✎ 002 [dictated]

[raisingdad]

[Alexis's voice sounds small and exhausted when it comes through the journal.]

Has.. anyone had any problems with reading since that whole... thing with the spirals happened?

Every time I read for more than like 20 minutes I get this sudden, really bad migraine.

[She's laying on her bed in her room in the dark with a cold compress on her forehead. Earlier she took some pain relief tablets she had wished for, but they're not seeming to help.

This is not good.]

Comments

[deductiongeek]

I haven't heard of that happening to anyone. Do you remember when it started?

[raisingdad]

Uhh... maybe when all the spirals were showing up? I was trying to read to distract myself from it and all the words on the page kept turning into spirals and I kept getting a headache. I thought it was in reaction to the spirals but it's still happening.

[deductiongeek]

Normally when something like the spirals happens, all the effects should disappear at the same time as the main events end.

[raisingdad]

And if they don't... what does that usually mean?

[deductiongeek]

There aren't usually any permanent effects. [He trails off as he sinks deep in thought.]

Unless you were injured somehow, the only other examples I can think of are the losses.

[preformthisneigh]

Maybe you need glasses. [HELPFUL.]

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[inlifesname]

This may be a weird question, but had you done a lot of reading here before all that?

[pompous_today]

... That is odd. Did you hit your head or suffer any other injuries as of late that you can remember?

[raisingdad]

I don't think I hit my head...

[Then it clicks.]

Oh God. What if this is my loss?

[raisingdad]

I wear contacts. [So it's not that.]

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[raisingdad]

All the time. I was a full time college student and I read for pleasure a lot too. I love to read.

[raisingdad]

No. Maybe it's some kind of after effect of the spirals thing? Can that happen?

[inlifesname]

No, I mean... after you got here, but before the spirals?

[preformthisneigh]

Oh. Well, that's weird. There's a clinic here, maybe you should get somepony to take a look at you?

[deductiongeek]

You didn't know your loss before?

[raisingdad]

No... I've only been here a few weeks and this is the first time I've really sat down to read...

I mean, is there a way to find out if this is definitely what it is?

[raisingdad]

Some.. pony?

[That's odd.]

[raisingdad]

Not a lot, no. I was still kind of adjusting to the place, you know?

[pompous_today]

I would definitely not rule it out. Staring at that pattern is enough to many anybody dizzy.

[raisingdad]

Yes, true.

That was one of the most frightening things I've ever experienced. I thought I was losing my mind.

[deductiongeek]

Trial and error. That's the best anyone has managed to figure out. If it doesn't go away, then its probably your loss.

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[rapscalliongirl]

I dunno, I've always had problems with reading.

[teenagebadboy]

No I haven't had any trouble reading since the spirals and I was off my rockers in fear.

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[fearbringer]

You're probably getting sick.

[preformthisneigh]

Oh, right...sorry. I'm still getting used to human lingo. Someone.