Where am I?

Dark oak walls, and a vaulted ceiling. I’m on a couch, or lounge, swimming in a sea of paper. Pages torn from journals and old memories blanket the floor. The world covers a table in the corner, continents and oceans spilling from its broken spine. A notebook next to me, covered in nonsense.

My thoughts are muddled, mired, not my own. It’s hard to think, to remember, recall. I have an appointment with the Princess. Had. 10 O’clock, sharp. What was it about?

No, that’s nonsense. Useless. I hang my head, banish the blur. Think, Twilight. [i]Think[/i].

I pick up the nearest notebook. A cypher, of sorts. Simple. Elegant. Encode, decode, read and recode. Celestia and I used to play all sorts of games with them. Mirror reversal. Caesar shifts. Vigenère cyphers. I blink away tears.

I’m crying. Why am I crying?

These pages have a meaning, I’m sure, but my minds can’t seem to grip it right now. Obtuse. Obscured. [i]My[/i] mind. Singular, not plural. Possessive. Mine. My mind is mine, and mine alone, and I –

I had an appointment with the Princess.

10 O’clock, sharp.

What was it about?


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