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// Manichei e Maniaci/ Messalians and Messed Ups. 
// Story: Ab Initio-From the Start-Al Principio. 
// by Daxn 
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Time flew, as Twilight ran around chasing foals, using the playground equipment at her best and overall enjoying her time outside with her little classmates. Alas, that time had to end with the ringing sound of the bell.
        
        The two teachers immediately accompanied the foals to the exit gates, where the parents were eagerly awaiting for their offspring to come back to them and bring them home.
        
        "Bye bye, sistah Tilight," Lex Populi said, as she sped off to her mother.
        
        "Bye Lexy, see you tomorrow!" Twilight said, as she waved towards her honorary little sister, and towards the other members of her Group, who however did not answer due to their inability to see Twilight from their positions.
        
        As Twilight went on her merry way towards home, she saw a wheelchaired mare in the crowd tending her hoof towards Orvosti Ostoba, shortly followed by Nutriz. Twilight was going to ignore that sight, until…
        
        "Wait a minute," she thought "Orvosti said his mother taught him to do that. Now that Nutriz is talking with Orvosti's mother, I should get there, and see what is her justification, and give my witness if needed..."
        
        And so Twilight walked towards the two mares and the little colt.
        
        "Ma'am Arma, there is something we must discuss about your son..."
        
        "What's that? Did he try to glue one of his classmates to the wall again?" Arma Smussata said with a scornful tone, after letting out a little snort and rolling her eyes. Also, those words made Orvosti quiver a little.
        
        "Actually no," Nutriz said gravely. "Today, during Playtime, he tried to... it is difficult to say..."
        
        Lux Foal took a deep breath, and Twilight tried to guess the teacher's words by whispering them.
        
        "Constantly trying to masturbate one of the fillies."
        
        Arma Smussata's attitude changed in a whim, making her ears perk up, pupils shrink, and her whole body recoil.
        
        "Say what?" The shock could be heard from Arma's words. However, Twilight could feel it was not the kind of shock she expected to see from Arma at the news.
        
        "There is no easy way to say this... your son has tried to masturbate one of the fillies of his class," Nutriz said a bit hesitantly.
        
        "Elysium, this is... horrible!" Arma Smussata said while still recoiling and blushing a little. "Don't worry; I can assure you I will have a nice talk with him about this..."
        
        That said, Arma Smussata grabbed her son by one hoof, and dragged him away. As he was dragged away, Orvosti started to tremble and his eyes to water up.
        
        Seeing that the issue got resolved quickly, Twilight sighed and walked away towards her home.
        
        "Orvosti's mother’s behaviour was a bit strange," she whispered to herself. "Then again, I don't know the standard reaction to such news, so I guess that it was a normal reaction."
        
        Twilight idly enjoying the warm weather as she trotted down the street towards her house. Upon arriving she entered the kitchen getting quick glass of water.  As she took a glance about the room she saw a note on the table from her father stating “Be back by dinner.”
        
        After reading the note, Twilight went up the stairs to the bathroom and removed her smock and diaper.  Relieved to feel normal again, she look a out of the window, watching a nest of birds in a nearby tree, and what neighbouring ponies did in their gardens. Some minutes of watching, she came at a simple decision.

        “You know what? I think I will have a walk in the park after eating something here."
        
        Twilight went downstairs to the dining room.  Sedula had just brought in the table cloth and the cutlery. Seeing that the table was not yet made Twilight looked at her and asked.
        
        "Why are you setting the table only now, Sedula?"
        
        The gray servant mare put down the tablecloth, flattening it out before laying the dish and the cutlery in their places.
        
        "I thought that today you were eating at the Kindergarten, and since your father left, I didn't set the table. I'm sorry for that, I didn't even start to cook any food!"
        
        "It's fine Sedula," Twilight said with a sigh, "I actually wanted to go out now. I will eat outside the house. I will be back in a while."
        
        Sedula Serva, with a nod, immediately brought away the cloth, cutlery and dish. Meanwhile, Twilight went to her room to take some money from a miniature safe sitting ontop of her room's desk. That done, she set herself on the way to the nearest sandwich shop.
        
        


        
        One hour, twenty minutes and five bits later, Twilight was sitting on a bench, looking up at the sky while eating the last bite of a mushroom and feta flatbread. The sky had a few straggler clouds, but other than that, it was a perfect clear day, the kind she hadn’t been able to enjoy when her mother was—
        
        “No, Twilight,” she thought sternly, giving her head a shake, as she gulped the last bite “Stop thinking about that, you aren’t being held by your mother’s crazy delusions anymore. Just focus on the here and now and make it through the rest of your time dealing with Princess Celestia's punishment.”
        
        Sighing, she took another glance up at the clouds. The blue made her feel so at ease and calm. It reminded her of that blanky she’d had when she was a little filly. She’d loved that blanky like it was—
        
        Twilight shook her head again.
        
        "Why am I remembering about that right now? Why do I keep going back to thinking about my foalhood and its objects?"
        
        Twilight thought about it for a few minutes staring at a cloud that looked lik 
        
        "Maybe if I have a walk my mind will make it stop going back to it." She thought. "Yes, it's a good idea."  Twilight slowly rose from her bench, stirred her legs, then she made the first steps onto the nearest dirt path.
        
        Twilight walked in-between the trees orderly field at the sides of the path, around the little lakes, over the soft grass, into a little field of delicate white and violet flowers. She walked for minutes and minutes, and minutes and minutes, and every time it seemed that her mind was finally at peace, it immediately linked something around to Twilight's past, no matter how feeble the memory and the link was.
        
        "Gah!" Twilight said, shaking her head as response to yet another thought connected with her foalhood "How long have I been walking like this anyway?"
        
        Twilight immediately looked to the horizon at the districtual clocktower, and she saw it was half past four. The sight of the hour made Twilight groan. 
        
        “Ugh, I’ve been walking for two hours to no avail. Why can't I just let it go and fade away like you did for all these years?" She murmured to herself, as she turned around heading back home.

        As soon as the words had left her mouth, she heard a familiar voice from above.
        
        “Hey, Twi, what’s up?”
        
        Twilight’s head shot up, She had but a moment to see a multi-coloured blur coming straight at her before said object plowed into her sending her toppling to the ground.
        
        Twilight blinked up at the magenta eyes looking down at her. “Rainbow Dash?”
        
        “The one an’ only.” Dash smirked climbing off of her.
        
        Twilight got up and looked her pegasus friend in confusion. 

 “Dash, what are you doing here in Canterlot?” Twilight asked.
        
         “The rest of the gang asked me to come and check up on you. You know, to see if you’d recovered after your mom’s... uh...”
        
         Dash looked away, as if worried to say whatever she was trying to say.
        
        “Her psychotic attempt to make me a foal again?” Twilight deadpanned “Dash, you don't have to restrain yourself in insulting my mother. Trust me, after what she put you and the girls through you have just as much right as I do.”
        
        “Oh,” Dash still had a titubant expression.
        
        “Um, do you know what she’s been doing since she left?” Rainbow Dash asked unsurely.
        
        Twilight eyes narrowed a bit as her heart skipped a beat. “No... please tell me she has not turned everypony in Ponyville into her foals.”
        
        Dash gave a weak chuckle and shook her head. “Nah, nothing like that, though...” She paused for several long seconds hesitating to say what was to come next.
        
        “Though what?”  Twilight’s eyes could not open any wider, so she resorted to slow recoiling for express her uneasiness.
        
        Dash gulped. “Well... she’s been doing what you told her to, seeing a shrink and all, but... that’s not all she’s been doing.”
        
        “I am sure I will regret asking it,” Twilight sighed, lowering her head, “but what’s it she has been doing?”
        
        Dash scuffed a hoof against the ground. “Well... she and Pinkie have started a... well... I’m not really sure what to call it, but it’s a sorta shop where ponies who... wanna go through foalish stuff...”
        
        “Can do it.” Twilight finished, letting out an exasperated breath.
        
        “Well, at least she doesn’t think of those ponies like foals, if she’s running a business...” She continued.
        
        Dash remained silent, refusing to meet Twilight’s gaze.
        
        “Oh, sweet Celestia,” Twilight facehoofed again. “She does, doesn’t she?”
        
        Dash nodded slowly.
        
        “And... remember how Sweetie Belle enjoyed being treated like a foal?” Rainbow Dash added after few seconds of silence.
        
        “She is doing what?” At this rate, Twilight was going to flop over and hit the grass with her back.
        
        “You see, at first, Sweetie was just spending... um, Foal Time, in a room at Rarity’s. She even somehow got that snobby filly, Silver Spoon, to join her.”Dash nervously looked away and shrugged as she said this.
        
        Once those words were spoken, Twilight stopped falling backwards for jump forward.
        
         “Wait. We’re not talking about the same Silver Spoon who mercilessly teases the Crusaders for not having their Cutie Marks, are we?” Twilight asked, her curiosity and surprise now perking.
        
        Dash nodded.
        
        “It's actually the same one. Turns out she’s one of those Forever Foals, too.”
        
        Twilight's eyes widened “Please tell me that’s not the term we are using now?”
        
        Dash shrugged. “It’s what your Mom and Pinkie’s business is called.” She chuckled. “It kinda stuck as nickname for the clients...”
        
        “So, does this mean Silver Spoon and Sweetie Belle are friends now?” Twilight groaned.
        
        Dash frowned. “Um, that’s kinda hard to tell. I mean, as Silver Spoon put it, there's a truce between her and the Cutie Mark Crusaders, but they don't claim to be friends either. In fact, Rarity told me she has seen Sweetie Belle call Silver her friend only during Foal Time.”
        
        “Sure, of course." Twilight said after facehoofing.
        
        "Any other ponies I should know of acting like this now?”
        
        Dash frowned and shook her head.
        
         “Sorry, Twi. I know a few of them myself and, for their own privacy, I’m not gonna say anything.”
        
         “Fair enough,” Twilight nodded “I respect your and their wishes."
        
        “Though, after she learned about their Foal Time, Pinkie convinced Velvet to let Sweetie and Silver into Foal’s Forever coming in with a discount, and Pinkie is covering Silver’s pay.”
        
        Twilight blinked, confused.
        
         “What? I would have thought that a filly like Silver Spoon could have easily afforded to pay for herself.” Twilight exclaimed.
        
        Dash looked away.
        
        “Her parents know, but won't let her. They’ve already made it clear that, if their daughter is gonna have a weird and/or disgusting liking, that she will have to pay it for herself from her little allowance and not get it paid by them on demand.” Dash said.
        
        “I can understand,” Twilight muttered, thinking of her father’s reaction when she’d been sitting in the empty cameretta, wearing a diaper and talking to herself.
        
        “Tilight!”
        
        Both mares turned at the small voice, and Twilight saw another pony she hadn’t expected to see again so soon.
        
        “Hello Lexy,” she said, as the little pink filly pounced and hugged Twilight
        
         “I didn’t expect to see you here!”
        
        “Me neifer!” the little filly cheered, looking up at the older pony with widened eyes and a bright and wide smile “Hey, you wanna pway?!”
        
        “Twi?” Dash’s voice caused Lex to notice the cyan mare and press herself a little closer to Twilight. “Who’s this little filly?”
        
        Twilight giggled, as she waved her hoof towards her little friend.
        
        “Oh, this is Lex Populi, one of my Kindergarten's classmates, one of the first to contact me and treat me as an equal.", Twilight patted the filly's head to get her attention
        
        "Lexy, this is Rainbow Dash, one of my old friends." She said while pointing at the mare with rainbow mane.
        
        Lex looked uncertainly from Twilight to Rainbow, then loosened her grip and gave an unsure smile to the Pegasus. “Um... Hello, Miss Wainbow Dass.”
        
        “Uh, hey, kid,” Dash replied, cocking her head to the side.
        
        “Uh, Twi? How come she’s hugging you like that? Kinda reminds me of how Scoots hugs me. I mean, ya know, if we decide to get sappy, which isn’t often, ya know...” Rainbow Dash said unsurely.
        
        Twilight smiled. She knew Dash and Scootaloo weren’t those for letting others see the tender bond they shared, just playing it off as a “Heh, Yeah, we’re cool about it” kind of thing.
        
        “Well, it’s like with you and Scootaloo. Lex is like my little sister to me.”
        
        Dash’s jaw dropped. “What? But— How?”
        
        Twilight chuckled. “Like I said, it’s like you and Scootaloo. We just... kinda became like sisters to each other, really. Not that I midn it.”
        
        “Tilight’s the best big sistaw ewew!” Lex declared while bouncing on the spot, her eyes shining brightly. “She’s smawt, funny and fun ta be wit.”
        
        Dash sneered.
        
         “Okay, I get the smart part, but funny? Twilight? You sure you’re talking about the same mare, kid?” Rainbow Dash said.
        
        “She is!” Lex glared at Dash, pulling away from Twilight and facing the other mare, stomping a hoof as if about to charge.
        
        Dash held up her hooves in surrender. “Whoa, whoa. Okay, okay, she is.”
        
        Lex Populi immediately calmed down, and returned her adorant look to Twilight.
        
         Shortly after that, another distant voice called.
        
        "Lecs, vere are ioù?"
        
        Twilight immediately recognized the voice as Massarosina's, but she still could not understand her very easily. However, apparently, Lex could.
        
        "I'm hewe wit Tilight, Masawosina." The filly said while turning around to face the old mare.
        
        "Oh, see," Massarosina said from afar, before moving towards the filly.
        
        Twilight waved and grinned awkwardly at the old mare.
        
        "Who's her? And what the buck she is saying?" Rainbow Dash asked.
        
        Twilight glared at Rainbow Dash at the use of the vulgar word, before carrying on.
        
        "She is Massarosina, Lex's nanny. She just asked Lex where she was... I think." Twilight said.
        
        "You don't say?" Rainbow Dash deadpanned, while pointing at the incoming old mare.
        
        "Good daì, Twilightte Sparklè," Massarosina said "See tàt Lecs is wit ioù e an anoter marè, her namè is..."
        
        Twilight just nodded and grinned awkardly, as Rainbow Dash tilted her head.
        
         "Excuse me ma'am, but can you speak a bit better, please? I can't understand you." She said.
        
        Massarosina glared at the cyan mare.
        
        "Oimmena, ioù giovini are stupidi or deahffe? I have said how are ioù caalled." Massarosina lamented, to much of Dash's chargrin, who distorted her face even more in the attempt to understand.
        
        "What she is saying, Twilight? I just cannot understand her at all!"
        
        "I am actually unsure at this point..." Twilight murmured to Dash as she blushed a bit embarrassed in front of her inability to understand "I think she just asked if we are deaf or stupid. Then she asked about your name, but that's just my guess."
        
        Meanwhile, Massarosina was seemingly growing impatient, and Lex was looking in curiosity at Twilight and Rainbow Dash trying to decipher what Massarosina was talking about. Seeing this situation, Rainbow Dash scratched the back of her head.

        "My name is Rainbow Dash, ma'am Massarosina. I am Twilight Sparkle's friend, if you are wondering."
        
        "Rainbove Dashe?" Massarosina said.
        
        "It's 'Rainbow Dash.' R-a-i-n-b-o-w D-a-s-h."
        
        "That wat I 'ave said!" Massaroina exclaimed.
        
        Rainbow Dash shook her head, and looked at the distant clock tower. Suddenly the cyan mare's eyes widened, as she leaped foward, and started to flap her wings hard.
        
        "Sorry, I must go now, or else the train will go without me!" She said while zooming off to the horizon, and, as response, Twilight waved goodbye accompanied Lex.
        
        After doing that, both Lex Populi and Twilight turned around towards Massarosina.
        
        "Ergo, wat do ioù vant to do nov, Lecs? Vant stai con Twilaghtte?" Massarosina asked to Lex Populi.
        
        "Yes! Wanna go to wit Tiligh in to da pawk!" Lex said cheerfully with a big smile, causing Twilight to chuckle a little.
        
        "Bene, quindi we go," Massarosina said while walking down one of the paths in the park. The little filly and the purple mare followed suit, talking between each other while walking.
        
        After a rather short walk under the poplars, Massarosina, Lex and Twilight finally reached their destination, a small playground surrounded by a simple picket fence and with a twisted ropes on two doorframes as gate. As soon as this was in her sigh, Lex ran off towards the fence, leaving Massarosian and Twilight behind.
        
        Or, better yet, Massarosina was the one truly left behind, because, shortly after Lex's run, Twilight shrugged her shoulders, said "Might as well enjoy it..." and ran after Lex, thusly reaching and overtaking the filly. Once Twilight was in the playground area, she stopped and waited for Lex, who was slowing due her running.
        
        "No faiw!" She whined, as she walked towards Twilight.
        
        "Well, am I or am I not your older sister?" Twilight said with a chuckle to her honorary sister Lex, who turned her frown upside down in a whim, as she also stepped in the playground.
        
        "Do we wait for Massarosina? Or do you want to play now?" Twilight asked after few seconds of silence between Lex and her.
        
        "Let's go now!" The filly exclaimed, before rushing off to a nearby slide. Seeing this, Twilight also walked towards the slide and stood there at the base, so to keep Lex under her watch until Massarosina arrived.

Only then the old mare arrived Twilight, after seeing that Lex was not doing anything strange, and that the queque for the slide was almost non-existant; she decided to join her honorary sister in her games out of some kind of impulse Twilight had then and yet she didn't quite understand.





As Twilight came out from a nearby public restroom, she saw this going on in the playground.

"Lecs, comme on, go, mamma is vahiting for ioù!" Massarosina said to Lex, who was roosting atop of a steel octagone.

"No! I dun want to go!" Lex said.

"Ma is late! Té Sun is getting set daun, and everìonne is going 'ome!"

"Nah-ah." Lex said, while shaking her head.

"Uh... guess I will have to intervene," Twilight thought, as she walked into the playground "after all, I do not think she will listen to Massarosina."

As she thought that and walked, Massarosina tried to climb to the octagon. However, due to the old age and the bust, she fell on her back, causing Lex to blow a raspberry to the old mare and giggle shortly after.

"Lecs, if ioù go on, I give ioù tottò!" Massarosina said, as she got back on her hooves.

"Dun cawe!" Lex said, still with her tongue sticking out.

"Lex!" Twilight said sternly while trying to look in Lex's eyes "Get down now!"

The filly recoiled a little, and remained silent for few seconds, before going back to her previous stance.

"Make me!" She taunted.

Twilight complied, as she engulfed Lex in her magical aura, and, in spite of the filly's efforts to break free, effortlessly put her on the ground near a stern-looking Massarosina.

"Don't do it a next time, Lex, okay?" Twilight said to the filly.  Lex after some more wriggling around, silently nodded to Twilight.

"Good," she said. "Now I must go. See you tomorrow Lex, and goodbye Mrs. Massarosina!"

"Goodbie, Twilightte."

"Bye-bye Tilight."

And, once the salutations were done, Twilight set herself on the trip back home. 

The Sun began to set, the sky becoming a rusty red hue, thus turning the farthest trees and buildings into just the shapes of what they actually were. The few ponies still out during dusk were mostly stallions or mares going back home from work, a few joggers, and the odd-out vagrant dressed in rags and carrying a guitar around his waist. Overall, it was a relaxing and beautiful view, one that made slipping into those thoughts of the past hard for Twilight.

However, as she walked on, and those sights blended with the incoming darkness, Twilight's mind started to wander off on those mental grounds yet again, with thoughts like “Sure playing with Lex was a lot of fun. Maybe you could try to do that more often?” or “Isn't Lex the cutest little thing, just like you in your foalhood?”

“Okay,” Twilight murmured to herself, closing her eyes for a second as she walked, shaking her head once more “this is really, really confusing. Why did I started to slowly remember my Dark Ages, or, at least, pieces of it, and why is there a part of me seeing them as actually pleasurable?”

Twilight walked past a luxury apartment block neighboring her villa.

“I am thinking that my mind wasn't all that well-restored after my mother after all... it's necessary some mind cleansing from Princess Luna.” Twilight said to herself, as she reached the front gate of her house. However, before she could pull the rope of the gate's bell, a counter-thought attacked her mind.

“Don't do it! It would just worsen your relations with Lex Populi!”

Twilight, taken aback by that mental scream, recoiled slightly and murmured to herself.

“First of all, you don't have to be so loud. Second, yes it may true, but...” suddenly, Twilight was at loss of words.

“But what? I know that it may be annoying, begin constantly reminded about a period of your life you want to forget, but, if those memories happen to be happy, connected with positive things, and help you in establishing a good relationship with another pony, why ditch them all together? Sure, you got that 'pro-foal' part from a minor mental trauma, but that doesn't mean you have to completely eradicate it, if it happen to improve yourself.”

Twilight nodded at herself.

“Yes that... makes sense, actually. Maybe I should limit that part's freedom, but, otherwise, I should let it be.”

And, with her mind finally free of a dilemma, Twilight shook with her magic the rope, causing the gate's bell to ring. Shortly after, Sedual Serva came out from the house, and opened the gate.

“Welcome back, Miss Twilight,” the valet said while moving aside for let Twilight walk in “where have you been? Your father was waiting for you.”

“I have been around,” Twilight said with a shrug, before actually walking on the stone path to the house's door.

Once Twilight had stepped inside the house and had gone upstairs, she saw her father sitting on the couch reading th newspaper, and the dinner table already set with everything, bread bowl included.

“Good evening father,” Twilight said with a hint of respectfulness “had a good day in the studio?”

Night Light, with a roar that matched the one of an old and tired lion, got up from his couch and left the newspaper behind, as he went on all his fours.

“A good day overall,” he said as he reached his red padded chair by the table “got to ratify the last will of three old nobles, and had to approve a plan for renovate a piece of real estate attached to several miles of land. And you, my dear daughter?”

Twilight let out a sigh, and went to take the seat in front of her father’s while wearing a nervous grin.

“Mine was also very good, since, after a decent time at Kindergarten, I went to have lunch at Adone, enjoyed a little walk, and met one of my friends, who gave me some news about Ponyville and Velvet…”

“What?” Night Light exclaimed, his eyes widened and his fork dropped in the soup plate “Yuu have news about my wife? Tell me, I want to know for many reasons.”

Twilight blushed, chuckled awkwardly and scratched the back of her head.

“See, according to my friend’s sources, Velvet has been seeing a shrink with various degrees ofsuccess. However, she also… ummmm… started to cash on her obsession.”

Night Light recoiled with his chair and stared speechlessly at his daughter his mouth hanging open in shock.

“Ummm… should I have had to soften the blow, father?” Twilight asked with a hint of worry in her voice. As soon as she said those words, Twilight’s father shook his head violently.

“No, that can’t possibly be,” he declared “is she trying to sell ponies to other madponies with the same obsession? Oh Elysium, the consequences would be beyond ruinous!”

Twilight smiled sheepishly.

“Actually, she is just offering her services to some ponies that want to be treated as foals. You know, like Pinkie Pie.”

“That’s a different kind of wrong and ruinous!” Night Light exclaimed “How is she going to go back to normal, if she keeps doing exactly what her insanity compels her to do? It is nosensical! Also, who would take me seriously, if they knew that my wife feeds baby bottles and changes soiled diapers to fully grown adults or…” he shuddered “fillies and colts that have outgrown them?”

“Well…” Twilight said while looking around the room “if the shrink didn’t forbid it, maybe it means she can do that freely. Maybe it’s even her therapy.”

“Her therapy?” Night Light scoffed “What kind of quack would ever suggest to let a mentally ill not only do whatever they please, but also help them in doing it? And, even if this was true due to some obscure mechanism, how does that change the prestige hit I will take?”

“I think that your prestige is partially compromised anyway,” Twilight deadpanned in a moment of bravery “Since it is unlikely that nopony has noticed and talked about my presence in the Kindergarten’s class, and my diaper wearing for a week.”

“That is different, because you are my adult daughter, and your actions affect my prestige less. But Velvet is still  married with me, and, if she does something shameful, my reputation takes a worse hit.”

Twilight looked at Night Light, as she processed up what her father just said, before acknowledging it fully.

“Oh. I see. Still, it makes little sense to me.” She said a bit unsure.

“It doesn’t have to make sense to you,” Night Light said with authority and a hint of frustration “this makes sense to me and everybody else, so why ignore it?”

“Fair enough, father.” Twilight said as she took the little bell “But let’s get something to eat now, shall we?”

“Very well.”

Then Twilight shook the bell, spreading the ringing sound through the house. Shortly after, Sedula Serva came in with a bowl of steaming pasta alla Norma, put it on the table, and started to give the ration to Night Light.

In this moment of silence, Twilight tried to contemplate about how to tell his father about the rest of her day, while the delicious smell of tomato sauce, eggplant and sheep cheese tired to distract her. It was only when her food was actually in her plate that Twilight reduced her thinking efforts for eat.

In a few minutes however, Night Light’s plate was empty, and, as he cleaned up his mouth with the napkin, he asked.

“Okay, now that we have filled our stomachs, I think we can resume our discussion about my wife…”

Twilight, who was still eating a few tortiglioni, had to quickly chew and gulp them before answering.

“Didn’t I gave up?” she pointed out.

“Oh, right. Then tell me what happened after that, what you did for the rest of the afternoon…”

Twilight grinned awkwardly.

“After that, I… I…"

“Hmm?” Her father said as he sipped water.

"I played with Lex Populi. Pretty enjoyable to be honest." Twilight said  with a sigh. Night Light stopped dead in his tracks hsi drinking for stare at his daughter, and, after a few seconds, he gulped the water and said.

"Very well tehn, I guess that, until it doesn't turn into regression desires, I can let you do that... but now I'm not hungry anymore." 

After saying that, Twilight's father got up, and walked upstairs, likely to his bedroom, leaving Twilight alone with Sedula, who had jsut brought the salad in alogn with the dressings. Sihing, Twilight silently took her portion of salad, put the dresses on it, and ate it, her own chewing as only noise accompaying her mean meal.

Once Twilight was done with her dinner, she got up, letting Sedula Serva clean up the table. As Twilight walked to her room, she thought.

"Well, it seems that my father is also trying to understand all of this. Thankfully he didn't ask me about what I actually did during the morning, otherwise, this dinner might have turned really violent in a whim," Twilight said, as she wentto the bathroom to reliever herself and brush her teeth clean.

"Anyway, now it's time for me to lie down and read somethign beforesleeping and hopefully forget about what happened today..." She thought as she took a random novel from her room's bookshelves, and put herself under the covers.