Thanks to the sudden „appearance” of the prince himself, Honeybuzz fell back in surprise. Her anger simply vanished into thin air and pure embarrassment took its place. With her oceanblue pair of eyes the mare took a quick glance at the royal stallion and at the end, she shut them down towards the marble floor while bowing in honor.
"I'm incredibly sorry breaking onto you, Your Highness!" began her explanation with stammering voice Honey. She knew the royals weren't brutal murderers if they are interrupted. After all, they were as much just ponies as their subjects and they knew that well. It was rather the earth mare who felt herself ashamed. "I didn't mean to disturb you or anything, I just got lost in the castle and I couldn't find my way out and the last train..."
For her even more surprise, Prince Pinto Cloud soundlessly walked to his subject, hoofs after hoofs, heavy and costly golden shoes clicking on the cold marble. A lightheaded smile formed on the stallion's lips as he lifted up a hoof and carefully put it onto Honeybuzz's shaking lips. The mare got so much startled that she immediately quit the explanation.
"Hey, my Lady, stop the blabber, please. It's unneccessary" the stallion laughed warm-heartedly.
The prince was a healthy, robust stallion with walnut brown coat and with snowwhite marks like water boots. His short mane and tail were black with very dark grey colored, thick line in it, shiny gold, royal guard helmet blinking in the light sunlight. His cutie mark, a dark grey cloud with a powerful, yellowish lightning coming out of the cloud was on a well-seemable position on his chestplate. However, his caramel gaze didn't dictate such rigor, they were rather kind and warm, lightheaded.
"Oh, my bad, uh" Honey blinked multiple times to hide her awkwardness. She was jumpy, like the first time she had to enter one of her dad's beekeping sanctuary. Her heart pounded with a turbo speed and her lips trembled endlessly. The fact that the prince was last but not least pretty handsome made the situation even more unpleasant. Honey had to turn the awkward discussion toward another topic. "At least I could meet you in person, Your Highness. It's an honor to finally meet Queen Flurry Heart's son in real life"
Prince Pinto seemed used to such formality, although he clearly deemed it unuseful. After all, he was just a normal pegasus stallion, who was lucky to be adopted by not else but the Queen herself from the orphanage. He didn't have real, royal blood in his veins, which made him feel closer to his subject and helping their problems. "I'm glad I'm such a famous pony to make you happy. Although, if I were you, I'd rather be happy to taste some samples of the local delicacies. They're way more enjoyable then my company"
Honey couldn't help but chuckle on the stallion's statement. "Why do you say such thing? Your company is as enjoyable as some orange gempie or such"
One of the stallion's eyebrows slowly crept upwards, together with one end of his mouth. "What about testing your theory?"
At first the golden mare didn't believe her ears. The royal heir of an entire empire wanted to have a piece of crunchy, absolutely unroyal pie with an unknown mare he just met. It couldn't be real. But even after nipping herself, Honey had to realize that it was indeed real. The mare swiftly recollected herself. "You mean eat some orange gempie with you?"
"Exactly" the stallion replied with a cocky expression. "May I ask for your name, so I can reserve a table at one of the best cafés in town?"
"Oh, of course, I haven't even shared my name with you. My name is Honeybuzz from Ponyville Honeyfarm and I delivered the honey for the Hearts Warming Eve Royal Ball" the golden mare finally introduced herself with a gentle bow. Even before continuing her speak, Honeybuzz began smiling. "I guess you don't have to introduce yourself, Your Highness"
Prince Pinto Cloud chuckled. "Thankfully, I'm bad at introducing myself. But you don't have to be so formal, I'm just a pony like you. Please, do call me Pinto"
The golden mare was surprised by the directness, but gladly accepted the royal prince's trust. "As you wish, Pinto"