“I had never had cheese before,” Prim said softly from her bed.
Princess Luna smiled just a little and set the journal down for a moment as she looked up to Prim.
“Wine was new to thee as well, but it seems thee preferred cheese.”
“Oh, I could not be off drinking. I needed to take care of thee!” Prim laughed breathily.
“Not all the time,” Luna protested playfully. “I am quite the responsible mare I think.”
Prim smiled, but she didn’t reply, her gaze distant.
Luna moved a little closer, and touched Prim’s cheek with her hoof. The elderly unicorn refocused her gaze on Luna and sighed.
“I’m so sorry.”
“No time for that,” Princess Luna said as gently as she could, her voice catching in her throat. “No time for regret, little Rose.”
Prim sniffled and closed her eyes as she leaned against Luna’s hoof.
“I should have left. Thou wouldst have been so much happier for it.”
“No, I would have been a lesser mare for it,” Luna said firmly.
They were quiet for a moment, but eventually Prim Rose looked up at Princess Luna, pleading.
“Princess… May thee help me recall? From the beginning?”
Princess Luna smiled and nodded, as she reopened the journal to the page she had stopped on.
“As the sun rose low on the horizon, and my first meeting with HRH Princess Celestia drew near, I approached the Wilds bathhouse in the futile hope that it would afford me some dignity and privacy while accomplishing its purported goals.”