Pinkie listened to Speck's choked coughs. Blood was mixed in with the slobber that ran down his chin as he slept. The doctor had been wrong. Speck wasn't OK and in the weeks that had passed, he had only gotten worse and worse, but Pinkie didn't know what she could do to help him. She stared at the sky.
The sun was still fairly high but Speck had been to weak to continue on so they had stopped. The sun was warm against her skin and she smiled as she saw the slowly darkening silhouette of the full moon beginning to rise through some dark clouds that had began to form and fill the blinked a few times and yawned. Speck would be asleep for a while so a nap wouldn't hurt. She looked at the clouds rolling in and decided that they could just camp there for the night. Pinkie set up the tent and carried her friend inside before climbing in herself. The whole thing took longer than she had planned because she had to keep moving her hair which had started to frizz and curl the last few weeks. She didn't know why it was happening, but Speck said he liked it better curly so sh had nothing to fix it.
By the time Pinkie laid down and got settled, the sun was beginning to set and the entire sky was choked with thick clouds. The air smelled like rain and earth. Pinkie thought about what the zebra had said again. She didn't want to leave Speck, but she was afraid of what may happen if he didn't go home.
With heavy thoughts pressing on her mind, she fell in to a fitful sleep.
"Pinkie. Pinkie, it's me."
Pinkie made sure to keep her eyes tightly shut. It had been almost a month since Luna had last visited her.
"Oh, Lulu! I've missed you! I need your help!" Pinkie ran through the dreamscape towards the blue haze that was her friend.
"No Pinkie, you are so full of power. You don't need mine or any pony's help." Luna's voice sounded strange but Pinkie couldn't pin it.
"But I can't do anything. I'm magic-less, and i cant even help my friend." Tears pricked Pinkie's eyes as she said what she had feared for a while now. "Luna, I think that Speck is dying." As they walked together, Luna's coat seemed to grow dark.
"You must tell him to leave." Luna replied sadly. "i believe you may have been right when you said Celestia was a tyrant."
"Lulu, you know that wasn't me talking, I-I wasn't my self during that time..." Pinkie stared at the ground.
"She made you do so many horrible things Pinkie. Luna looked down at her with pity. Her eyes were a strange color, but they held love for the tiny pink mare.
"But she never did anything." Pinkie protested, "I was out of it. I've told you all this, and why do I have to tell Spectrum to leave?" Pinkie stopped and stomped a hoof.
"I think Celestia is making it so the closer you get to him the sicker he will become." The moon mare turned to look at Pinkie, who had tears bubbling in her eyes.
"But...why?"
"Your punishment was banishment from home. that doesn't just mean the castle, it's every thing. The people you love, and being with them, that is home. She plans on taking this colt, your love, your home, away from you."
Pinkie's eyes opened in panic. Her heart raced and stale tears soaked her face. Celestia was doing this? "And it's all my fault." she whispered to her self.
She slowly got up and walked to her friend's side. "Spectrum." she cooed and ran a hoof loving along his face. "I'm going to leave and you'll get better OK" And you are going to have to hate me for leaving so you get better. Go home Speck. Go home with your family and get better." Pinkie tried to hold back the tears but they fell in streams down her face anyway. She stood and walked, somberly, out in to the growing darkness. Cold, alone, and heart-broken.