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// Hoping for the best... 
// Story: To protect the society 
// by TwiwnB 
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“Hey Twilight.”

The alicorn saw Rainbow Dash and smiled.

“Hello!” she said. “So, how is it going with you father?”

She only then noticed something weird with her friend. It was very slim, just a little feeling that she couldn’t really understand.

“Everything is going great!” Dash replied. “Hey, he is awesome after all, no way it could go badly.”

“I’m glad to hear that. Those are very good news.”

“So… what are you doing right now?” Dash asked.

Twilight noticed the weird thing again, but the pegasus was smiling, full of energy, so she had no idea why she was feeling anything weird at all and decided her own stress was getting the best of her.

“Well, I’m trying to figure out if a pony is guilty or not and quite frankly, I have no idea how I’m going to solve that one. Also, I thought I would go take a nap and maybe read a good book.”

“Oh come on, you can’t go to bed just now! The day is still young.” Dash complained.

“What?” asked Twilight, not realizing what was going on.

“It’s decided, I have to take you out of those walls.”

“What?” Twilight asked again, slowly fearing where this was going.

She didn’t get a chance to ask a third time. Rainbow Dash took her by the hoof and took off through the corridors of the castle and into the sky up onto a cloud way above the ground.

“This is way better, right?” said Rainbow Dash with conviction.

Twilight looked down, got afraid by the distance to the ground as she still wasn’t accustomed to sitting on a cloud, but then slowly came to accept that she was maybe better there, with her friend, than in the castle where she would be constantly reminded of the tasks she had to carry out.

“We could stay there and just look into the horizon for a while.” Dash proposed.

“Look into the horizon?” Twilight asked laughingly. “Maybe I don’t remember well, but you are more the kind who can’t stand still and would like to race.”

“Well, everytime we race, you end up teleporting.” responded the pegasus.

“Which happens to be the only way I can keep up with you…” almost complained Twilight.

Rainbow Dash laughed.

“Yeah, I’m pretty fast, aren’t I.” she said with pride. “In the sky, I’m unbeatable.”

She had used a tone on the word sky that didn’t sound right. It was that weird feeling again. So Twilight decided there was more than she had previously thought.

“Rainbow Dash?” she began. “Is there something you want to talk about?”

But Dash was busy modeling a cloud into the shape of the alicorn, and another one into her own face. She seemed to be having a lot of fun. Then the pegasus came back on the cloud where Twilight was standing and lay at her side.

“I’m just wondering if it’s fun to stay still and look into the horizon for a few hours. That’s all.” Dash explained with a joyous tone. “Maybe it’s very fun.”

“I don’t know. Maybe.” Twilight said. “Why do you wonder about that?”

“Dad spends hours and hours just looking into the horizon and I’m not sure I understand it.” Dash replied with a smile. “I asked him if I could stay at his side and he agreed, but I got bored after a while.”

The while she was talking about had been exactly forty-six seconds.

“You think there is something wrong?” Twilight asked.

“No, of course not.” Dash replied with a smile. “I’m just impatient to learn to enjoy staring into the horizon and I wanted to practice a little.”

“Okay, let’s try it.” Twilight said.

They both lay down on the cloud and looked away, where the ground and the sky meet. And there was nothing there.

Nothing at all.

It was utterly boring.

That is when Twilight noticed Rainbow Dash had fallen asleep, mostly because of the snoring.

“Sorry!” apologized the pegasus with a little laugh. “I guess I still have a lot of practice to do.”

“Don’t worry about it.” the alicorn replied. “Do you want to try it again.”

“No. I better go back home. I’m presenting my father to Fluttershy tonight.”

So they both parted ways, making sure they would meet again soon, and Twilight went back into the castle to go to bed and maybe read a book to forget, be it for a moment, that she had the future of a pony between her hooves.