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Repercussions

by Hiver

Chapter 28

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The wind howled outside in a snowstorm that brought visibility down to something like three hooves, but that was alright with me as I was sitting in a comfortable armchair close to a crackling fireplace while sipping a big cup of steaming hot tea.

Luna was laying across the chair across from mine, a book floating before her. She looked relaxed. I liked that, usually she was thinking of something or working on something.

Getting her to take an night off was rare… and I hadn’t managed it today either, but I did help her with the paperwork to get her half a night off.

...Which sadly meant that we only got a couple of hours before I needed to go to bed and get to work.

But it was worth it to give her some time off.

Finishing my tea, I slipped off the chair and put the cup on the table, crossing over to her. She looked up from her book,

“Going to bed?” She asked.

I nodded and moved in to give her a small kiss, “Yeah, getting to that time,” I agreed, “Somepony needs to make sure that the Nightmare population stays low.”

Luna smiled and nodded, giving me a small nuzzle, “I’ll join you in a bit for a sweep of the foals dreams.”

We had mostly split it up like that. Luna liked to help ponies and she really enjoyed helping foals, so we had split it up. She did foals dreams and I handled the adults.

It worked well, let her spend more time on each one that needed her and I hunted Nightmares. Foals rarely generated a Nightmare, they mostly came from adult ponies… but they sure loved to eat the dreams of foals.

I knocked them down before they got strong enough to do so and if they somehow got past me, they had to deal with Luna.

Those poor, poor bastards.

I nodded, “Good night, My Sky,” I said and then headed into the bedroom.

“Good Night, My Page. And good hunting.”

I winked at her and then trotted inside and jumped onto the bed. This was the worst thing with our staggered sleep schedules. When Sunset was here, she was deep asleep long before I went to bed. Luna went to bed at least five hours after me.

I really missed going to sleep or waking up with her. Or with Sunset. It was all staggered, but sadly it was the best compromise we had come up with.

Just because it was the best didn’t mean I liked it though.

Settling down, I closed my eyes and shifted my wings, getting comfortable before I sighed and cast a quick sleeping spell, sending me off to the dream realm. If I didn’t, my brain would just keep whirling and thinking about all the problems I had to handle until I finally fell asleep an hour later.

I didn’t have time for that.

The dream realm formed around me, sparkling stars all around as I took a deep breath and spread my wings, stretching for a second.

Okay then, let’s get to work.

I filtered through the dreams, sending all the nice and neutral ones away leaving me with the bad ones. The dark whirling portals appeared before me.

Hundreds. Thousands.

Oh well, let’s get to work.

At least I had a quick way of doing it, I didn’t need to enter every dream to look, just touch my horn to it and check before canceling the bad dream and sending the now clear silvery portal on it’s way, it’s occupant now dreaming peacefully.

Even so, luckily dream speed was dream speed or I’d still be at it for days.

But dreams moved at their own speed and-

I paused and blinked as the next portal appeared before me. Midnight. Her dream portal was a dark, dark silvery shimmer, almost whirling.

Not a sign of a Nightmare, but… she was having a bad dream. A bad, bad dream. Of the wake up screaming kind.

I couldn’t just cancel it and leave it at that. She had been through enough already, I wanted to help her if I could.

So I touched my horn to her dreamportal and stepped through the pitch black and whirling silvery surface.

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