Princess Luna stared at the huge stack of folders, papers, documents and other feuillets. She never expected that. Both the sheer volume of everything and how neat everything was. Folders had colours. Everything had a label. Even was seems to be floating papers were actually tied to a specific folder with coloured strings.
“Is that everything, Tulip?” she asked her aid.
“Yes.”
“Is that the commons proceeding to a wedding?”
“I don’t know, I had never been wed, your highness. But it’s a royal wedding.”
“I see,” she concluded. When she accepted Cadance’s offer to preside over the incoming Royal Wedding she did not expect to receive a thorough documentation of everything involved in and around the event. She thought she only had to give a few words and bless the sacred union.
She seated herself on a one of chair around the desk and levitated a folder toward her.
“Do you require my assistance, your highness?”
Luna paused, she looked at the whole order, pride tell her she could handle everything and prove she was ready to take on huge and important matters. But she knew she would need help if she wanted to go through everything in a timely manner.
And Prince Blueblood would be disappointed if she did not use the aid. He already had scolded her for not using the resources she had available once. Despite being quite young, the Prince had a way similar to her sister to make her feel… inadequate.
“Yes. I think that would be wise.”
She opened the first folder while her aid took her own seat on the other side of the desk. It was a list of ponies. There were detailed informations on not only the profession of the pony but also his or her ties with other ponies of importance. She re-read the title and it said Refused Guess. She skimmed mostly through profession and was surprised to see relatively highly placed ponies, like mayors. She put the folder aside, there was probably no point to learn about ponies that would not be here.
She picked a very slim folder and smiled. There was just one piece of paper labelled Ponies I want. She did not know every name on the list but it was easy to figure why there were here. ‘Twilight Sparkle, Morning Star, Twilight Velvet, Night Light... Fleur de Lis…’ most were likely friend and family.
Other folders concerned every pony and other organization involved in the preparation of the wedding like the orchestra and more curiously for Princess Luna, it also included a lot of extras and backups.
“Did Princess Cadance take care of everything alone?”
“From what I heard, she oversaw most of it, but discharged things like prefiltering to trusted organizations.”
The two other notable folders were one with Celestia cutie mark on it and included ponies Princess Celestia wanted to be here, mostly for political reason. One page stood out as it was crumpled. It contained the name of the Element of Harmony. ‘Odd’ though Luna.
The last one was a summary and the definitive list of every ponies sorted by role. It was a good starting point to learn about ponies she probably would need to greet the day of the wedding.
“What is that?” her aid pointed to a pink folder with a lot of heart glued on it and the words ‘My wedding’ written in pink glossy letters. Luna had ignored it because it looked too private. Probably something Cadance forget to remove. Sadly her aid was not so considerate and took it to have a closer look. “Ho, it’s cute” she beamed looking at a drawing that had slipped out of the folder.
Princess Luna leaned on the desk to look at it. It was not what a foal would draw but clearly not the work of an artist, it was not hard to assume it was from a younger Cadance. At the bottom of the drawing were stairs leading to a dais, in front of the altar was 4 ponies; 3 were easily identifiable: Shining Armor and Princess Cadance were kissing in the middle, Twilight Sparkle was on the side watching them.
The last one was intriguing for Luna, The pony was clearly a filly, based on her round nuzzle on the drawing, she had a pink coat, a blue mane and tail with a streak of purple. She was holding a cushion with 2 oversized rings, likely the engagement rings.
She was clearly an important filly for the couple “Does Shining Armor and Princess Cadance have a daughter?”
“No. But I heard they are pretty close to a distant relative of Shining Armor.”
Princess Luna levitated back the list of pony, Ring holder: Morning Star. It was probably the name of the filly. She stared at the paper for a while. Cadance never talked about her, that was odd: Cadance always shared gossip or stories about her friends or her futurs in law.
Was there more to it?
Shining Armor left the bed of the guest room of the Golden Oak Library, the sun was barely up in the sky. He was never an early riser pony when he was a colt, but years in the royal guard has ingrained this habit in him.
Some years ago it would be time to make his bed, but moving with Cadance in special quarters for them made this very hard to do. It was not really the size of the bed the issue, not even the fact there were servants for that. The main issue was the other occupant of the bed or the occasional visiting filly.
He smiled at the sight a small ray of light coming from the window was offering him. A pink alicorn holding what she probably thought was a strong unicorn stallion and a filly just happy to have something to cuddle to while sleeping.
He left the room, climbed down the stair and met a sight he wished was not so familiar. Her sister was asleep at a desk surrounded by books of various kind. He sighed and walked toward the desk. He nudged gently her sister “Twily, wake up.”
She fluttered her eyes open and muttered a simple sound.
“Should I put you in bed like a filly?” He got an intelligible sound as a reply, took that as a yes and just levitated her up to her rightful place to sleep: a comfy bed.
That taken care he moved to the kitchen and start making coffee. Since the coffee machine was a gift from their father, he did not have trouble to make it work. He grabbed some mugs from a cupboard and moved outside, coffee pot in a firm magic hold.
And it was the start of his duty as Captain of the Royal Guard. Outside he surprised the unicorn guard posted near the door that immediately stood at attention “Sir, Good morning, sir!”
“At ease,” replied Shining Armor, and levitated a mug toward the guard “Coffee?”
“Yes, sir.” the guard grabbed the mug with his magic and waited for the Captain to fill his mug.
A pegasus stallion landed from his post hidden in the foliage of the library “Hoo coffee, thank you, your highness.”
Shining Armor rolled his eyes, some of his ponies have taken to call him Prince, his (or her) highness since he had been officially receiving education on the matter of governing for his future position of Prince Consort.
He passed a mug to the pegasus and fill it too. They stayed in silence watching as two other guards were walking toward the library. An earth pony mare and another unicorn.
“Do I smell coffee? Nice, Captain!” the mare said grabbing a cup directly from Shining Armor.
The first unicorn guard asked “Hm... Where did you sleep Ruby? That was not the way from the guard outpost.”
Shining Armor would have facehoofed or reprimanded the sergeant straight away; the where was more with whom. It was a breach of protocol, every member of a squad must be located easily even when off shift. Sadly she was the leader of the squad and since he was under their protection he could not directly act upon them. Plus it would displease Cadance.
“Filthy Rich. Not bad estate and not bad in bed.”
All the guards laughed at her statement. The guards affected to Princess Cadance had been chosen by Cadance herself and were a weird bunch. It was something Shining Armor had been surprised to learn that when he was put in charge of the whole Royal Guard. He had expected Command to just put the best and more competent ponies to protect the most important ponies. But they were actually some hidden rule to the affectation.
Princess Celestia was assigned the most royal guard looking, understand well build and imposing stallions. Prince Blueblood had some weird criteria of elegance. Princess Luna had obviously chosen theastral and Cadance was picking guard by affinity or to protect them.
Shining Armor understood quickly enough that it was to protect them from the Royal Guard itselves. The two unicorns stallions had been caught fraternizing. It was ok to ‘fraternize’ if you were a mare and a stallion, as you only get a blame, otherwise you were expelled for moral issues.
For the earth pony mare, it was from her bad habit of seducing older and often married stallions. She managed to piss off high ranked officers and even managed to have some reassigned.
All of that managed to create a group of ponies very loyal to Princess Cadance. And weirdly Shining Armor was grateful for that. He could trust them with his own life and also the knowledge of who was really Morning Star.
He was halfway through his coffee when an earth pony mare appeared, startling every Royal Guard, professionally trained to spot every potential treat around them.
“Hooo coffee, Can-” She tried to reach for the coffee pot but swatted her own hoof with the other one “No bad pony, bad Pinkie you promised Mrs Cake to not drink coffee ever again. Anywoooo, here some donuts for you guys. Bye!”
And like that she was gone. The only trace of her passage was a white box on the hoof of Shining Armor. Having heard story about Pinkie Pie from his sister, Shining Armor did not go into panic mode like the other.
Quickly he said to deescalate the situation “Easy ponies. It’s just Pinkie Pie, a local.”
They all relaxed and promptly opened the box of donuts. When every guards present were equipped with coffee and donuts. The earth pony mare turned toward the 2 guards that were here for the night “Alright, report.”
The pegasus started the report “Around 0200. 2 stallions, both earth pony. They were concealed enough to make descriptive feature hard to figure. One with a large build and the other more regular. They spent 10 min studying Steel’s patrol and tried to get closer to the library...”
When the report was done and the day guard took the place of the night guard, Shining got back inside the library. He did not know what to make of the news of ponies visibly prying etheir on Princess Cadance and him or his sister.
He did not think too much as he hears the sound of claws on the floor of the main room “Hello, Spike. Rising early today?”
“Today? Nah. You think I can let Twilight take care of everything alone? She is lost without me.” he grinned.
Shining moved to ruffle his spines “A bit harsh, don’t you think?”
“Nah, just telling the truth” They both shared a laugh before moving to the kitchen.
***
“So the whole kitchen caught fire?” Cadance asked
“Yes, Pinkie was like all panicked while Mrs Cake just grabbed a fire extinguisher. It was just the paper protecting the cupcakes that caught fire.” Spike replied. He was retelling an accident that happened when Pinkie make him taste a cupcake with too much pepper on it. That made him sneeze badly.
“And what?”
“Pinkie Pie apologized to me after Mrs Cake scolded her.” they also learned that making a dragon sneeze was not a good idea Spike though in insight.
Spike turned his head upon hearing hooves approaching. Twilight entered the kitchen, she looked half awake but tense.
“Good morning, did you saw Morning?” she asked.
“Morning Twilight, she is already at school with Shiny” replied Cadance.
Spike could see the mare relax. He had woken up before her just a bit after Shining put her to bed. He had been careful to avoid making a sound, the mare deserved to sleep more than usual. “Wait, what time is that?” she asked.
“It’s time to relax today!” replied cheerfully Cadance.
Spike glanced at the clock it was 9:30 am. He could already see the gears turned in Twilight head as she took a glance too.
“I need to open the library! Ho no! I must look like a mess and I did not-”
Cadance shut her off with her magic “Nop, today the library is closed by Royal decree.”
“But you can’t-”
She was cut again “Nop, nop, nop. Today is ‘Twilight relax and do nothing day.’”
Spike smirked, he had agreed with Cadance plan of forcing the mare to laid down for at least a day. Well, yesterday had been also a day off, but it was not a ‘Twilight day’.
Twilight sighed and moved toward a seat. Grabbing a mug with her magic. “I still have” she raised a hoof toward Cadance before being interrupted “to finish some assignments for tomorrow.”
Spike knew she would say that and sadly she was right. She got more work lately, probably in anticipation of a big test.
Cadance smile flattered “Alright, I will help you this morning to finish.” then she beamed again “but this afternoon we are going to the Spa!”
Spike watched as Twilight open her mouth to protest “You….” she looked strongly at Cadance “You are not going to let this go?”
Cadance took a sip of her tea “Nop!”
“Alright, Alright” Twilight smiled “Thank you.”
There was a knock on the main door interrupting the peaceful moment.
“I got this!” said Spike and rushed out the kitchen toward the door of the library.
He opened the door and meet somepony unexpected. Spike put his hand on his hips, trying to be more intimidating “Rainbow Dash.”
“Hey, squirt. Is the Princess here?” She pointed at the royal guards posted at the side of the door “Like these guys are only here when she is… Wait are we in trouble?”
Spike could see that she was nervous, she was watching in every direction “No. Princess Celestia is not here. And last time I checked there was no impending doom of Equestria this week.”
Rainbow Dash relaxed “Fiou” then tensed again, She looked left and right, then at the guards, then at Spike. She lowered her head to whisper to Spike “Is Twilight here? I...” she passed a hoof behind her neck and said in an even quieter voice “need to speak to her.”
Spike paused before speaking “I don’t know. What do you want?”
Again she whispered, “I just want to speak to Twilight.”
Spike crossed his arms over his chest “Today is a relaxing day for Twilight. I don’t think she wants to see you.”
Rainbow Dash groaned “Come on, Spike.”
Spike stayed strong, keeping his stance. He probably had no chance if the pegasus decided to just pass him. But still, she looked ensure, occasionally making glance outside.
“Alright.” conceded Spike. He directed two claws toward his eyes, frowning and then pointed toward her eyes “but I am watching you.”
Instead of a brash retork like Spike expected, she simply nodded “Yeah, ok.”
One of the guards closed the door and Spike led the pegasus in the kitchen.
“Hu, Hello. Twilight I need-”
“You must be Rainbow Dash!” greeted Cadance. She approached the mare and offered a hoof “I am Princess Cadance.”
Rainbow Dash raised a hoof, visibly surprised and confused, she grabbed the other mare hoof and shook it timidly “Hu, Hello.” she paused “your highness.”
“Don’t mind me. You were saying?” replied Cadance.
The pegasus looked at Twilight “Hu” put a hoof behind her neck “I need to talk to you. You know for…”
Cadance grabbed Spike in her magic and moved out the kitchen “We will be out of your mane.”
Before they left Spike made another ‘I am watching’ you gesture but all he got was a remark from Cadance “Yes mini Shiny is watching you.”
Twilight stared silently at the pegasus mare, did she come to said she still had a chance? It was very unlikely. Did she want to stop being friends? It was sad but Twilight thought it was the normal course of action, that it then?
“Hu, yeah… I need, we need to- Who was that?”
“My brother’s fiancé. And yes, she is a princess.”
“Ho, ok. Err, yeah talk, need to talk.” she paused for a while, rubbing her neck “Yeah, my father told me to talk, so… talk to you. I mean” she shook her head and took a deep breath.
“I don’t like mares. I mean not like you are not pretty or something. I just only like stallions… so there… that.”
Twilight’ ears folded down on her head. “Ho”
“Yeah. Ok, this is weird?” Rainbow chuckled nervously “I mean, when a mare tells me she had a crush on me and just tell her I am not interested and I shrug off, but… I like you, ok? Not like, like like but you are my friend… so it’s weird.”
Twilight ears perked and muttered “Friend...”
“Yeah. I… yeah.” she hesitantly moved a hoof toward Twilight “Still friends?”
Twilight slowly lifted and moved one leg forward to meet Rainbow Dash hoof. Upon contact, the pegasus beamed “Awesome.”
She turned her head toward the door then back on Twilight “Don’t worry. I will not tell the other you are… are homo…”
“Homosexual” Twilight finished for her.
“Yeah I know that. I know you ground ponies are not fan of fillyfoolers.” she made a waving with one hoof.
Twilight sighed in relief, at least Rainbow Dash would keep it secret “ground ponies?”
“Yeah” the pegasus shook her wings “No wings: ground ponies.”
“Ho, yes. Make sense,” she concluded, leaving them both silent again.
“Uh. I… ” Rainbow Dash wings shook nervously then her eyes light up “I need you today for the tornado duty. You know to measure pegasus wingpower. We are totally beating Equestria record this year!”
The kitchen door was enveloped in a blue glow and a pink head peeked from the gap created “Nop!”
Twilight looked at the head of Cadance “Were you listening?” her only answer was the smiling face of the alicorn “Of course you were listening!”
Cadance entered the kitchen and grabbed both mares with her hooves “I am so glad you two are still friends!” the nudged Rainbow “And that you came to talk! But Twilight is taken for today!”
When she was released Rainbow Dash looked at the alicorn “Ok?” she sighed “I was hoping to have Thunderlane to train the other but I guess he can do it.”
“I can do it!” said somepony or rather some dragon.
Rainbow turned her head toward the back of Cadance “Spike?”
“Yes?” Spike put his fist on his chest “I mean yes! You need somepony to read the anemometer and do the calculus to get the wingpower?”
“Uh, yeah. Yeah awesome!” beamed the pegasus.
“Hold on.” said Twilight, she looked at Spike “Wait, you can do that?”
“I am your number one assistant!” he declared proudly.
“Anyway. I can’t let you go alone.”
“Come on Twilight.” groaned Spike “There will be like a thousand of pegasus!”
“Alright, Alright.” Twilight conceded.
“Awesome!” was Rainbow Dash reply before she grabbed Spike and flew off the kitchen window.
***
Princess Cadance was reading an outdated fashion magazine. It was not really engaging, but she did not find the will to start a real book. She had offered to help Twilight finish some assignments, but she had to be honest with herself, she could not bring much help when it was pure magic theory. Luckily it was only a fraction of her assignments but -and that worried Cadance- some other were too familiar to her.
Princess Celestia was very cunning, what was a seemly history lesson about what seems a semi-random heroic act of a pony could end up on a deep politics and diplomacy analysis. It had been the core of her own lessons. Analysing history and tried to get in the mind of every side of a conflict.
Cadance managed the feat to have Twilight let her draft most of the work for these assignments. As much as Cadance respected Twilight diligence to study a lot of fields, she prefered when she was focusing on magic. She had a rare talent for magic and it was kind of a shame to see her focus lost on too many topics.
Princess Cadance was a patient pony but even she was getting too bored where she was sure she could be something fun “Hey, do you know that I lose another bet with your mom?”
The only reply she got was a “hm, hm.”
The pink alicorn groaned “I should have known this”, she cleared her throat “Shiny and I planned to use your bed for a huge orgy!”
“Hm, hm.”
“Morning broke a leg and put the library on fire!”
Twilight turned her head toward Cadance. But she was not wearing a panicked expression like Cadance expected “Ok. What bet did you lose against my mother?”
“Oh, you did not panic.” Cadance clapped her hooves “Does my little Twilight grew up?”
“Do you know how many time Morning or Spike use the same trick?”
“You should ask yourself why they do it.”
Twilight sighed, “I know, I know. Anyways. The bet?”
“Sooo. I heard Pinkie Pie stayed a night here, hm?” Cadance raised an eyebrow.
Twilight stammered “I.. no. yes? Wait. How do you know?”
“I don’t know, maybe…” she did a dramatic pause ”in one of Morning letter to her father? ‘Pinkie did a sleepover with mommy! I wonder what kind of games they played but mommy looked tired. I want to do a sleepover!”
Twilight sighed “I… should have known. And yes-”
“You get drunk, went all huggy like always and sleep with Pinkie Pie! I don’t know how I did not foresee this! Velvet is the devil.”
“I am happy to know there is still bet on my life. Could I get back to work now?”
“Fine” Cadance grumbled internally. She knew that Twilight did not want to give a reason for Princess Celestia to get back on her deal with Morning Star, and she should let Twilight finish her homework. But she knew the mare was worth more than doing assigned work.
After 30 minutes of musing, Cadance moved in the basement of the library. There was some machinery in a corner of the room, but what caught her attention was the main workbench. It was covered with notes on top of 2 silvers plaster. In a corner was a basket with different objects, a ball, a pen, a nut and so on.
She started reading one of the paper randomly and smiled. She did not understand most of what that was written, but she smiled. It was likely a research project. She levitated a nearby chair and searched for what appeared to be the beginning of the notes.
Later Twilight entered the basement “I am done with my magic assignment, maybe we can review the historic stuff now?”
Cadance turned her head “How about you explain what is this?”
Twilight’s face light up “Ho! Well it’s not close to working yet.” She got close to the workbench “I am trying to transport objects between the 2 platters.”
“That what I figured, but that just a variation of a common conjuration spell.”
Twilight levitated an apple, put it on the plater, lit up her horn and the apple appeared on the second plater. “Yes, that the issue. It’s an unicorn spell, every unicorn could learn it with a bit of time.”
“Now, imagine if every pony could do that!”
Cadance’s eyes opened wide “That would be great! Did you manage to do that too?”
Twilight put the apple back on a platter “I… not yet. I don’t have much time to work on it, and I am kind of stuck. My idea was to use some gems or crystal to store and power the spell.”
“Like you can store a lightning spell in some crystal.”
“Yes exactly. But…”
“The spell is too complex and require more power than usual crystals could store.” finished Cadance.
“Yes, I feel like I am stuck.” confirmed Twilight “And I don’t have the funds to buy more expensive crystal, but it defeats the purpose of the project.”
“I don’t think even the best crystal could work. Did you try with your Element?”
Twilight frowned “Why would I do that? The Elements are not for my personal use.”
Cadance patted Twilight on the back with a wing “It was a joke.”
---
Twilight was at the spa, lunch had been very agitated with Dinky and Morning retelling Shiny presentation of his job as the Captain of the Royal Guard at school. It had been a huge success and the stallion had to answer a lot of questions from the colts and fillies ranging from what was the higher grades or if the Royal Guard fought monsters. The highlight for Cadance has been when Sweetie Belle asked if he was single and if he wanted to date Cheerilee.
And of course, she was retelling everything to the Spa Twin Sister. Twilight never really understood gossip, sure she could understand the social aspect of it, but not the appeal.
“Apparently Cheerilee blushed like crazy before Shiny tell her he was already engaged.”
That elected a giggle from both Aloe and Lotus.
“You still did not tell how you get a stud like this,” said Lotus. “Was he was just one of your guard?”
“Shining?” Cadance laughed “Poor colt was barely able to speak to me when I meet him. He said something like ‘Blarrgo’ to great me the first time he tried to ask me for a date.”
Twilight could not hold a giggle, she had been here when it happened, it had been so awkward!
Cadance clapped her hooves, sending water on Twilight “Anyways, do you have some gossip for me? I love gossip.”
Twilight sent a bit of water in reply “Fleur has too much influence on you. She is the one that loves gossip.”
“Oh phss. Enjoy the water and think of some books or how your brother is probably cantering all the mares in town at the Pegasus training.”
Aloe giggled “That will be the talk of the town for a month at least!”
Cadance chuckled while Twilight just sighed. Shining Armor was with Spike overseeing the training and it was not hard to imagine what just Cadance had stated. Twilight was half listening to Aloe and Lotus. She admired the capacity of Cadance to mingle easily with ponies. It was a big part due to her effort to always appear as an open and accessible pony and not an untouchable Princess like Princess Celestia. Still, Cadance was not afraid to use her royal status, like booking the spa for the whole afternoon for the two of them.
Twilight never used her status as the student of Princess Celestia. Maybe not if you count the use of the isolated Royal Lodge in Canterlot Opera and Theatre when she was pregnant, courtesy of Prince Blueblood. But mostly for her, it was more a source of trouble that she liked.
Her relaxing bath was interrupted by somepony barging into the large room.
“Princess Cadance! You are here!” Everypony head turned to the intruder.
Aloe was the first to reply, she frowned at the white unicorn “I am sorry Miss Rarity, today ze spa is closed to other customers, even regular like you.”
But her reply felt on death ears as Rarity continued “I can not believe how hard to find you! I know you are probably very busy preparing for the best day of your life and-”
“No” cut dryly Cadance.
“Your Highness, I-”
“No. You will not get an invitation from me for my wedding, and don’t even attempt to get one from my fiancé.”
“But I....” she turned toward Twilight “Twilight, you did not tell me it was your brother getting married. I-”
Twilight sighed and interrupted her “Sorry Rarity, I cannot invite you either.”
“But I am your best friend! And I am of the most important pony in Canterlot.” she turned toward Cadance “I must… no. It should be an honour for you to have me at her wedding.”
“It’s still no. I am sorry. It’s my wedding and you are not invited. Can you just...?” Cadance waved a hoof toward the exit
“I am zorry Miss Rarity, I think ze Princess want you to leave.”
Rarity looked at Aloe and said “hrm mph, fine.” then she stomped heavily toward the exit.
“We are so sorry your highness. We did not lock the door, usually ponies of Ponyville respect the closed sign.”
Princess waved to the Spa duo “It’s not your fault.”
***
They moved to the sauna, Cadance has taken the full spa treatment. Something Twilight could guess would eat all her afternoon. She probably would have worked all day to escape what happened these past few days. Her failed attempts at romance with Rainbow Dash was probably the least worrisome, in a sense she felt relieved, sad but relieved. She probably could have issues looking at the mare in a normal way for a while, but she was not rejected totally like she imagined in her worse nightmares.
“You are lucky.” stated Cadance somehow reading her mind “Lot of ponies could have shut you off totally for not being like every pony.”
Twilight just sighed in reply, it was the annoying part to know a pony for so long and had shared a lot of good and bad moments. Cadance could read her like a book.
“I know. She is amazing...”
Cadance clapped her hooves but that produced a wet sound with all the sweat she had accumulated from the hot atmosphere instead of a clear slap. “Yes, Yes. But enough about mopey stuff. You know what I do when I want to forget something?”
“No?” asked Twilight, a bit intrigued.
“I imagine a future that makes me happy!”
“Oh.”
Cadance continued, “picture that: Me and Shiny on a super comfy couch near a fireplace. I just solved 4 ponies problem in the same afternoon.”
“4 ponies?”
“Yes. You have no idea what time it could take to just figure what one pony problem is, let alone start solving it”
“Ok, ok, so?”
“We are on the couch, watching our 5 foals play together.”
“5 foals?” Twilight giggled
“Yes, 4 fillies and a colt. You know, so your brother has one to play royal guard with.” She smiled “Actually most of his sisters are grooming and combing his mane and tail, much to his dismay. You should see the pink hoof polish it clashes so bad with his blue coat. They probably steal one of my hoof polish, I would have to reprimand them later, but for now, it’s too funny. ” Cadance openly laughed and Twilight joined soon, memories of her own brother getting makeovers either by a young Twilight and Cadance or Morning and Cadance.
Cadance kept telling the story of their foals, which was mostly all the tribulations and misadventures they could get into. The timer telling the end of sauna ringed and both mares exited it. They moved back to the main room of the spa were was waiting the spa sisters.
After taking a quick cold shower and drying themselves with the help of Aloe and Lotus they relaxed in chairs, getting massaged before being groomed.
“You have a lot of tension,” Lotus said while working on Twilight. “You should do more exercise.”
“You should work less too” added the princess.
“You have a perfect zilhouette.” Commented Aloe while running her hooves on Cadance back. “How do you do that?”
“Princess secrets” she giggled.
The sisters continued their work while humming. After they were done with the massages they grabbed various brushes of all sizes and started working of mane, tail and coat. Of course, Aloe did not have much work to do on Princess Cadance, so they were mainly exchanging beauty tips. Lotus on the other hoof had lot of on work on the coat of Twilight.
Twilight was just enjoying the relaxing experience. She was again half listening to the world around her and followed Cadance example.
She pictured herself in a nice house, probably in Canterlot. It was not really important. She just got home after a day at Canterlot University Research Center, overseeing the work on students. Morning was just out of school doing her homework in the main room. Twilight was watching her while reading a book, a light reading. It was more peaceful than Cadance fantasy. Still, something was missing. Spike was not here but in Twilight head he had a job and his own house, close by obviously. Twilight could easily picture him teaching foals or tend for a library on his own.
She frowned trying to figure what was missing, obviously, Rainbow Dash was not here to cuddle with her, or could be? Twilight was not sure on what rule a fantasy could relate to reality. Finally, she figured what was missing, and she could hear in her head Morning talking with Dinky about their journey at school.
With a smile on her face, she felt asleep at the hooves and brush of the spa sister taking care of her.