Later that night, Windbreaker had come into her cell so there would be no bars between them while they talked, and during their time together he had given her a bundle of letters from home. It was more than a little exciting for her to read as well, and she could barely stop herself from reading them out loud.
“She’s doing just fine, I knew that she would be fine but it’s always good to have a little reassurance. Do you have a foal or um hatchling?”
she asked him as she folded up her letter and set it down in front of her, giving him her full attention as she anxiously awaited his answer.
“I don’t actually, I’ve never really gotten away from my job long enough to ask a nice young gryphon or mare to start a family with me,”
Star wanted to apologise for his unfortunate situation, but then she realised that he had said mare, and she wasn’t sure if it was because of her or how he felt about pony kind before.
“Well, I think you’re charming enough to take your time searching, even if you can't always make searching your main priority in here,”
He smiled as a warm blush filled his cheeks, and they sat in silence for a moment, Star focused on the bars of the cell while Windbreaker was trying not to stare at her too much.
“Who knows? my search might just be over and I could have someone in mind right now and you wouldn’t know,”
By now he was smirking up at the ceiling, clearly happy with himself and his ability to be so secretive while giving her hints, or so he thought.
“I already know you like me, you don't make it super obvious but it is obvious enough for someone like me to see, and we've spent so much time together it would be crazy of me to think you were doing the same with somebody else,”
She smiled and chuckled as she said this, which made the fact that she already knew who was talking about seeming like less of a problem to her. However, he wanted to make it look like the easy guess bothered him, so he frowned as he looked at her.
“Was it really that obvious to you? I thought I could at least throw you for a loop, it looked like it didn’t even take you that long to come up with who I was talking about,”
Her smile drooped slightly as she looked at him before she finally looked away from him and instead stared at her hooves as she pushed around a pebble she had seen near them.
“Relax my little star-burst, I was just kidding, I actually don’t mind that you guessed so quickly, it takes a lot less stress off of me with having to tell you that I like you,”
He wrapped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her closer to him, snapping her out of her worried trance and allowing her to smile without worry. Soon after they began reading the letters together and noticed that Star’s sister had indeed moved in on her home and was having stallions over almost every night. This had made her a little annoyed and even disturbed, the fact that her sister was exposing her daughter to the unhealthy habits that she had and was making it seem normal for her.
“I can’t believe this, I knew that my sister was going to be trouble but no baby dragon should exposed to such debauchery, and in my home as well, I ought to shave her mane off in her sleep,”
Star was so enraged that Windbreaker had to hold her to calm her down, and even then it took five minutes for her to completely calm down.
“I swear to you, this is not how proper royalty conducts itself, she should not be laying with so many stallions around my child,”
“I get that it's b ad but trust me when I say it will be dealt with,”