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// FoME's I Cappuccino Other Recourse (anonpencil's "Welcome to Sunbucks! Can I Take Your Order?" 
// Story: Never the Final Word (Vol. 2) 
// by FanOfMostEverything 
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Twilight's eyelid twitched. Without ever looking away from Celestia, she magically guided her coffee to one of the planters and upended it.

Celestia simply sipped her own, visibly keeping a most unroyal sound of pleasure down to a pleasured but dignified hum. "Is something wrong, Twilight?"

"It's certainly not what I was expecting when I'd asked if you'd done anything interesting lately." Officially speaking, there was no snark to be found in Twilight's voice. One princess of the realm did not sass another. Officially.

Celestia certainly didn't acknowledge any hypothetical sass. "You have to agree that it was quite interesting."

"From a purely magical standpoint, yes. From any other?" Twilight felt the twitch start up again, threatening to spread to her other eye and both ears. She shut her eyes, breathed in calm, breathed out stress. Once she found her center, she said, "Princess, you know how I sometimes find it hard to criticize you or accept your fallibility?"

Celestia nodded. "I am, yes."

"Well, you'll be pleased to know this isn't one of those times. Because these horse apples right here? This is why I don't tell you anything about the other side of the mirror."