As Rarity left the Canterlot castle underneath the mid-morning sun, obscured as it was by the grey skies and cloudy weather, she breathed a sigh of relief. Her errand to Canterlot was now complete, and she could return to the women she loved very shortly.
And speaking of those women, one Pinkamena Diane Pie was waiting for her at the castle gate, bouncing with excitement and waving frantically as Rarity came into view, Rarity meeting her with a beaming smile and a wave of her own, her heart awash with affection for the adorable sweetheart.
The very instant Rarity crossed the threshold into Canterlot proper, Pinkie was assailing Rarity’s ears with her, as she put it, ‘super duper fluper importantess news you ever heard in your whole ding dang doggone life’.
Rarity herself had equally important news for Pinkie, concerning Luna’s position with regards to dragons, and she was just as excited to share said news with Pinkie Pie. It took until the pair had reached the train station for them to finally stop hyping up the news and simply say what they needed to say to each other.
But of course, the news they wanted to share was practically identical, leaving both mares mildly disappointed.
“Welp,” Pinkie snorted into a fit of giggles. “I guess that’s that!”
“To think your very own mother would be dating a Princess,” Rarity hummed as she walked hand-in-hand with Pinkie into the robust and thriving Canterlot train station, the sounds of chatting travelers and merchants— both legitimate and conniving— filled the air alongside the sounds of train whistles and the smell of fresh coffee and pastries. “What does that make you, exactly?”
“Uh, awesome?” Pinkie scoffed. “C’mon, Rarity, try and keep up!”
“Ah, yes of course, I’ll try and—”
Pinkie’s sharp gasp cut Rarity off and Rarity’s ears flicked up in alarm, her eyes darting amongst the dense crowds smothering the station floor as she looked for what could have caused such a reaction out of Pinkie.
But the tall and slender yellow ‘pony’ waving to Pinkie, alongside the rainbow-maned pegasus flying in the air above her and making herself impossible to ignore with excited waves and shouts, made it a simple enough matter to decipher.
Pinkie bolted toward Fluttershy and threw herself into her lover’s arms, Fluttershy flashing a gleaming smile as she caught Pinkie and spun around with the smaller woman in her arms, giving Pinkie a kiss on the forehead.
Rarity almost wished that were her, but she wouldn’t dare deny Pinkie her moment. She would simply have to make Fluttershy swoon on her own time later.
“Fluttershy!” Pinkie cooed, not even trying to keep her ear to ear smile under control as Fluttershy sat her down on a steel bench and then sat next to her, wrapping her wing around Pinkie. “What’re you doing here? Not that I’m not excited to see you cuz I am super excited to see you I love you and I love seeing you and I always enjoy seeing you and spending time with you and I always wanna spend time with you so seeing you here is—”
“Alright, Pinkie I think she gets it,” Rainbow ruffled Pinkie’s mane, getting a giggle out of the sweet mare. “Geez you can’t just fellate her in the middle of the train station like that.”
“Ignore her, Pinkie, please go on,” Fluttershy batted her eyelashes at Pinkie, pushing Rainbow away with one wing while pulling Pinkie in close with the other. “And if you want to make Rainbow’s turn of phrase a little more literal-” Fluttershy bit down softly on Pinkie’s ear and gave it a nibble, Pinkie’s eyes widening and her breathing getting heavy “-I’d be okay with that too.”
“Well, we have a whole train ride back to Green Neigh, right?” Pinkie hummed. “We could—”
“So hey Rarity!” Rainbow Dash loudly said, putting her hands on Rarity’s cheeks and forcing her attention away from her friends’ steamy conversation. “How the hell are ya? Everything with Luna go okay? I got stuff to tell you!”
“Oh, sure,” Rarity said, trying to catch up with everything Rainbow had just said. “Do you want to talk on the train? Because I have an awful lot to discuss with you as well.”
Rarity felt nauseous for what must have been the thousandth time since she had arrived in Canterlot.
She was sitting next to Rainbow Dash, her legs curled up into a ball in front of her on the train back to Green Neigh, her mind reeling from the information Rainbow had just laid out for her.
Any hope Rarity might have held in her heart about Celestia being understanding had now been shattered into a million pieces with the revelation that she had excommunicated Rainbow Dash for speaking in defense of dragons.
And the kicker? The sad pathetic chaser to this miserable shot? Rarity still held onto a glimmer of hope for Celestia, a part of her brain reasoning that because Celestia didn’t try to jail or execute Rainbow Dash, that there may have still been a chance that Celestia was simply misinformed or ignorant, and not an active obstacle against the safety of all dragons in Equestria.
For stars’ sake, not even just in Equestria! Now Celestia was considering a war against the Dragon Lands! And it sickened Rarity to think of how her group’s actions were indirectly responsible for accelerating this notion of Celestia’s too.
Ugh, it was just too much for one stupid lovesick girl to deal with.
Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie returned from the bathroom and sat down on the seat across from Rainbow and Rarity, the two glowing women offering Rarity a welcomed distraction from her thoughts.
“Well,” Rarity said with smirk, “don’t you two look satisfied.”
“We had a good time,” Fluttershy replied, licking her lips.
“I’m gonna be all tingly for like an hour,” Pinkie giggled.
“I’m glad you two are feeling alright, at least,” Rarity sighed and let her legs fall slowly to the floor. “I feel like my entire world has been turned upside-down for the second time in two months. Not sure how many world-shattering revelations I can take after this.”
Fluttershy got up and sat next to Rarity, Pinkie Pie hopping over to Rarity’s side of the train cabin as well, both women wrapping their wing and arms around Rarity, respectively. Rainbow got in on this too, hugging Rarity with her arms and her wings, which also extended to cover Fluttershy, who wrapped her remaining wing across Pinkie and onto Rainbow’s back.
Rarity held Fluttershy’s hand in one hand and Rainbow’s in the other, as Pinkie held onto Fluttershy’s and Rainbow’s hands as well.
No matter what world-shattering revelations befell Rarity and her friends, they would undoubtedly take them on together. And what more could Rarity ask for than that?