The next morning, Lyra was guided by the Royal Guard to Queen Asa’s room with some of her supplies in a white saddlebag with her cutiemark for the clasp. During the trot, Lyra kept pinching herself to make sure she wasn’t dreaming. She was going to speak with the human about the human’s world. Sure, the Queen knew little to nothing about the place but it was still amazing.
Stepping up to the door leading to Asa’s room, the Solar Guards pushed the door open. Asa was already waiting for them on the inside.
“Come in, I don’t have all day.” Asa laughed happily. The unicorn rushed in to see the Queen’s Room.
It was about half the size of the throne room. The walls were already decorated with multiple dressers, each filled with various objects. One even had a bust of Asa’s head where her crown sat, waiting. Asa was currently sitting at her desk, designed for her, working on some Royal Matters that she now had responsibility for.
“Come on Ms. Heartstrings, take a seat.” Asa gestured to a chair designed for a pony.
The green unicorn nodded, but sat in the chair in a way similar to Asa’s.
“So tell me Ms. Heartstrings, or Lyra of you prefer, what are humans like?” Asa asked.
Lyra smiled, time to get started. “Lyra is fine your majesty.” Lyra pulled up her bag, showing off the big book inside it. “This is just about everything I have on them. A lot is just theories about them but it’s still something, right?”
The Queen nodded. “Of course. I’m happy just knowing what I’m called.”
This was true, once Lyra was taken care of the day before Asa told the guards to send everypony home. The Queen then went to Celestia and Luna, explaining that Lyra had told her what she was.
Her sisters seemed happy, but seemed skeptical about if Lyra was telling the truth. Today was going to help Asa prove that Lyra was.
Gripping the book in her hands, Asa waited a moment. Did she really want to find out about her race? What if they found out about her and wanted her back? What if they were violent? What if they were extinct?!
Taking a deep breath, Asa opened the book.
“Is it okay your majesty, if I ask you a few questions?” Lyra asked.
Asa was reading an entry on the structure of humans, she nodded.
“Thanks.” Lyra pulled out a notebook with her magic, scribbling something down with a pencil. “What’s it like having fingers?” Lyra asked.
Asa held up one hand, “it makes it easier to grip onto things. A turn a page in a book.” To clarify, Asa used the tip of her finger to turn the page with ease.
The Human Loving Pony smiled. “You didn’t even use magic, awesome!” Lyra scribbled some more into the notebook.
“I know, it just seems easier to use my fingers. Magic I usually save for getting something from across the room.” To show off again, Asa reached out towards her crown. It was wrapped in a prismatic glow before rising off the bust and flying over to Asa’s head. Gently dropping on it. “Makes it easier to get ready during the mornings.” She laughed.
More scribbles. “I didn’t know humans had magic!”
“Well, if they don’t I do. I can do other stuff too but that’s a little harder to-” Almost like it was planned, Asa’s midnight blue eyes fogged over.
The musician looked up from the notes and noticed the Queen with the strange gray layer over her dark eyes. Lyra at first waved a pencil over the Queen’s face. Before she called the guards Asa moved.
“-call on. But seeing as how I just had a vision you can write that down.”
“What was that your Majesty?” Lyra asked, in awe.
“It was a vision Lyra. It’s why I’m Queen of Visions. It wasn’t just so I could have a cool title after Queen.” The two laughed. “I recommend you placing these back into your bag and placing the bag in that dresser against the wall. Sometime in the next two minutes.”
Not needing to be told twice, Lyra gripped the Human Book and Notebook. Placed both in the white saddlebag and ran over to the dresser. She quickly opened it, threw the bag in and ran back to her seat.
“Just another minute. You might wanna duck.” Asa warned before hiding under her desk.
“Shouldn’t we call the guards?” Lyra asked.
“No.”
Confused, Lyra hid behind one of the dark blue curtains in Asa’s room.
It was quiet for a moment.
“Should be right about-” Asa started.
Then before either could move, a knock came at the door.
Giving it another second, they heard some noises coming from the other side and a large crash. Soon after, the door was shoved open and the ‘guest’ trotted in.
Wouldn’t ya know? It was Blueblood.
The Royal Pain heard about Asa letting Lyra into her room for a private discussion. He heard that Lyra was an sort of expert on the myth known as ‘humans’. He wasn’t overly happy about it.
“Where are you? Where are you, you beast!” He yelled.
Taking a moment, Asa slowly stood up from under the desk. “Nephew! What are you doing in here?” Asa asked kindly.
He stared his blue eyes at her. “You know exactly what I am doing here! You’re letting some random pony into the palace for a private meeting!”
Asa’s eyes widened. “I did? Well this is news to me.” She rested her hand on her chin.
“Don’t mess with me!” Blueblood yelled. Asa gasped.
“I would never dream of it!” She walked over to the curtain Lyra was hiding behind. “Besides, if I wanted to mess with you I would’ve made you think you never had a Royal Title.” The Queen grew a large smile. “Now that would be funny.”
Letting out a breath of relief, Asa removed the curtain. Showing off Lyra.
“Why did you do that? It seemed like he was only going to yell at us.” Lyra asked Queen Asa.
“Because, he was going to order your arrest. Then we were going to spend four hours trying to get you out and then you were going to go home. A day wasted.”
“You got all of that in less than a minute?” Lyra asked.
“To me, visions are hours long. That one was at least two for me. They’re always fast paced so I get the important bits.” Asa explained. “You should write that down.”
The unicorn nodded, rushing over to the same dresser she dropped off her saddlebag.
To think, it wasn’t even lunchtime yet.
Discord floated around the garden, looking to see if anypony was there and... to see if Asa was there.
After the party, he couldn’t help but feel kinda close to Asa. Something was burning in the back of his mind, and after pulling it out of his head to make sure it wasn’t on fire Discord wanted to figure out where he had heard of Asa before.
Celestia had told him that Asa had lost three thousand years because of his attack on the palace all those years ago, but how?
It almost kinda hurt. You know, because Discord was using logic to try and figure something out. He usually just didn’t care.
It didn’t matter. He had to figure it out or the burning sensation would stay.
Three thousand years, Queen Faust was still alive. Then they fought. Faust was gone, then he went to the palace and attacked.
Then Discord remembered something from the fight...
“We won’t let you continue.” The dark blue alicorn stallion had told him
“Ha! You ponies think you can beat me? With what, your precious Harmony and Friendship?”
The mare alicorn glared at Discord. “Yes. We refuse to let your chaos cause any more trouble.”
“And if you can’t?”
“Then our daughters will continue our fight!” The stallion yelled.
“You mean those two little brats?” Discord asked them as he prepared his chaos magic.
“Three, we have three children. Any we shall not rest until thou hast stopped causing harm to Equestria!”
Three. Three foals. It clicked for the draconequus.
Asa was the third. He had killed her parents.
Discord would’ve killed her too.
‘Oh yeah. It would be bad if she found that out.’
Elsewhere
Blood Dawn had just had a vision. It was one she was going to have so much fun with during her revenge. It showed a certain draconequus, he was floating around the palace halls. It also showed him killing Queen Faust and King Galaxy.
Her sisters dare let that monster roam free! Why hadn’t they done something to keep him from breathing! Moving! Thinking!
Now, Blood Dawn wasn’t just going to hurt her sisters from the painful memories but she was going to kill the draconequus for his crimes.
He would pay.