You stare at Twilight, she smirks right back.
“So... ready to do some... close... observation?” Twilight teases you, enunciating each syllable tantalizingly. She swishes her tail and saunters over to you, gently tracing your mouth with her hoof for a brief second....
Your jaw drops open, and right as you start to...
*snap* Twilight flicks your mouth shut with a click.
“Hehe! Let’s get started you silly!” Twilight happily says while picking up a journal, and flipping a few pages to her latest entry.
[BRAIN.EXE Launching... startup successful.]
You shake your head to get your thoughts together. “Uh, ok.... What... exactly are we looking for?” You say, just starting to be able to put entire sentences together.
“We’re watching the moon-rise you silly!” Twilight smiling says. “It’s going to be a full moon tonight! It’s rumored that magic tonight will be extra powerful, and that there might even be some spontaneous magic!” Twilight squeals out while she levitates a quill from an entire barrel labeled, “quills”.
“Relax!” Twilight urges you while starting to take down notes. “It’s going to be fine! What could possible go wrong?”
You nervously glance at Twilight, and mutter under your breath. “You’ve killed us all.”
“What was that?” Twilight asks, glancing up from her book.
“Um... I said, ‘You’re kinda small?’”
Twilight looks at you for a second, then glances at her hoof. “Hmm.. true. Compared to you... my body mass is significantly smaller.” Twilight flips to a new page in irritation. “But for now... let’s focus on the observation of the SKY, not me.”
You shrug your shoulders in resignation, and take a seat across from Twilight. You relax briefly, and then glance around at your surroundings.
Then you realize....This should be a surreal sight for you. You’re sitting on the balcony of Twilight Sparkle’s Library, with THE adorable Twilight Sparkle, slowly watching the stars wink into existence in Luna’s night. As incredible as that is, this circumstance pales in comparison to being hunted, teleported, assaulted, and essentially sold into stallion-slavery (or, you will be. You honestly doubt you can win this upcoming trial anyways).
You lean back, and try to relax as Twilight suggested.
You realize that... well this isn’t half bad. You think about it, and realize that Twilight is amazing, gorgeous, and you live. in a LIBRARY (Squee). Plus you are in Ponyville, and you don’t have to worry about most of your old Earth problems. Not to mention the Sky here is absolutely amazing, and there seem to be spontaneous musicals that are honestly.... quite catchy!
You sigh in contentment as you stare upward at Luna’s night.
Then you start blissfully humming, and the music grows... and grows until...
“There... out in the Darkness... I used to be running.
Flying from God... flying from life....
God be my witness, I never shall yield, or so I have said. Or so I have said.
But this place welcomes me so, and my way is long and hard.....
and those who live in this world, will have eternal joy...
Yet if I yield as a coward does yield, the shame, the pain...
So stars... in your multitudes, scarce to be counted, filling the darkness, with order and light.
You are the sentinels, silent and sure, keeping watch in the night, keeping watch in the night.
You know your place in the sky, you hold your course and your aim, and each in your season returns and is always the same, and if you fall as Luna did fall, you fall, in flames!
And so it must be! And so it is written! On my heart and my honor that, those who cower and those fall, will pay... a price...
So let me be free! That I may live, free under these stars! No matter how tempting, I will never yield! Till death! This I swear! I swear by the stars!”
You finish the song, and realize that you are now standing, hand outreached toward Luna’s arisen moon, singing the final note perched on Twilight's railing.
*Ahem* You sheepishly straighten your shirt, and jump down from the railing. Twilight grumpily stares at you.
As you slowly return to your chair, you think you hear small hooves running away from Twilight’s library. You shake your head and ignore it.
“So.” Twilight says, still clearly slightly irritated. “You are still determined to fight huh?”
You quip back at Twilight. “Live free or die hard!”
Twilight recoils from you. “What? EWWW! Gross.”
“Wait!” You try to explain. “It’s! Not like that! IT’s... Um- the... Nevermind. It’s a saying.” You mutter exasperated. “Basically, it means to fight for freedom, or die for happiness.”
…
… “That’s.... nice....” Twilight shifts her weight from hoof to hoof, avoiding eye contact...
…
“So.” You attempt to break the increasingly unbearable silence. “What was the special thing with Luna? Did it happen already?”
“Huh?” Twilight says, eyebrow raised in confusion.
You pinch your nose in frustration. “You know... the... thing. The... spontanious event we were supposed to witness?”
“Oh. Right!” Twilight says, “There were rumors of potential spontaneous magical events occurring tonight, but so far no luck...” Twilight looks up in disappointment, “Plus the peak of the magical lunar energies will be over in just a few minutes....”
Twilight scribbles down a few notes.... looks up at you... quickly scribbles some more....
You try to stifle it... but you- *YAAAAWNN*
Twilight sighs in frustration.
Twilight kicks at the floor. “Well, I guess you might as well get some sleep, sleepy-head...”
Twilight wanders inside her room, then begins looking around. She mutters to herself quietly, and you only catch a few words. “Lab... won’t wo- The kitchen isn’t- but... hmmm...”
Twilight looks around one more time in desperation, then looks at you, grimacing a little bit. *sigh* “You can use the trundle bed.” Twilight mutters out, blushing a low red.
“Awww...” You coo at Twilight, “Is this the first time a guy has been in your room?” You tease her.
Twilight doesn’t move, and her blush level goes up to a rose red.
“Wha...” You say, completely stunned. “The Twilight Sparkle, student of Celestia herself, powerful and beautiful unicorn mage... can’t get a bo...-colt friend?”
Twilight blushing bright red begins stalking quickly towards you, and pushing you up against a wall yells at you. “IT’S!!! IT’s- I didn’t have time- I was study- UGH!!!!”
[RED ALERT]
Your vision is overwhelmed by a bright flash of purple, and as your eyes roll up in the back of your head you can’t help but think...
“Sleeping next to Twilight? Nice....”
