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// Love is not a toy (3) 
// Story: Cadence Goes Trolling 
// by Flames173 
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Cadence waited for Shining Armor to leave for the garrisons and start commanding the royal guard before she woke up.
"Man, whatever she did last night must have been pretty tiring." Cadence heard her lover say before he left the room.
When the door clicked shut, she got up, opened the window, and looked down at her kingdom. Some ponies were going to start the work day, others took their foals to school, the rest just hung around the cafe and grocery store. Cadence picked one Stallion in particular to watch. He didn't converse with the crystal ponies much, so she just assumed this, but he appeared to be a strong, smart, popular stallion that all the mares wanted. So, he would make a perfect target to troll. She used the same spell on him that she used on Discord the other day. There were four mares with him, obviously love struck and single. Her spell struck him, he was enveloped in blue light, the mares looked away as if it was blinding them. After a few seconds, the light vanished. In place of the stallion was a thin, scrawny, nerdy stallion. The mares stared at him in disgust then walked away. Cadence could see them conversing. Every once in a while, one would look back, as if they couldn't believe what happened. Cadence heard some hoof steps coming down the hall to her room.
Fuck. She thought simply, she hurried back to her bed, it was probably Shining coming to see what the blast of magic did. Maybe she could make it back to her bed in time and make a big show about just waking up. Her back hoof hit the nightstand, and the lamp fell off. She tried to catch it, time seemed to slow down. The lamp slowly inched down the length of the small shelf, her hoof sliding through the air in an effort to catch it. She stopped the lamp just in time to stop it from smashing, and she quickly put it back and hopped into bed. Cadence messed up her hair somewhat, as if she hadn't waken up and fixed it. She threw the blanket half on her. She thought of every little detail except one, she left the window open. Literally right after she shut her eyes, the door opened.
A white stallion poked his head in the room and looked around.
"Psst, Cadence, are you awake?" Steel Blade whispered.
Cadence opened one eye a sliver to see who it was, she waited for him to leave.
"Cadence, are you ok? I saw some stray bolt of magic go in here." he said quietly. He inched closer.
Just, leave, please. She mentally begged.
Steel reached out a hoof, then retracted just before he touched her. He doesn't understand wings, and that's about all he can touch of her, the pink feathers covering the mare's body. He decided it would be ok, he did have a reason after all. He gently peeled back the wing and gripped the pink alicorn's hoof. He checked her pulse. It was normal.  Steel looked around for anything out of place. He wandered over to the window and looked out, nothing out of place. He shut the window and walked back over to the 'sleeping' princess. He listened to her breathing. Cadence, being a little smarter than Steel, rolled over, so Steel couldn't see her breathing wasn't slowed down. Steel decided that she was alive and well, so he left the room and went off to do whatever he was supposed to do next.
Cadence waited a few seconds, then she slowly lifted her head up and checked the room to see if anyone else came in. She was alone as far as she could tell, so she slowly got out of her bed and went back to her window. She opened it and stared down at the city below. The stallion was sitting at the cafe now, face down on the table. One of the mares was watching him from a distance. Cadence felt pity for him, so she undid her spell. The mare called out to her friends and they all went back up to him and resumed conversation, as if nothing happened. Cadence was disgusted by the mares' actions.
"Love is not a toy, I will make you understand that." She said to herself