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// Telescope - Fuzzyfurvert 
// Story: Dark Paradise: the TwiLuna Group Collab 
// by Habanc 
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Written by: Fuzzyfurvert



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Luna rummaged through her toolbox until she found a suitably clean softcloth and plucked it out with her magic.  She grunted as she wriggled on her back to get under the massive telescope optical tube where she could reach the access hatch.  The hatch creaked loudly in the chill air of the Ultra High Altitude Geo Stable Observatory Cloud when she released the latch.  Luna used the light from her horn to guide her to the secondary mirror and began to wipe it down gently.

“How’s it coming with the secondary mirror?”  Twilight’s voice rang loudly through the giant metal tube Luna’s head was currently stuck inside.

“I’m wiping it down now, Twilight.”  Luna shook her head and started to fish around with her hoof blindly, searching for the polish jar.

“Did you remember to give it a dry wipe before using the polish?”  Luna grit her teeth at the enhanced volume of Twilight’s voice coming up the telescope’s frame from the floor some twenty hoofspans below.

“Twilight, I may be a princess who is usually attended to by numerous guards and servants and one overzealous librarian, but I am the world’s foremost experienced astrologer!  I know how to care for a telescope, no matter how big it may be.”  She huffed and smirked as her hoof found the jar of polish.  Luna pulled it in and applied a small dab to the corner of her softcloth before she started over the surface of the mirror in tight circular motions.

“I know, I’m just anxious!”  Twilight’s voice got a little softer.  “It’s just that I went through a lot of crap to get Archimedes Twelve built and installed here.  This is it’s first scheduled clean up.  What if we find a flaw in the mirrors or lenses?”
Luna smirked at the Telescope’s name.  Giving everything a name was a decidedly odd custom of the modern times she’d found herself in lately.  “If there were any flaws, we would have caught them by now.  Your precious telescope is as perfect as it’s designer.”

Twilight was silent for a long time.  Luna was just finishing up her second coat of polish when she felt a tug on her leg and heard Twilight’s voice come from just outside the tube.  “Hurry up Luna.  I want it to be ready for tonight’s viewing and there is still something we need to do before that.”

Luna shimmied out from under the telescope, slapping the hatch closed as she moved.  “What else do we nee-!”

Luna blinked as Twilight scooped her up in her magenta aura and pulled her into a quick kiss.  Her love blushed as Luna temporarily lost power to her frontal cortex.  “Um...there’s something else that needs your expert touch… in our bunk… yeah, that’s the ticket.”