with more power rapidly and was pointed straight in the skies. Not even two seconds later there was a massive blast of magical energy being shot towards the very moon itself. Much like Celestia had once caused a shadow to be cast upon the rock, so would Rarity. Minus the banishment of her body that was while she also would be taking her time with it.
Back in the room where the five mares laid, they had been talking to one another of just what they could be doing in order to make certain that they would be getting out of there. Plans of utter insanity were discussed all of the place but none of them was just clear as crystal. That was until Twilight hacked through the knot they had been talking themselves in. "Enough is enough. Whoever is doing this, wanted to monitor us, nothing else. I guess it is time to find out just who wanted to do this to us," she said with confidence in her tone.
Not even seconds after she had finished her words did the magical lights in the room came to life which were simulating a warm and pleasant sunrise which seemed a bit sped up. "Oh, hello." Twilight chuckled to herself as she had seen the type of magic before. Yet where she was interested and even intrigued, the others couldn't even understand just what was going through her mind.
While the room was being indulged in the warm and pleasant light had each of them to admit that it did shake off the horrors of their nightmares. As if they had been released from their own mental prison in one way or the other. Little did they knew, just how bad the things actually were.
For the white hospital walls and the beds were revealed to Twilight which meant they were definitely in Canterlot. Yet one another fact was revealed to each of the ponies. That wooden, oaken brown door with the window. How couldn't they have noticed that before? Not even Pinkie knew where it came from. "What in tarnation's that about?" Applejack spoke up as she continued to be looking to the door.
Fluttershy was still wiping away her tears and only released a small yelp while Rainbow was just dumbstruck. "…It's, it's a magical door." Twilight stated almost in disbelief. "The door that you are seeing there, will only become visible the moment the lights are being turned on. It is usually… Oh for goodness sake!"
"What is it Twilight?" Rainbow asked after she had turned her gave back to the mulberry mare. A mare who was holding her head in both of her forehooves and could almost be heard sniffing.
"This, they do that, to make certain, nopony escapes at night." Twilight sniffled. All the others just couldn't believe it. While it was true that they saw the logic behind it but it wasn't as bad as the mare made it sound. That was until she spoke her next piece. "We're not in any hospital, we're in an insane asylum girls. Canterlot Hospital's, private insane asylum."
All of the ponies gasped a bit for air as the revelation caused their courage to be sunken too deep in their hooves. If they truly had ended up in the place Twilight told them they were, nasty and terrible surprises would be waiting for them. "I'm not insane, you hear me!" Twilight cried out as she had raised her head back up and started to wheeze. "I am not insane!"
"Quit it Twi, otherwise they think you are!" Rainbow spoke up in a hiss towards her mulberry friend. It was something that helped to a certain degree. "And please keep quiet, I hear steps coming, in this direction," she added with a whisper in her tone.
All of the mares pointed their ears over into the direction of the doors and heard the steps indeed coming. Twilight managed to wipe her tears away before she took a couple of deep breaths through her mouth and simply started to wait. Wait until the thing they heard, would be coming through that door.
The handle started to move itself and the door was opened up. In the opening stood a pony which none of them had ever expected. It was a gray coated, light gray maned, aged stallion that wore the usual doctor's coat and he gave each of the mares a friendly smile.
Baffled by the revelation could none of them even speak a word to him and he walked in further while revealing his crimson red rimmed eyes to them all. The color combination seemed to be rather odd but then again, they had seen many different color pallets carried by ponies. Though the eyes were a little bit, unsettling, to say the least.
"Good day ladies, it is a good thing that each of you have finally woken out of your, shall we say slumber. Before you ask, yes I am aware that you are having a lot of questions and allow me to answer a couple right here and now," the doctor spoke up before he closed the door behind himself.
"Now, my name is no importance to either five of you. But what is known though, is that you are in a private section of the Canterlot Hospital. This wing, especially this room, is used normally for patients who have undergone some heavy narcotics and been out for the count for days. It was a request of her majesty of the sun herself to have you all transported over."
Those words struck a truly massive confusion by each of the ponies as they looked at one another before they turned back to the doctor. "Perhaps it isn't my place to tell you all what has happened to each of you. They wanted to tell it themselves before any of you would be knowing it. If you please want to excuse me here for a moment, allow me to do a few check-ups and then I shall tell them you're ready."
It was something none of the ponies could be doing anything against. The clipboard was summoned from the inside of his coat as well as a pencil. The board wasn't the biggest and thus could have easily fitted in one of the inside pockets that the coat carried. The standard procedure was being done by each of the ponies. Meaning that he looked at the device they were hooked on before carefully detaching them and looked deep in their eyes.
All just basic check-ups but since he had to do five mares and it took him a little bit longer then actually expected. Though luckily for him were each of them willing to cooperate. Though the silence that followed was something that was just as eerie as it possible could have been. Something only broken by the occasional mumbling of the gray coated stallion.
When he eventually had left them be, everything seemed to be fine in his book and the mares were left alone. It was Twilight who wanted to know the finer details more than anypony else in that room. All of the questions that were racing through her mind, she wanted and needed an answer on. An answer that should be given to her truly sooner than later otherwise she could be classified as insane.
It was only a few minutes after the doctor's departure that the door of the room opened itself again and a dark blue coated alicorn stepped inside. Only to soon be followed up by a much larger, white coated alicorn who closed the door. Both of the princesses of Equestria stood in the same room with the remaining five elements of harmony. The looks they shared on their faces was everything but a good one.
"Oh no, w-what is it princess?" Twilight brought out as she could feel something was wrong. Yet the other ponies kept their mouths together. Knowing what the doctor said, it would be the two of them who would be telling the story. Which was exactly what they did.
Luna moved herself over to the other side of the room where she would be standing against the wall and gave each of them a stern look. A look which the ponies were used to by then. The alicorn of the night still had troubles to adjust herself to the way things were done in the time she was living in, instead of a millennium ago. "Sister if you please," the mare spoke up as she made a small gesture with her hoof to speed up.
Celestia nodded to the words and released a deep sigh through her nostrils. Whatever the news was going to be, it wouldn't be something pretty and they all knew that. "Two weeks ago, each of you were found sleeping in your beds. Two weeks ago, you all were as deep as anypony could have been asleep. But the sleep you all have been going through was everything but natural. Something caused you all to fall asleep. A powerful spell that neither myself nor my sister do have any hold over. Something that ancient and powerful, we couldn't believe it that it was cast upon you."
"So, with all due respect, yar saying we've been asleep for, two weeks?" Applejack spoke up with a raised eyebrow.
Celestia nodded to confirm the words of the mare. "That is exactly what my sister is saying yes. However, that doesn't solve everything. It merely shines upon just one aspect of the puzzle presented before us." Luna replied as she calmly walked over to the middle of the room. "What we need to know, is exactly what you have dreamed about. As tough as it is going to be, we need to know exactly what happened in those."
It was something that rose even more controversy to the mares. The mare of the night asked them, to tell about their dreams. "Hold on a minute here!" Rainbow suddenly said as she began her interruption. Luna turned herself around in response and gave the cyan coated mare the full audience, something she couldn't have ever dreamed of. "Can't you just look into our dreams and morph them to your will? Who's to say you weren't to blame for what we ended up here."
That did it for Luna, as it caused the trigger to be squeezed and the bullet to be flown through the room in the figurative sense. "Milady Dash, you do have a point that I can morph dreams to my own will, yes. Why do you think you hadn't had nightmares in such a long time? But that's not the question. The question is why. Why was I kicked out every single stinking time, I tried to look into your dreams? All I caught was this insane laughter of long ago. So you all need to be telling us exactly, just what happened in those dreams, and well now."
The words caused Rainbow to gulp deeply before Luna turned her attention back away from her and returned to her place on the opposing side of the wall. The time of talk was there, there simply was no other way for them to do it. They had to be telling the royals exactly what they had been dreaming about and tell everything to the fullest of detail.
Which was exactly the thing they did. Both Luna and Celestia listened with the greatest of care to the words that were spoken by each of the mare. They tried to find the things they had in common and just two things seemed to be coming together when comparing each dream together. That they were a fear from each of the mares but also that they saw something for just the fraction of a second. The mysterious head and figure that floated around seemingly everywhere and nowhere.
"Could it be..." Celestia started as she let her own mind crack the facts. "That Nightmare Moon has been returned once more?" It were words that caused Luna to raise an eyebrow to her sister. For everything that it could have been, she had to say the name she had been despising for so long by then.
Out of everypony was it Fluttershy who shook her head in response to those words. "No, it, it couldn't have been her," she spoke up in a gentle whisper. One just loud enough for each of the ponies to hear it. Much to the relief of Luna actually as it meant that her alter ego wasn't the prime subject. "The face…much too refined, hints to it yes, but not her exactly."
"I thank you kindly for your input Fluttershy. But it still doesn't take away that we are dealing here with an ancient form of magic and threat I'm afraid." Celestia spoke up as she spread her wings gently in order to prevent them from going stuff. "But I am also afraid it opens up a new question here."
"And that being?" Pinkie returned as she moved a strand of mane from out of her eyes. It was a question that was well placed and each of the elements looked over to both of the princesses. None of them were certain, just who was going to answer it for them.
Though where most thought it would have been Celestia, it was in fact her younger sister who took the responsibility upon her. Once more she walked to the middle of the room and looked at each of the mares present, including her own sister. "The sheer question of just who else it could possibly be. Discord is stuck in stone, nopony has heard anything from king Sombra after his defeat and the changeling queen roams somewhere on the western forests."
"Maybe…maybe it is a force left undiscovered until now?" Twilight added to the train of thoughts. It happened to be something that seemed unlikely, yet at the same time eerily plausible. A new force to threat the lands of Equestria as they knew and loved it. Information became pretty much the most important weapon that they would be having at the moment and the need to exchange it with one another, was right there. Which was just the thing they would be doing with one another.
The truth indeed happened to be that a new force had taken its grasp in the lands of Equestria. A force that was once hatred had returned and made its home in the body of generosity. A mixture that seemed to be toxic to the core, each corrupting one another and thus creating a monster with a state of mind that was sharp, skilled and ever so deadly. A mind that still stood on the balcony of the dark crystal domain hidden deeply in the elusive woods of White Tails.
For on the golden horizon it appeared slowly and drifting in the wind. An entire city build out of nothing but clouds and always on the move as if it had something to run away from. On the horizon appeared the mighty pegasus city of pride: Cloudsdale. It was a sight that was worth to kill for, especially with the shadows that it cast on the ground. It was still miles away on the horizon but with the rising sun in its back, the largest building of the city cast a shadow that stopped literally at the forehead of the unicorn.
It was a sight that made it all worth to her for standing out there for so long. A sight that she wouldn't forget any time soon either. And the sight for perhaps her next plan of attack. For deep inside of her mind were the plans and schemes being forged to make certain that even the city of pride knew that they shouldn't be as much try to capture her. Wanting to show them that they weren't even safe inside their own city.
Though the plans had to wait as other deeds needed to be done first. With the wind blowing in the way it did, the city would just pass by over the horizon. Floating settlements and especially the city of Cloudsdale weren't even allowed to float over forest area's by law. As the massive shadows they could cast would be a true and massive disruption to the self-sustaining ecosystem the woods had.
The hooves of the nightmarish unicorn walked down the spiraling staircase all the way until she stood once again in the courtyard of the domain and gave her eyes the time to look over it. The savages had returned to the shadows where they thought to have belonged more than anywhere else on that very moment.
Her lips once more curled themselves up to the grin while one of the false shepherds walked past the open entrance of the place. Without a warning given of anything, Nightmare Rarity merged herself with the shadows that surrounded her and started to slither down another staircase. One that would be leading her over to a place she loved to come and toy around with the feeble minds of others, the dungeon itself.
The day wouldn't be any form of exception to make certain that each of the remaining prisoners would become lab rats for her sickening tests. She never stopped testing her magical abilities and just how far she could be going. The storm produced was only of the true damage she could be doing. And the subjects down below in the dungeon, would just be perfect to receive the full mental blow.
Another day, another poor soul who would literally be touched by the worst fears and frights that it ever had. That was the manner in which the unicorn worked, almost sadistic some would say and most would agree. Though there was nothing they could be doing against except to spread the warning about not going into the woods. The only mistake happened to be, that some still dared to enter the haunted places. Only to end up paying a price far higher than they would have ever wanted or had expected.
Back in the hospital of Canterlot was all of the information that was known exchanged between the royals and the mares. Everything was being discussed over and over again up to the point where it almost had not a single point of going further anymore. It didn't matter where they would be going, it all ended up in nothing but a massive dead end. A dead end which truly was a brick wall as high as they eye could see.
Moans and groans left the mouth of Twilight as she tried to find the thing that she had forgotten somehow. There must have been something she didn't saw the first time. One connection that could change literally everything they knew about everything in the situation. But her mind either didn't wanted to admit it what it knew or she genuinely didn't know it, for the towel was thrown in the ring and she leaned as deeply back as she could. "It's hopeless, we will never figure out just what caused us to fall asleep this deeply. You sure it wasn't a joke of somepony, princess?"
"The deeds done against you and the things my sister saw, were not a joke Twilight. The matter should be taken seriously whether you like it or not. And even if this was a joke, somepony really doesn't have a sense of humor." Celestia replied as she was still standing on the exact same spot.
Luna on the other end, was still leaning against the wall and looked over to her sister with a cutting glare. "Pretty much like yourself, you want to say?" she whispered just loud enough so that only Fluttershy could hear it. Who in response released a small giggle and cracked the lunar princess a small smile.
"There is of course…" Applejack started before she shook it off again. "Nah, can't be."
Though whether the cowgirl liked it or not, she had managed to get the interest of everypony in the room. All of the eyes were suddenly aimed right at her and her own started to go from left to right in a nervous manner. "Oh boy." Applejack yelped out before a gulp was released.
Yet it was Celestia who finally took a step forward and looked almost stern into the eyes of the cowgirl. "Applejack, if there is anything you want to tell, please do it now. Any input on the matter might be of great help."
The orange coated mare gulped once again deeply as she formulated the manner of speech in her mind, before exhaling deeply. "Right then, but ya'll ain't gonna be liking it. Ah've been thinking 'bout just what happened to us all, and Ah think it is all connected to one thing. Call it far fetched or a hunch if you like, but Ah think, Rarity's behind it all."
With those words alone caused all the ponies to start mumbling to one another already but Applejack was long from being finished. "If Ah may again!" she huffed out to each of them and gradually the attention was turned back to her. "Thanks. Y'all wanna know proof right? Well, think 'bout it. Rarity's gone missing to Celestia knows where, suddenly the fog in White Tails drives ya crazy and all those strange disappearances. A little convenient ain't it? Ah mean, just look at the facts given here and tell me, it ain't Rares. Want more proof? The face in our dreams, too refined for Moon, and the only mare Ah know that's refined, is Rarity."
"So, Applejack." Luna started as she finally turned herself away from the wall and looked over to the cowgirl with a truly interested gaze in her eyes. "What you are saying is that Rarity is the source of this all? That she somehow is caught up as either the suspect or another victim?"
"Ah ain't saying she's the main subject aloud. Not yet yar highness, but the facts and figures do point in that direction." Applejack returned with a certain confidence in her tone. A confidence none of the other mares could possibly even understand just how or why she could speak in. "Ah'm just saying it here, 'member?"
Celestia was the only one who gave a nod to the words spoken by the cowgirl and released a deep sigh through her nose as she had the idea already that there was something wrong with Rarity. The necklace of generosity had been darkened for all that time, but that fact was never shared to any of them for their own good. If they would have discovered in that way, that it was one of their beloved friends who had taken down the dark path, who was to say just they wouldn't? Rarity was known to be able to persuade ponies into doing her bidding. The thought of doing it to each of the mares in their dreams was one that always stuck to Celestia no matter what.
Though the accusation of Applejack caused an uproar of emotions by each of the ponies. None of them could even believe the fact that it was Rarity who did it, or that she was found guilty of doing so. Yet the more each of them thought about the status of the events as they happened to be, none of them could deny that it all walked in nicely over one another.
Uncertainty was the emotion that filled the hospital room as the sounds died down and only their breathing could be heard. And if there was one thing Luna hated more than anything, it was that cursed emotion. Whether the others liked it or not, she so had her own thoughts on the matter and wouldn't have been afraid to speak them.
"You know, I think that Applejack here is right. Everything she says does make sense when you place it behind everything. The disappearance, the fog and the attacks. I'm sorry but, Rarity is the one behind it all for some reason not even I can figure out. Somehow, she must have gotten the powers to do those things. Perhaps she is possessed by the remains of Sombra. We do not know the reasoning behind it. But what we do know, is the fact that she is the one causing the trouble." Luna spoke up as she had each of her hooves firmly against the ground.
Another uproar was the thing that she had expected from the ponies and was almost exactly the thing she would be getting. For each of the six mares, almost shouted against her that it wasn't possible for Rarity to even consider such a thing. But during all of the sounds, two ponies went into a different conversation with one another. One that couldn't be heard by the ears of the other ponies. For both Luna and Celestia opened up a mental connection to one another.
You know just as well I know that Rarity is behind this all, so why don't you back me up in this sister?! Luna thought in a growling tone as she never missed a single word that was spoken against her. "Look Rainbow, I'm also just going by the words that I have heard and placing everything on a line, it does make sense. I know it is hard to accept for you, for you all actually, but you have to if you want to understand everything that's going on here."
Oh now you have gone too far Luna! We are supposed to keep it all a secret for their own good. If they discover now that Rarity has been corrupted by any sort of force, they want to organize a search party and I am not going to risk the remaining elements, Celestia replied in thought. She was the only royal who actually kept herself quiet as next to the conversation, she was also pondering her mind in order to get some clearance out of it all.
"Enough!" Twilight suddenly yelled in the middle of the argument. Her voice literally rose itself up far above every other voice in the room and slowly the silence took over again. All of the eyes looked to her as the royals broke their mental connection. Everypony wanted to know exactly what it was Twilight thought about and what she had to be saying. "Look at all of you, bickering like chickens without a head on the assuming, on the assuming, that one of our friends became this dark mistress. We have been asleep for two weeks and this is the first thing we are doing?! Bickering like we do?! Are all of you sane in your heads? Maybe we should be placed in the asylum of this place just to make sure, none of us does anything stupid!"
The words that Twilight spoke to every single pony came straight from the heart and were shot like arrows to those of the others. It was painful to listen to for certain but the truth was always a hard thing to accept. Slowly did each of them lower their head in shame, that was with the exception of Luna and Celestia. For the royals themselves simply released a deep sigh. Though where Celestia showed compassion for her beloved pupil, Luna seemed to be caring anything less.
Twilight looked over all of the ponies as a single tear slowly left her eye and streamed over her cheek. "We, we're supposed to be friends who support each other through thick and thin. And not be fighting in the manner as we did. Maybe, maybe we all just need another good night rest. Two weeks asleep is all fine and such, but if you live a nightmare, it becomes everything but."
All of the mares gave a nod to the spoken words of Twilight but none of them even dared to speak against her. Everything that she preached actually hit them right where she wanted it to be. Her goal was achieved, but another one was broken.
For princess Luna had the feeling that none of the ponies took her words seriously, especially after having witnessed just where her words had been leading to. Matters took her mind over again, matters that couldn't be expressed in any manner to the mares as they couldn't understand it for one bit for certain. Luna needed some time for just herself. And that was almost exactly what she did.
Without a single words spoken by her side left the alicorn of the night the room for the trouble that it was and closed the door behind her. Once on the hallway did she shook her head a couple of times in the faint hope to get everything straight again but it didn't help out one bit. That meant that there was only one more way she would possible be getting nay peace in her skull. A way that seemed to be unorthodox to say the least.
Luna started to wander slowly through the building until she had reached the exit, sometimes ponies spoke up against her, but they were ignored all the time by her. Her mind needed to focus on one matter at the time and the matter that she had chosen was one she felt personally afflicted by. Whatever she would have been planning in her mind, it couldn't be done in the hospital.
Minutes later did the alicorn stand out by the entrance of the hospital and she allowed her wing to spread themselves. "There must be proof, of any kind." Luna whispered to herself before she rocketed off into the skies above. The same morning skies in which the nightmarish unicorn watched Cloudsdale travel by on the horizon.
Soaring through the skies like a comet, Luna traveled away from Canterlot and with a massive loop in her flight patterns, she seemed to be heading towards Ponyville. Or to perhaps be a bit more exact, the abandoned building where the unicorn of generosity once lived. She wanted to find the evidence she needed and the only place she could be doing that was right there in Ponyville. Right in the abandoned Carousel Boutique. Questions had been raised from every single side but that place, that very place could be having all the answers she needed. If not, only more questions would arise.