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// By Any Other Name 
// Story: Conversations Atop A Hill 
// by Undome Tinwe 
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"Would you still love me if I wasn't a Princess?" Flurry Heart asked her marefriend as the two of them lay on a warm meadow atop a hill at the edge of the Empire.

Cozy Glow snorted. "What, are you planning on stepping down?"

"Of course not," Flurry replied. "I'm just wondering. If I hadn't been born with wings and a horn, and my mother didn't rule the Crystal Empire, would we still be a couple? Would we both still be lying down on his meadow, a pair of happy commoners?"

"That's a dumb question." The dismissiveness of Cozy's response made Flurry smile. "Well, the second question is dumb, because the answer is no, duh."

The smile turned to a smirk. "Oh?" Flurry asked. "So you have no interest in dating a commoner?"

"Why would I ever want to do that?" Another snort from Cozy. "Well, maybe if she was, like, some super-rich CEO I guess. But then again, the oligarchs are just the modern aristocracy, right?"

"So in this world where I wasn't born into power, you'd have laughed in my face when I asked you out?" Flurry pressed, ignoring Cozy's aside.

"I didn't say that," Cozy replied. "The reason I think it's a dumb question is because you'd never have been a common pony. That's why I love you." She punctuated that statement with a boop on Flurry's nose. "Even if you weren't born the heir to a throne, you'd have found some way to gain power, to become somepony Great. By the time you asked me out, you'd have been a Queen or an Empress or The Supreme Overlord."

Flurry giggled. "I do like the sound of that." She leaned over to press a kiss against Cozy's lips.

"It wouldn't matter what world we lived in," Cozy continued as she blushed. "By the time you asked me out, I wouldn't have been able to say no."

"Because I wouldn't have let you?" Flurry asked.

"Because I could never turn down access to so much power." This time, it was Cozy who kissed her, much more passionately. "I love you, my Goddess. And I can't wait until we rule this world together."