“You don’t need to stay, I’ll be fine,” I said as the door closed behind us. The trip to the tower had been easier than expected with Amber scouting, an illusion around me and Sunset glaring at anyone that got too close.
“Like hell am I leaving you alone like this,” she answered with a frown. “What was he thinking!?”
“Not sure anything Discord does count as thinking,” I sighed and dropped the illusion, wincing when my voice changed pitch. “But as long as he keeps himself to the occasional temporary prank, it’s a lot better than the alternative.”
Sunset stared at me. “Prank! Page, he turned you into...”
“A mare,” I sighed. “Trust me, this is very strange, but on my list of strange things to be transformed into, it’s still a distant second. As I’m sure it would be for you if you were turned into a colt.”
“...True,” she admitted. “But still.”
“So yeah,” I said and flicked my right ear. “Really, really annoying and strange, but as long as it’s temporary I won’t try to kill him for it. Instead, I’ll do something a lot worse.”
Sunset looked unsurely at me. “Like what?”
“I’m going to tell Fluttershy what he did.”
That got a smile from the unicorn. “Good.”
Looking over at the room to the bedroom, I then sighed and jumped onto the couch and lay down. “...No real use waking Luna, is it? Even if she has a spell that can reverse it, it’s likely hideously complex...”
“They exist,” Sunset confirmed. “And you are not even close to guessing how complex.”
“...and would take time to read up on for her,” I continued and nodded at her at her interruption. “All it would do is make her get less sleep.”
Sunset looked unsure. “I would have liked you to wake me if I was her,” she said and jumped up to lay down next to me. “But there is an alternative, isn’t there? She’s asleep.”
“...Good idea,” I said and frowned. “Why didn’t I think of that?”
“You do have some other things on your mind. Go ahead, I’ll wait here.”
Giving her a quick smile I put my head down and closed my eyes, diving into the realm of dreams.
As the dream realm formed around me, I looked at myself again. Damn it, it stayed with me in here too!
Finding Luna didn’t take long. Not only were very few ponies actually asleep during this time, but I got her dream portal to swoop up to me with a thought.
Good, she was actually in her own dream. She liked to dream walk and did patrol the dreams of ponies, just like I did during the night. But I knew that she preferred to help little colts and fillies with bad dreams, not just Nightmares and I had no trouble focusing on hunting the things.
But this time she was actually ‘home’ so I didn’t need to hunt her down.
Crossing into her dream, it revealed a forest clearing with sparkling stars far above. Luna was lying by a small fire, reading a book.
“Luna,” I said as I spotted her.
She looked over at me in surprise before she frowned. “…Page?” she asked before quickly getting up. “What happened?”
“Run in with Discord,” I said and then quickly stomped my hoof against the dream to keep her from waking up when she instantly tried to. “Stop.”
“I’ll…”
“Do nothing yet,” I said and moved up to nuzzle softly. “Here’s what happened,” I added before telling her the full story.
By the time I finished, she was lying down as I was right next to her, beneath her wing again.
“He said a day?”
“The note said a day,” I sighed. “Unless you know a way to turn me back earlier.”
Luna looked concerned. “…I’m sorry, My Page. Such magic is difficult, I would need to study it.”
“Which would take longer than a day,” I said. “I guessed as much when Sunny mentioned it. I’ll get by with illusions until then, I guess.”
“Discord cannot be allowed to act in this way!” Luna said softly and nuzzled at my ear, “I will speak with my sister, we have to…”
“Not do anything right now,” I interrupted her. “We don’t have the Elements and without them, even everypony working together, Discord could get a lot of ponies hurt before being defeated. It might happen eventually, but I don’t want it to happen over this,” I said and then frowned. ”…If it turns out to be permanent, then maybe, yeah. But not over something temporary.”
Luna shook her head. “I will still discuss the matter with my sister.”
“Just don’t go planning any campaigns. If nothing else, because my uniform won’t fit like this,” I grumbled. “Even walking feels strange.”
Luna smiled softly and looked at me. “Would it help if I said that you were beautiful?”
“…Maybe a little,” I admitted and cuddled closer. “But I’d rather be back to being handsome if that’s alright with you,” I said and then nuzzled her. “But thank you. I should likely wake back up and tell Sunny I’m fine, she might be worried by now. You stay asleep, please don’t follow me out, you need to get your sleep.”
“Very well, My Page. I’ll see you when it’s time to raise my moon,” Luna said and then kissed me softly.
Kissing back softly, I leaned against her side before opening my eyes and waking up to the worried face of Sunset.
I smiled a bit at her. “Long story short?” I said and suppressed a small yawn, stretching my wings. “Even if this turn out not to be 24 hours, Luna is confident she will be able to turn me back as soon as she’s been able to review the spellwork. I’ll be fine.”
A small white lie was well worth the look of relief spreading across Sunset's face when I said that.
“Now,” I then continued and smirked. “Want to help me write a letter?”
“Oh yes.”