Book 1 - The Behemoth came to Canterlot

by Equimorto


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"Morning."
Indigo slowly opened her eyes. "Morning?" She pushed herself up. "Up already?" Then she smelled something. "Coffee? I thought you weren't a coffee person."
"I'm not, but I recognise when I need coffee to stay awake, and with how I slept last night I'd say today qualifies," Lemon replied. "I've made you some as well if you want."
"Sure." Indigo groggily sat up and dropped off her bed. "How much did you sleep, anyway?"
"You don't wanna know," said Lemon, handing her a mug. "Careful, it's still hot."
Indigo blew on her coffee to let it cool down a little. "How come I've never seen you doing coffee before?"
"You didn't see me during exams last year." Lemon took a sip from her mug. "Then again I don't blame you. You were as caught up with those as I was. I think Sunny is the only one who wasn't on the verge of breaking down."
"She definitely takes that stuff better than the average person, but she was still working her ass off. You don't get that kind of grades by slacking." Indigo took her first sip, sitting down on Lemon's bed. "That or she was doing cocaine to keep going."
"She'd have the money for it," Lemon said. "But I doubt she'd have taken the risk at CP. If anyone was doing drugs there it should have been me."
Indigo peered over her mug at Lemon Zest. "And were you doing any?"
Lemon paused and bit her lower lip. "I could tell you that me and Vinyl have the same Molly dealer, but that would be a wild mischaracterization of what actually happened."
Indigo blinked. "What actually happened?" She took another sip of coffee.
"It's complicated." Lemon took another sip of hers. "Maybe I'll explain it to you when I have six or more hours of sleep in my system."