After a long morning of counting gold coins, night finally fell upon the cavern. This night, Twilight was reading a different book. I tried to go to sleep, but after the agreement I had just made with Twilight, I was....excited. In fact, almost too excited to sleep. The light of the flame on the candle glimmered brightly, even in the dark hole that was my home. The moon looked surprisingly still that night, it's light setting upon the entrance to my den. Everything was still, the only sound that could be heard was that of the occurring flip of pages being turned. Trying to occupy myself before going to sleep, my eyes darted from and to the moon, my gold hoard, and Twilight. What disturbed me the most was that my eyes crossed over to Twilight more then my hoard of gold. What it true that I was really growing soft?
"Trouble having sleep?" Twilight asked, snapping me back to reality. I just nodded. I peered over to where she was, and saw the cover of the book. "The Elements of Harmony?" I asked, reading the cover out loud. Twilight nodded in a surprised manner, and said, "You can read?" I huffed out a plume of smoke, and replied in a gruff voice, "Yeah. Just because I don't know what a book is, doesn't mean it's a priority to dragons." Twilight almost laughed at this. "Isn't reading not a part of your survival?" I grew frustrated by this, but let it pass. "What if a death threat is posted on my wall? If you can't read that, you might not be prepared for the battle."
Twilight went back to her book, saying nothing else. After another moment of darting eyes, I peered over Twilight's shoulder...and began to read. It was very interesting, old writing covered the slim pages, and it told the story of Nightmare Moon, a pony who probably needed a breath-mint after a few thousand years on the moon. The most interesting part of it was the suppoused magical weapons that helped defeat the pony of the moon. Twilight and I read for hours, flipping one page after another.
Soon tiredness hit me like a freight train. I knew it would be the best idea to get some sleep to be prepared for tomorrow. So I let sleep envelop me and reality drift away.
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Morning came, and after a few moments permitted to get ready, I shook myself of sleep. Twilight's horn was enveloped in a purple mist, and soon, the rest of her too. I watched intently as the purple unicorn turned herself into a small dragon with bright purple eyes. I was not amazed by this magical feat, I had seen it before with other species. "Can you fly?" I asked, losing my patience. "Yeah, back in my home, I'm kind of a princess." This didn't change anything between us, this only made me think even lower of her. "Let's just go already." I growled. To my suprise, Twilight- I mean, Princess Twilight wasn't angry, in fact she almost smiled. I was losing my patience, so before I could say anything more, I forced myself to open my wings, signaling Twilight to do the same.
Only after a few moments in the air, the air currents propelled us forward. We didn't talk the whole way, I didn't ask Twilight about her book, and she didn't ask me about the Migration Gathering. I led Twilight throughout the rough terrain of the mountains, some dragon dens, and the occasional land squid. (Don't Ask.) About twenty minuets later, the shadow of a volcano loomed over them, reaching towards the sky.
"We're here."