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// Into the Royal Chambers in Twilight: 1 
// Story: Twilight 
// by Ponyess 
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	I had just trotted up the stairs to my royal chambers, for the night so I can sleep.  I’m tired after a very long, hectic and demanding day.

My life in Ponyville has been and still is good to me, even after the duties and demands upon me and my presence.  Of course, my mentor Princess Celestia taught me well.  Spike has been quite the assistant, and my new friends in Ponyville has been very helpful as well.

The castle of Friendship is indeed a mighty good place to live, even if it had been giving me empty feelings and regrets, siding up with the loss of my old home in the Golden Oak Library.  The library had been the only home I ever knew in Ponyville.  In the end, it was my friends who stepped up and helped me conquer what had been given to me.

Maybe some of the feelings and problems came from the transition towards my ascension to Princess hood and the new responsibilities of which I knew nothing at the time.  With my friends by my side, life has finally started to get back on track.

With Spike soundly asleep in his bed, and my duties dealt with, I can approach my bed with a high spirit.  I have done everything I had been expected to do.  Sleep is my well-deserved reward.

My horn light up with purple magic, as I extend it towards the door and push it open before I enter the chamber.  At first everything appears to be exactly as I left it early in the morning.  There has been no pony in the room since I trotted out the door.  Of course, I already knew that.

After a cursory scan of the room, my eyes fell upon the mirror to the right of my large Alicorn bed.  Nothing about it, but this is when the first hint of what was to come hit home.  I am no longer alone in the room.

There are four new doors in the room, two to the right and two to the left.  Before the first door, I see a purple Unicorn with a striking resemblance of me in my younger days as the Unicorn I once was.  She has a small bed room, but behind her is the Royal library of Ponyville.

Before the second door, stands a Pegasus I never had seen.  She is purple and could have been me if I had been born Pegasus.  She has a flight of stairs to the high tower and a balcony with access to the open skies.

The third door is blocked by me as an Earthern Pony such as I looked the day Discord stole my wings.  Her access is to the castle grounds just behind the castle.

By the fourth and final door; the Pony is wearing a purple cape and hat, aside from the black mask and high boots.  Why was I ever surprised to see the mare, formerly known as Mare-Do-Well?  On second thought, these are all the mares that I could have been, if I had been a different type of Pony.  Now I did ascend, and turned into a Princess and Alicorn.

“Greetings, Princess Twilight Sparkle!” the caped mare spoke.

“Greetings, Mare-Do-Well!” I responded, nodding my head in an informal greeting.

“What ever brought them into my chamber, but why did they come now?” I thought.

“I hope you have your own beds, Mares!” I added.

“Yes, it is late!” the Unicorn responded.

They all withdrew, as if that had been their cue.

“Too late for work, it is dark outside!” the Earth Pony observed.

“I have time for a moment of reading, before I go to sleep!” the Unicorn thought, on her way out the door.

“If I am not dreaming, I can see them by breakfast!” I pondered, as I stated momentarily at the closed doors behind the purple mares.

“Of course, Spike will be upset; when he learns he has to make several more portions of breakfast each and every morning!” I mused, as I continued towards my wardrobe.

My horn slowly lit up, once more; before I managed to pull my Royal gown off of my back and slide it onto the wardrobe, carefully hanging it up.  Rarity would be furious, if I managed to damage the fine fabric of the beautiful ensemble.

Typical, every time I have official duties, I have to wear one of these suits.  Not that it bothers me to dress up, but it is a symbol of all the fuzz that came with it.  I like to be the private egghead known as Twilight Sparkle.  The mare called Twilly or Twiley.

Once I had disrobed, I closed the wardrobe behind me and trotted over to my bed.  In my state, I left my horn aglow.  Folding the quilt up and slipped into my bed.

Slowly climbing into my bed and made myself comfortable, curled up as I pulled the quilt back over my back.  Feeling the quilt slowly warm up on my back, as I picked up the book left on my bed stand and cracked it open, on the place where my pillow had been resting until I pushed it aside for a late night read.

In the end, I changed my mind and closed the book, before I put it back onto the bed stand.   I pull the pillow back in place with a hoof as the horn slowly dimmed as my magic was extinguished.

After I had fluffed up the pillow, I lay my head on it and close my eyes.  Just blinking my eyes a few times and draw in air in a deep breathe.  This day is at an end, no point in prolonging it any further.  Besides, I have an early morning ahead of me.  the duties of a Princess never ends.

“How does Celestia cope with this?  She may be an Alicorn, but I am an Alicorn too!” I thought, as my mind went blank as I slipped into a deep slumber.