twilightpony | A Stitch In Time

Together Stalight and Sunburst have decided that our connection to the table is facilitated by the high-backed chairs that circle it. The chairs connect to the table and they are linked to us. They postulate that Starswirl's time travel spell, as modified by Starlight, knocked the chairs out of time phase with table, but just slightly. There's enough overlap that we can still see both the chairs and the table, but somehow the chairs can't "see" the table. That says a lot about us. Long story short, it takes Starlight and me working together to cast the spell, and all six of us had to be there so that all the connections get properly synchronized.

And it worked! Rarity and Pinkie got saddled with a job in Canterlot and they trotted out the door, leaving the rest of us mulling over this new turn of events. Applejack noted dryly that it's good we fixed the table soonish after it had gone off its rocker, otherwise we'd all be galloping in all directions like startled fillies. Dash said she half expected another chair to pop up, with Starlight Glimmer's mark on it, seeing as she was casting the fix-it spell with me. That would have been... something. You don't really know what to expect with the Tree of Harmony. I could wake up one day to find the whole Friendship Castle gone, or somepony else's cutie marks on the chairs. But for now, we're still connected to the Elements of Harmony.

The map evaporated, we went back to our routines. Fluttershy to her wards, Applejack to buck some early apples before it got dark, Dash... didn't say, but probably to reread some Daring Do to her tortoise, and I went back to my reading.