Ask Lyra

It is surprisingly hard to find a nurse around here, but I bought you some sleeping pills so you can sleep when you need to. Have a good night's rest Lyra, I hope you feel better in the morning.

ethepony

Oh my.

I wasn’t being serious.

I’m actually getting really tired of nodding off all the time.

But thank you! That was very thoughtful!

Okay, have a nice nap then... I'll be here if you need anything.

theblackstrawberry

Alright.

I want to sit by your side until you fully recover... otherwise I couldn't sleep or eat knowing i may not be there for a friend.

theblackstrawberry

Okay.

I was about to go back to sleep though.

Yeah, those drugs can seriously play mind games on you at times. I remember when I was arguing with myself about the difference between pronouncing "our" and "hour" due to me being on a lot of pain meds after my eye accident. But, at least the pain is dulled, right?

krastosthegluemaker-blog

It’s a-Yeah, it’s sort of a trade off. Pain or clarity.

I'm sorry for not visiting you sooner... i kind of just sat outside trying to gather words and feelings together...

theblackstrawberry

It’s cool.

I just keep drifting off to sleep anyway.

I've been curious. Unicorns can use magic, Pegasi can fly, but do Earth Ponies have any like, outstanding traits? Are they generally stronger?

everpresentshades-blog

Stronger is relative. Their hind-legs tend to be stronger overall. Forelegs is about normal. Are about normal.

There’s the whole nature thing and connection to the land, but that’s mostly just cultural.

For the most part earth ponies have endurance on their side. An earth pony at the peak of physical performance can run for over twelve hours straight. I think it was twelve… Unicorns and Pegasi can’t even approach that.

In fact, no land-based creature in Equestria can.

Anna: Oh, but my brother has NEVER been on a date before, and he's just been extremely nervous over the whole thing. Then again, it wasn't really a high stakes bet or anything.

askannaoreradose

Dates are overrated.

Dating is overrated.

Hanging out is funner.

Funner… That’s a wor-

Yeah, that’s a word.

So are you in a room by yourself or are there other patients in there with you?

Anonymous

It’s just me.

Ponies have stopped by to visit throughout the day.

Ah…

…

I can’t think of any right now thou-

Bon-Bon!

Bon-Bon visited me.

Anna: Well, it's not like my brother wants to go on a date willingly. He lost a bet.

askannaoreradose

Why bet over that? There’s so many better things he could be forced to do.

…

I can’t think of any right now, but I know there are.

Anna: Both Twilight and Dash said you can help me find some single mares to set up on a blind date. So, know of anyone I can hook up with my brother?

askannaoreradose

No.

…

No.

Sorry. No pony comes to mind. Everypony seems to have somepony.

Why a blind date? Those are dumb.

… Dumb?

Whatever, dumb.

I'm sorry the food is so bad, I would be happy to bring you a nice meal, is there something you would like?

ethepony

Sleeping pills, so I can just wake up tomorrow and get the hay out of here.

So are you going to need to be in a wheel chair for a while?

Anonymous

Not quite.

Once things start to heal up I’ll be able to sort of limp/walk on three hooves. But I’ll be doing a lot of sitting and laying, yeah.

Anna: I'm glad to see you're okay. But, I find myself in a position to ask a favor. I don't really want to, given the situation, and how trivial it seems now, but I'm sort of running out of time.

askannaoreradose

Ask away.

No guarantee I can help you like this.

One of these days I’ll learn how to spell guarantee without having to spell check it…

How's the hospital food?

Anonymous

Awful.

But I haven’t ate much.

Since everything is relatively calm again I have a question. Yesterday you said you'd be the Element of Deception, you also said that that would count as an element of Harmony. My question is, since I'm going off the logic that there's possibly a "Discord" version of the Elements in opposition to the others, what would those Elements consist of?

everpresentshades-blog

Uh… I don’t know anything about discord.

But like I said, all things can have a certain level of harmony to them.

Kindess, harshness. Honesty, deception. Generosity, selfishness. Laughter, stoic. Even Loyalty to betrayal.

This expands to almost all things. Even life and death itself.

The only thing that doesn’t have an opposite is magic. Magic isn’t a trait, it’s a force. You could argue that a few ways, but I’m kinda losing focus. So I’ll stop here before I ramble.