I stand before the Princess of the Sun. My average sized body trembled from horn to tail. I make vain attempts to ignore this shaking in the hopes it would simply go away. I must be a sight of some humor here; barely able to stand due to my nerves of glass, a bandage over my nose made it difficult to speak and forced me breath through my mouth, my glasses had a large crack in the right lens. It has been exactly one hour and four minutes since my nose was injured, Luna was doing paperwork and Celestia had requested to meet me. I wonder if Celestia already knows that my new boss nearly broke my nose.
One of the guards that regularly looked after Celestia led me to her. She had a nice 'throne' room; I wouldn't quite say throne, maybe atrium. The room was very.... in lack of a better word: large. This next bit may sound at tad odd coming from a shy pony like myself, but I adore dancing and opera. I've been ballroom dancing since I was able to walk and performing Opera for just as long, possibly longer! Anyhow, the reason I bring that up is: at the last Grand Galloping Gala they used a different section The acoustics in that area were dreadful, not good for music, singing, etc. Anyhow, Celestia's throne room was honestly a large waste of space. Aside from some large golden sculptures and paintings the room was very. very, empty. Without these miscellaneous sculptures and paintings the room would simply be a large rectangular room with a fancy chair.
I approached Celestia like a very scared pony approaching a dangerous tiger. I walked slowly and with much caution; it seemed as if I expected the Princess to pounce on me with a knife. She smiled at me the entire walk up to the throne.
"You must be Star Dasher. Your file did say 'shy'." She says with a grin. "Princess Luna bragged about her supposed 'perfect assistant'. She was impressed with your files and the complements of your previous employers." She extends a hoof.
At first I was tempted to simply shake her hoof then I thought. This is a Princess, I should treat her like one. I take her hoof with mine and bend down to lightly kiss it. Then I let her hoof go and returned to an attention stance. Princess Celestia looked at me with a quizzical gaze. "A simple hoof shake would have sufficed, but I'm quite flattered."
My face's temperature jumps ten degrees. "Oh....ummmm....." I begin to try and form words nervously.
"Do not worry, Star Dasher. Sometimes a princess likes to be flirted with." Celestia says with a laugh. "Keep that up and I might fight with Luna over you." She says with a wink.
ummmm.....what?
The wink gave me pauses. Was she serious or just kidding? I was never one for jokes and sarcasm. I usually have trouble telling the difference between sarcasm and truth unless it's very obvious.
I laugh nervously as I try to use mental tricks to fool my mind back into a calm state. "Princess-"
"Please just call me 'Tia or Celestia. You have permission to drop the formalities." She says with a kind smile.
"Alright." I say resuming the sentence I had begun to construct. "'Tia, why did you call me here? Is this simply a friendly inquiry?"
"You could say it is a meet and greet." 'Tia says as a paper appears in mid air and unrolls for her to view. "Ah, Twilight wrote me a letter. We can pick up this meet and greet at another time" Celestia looks to a guard at her right. "Take the dashing Mr. Dasher to his bedroom." she says with another curiously made wink to me.
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The room I was to live in while working with Princess was exactly below her bedroom. When I was left at the room I found my suitcases waiting for me on a large fancy bed. It was purple and royal blue, it would appear as if Luna picked out the colors for my room. The curtains and wall paper were a matching shade of dark purple, the bed was blue and purple as I said with the same striped pillows that Luna has. There was even a large flag version of her cutie-mark above the head board of the bed. I did quite like Luna mark, it made for a good decoration. I love the night anyhow, I always been fascinated with the many worlds and stars above my head each night ever since I was very young. I had decided that I wouldn't mess around with the decor all that much. I might put a few pictures of family and friends or maybe some art work but that would be the extent of my changes.
For now, I would simply unpack and rest. There were many empty book shelves and dressers lining the walls. I didn't bring many things, I figured that for the must month or two my time here would be a trial run. When Luna hired me she seemed to be looking for an assistant who would work for a long time with her. She seemed to be searching for somepony who is willing to assume a life long position at her side. For now I can't say I want to do that, but I suppose a month of two should assist me in deciding if I want that or not. if all goes well I'll sell my home and move in, probably within nine to ten months. If all doesn't go well... I'm out of a job and must once again look for work. Well those are future plans, for now I should just rest and think about the present.