A short painful buzzing began to sound inside her head.  It surprised her for a moment before she remembered what it meant.  She had cast a spell designed to alert her of any significant change in the alien’s vital signs, and she was rather proud of it.  The magic was a fairly ingenious, but hearing it now brought her no joy.  In fact, she  hoped it was mistaken.  She had dismissed most of her medical staff and a good number of her guards.  After a week of virtually no brain activity the odds against the creature waking were astronomic.  A poor nurse was down there with it alone, and one of two things was happening; it was dying, or it was awake.  Celestia quickly stood up in the middle of the boring lecture and trotted down her throne doing her best not to look like she was in a hurry.  She seemed to catch the rambling colt off guard and he quickly scrambled to bow.  