Author's Notes:

At this point, the heavily slice-of-life plot of this story is pretty much breaking down. This'll likely be one of the last chapters before I wrap things up for good.

Craig awoke to a blazing lavender fireball in the middle of the room.

"Ah," he yawned, "it's time to wake up, isn't it?"

As he braced himself for a self-inflicted pinch in the arm, Twilight's projection materialized before him. "Craig, you're awake," she assured, "you don't need to panic. I'm just doing some training exercises."

"Training exercises?!" Craig shouted, motioning at the fireball, "That's a freakin' training exercise?!"

"...Yeah?"

Craig stared back at the fireball, mouth agape.

"It's not so much of a fireball, so to say..." Twilight began, cantering towards the spell and sticking a hoof in. "It's more of a dimensional gateway of sorts. Y'know, so that I can go back home?"

"Home?"

"I can't stay here forever, Craig. You know that, don't you?"

Craig nodded in agreement. "Yeah, I do."

Silence in My Head

Craig yawned loudly as he lazily tossed the messy sheets off his body. The sun was still hanging low in the sky, and the alarm was ringing quite loudly.

"Urk." He groaned, rubbing his eyes as he sat up in bed.

Wait... I'm in bed?

He turned to the alarm blaring beside him.

Only eight o' clock?

His eye fell upon a note sitting on his nightstand.

Craig,

By the time you are reading this, I will already have returned to Equestria. You fell asleep on your couch again last night, so I moved you to your room before leaving. I have also set your alarm to go off earlier, so that you'd hopefully avoid any future problems with your tardiness at work.

-Twilight

Craig yawned again, scratching his side as he stood up.

He had a long day of work ahead of him.