‘You mean that don’t you?’
‘Yeah, I do.’
‘I’m a bit more cautious than you, I think. I like you, Sombra, but I don’t quite pine for you yet. Don’t take this as a rejection, I’m just not as feverish as you, for now. That okay with you?’
Sombra noticed he wasn’t Som-bra. He wasn’t sure he liked that.
‘Yeah that works. Thanks for saying.’
‘And heck, we have the perfect excuse to experiment, eh?’
‘Nudge nudge, wink wink.’
‘Exactly.’
They talked a little bit more about magic, or something, and then Sombra took the chariot out. He left satisfied.
Despite not doing all that much magic, he was pretty tired when he got back so sleep came quickly.
Hey you really do love me right?
She winked.
‘Yup.’
Hey you really do love me right?
‘Yup.’
Hey you really do love me right?
‘No.’
Hey-
‘Hey.’
Hey hey, its morning. That can’t have been Luna Luna. Som-bra Luna. Is Tinker going to be knocking on my door?
Nopony was knocking on the door, but the birds outside might as well have been knocking on his eardrums.
‘Morning.’
‘Mornin’.’
‘Do you want to do something today?’ Robyn asked.
‘I might do.’
‘Can be anything you want.’
I’m meant to want something I think. Pretty sure you are.
‘A day in Canterlot, maybe.’
‘You go there every other day, but if that’s what you want then sure.’
‘It’s more like I go to the palace.’
They left soon after.
‘You don’t go with Luna around Canterlot then?’
‘No, no real reason to.’
Unless we’re dating.
It took some willpower from Sombra to not automatically head towards the palace when they got to the station.
‘Palace that way?’
‘Yeah, not so far.’
‘It would be nice to meet Luna but I suppose she’d be asleep at the moment.’
‘Probably, or very tired.’
‘Oh, I know where we should go!’
Robyn lead him to a park not too unlike the palace garden, just a lot busier.
‘I met your father here.’
‘Aha yeah?’
‘Friend in school set us up on date.’
‘Really? Those never work.’
‘Well it didn’t, I didn’t see him again until years later! He wasn’t a bad stallion though. A bit shy.’
Sombra felt rather upset with all this talk of his father and he wondered how Robyn wasn’t feeling the same. It didn’t sound like she was.
‘I know this is exactly the thing mothers aren’t meant to ask their son’s but did you have marefriends in school?’
‘No I would have told you!’
‘Would you?’
‘Course.’
‘Relax relax, just joking.’
‘It’s nothing compared to Luna’s’
Sombra blushed.
‘Oh what kind does she make?’
‘I guess you’d call them lewd? And puns sometimes.’
‘That’s not very regal of her.’
‘She never was, I mean, since I met her. She’s lived longer, obviously.’
A flock of pigeons landed a few meters away, looked like somepony was feeding them bread.
‘Have you met her sister as well?’
‘Yeah thought I told you?’
‘I don’t think so.’
‘Yeah Celestia was nice really. More serious than her sister, but it’d be difficult to imagine otherwise. They’re both really big you know that?’
‘Are they? I knew they were bigger than stallions, but not much larger than that.’
‘Yeah I mean, Luna who’s smaller, her wing is like three quarters as long as me, and her t-’
Why am I talking about that? Why did I even think about talking about that?
‘Tongue.’ he muffled, pointing to his mouth.
‘Are you okay? It’s not bleeding?’
Sombra shook his head. Well I didn’t change what I was going to say, and I didn’t lie, and I made it ironic. Luna would be proud.
‘Better now, just a bit sore.’
‘So what were you saying?’
‘Oh nothing.’
‘You to seem like talking about her.’
‘Yeah yeah I just forgot what I was saying.’
Sombra wasn’t proud.
The two were fairly mute for the rest of the time, as there wasn’t much to talk about. It was too awkward to bring up Alex again, and Sombra wasn’t brimming with ideas he wanted to share. Still, they’d mostly enjoyed their day out by the time it ended.
Sombra was happy to have a dreamless night. Talking with Luna about Luna was pretty confusing.
‘Hi, Luna.’
‘Hiya.’
‘Say, you wanna hear what’s on my mind?’
‘You never tell, honey!’
She giggled like some coy schoolfilly.
‘Not that it’s your fault or anything, but I’m getting bored, or like bored at how repetitive things are. I have a lesson with you, and then something happens, and again, and again. You’re almost always more fun than whatever happens... ah I dunno. Just disgruntled, maybe I want change.’
‘Is that a roundabout way of saying you want spend more time with me, Som-bra?’
A wing twitched.
‘You think?’
Luna stooped.
‘Mm?’
‘Mm.’
What a joy it was, between feather and tongue.
‘You haven’t made any crystals to not break.’
‘Sure haven’t.’
‘Nopony’s going to check for them you realise?’
‘Yeah...’
They fell into a lover’s silence again.
‘Enough, yeah, thanks.’
Luna ran her pinion through Sombra’s black mane.
‘You can spend more time if you want. I can easily make that happen.'
‘Yeah?’
‘Yup, fast as I can kiss you.’
‘Not that fast please.’
‘Mmm-hmm.’
‘Does time like, move really fast for you?’
‘What do you mean?’
‘Aren’t mortals like butterflies to you?’
‘We’re still ponies Som-bra, a decade is a decade alicorn or not.’
‘I guess.’
‘So do you want to spend more time with me? You know I’d like to.’
‘How much more time would that be?’
‘Between an eternity and a lifetime, but really, its up to you.’
‘Even move into Canterlot?’
‘Even a certain palace in Canterlot.’
‘Boy oh boy.’