"Trouble sleeping?"
Twilight didn't answer immediately, busy looking at the ceiling, but eventually she rolled onto her side and nodded. "And you?"
"Me too," Spike replied. "Do you want me to turn on the light?"
"No, no need to," Twilight said. "Unless you need it."
Spiked walked to her bed in the darkness, and pulled himself up on it. "You did well today, during the speech."
"I had to," said Twilight. "It's not like a test. You don't get to do over if you don't get it right the first time."
Spike chuckled at that. "Because you totally used to think it was okay to make mistakes in a school test and you could do it again if it didn't go well, right?"
Twilight poked him with a hoof, but she smiled. "I was getting myself in the right mindset early."
"Sure, sure." Spike turned a bit and lay back, resting on his back next to Twilight. "Are things going to be okay?"
Twilight hesitated, but her smile didn't completely falter. "I hope they will. I know they can, and that's what's important."
Spike looked at Twilight, and rolled to the side so he could do so more easily. "How is Shining doing?"
"Tired, but okay," Twilight replied. "The same for Cadence. Flurry is the only one who doesn't seem too drained by this whole thing, though Shining assures me I was like her at her age."
Spike sighed. "I miss when we could just send letters back and forth."
"Do you miss that, or do you miss being the one who got to do it?" Twilight asked, poking Spike again.
He looked to the side for a moment, which given his position meant looking at the pillow. "Both," he finally admitted. "Feeling like I'm not as useful anymore isn't nice, but I miss being able to just write to someone and have them answer back as quickly as they could."
"I miss it too," Twilight said. "We're working on trying to fix it though. We'll probably... We'll hopefully have something figured out in a few months, not as good as before but much better than what we have now." She noticed his expression, and added, "And no, you won't be as much a part of it, but it's not the end of the world is it?"
"I suppose not." Spike briefly laughed. "Everything else that's going on is already the end of the world, isn't it?" he joked.
Twilight smiled at that, though there was some worry inside her. "Maybe. But we'll make it through. We've come so far already, there's no reason to give up now."
Spike smiled back. Then he yawned. "We should sleep now."
Twilight glanced at the night sky out of her window. That thankfully hadn't changed yet, and so she could still tell what time it was by looking at it. "We should." She looked back at Spike. "Do you want to stay here?"
He considered the offer. "If it's not a bother."
"Not at all."
Slowly, the little dragon tucked himself under the sheets. "It feels weird to just sleep normally. Today was an important day and all."
"Maybe," Twilight said, closing her eyes. "But maybe every day is important. Especially nowadays. Maybe the right thing to do is just to carry on like it's any other day. Either way, you always need sleep at the end of it."