I poked at the rich chocolate pudding with the spoon held in my magic. It was thick and rich and wobbly and I had no idea how the kitchen did it, but each time I had this, it ended up better than the last.
“...I’d just want to say thanks for inviting me,” Midnight said from across the table as she licked some chocolate of her spoon She was sitting next to Sunset and across from me and Luna, “but I can’t help but feel like I’m intruding.”
“You are not,” Luna told her with a smile, “I think it was a good idea of Page’s to invite you. I think all of us would be interested in hearing more of your world?”
Sunset nodded happily, “That would be interesting. I’m… still in the human world there, wasn’t I?” she asked with a small thoughtful frown.
Midnight shifted her wings slightly and gave Sunset a smile as she nodded, “You are. I made us a set of enchanted journals, what’s written in one appear in the second. We usually write once a week or so. Last I heard of you, you were preparing to play at a school dance.”
Sunset nodded, “So I was doing good?”
Midnight smiled at her, “Seemed to be,” before she grinned, “You did seem annoyed to be back in school after the summer holiday though.”
Sunset groaned and let her head drop a bit, “Oh, you have no idea. That was the worst thing about being thrown into a world full of hairless apes-”
“Hey!” I protested with a grin. Sunset ignored me.
“-, being back to school again. No longer be treated like an adult. And the guys kept staring at my chest which was so strange at first!”
“That would be annoying,” Midnight admitted and shifted her wings, “But there is so much you can learn there. No real magic, they do everything with technology! How awesome is that!”
“You know, you could just head over there again and check it out yourself,” I suggested and had some more of that chocolate, “The portal is opening again in… uhm…”
“A little over half a year,” Luna supplied with a smile, “And I have not forgotten the promise I made to visit with you. Seems interesting.”
“Awesome,” I said with a grin, “I’m taking you out to a steak dinner.”
Besides, Sunset had reminded me of something very important. Boobs. I missed boobs and I bet Luna would have some extra awesome ones.
Luna looked rather uncertain about that, but flicked her ears, “Perhaps not that,” she said before she smiled, “But I am looking forward to seeing a world similar to where you came from.”
I nodded, “Yeah, me too. Last time I was there I didn’t really have time to run around and picking things up,” I admitted before I grinned, “I have a shopping list longer than my wing. What about you, Sunny?”
She quickly nodded, “Me too. No magic or horn sucks, but if there is anything humans do well, it’s making stuff. I miss my phone.”
“Won’t be nearly as useful here without a connection or an internet,” I warned her, “And I’m not sure a touchscreen work with hooves or horn.”
“I could get a stylus,” Sunset decided before she frowned in thought, “...you’re right though. They really need the internet for it to really work well We just have to make our own then.”
“Not sure how well that would work,” I admitted, “but a laptop and some way to charge it is at the top of mine. We’ll have to see how much of that stuff I remember. Wonder what new games has come out?”
“Do you know what they are talking about?” Luna asked as she turned to Midnight. The other alicorn shrugged her wings a bit before answering,
“A little. A phone was human communication device and a laptop is a data storage and processing device,” Midnight explained, “Both could be useful on their own, but without connecting back to the human ‘internet’ which is a planet wide communication network they use, they would be limited in functionality?”
The explanation turned into a question as she looked to me.
“Pretty much,” I agreed, “I used to work with them before I arrived here, you know? Kinda miss them sometimes.”
Mostly when running out of ink for my quill. Oh! Ballpoint pens! So many ballpoint pens! I’m going to need to stock up until the portal opens again! Would a box be enough? Better get two. Oh, a couple of Sparky and Midnight too, they’d love them too.
“But we’re getting off topic,” I said and then looked to Midnight, “What’s your world like?”
She sighed and poked at her chocolate dessert with her spoon in thought, “Different,” she said after a moment, “We weren’t allies with the Changelings for one thing. Tirek didn’t die, he was sent back to Tartarus. My library was destroyed and I opened the chest from the tree. It turned into a castle and a large crystal table slash map.”
Luna slowly nodded and gave my ear a small nuzzle, “And no Page.”
“No Blank Page,” she agreed, looking towards me. For half a second she looked like she was going to say something else before she turned back to her desert.
“My arrival here changed a lot of things,” I said and leaned softly against the larger alicorn, “...If it’s for the better or worse, I don’t know.”
“Better,” Luna said softly, “Definitely better.”
Midnight hesitated for a moment before she looked between us three before she sighed softly as she nodded, “...As much as I miss my home, I have to admit that I think Princess Luna may be right,” she said, “You have done a lot of good here, Page,” she said before she smiled and looked at Sunset and Luna, “more for some ponies than the rest.”
“The Changelings too,” Sunset said and smiled at Midnight, “Brought me home.”
Midnight smiled and then hesitated and looked to Sunset, “...When I get back home, do you want me to bring her back to Equestria? The you from my world, that is? W-was it a mistake to leave you there?”
Sunset looked down for a second, “...Is she happy? Where she is now?”
“I think so. She has friends. She sounds happy when she writes.”
“Then no. If she’s happy, it’s better she stays there,” she said before she smiled at Midnight, “But would you mind if I gave you a letter for her before you go home?”
Midnight shifted her wings with a smile, “Of course not!”
The rest of the evening was filled with less heavy subjects and more board games. Midnight mentioned something called Ogres and Oubliettes which sounded a lot like Dungeons and Dragons. Something to look into.