"Still trying to figure this out?"
"Yeah." Twilight took a sip from her coffee mug.
Sunset stepped next to her, and looked down at the desk filled with graphs and maps. "Don't you think maybe you're working too hard on this?"
"Yeah." Twilight set her mug down. "But if I don't do it, who will?"
Sunset rolled her eyes, and patted the other girl's head affectionately. "I'm sorry I'm not helping with it as much as I could."
"No, you're right. It wouldn't be right to drag you into this thing. And you know what they say. It's hard to find a pattern into a seemingly random set of data, especially when there isn't one. Maybe that is the case here, after all." Twilight leaned back into her chair with a sigh.
Sunset quirked an eyebrow. "I think I only heard that about black cats and dark rooms."
Twilight looked at Sunset. "Yeah, but you spent your childhood in magical pony land and I spent most of my high school years shutting off as much social interaction as I could in favour of studying and research." She sighed again. "Bless my parents for getting me a dog, I would have turned out a lot worse otherwise. And I still ended up almost destroying the world."
"Hey. I almost mind controlled a high school into invading the parallel horse dimension." Sunset ruffled Twilight's hair.
"While looking like a demon. And we sadly have no good pictures of it. Don't we have this same exact line of conversation every month or so?"
"We both have a bundle of conflicting and complicated feelings over the concept of turning into a monstrous creature through stolen horse magic. Not all of those feelings are the bad kind." Sunset gave the ground a little kick. "It's so annoying that the transformations we get when when going power crazy look way hotter than the regular geode ones. That's not just me, right?"
Twilight gave something resembling a smirk, though the angle from which Sunset was seeing it made it unclear. "Maybe. Speaking of stolen horse magic, can you fetch me that map over there?" She raised a hand, and pointed to a stack of papers onto a table to her right.
Ruffling Twilight's hair one more time, Sunset headed towards the table. Twilight looked back to the maps laid down on the desk in front of her, straightening her hair with a hand as the other began to move things around. She wanted to compare the map of the portals with Equestria's version, just to see if there was something she'd missed. For the thirtieth time or so. Absent-mindedly, she lifted up a map, and her eyes happened to fall on the one under it.
Twilight froze.
Sunset turned around, and noticed the reaction. "Is everything okay?"
Twilight didn't answer. She undid the motion she'd stopped halfway, then repeated it, like she was flipping a page back and forth. Then the map on top was enveloped in her telekinesis, and she held it a few centimetres above the other, looking at both of them. "I think I've got it."