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// Egrote by Knight of Lycaeus 
// Story: Magic of Love: A Twidance Prompt Collab 
// by ArguingPizza 
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by Knight of Lycaeus
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Princess Twilight Sparkle, newest Princess of the ruling Trirachy of Equestria was lost. She would not call it lost, just a misstep…. by about several hundred meters. She had been requested to visit the Crystal Empire, although she would claim that summoned was a more apt term. Apparently Cadance had not been seen or really heard from by anypony all day. So here she was well lost as she finally conceded the matter. The Crystal Palace was much different than the Canterlot Palace she grew up in, each new hallway seemed to be more entranceways into a deeper and deeper labyrinth of polished surfaces, mirrors, and crystal.

At last she found her destination, a set of sturdy, wooden double doors marked with Cadance’s Cutie Mark. Knocking yielded no reply and so she gently pushed the doors to find.... Cadance seated at a table.

“Hello, Twilight.” smiling at the lavender alicorn.

Twilight let up the breath she had unintentionally been holding, relaxing now that she found her marefriend and her room.“Cadance, you’re alright.”

“Of course I am.”, was the calm reply.

Confused at the response Twilight asked, “Then why hasn’t anypony seen or heard from you all day? All I had was a scroll this morning marked with Crystal Empire’s crest and the note with a simple statement that you were ill.”

Cadance blushed, “Ah, I told everypony I was ill to get the day off.”

Twilight stunned at what she heard, “Illness? You claim to be ill just for a day off?”

“Under the weather would be a better term.”

“Still, you do know that this is fib that wouldn’t have worked in Canterlot. Especially with all the Royal Physicians; alicorns are hardier than most and own own healing and immune systems means we get ill rarely.” Twilight’s voice began to climb in volume, increasingly annoyed at her marefriend pushing her duties off by claiming to be “under the weather”.

Her rant was cut off by a warm wing wrapped around her and a soft kiss to her lips, “Okay maybe calling in as a bit ill was not the best idea. But alicorns are ponies too, you know this you’ve grown up near two and you’re one yourself. We need some time off from the stress besides the invite was for you to spend the day with me. I have your favourite game.”

Twilight blinked her eyes snapping out of her daze, “Favourite game…. Oh! That game. It’s not my favourite so much as it is your’s. Brother should have never introduced you to Oubliettes & Ogres.” Who would have suspected that the Alicorn and Princess of Love, Music, and Crystal was a huge fan of the board game.

Cadance brought down her game pieces and paper, “So shall we play, I claim the Bard.”