“Spiiike. Time to get up!”
“Uh don’t wanna.”
“Rise and shine! It’s morning and it’s time to face another day!”
“Nngh, stop bein’ all cheery, Twi. You’re jus’ as tired’s I am. Uh can hear it in your voice.”
“Spike. Get up.”
“Yuh can’t make me.”
“Ugh! Fine, be that way. I’ll be downstairs when you stop being such a baby.”
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hmm
we will remember this one
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“Twilight, what is that?”
“Ish a book, Shpike.”
“Well, yeah, I can see that, but why are you carrying it in your mouth instead of your magic?”
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it is our book
stop drooling on it
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“It’s supposedly the spellbook of an ancient pegasus mage named Starshine. It was found when the books from the Castle of the Two Sisters were moved here.”
“What do you mean by ‘supposedly’?”
“The book is protected by powerful magic that prevents the reader from deciphering its contents, so we don’t actually know what it is.”
“So… it could just be an ancient shopping list that someone used to practice powerful magic on once?”
“Heh, could be. Anyway, I was asked to take a look at it. I’m familiar with a much larger variety of spells than the average mage, so my task is to try to identify what type of spells were used in the enchantment and send my findings to the Royal Canterlot Archive.”
“You’re going to try to break the enchantment yourself, aren’t you?”
“…Yes. Yes I am.”
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good
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“Awesome. If anypony can do it, you can. Hey, wait a minute, you still haven’t answered why you were holding the book in your mouth when you came in!”
“Huh? Oh, yes, right. To prepare for the analysis, I had to strip the book of all residual magic. When you do tests like this, you first have to remove every possible variable. Holding it in a levitation field right after would defeat the purpose.”
“Huh. Okay. Who’s ‘Starshine’, anyway? I don’t think I’ve ever heard you mention her before, and you ramble on about pretty much every ancient historical figure.”
“That’s because there’s almost no information on her. Previously, all that we knew about her was that she was Star Swirl the Bearded’s mother, and that’s only because of Star Swirl’s own writings. That’s why the discovery of this spellbook is so exciting! Judging from the strength of the spells protecting this book, magical might must have run in the family, so there very well might be long lost magic within these pages! Think about it! A hundred and forty-three pages worth of ancient, undiscovered writings!”
“Huh.”
“…You’re not even interested, are you? I don’t even know why you bother asking me these sort of questions in the first place if you’re not actually curious.”
“Me neither. Ha, it’s your fault, I think. I’ve lived with you for so long that you’ve taught me to question everything even though I don’t care about the answers!”
“Ha ha, Spike.”
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this will be fun