Satin's eyes widened as she watched her beautiful Tea slowly move to undress.
"Stop it!!" Satin screamed and moved to rescue Tea. The second she moved closer, the ground crumbled, and she dropped.
Satin's fingers reached for Tea as she disappeared into the darkness. With a jolt, Satin was sitting in bed again. She gave a scream of rage as suddenly, on one dormant tentacle along her hooves shot outward. Her once white horn turned dark, and the candles in the room became black.
Everything burned with pain as black tears ran down Satin's face. She did have magic! She snuggled to get a hold of her self watching as the wood walls began to peel like paint.
Tea doesn't deserve that!
Ribbon, you are the monster, not me!
I will eat you.
"Satin!" Azuki's voice broke through the horrible thoughts. The centaur spooked, looking down at her familiar. Azuki, too had tentacles, pressing out of her sides. Her fur was pitch black, and her eyes red and wide.
Satin hiccuped as the tentacles made squirt work of the bed. Plunging into the soft fabric and ripping out the spins inside. She had given birth to at least ten that were destroying everything. Finally, Satin grabbed Azuki and hugged her.
Slowly, with heavy sobs, Satin found her breath. She usually focused on her own heartbeat, but it was no more. Satin found herself drawn to the strange clicking of the gears in the ship. She sank down on the destroyed bed and nuzzled into Azuki's coarse fur. It had once been soft as velvet, but not it was hard and rough. Even this was comforting in her hour of need.
She forced on the rocking of the ship, the dull lull of back and forth much as if they were at sea, anything to not think about what she had just dreamed.
"It wasn't real." Azuki cooed to her master. "Just a dream, bad thoughts. Tea is fine. I know you are upset about Ribbon marrying her."
Slowly the tentacles retracted and slipped back into Satin's hooves, leaving black spots on her once golden hooves. The room was a mess. Bedsprings lay strained around. The wood along the walls had warmed, making the sides almost fold in on themselves. The door was bowed, and Satin wondered if it could even be opened.
"Chanty is going kill me." She muttered grimly. Azuki sighed as one of the lights fell off the wall and shattered on the warped floor.
"Let's go have some tea." Azuki mewed up at her and hopped off the bed.
Satin bit her cheek, it would just take like lemons anyways, but lemon tea wasn't bad.
Azuki pawed at the door, suddenly making the whole thing fall forward and crash into the hallway.
"Whoops." the cat mewed.
Satin grumbled but got up and followed her familiars lead, she had done her best to listen to her, but she had failed to finally tell Tea how she felt.
Now she was in this mess. She wondered what would have been as she slowly walked down the hall to the galley.
Satin envisioned herself cuddled close to Tea. Curled on the large white and pale yellow bed, Tea loved. Satin spooning her between her chest and long body as her hooves collected around Tea's soft skin. She was wearing the peaceful blue night gowned Satin had given her as a birthday gift.
Oh, if only she had been brave.
Brave enough to tell Tea.
To say the simple yet blindingly unyielding words to form out of one mouth.
I love you.
All the lights on the ship were off. The darkness felt comforting to Satin like it never had before.
She didn't bother to turn the light on as she got into the kitchen. Azuki hopped onto the long wooden table in the middle of the galley. It was lined with chairs that almost no one sat in. Satin grabbed the warn tea kettle that looked out of place in the practically pressed kitchen. Nothing much was ever used here but the coffee machine and this old kettle.
The stove flickered to life with a few clicks, and the hot blue flames case light on the room.
It was then Satin noticed her skin, it was darker, and the ashen cover was slowly giving way to a dull, lifeless gray. The fire felt warm against her cold fingers, but she didn't dare touch it. She filled the kettle and set it to boil, leaning herself against the wall as the ship slowly tried to rock her back to sleep.
She remembered when she had first meet Tea.
They had been young, in the same school, but on the other side of the room from each other. Tea had been shy and never spoke more than five words per class. She, however, excelled in school, while Satin just stumbled to get by.
The day came in which Satin had been ill and stuck at home with her parents.
Her mother had answered the door while poor Satin was struggling not the heavy the contents of her stomach into the toilet. Tea had come with her homework. Satin didn't even realize Tea even knew who she was, where she lived, or even that she existed.
It was a horrible way to first meet someone. Tea was kind and quickly asked her mother to make the Tea she had bought. It was to help smooth Satin's ill stomach.
Satin remembered sitting empresses on the bathroom floor while someone she had nearly spoken to pulled her hair back and braided it without a word. She took note of how soft Tea's fingers were. It was the first time, in Satin's mind, she felt she had a crush.
Her daydream was cut short when the sharp scream of the kettle startled her back into reality.
Satin filled her tea mug and added the tea bag, watching as the tea slowly seeped out of the bag into the water.
She felt the ship slowly going down, and then with a gentle thud, it landed on solid ground. Satin felt her insides twist.
They had finally arrived at White Hollow.