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A loud crack rang throughout the room, the powerful storm outside was reaching its peak; the winds howled and rattled the windows. Two ponies were lying next to each other by a warm fire or rather they were until one pony had jumped during the last strike of thunder.
“Twilight are you okay?” asked Cadence, wrapping one wing around her companion.
“Y-yeah, fine. Just a bit on edge.” answered Twilight.
“I thought you got over your fear of storms years ago.”
“I did. Well I thought I did but I've been working with Luna a bit lately and well” she trailed off.
“Well?”
Twilight sighed, “It’s her whole dramatic thunder and lightening, she’s toned it down a lot but she still tends to do that from time to time and when she does it just makes me a bit jumpy.”
Cadence hugged her tightly, “I think it’s a bit more than a little jumpy.”
Twilight just huffed, “I guess.”
Cadence was reminded by how this scene was like what had happened years ago when she foalsat Twilight. All those times that Twilight was afraid of the storm, at this point she came up with an idea of how to calm the pony next to her. “It’s been years but maybe we could do what we used to when a storm came?”
“A story?”
“Sure, perhaps this one”, lighting her horn she brought down a well worn book from the nearby shelf, “So how about it?”
Twilight seemed a bit reluctant but then she just nodded and leaned herself in more waiting to hear the story come to life.