//------------------------------// // Date with Twilight // Story: Sunset and the Seven Girls // by Kinni //------------------------------// “After that, I guess you could say that things settled down, mostly.” Sunset said to Princess Twilight “I started introducing Sunset to the basics about what we knew of magic, specially the traits specific to the magic of the human world. “Apart from that, not much really happened that was all that different from usual. Sunset did get along with the girls, and sometimes they even went to go things together without me.” Sunset thought for a bit “Which probably helped with some things that happened later, but I'm getting ahead of myself... Ah, and you wanted to hear about my relationship with the other girls as well, so I could tell you about the date I went with Twilight during that time.” The alicorn princess immediately picked up another scroll and prepared to take notes “Please do.” She said. “Well...” Sunset started. -0- It had been planned out for a while. Twilight had heard about a book fair that would be going on in the neighboring city and asked if I would be interested to go together. Obviously I said yes, and then there was the two month wait where we prepared things ahead of time and tried to plan around any eventualities. Yes, Twilight, I do realize how much you have in common with your counterpart, but I still say there's some pretty big differences. I'd say that she lacks confidence except for in a few situations, while you have confidence except for in a few situations. It's the reverse. Going back to the story... Well, when the day arrived, I woke up at five and a half in the morning, brushed my teeth and washed my face, then I loaded up the car with the bags we had prepared previously and waited. We had decided to use my car to go there, so when Twilight arrived she sat on the passenger side and I started driving. It was only an hour and a half and I put in some music we had previously decided on and started our drive. On the way we stopped at a cafe to have breakfast, which was just a light meal, since we were still going to drive a while to get there. But I think I already talked enough about all the little details, so let's get to what really matters: The fair itself. It wasn't all that different from book fairs in Equestria. There were books absolutely everywhere, of any type you can think off, some of them only being shown, like a collection of first editions of books from a famous and very old publishing company. But most of them were actually for sale, and a good portion was even discounted, with book merchants having come from everywhere to peddle their wares. And there were also lots of famous authors all around, ready to sign copies or their books while they waited for group events like interviews and discussions. You wouldn't know about the famous books and authors of the other side, so I won't give any details, but I'm sure you can imagine how it was. I let Twilight take the lead for the first half of the day, and it was absolutely adorable to see her reactions every time she got excited over a new find. We got loaded up with books pretty quickly. The last we planned to go event before lunch was a lecture on writing magic, by famous fantasy author Moonstone Dream. I read a few of her books, but Twilight was the one who was the big fan of hers. The lecture was pretty good, since Moonstone was a good speaker and had prepared previously. The main theme of it was avoiding tying down a magic system with too many rules, because that destroys the sense of wonder that should be inherent in magic. I see you're frowning a little, Twilight. And yeah, my partner had a few things to say about that too, so when the lecture ended and Arlana asked if anyone had any questions, Twilight raised her hand immediately. Moonstone pointed at her and Twilight stood up and spoke: “As for the question of rules in magic, my perspective is that a lack of rules is just as bad as too many rules, since it's difficult to convince the reader that something is amazing if you haven't established a baseline for what is normal. I think that considering rules to be the problem is missing the point.” Now, it was there that Moonstone committed a mistake. She decided to argue with Twilight about it. “You are entitled to your own opinion, but my reasoning goes that the wonder should be your main priority, instead of trying to shove it on top of rules as an afterthought.” She said. “And you are assuming that rules will inevitably be a hindrance to the story, but a properly developed set of rules can actually make it easier to create wonder. In fact, the rules themselves can be wondrous, if you think of them the right way.” Twilight replied. And so it went. Twilight got into a prolonged discussion with Moonstone. I'm sure the rest of the audience were very surprised with that turn of events, but I couldn't really say for sure. I was too distracted by how hot Twilight looked speaking with conviction like that. Their discussion only ended when the next guest speaker came around, because the time for the lecture had ended. Both Twilight and Moonstone looked surprised at the fact that all this time had passed. I immediately grabbed Twilight and dragged her out, before she could notice how everyone was looking at her. “Did we really speak for so long?” Twilight asked, after snapping out of her confusion. At that point we were already safely away from the crowd, and halfway towards to the snack bar where we would eat our lunch, because I was very efficient in escaping from awkward situations, a skill that had become more and more necessary as of late. “Yeah. Time surely does fly when you're having fun.” I replied with a smile. “Having fun? I guess I was...” Twilight muttered “Sorry if it was boring for you, but I simply had to speak up...” “Ah, it wasn't boring at all.” I assured her “I was also having fun, just appreciating how pretty you looked, so full of confidence.” Twilight did a full face blush when hearing that. So adorable. “Well... What are we going to eat?” She changed the subject. At that point, we were almost there, so that discussion was shelved until we got to the snack bar and looked at the menu. I could talk about what we ate, but that's not what you're here for, so I'm just going to say that it was delicious. However, the dessert was a different story. “I would like to order a large size ice cream cup. Strawberry and cream, and could I have two spoons with it?” Was what I asked at the cashier. Since I had finished my meal earlier, I was the one to order, just as planned. I went back to the table to wait for the ice cream, but instead of sitting across from Twilight like before, I plopped down on the bench right beside her. “Sunset?” She was confused by it. “I asked for ice cream for two.” I said, slipping my arm behind her back for a hug. She smiled and allowed it, so we spent the rest of the wait cuddled together. And I didn't remove my hand even after the ice cream got there. I simply used my other hand to take one of the spoons and took a chunk out of the cup. I ate it while waiting for Twilight to do the same, then took another chunk and offered to feed Twilight with it. She blushed quite a lot, but she did eat from my spoon. Then she took a chunk with her own spoon and offered it to me. Of course I took it, and I made sure to look straight into her eyes as I did it. And the next few minutes were pretty much like that. I took the opportunity to get in quite a few caresses and small kisses, because what would be the point of a date without that. +0+ Sunset almost laughed when she saw Twilight writing down furiously. “Cadance is gonna love this!” Twilight declared. +0+ After that, we were preparing to go back into the fair, but then my cellphone beeped, and I saw that it was a message from Rainbow Dash. It said, and I quote: “There's problems.” I showed the message to Twilight, who sighed and said: “At least we got to have most of the date.”