After making the discovery of the existence of two different books with the same title, and after exiting form the Library, Twilight's day passed without anything truly notable happening, since she had enclosed herself in her family's library for look at the books that Twilight thought more likely to contain quotes and fragments from the banned version of the "De Pederastia," from old yearly reports to fiction novels, passing through literal essays, for comparison purposes. However, despite this research, Twilight found nothing truly noteworthy.
When Twilight had raised her head from the old book detailing every book ever banned and legalized during all Equestria's history from the creation of the Index to fifty years before Twilight's birth, she saw that the Sun was begin set.
"Wow, I really got carried away!" Twilight commented, as she got up from the armchair and went out of the family's library "Sure, didn't find much about it, but, hey, after all, I was looking for a banned book in a list that is older than me, it's not like I could find the current coordinates."
That said, Twilight made a quick trip to the bathroom, before going for the dining room, where she saw Sedula Serva settin up the table.
"Hello Sedula." Twilight said, as she went towards one of the yellow sofas of the living-dinign room.
"Good evening, Miss Twilight." The older mare said, as she put the blue plates for Twilight and her father down "Went anywhere interesting this evening?"
"No, Sedula, I didn't," Twilight said while sitting down, and watching the various paintings hanging on the walls "just went to the Royal Library for my research."
"I thought that your studying duties were suspended." Sedula said while putting down the cutlery with ivory handles and some carvings "But, the more you know..."
Twilight let out a little groan at Sedula's comment, before starting focus on her current work of table-setting before her father's arrival at home.
Sedula had just put the stem glasses on the respective places, when a strong door slam signaled the return of Night Light at home. Suddenly, Sedula's actions stopped begin slow and relaxed and became hasted and fast, as she almost threw the small white jugs of oil and vinegar, the bronze salt dispenser and the intricately-decorated silver pepper grinder; and, when she was done with that she ran into the kitchen for quickly put the oil-covered pans onto the stove, and broke a couple of eggs for the omlet.
Seeing that Sedula had went in a hurry for his father's arrival, Twilight got up and camly went to her red padded chair at her usual table spot. As soon as Twilight's butt was on the chair, Night Light managed to get in the dining room.
"Good evening daughter," he said while dropping his coat and a notary deeds collection on the floor "did you do something during this afternoon?"
Twilight groaned a little offended at his father's comment, before actually replying.
"Good day father. Yes, I actually did something this evening," Twilight said "specifically, I went to the Royal Library for dispel my doubts about what's actually written in the 'De Pederastia.' I actually found out it was better than I thought."
Night Light stared in her daughter in the eyes, his face frowning and the rest of his face's muscles moving for express disappointment.
Twilight quickly picked up the meaning of that, and said annoyed.
"What's the deal? Would you have preferred me saying that having sexual relations with foals was better than consensual Age Play between adults?"
Night Light groaned, as he sat down and looked at Twilight in the eyes.
"And how does that relate to that book?"
Twilight facehoofed with both of her hooves.
"Since the book I've found today had the same title of another old book that was banned, I was convinced that the former was the same thing as the latter. Turns out, the banned one is the oldest, and the newer one is widespread and, naturally, not prohibited."
"I still don't get how that is connected with having sex with foals," Night Light said while filling his glass with the wine brought on the table by a rushing Sedula "please explain."
Twilight groaned loudly and rolled her eyes.
"Maybe that the older book was about poulastry and poulphilia and was prohibited for that, while the newer one is not about that, but about a certain aspect of Infantilism and Age Play revolving around domination of he sexual partner. In short, one is a fetish and one is a mental sickness."
"I guess," Night Light said, sipping his wine and letting Sedula serve his omelette in the plate "But that doesn't answer to my question of wheter you looked for it because you wanted to step up your liking of infantile things or what."
Twilight took a deep breath, before starting her narration.
"No, father, I did not look for it because I wanted to 'step up' my vague appreciation of foalish matters. Rather, I wanted to know why you were unfazed by my negation of poulphilia and more concerned with my possible interest in Age Play, and how my Kindergarten's teachers could talk about a book that has been on the Index for a long time."
As Night Light calmly cut a piece of his omelette, he interrupted his daughter.
"Since you were a librarian, I thought you were aware of its existence and topic. But I guess that all this acting like a foal has molded up your memory a bit," Twilight cringed at her father's comment on her memory "see, the 'De Rerum Pederastia' has been in the list of the best-sellers for a while now. The reasons elude me, somebody says it's because Princess Celestia declared it to be her monthly book choice, some say it's thanks to the title, but, whatever is the case, it has been popular. My secretaries used to whispered about it from time to time, and I even got a client that insisted in making me borrow a copy of it, despite my refusal to read it or make it fall in Velvet's unstable hooves."
"Uhu, interesting." Twilight stated, after she had listened to his father about the book "It seems that I should restock my library back in Ponyville more often."
"I guess." Night Light said, as he went back to eating.
Twilight, now finally noticing the egg in her plate, also started to eat. Not that she stopped er from talking in the pauses between a morsel and another.
"So, anyway, since I was convinced it was the book I remembered to be, I was left a bit confused. The fact that, during lunch, you said that you weren't talking about the possibility of me begin sexually attracted by foals after I mentioned the book also made me arch my eyebrows a bit. So, once I finished my lunch, I simply took my Library Card and went to the Royal Library, and went to check what the book was actually about, and, well, the rest is history."
"Oh," Night Light said, as he cleaned up his face and took a pice of bread for clean up his plate "thought it was way smuttier."
"It was not smutty in any sense of the word," Twilight said as she took some salad, and ate it silently.
Later on the same night, Twilight had fallen asleep in a quick manner in her bed.
And, when Twilight opened up her eyes, darkness was all she could see around her. However, from the darkness, Twilight could hear the squeaking of a chair and the sound of whispered gibberish in the distance.
"Where am I?" Twilight asked to herself, as she got up, and walked straight forward into the darkness "I don't think that I will have answers if I stay here, that's for sure."
As she walked forward, a dim light started to shine around Twilight, showing that she was walking on a black-and-white checkered floor and that she was going towards what it looked like a simple wooden arch.
"Uhu, where those lights are coming from?" she commented while turning her head towards the supposed sources of light, only to find nothing that could actually emanate light. And yet the light was there and, in fact, for each step that Twilight took, the light got stronger and stronger, until it was just a little bit brighter than actual daylight.
"And the light increases its intensity too!" Twilight said, before noticing that she was standing just in front of the arch, which was bringing a seemingly white empty space into view.
"Well, I think that I will have to go that way," she thought, as turned her head around to see the darkness enveloping the alley she had just walked down "I don't think that I can go back from where I started anyway."
"Let's go." she said, as she put an hoof forwards in the room.
All of sudden, the room changed completely.
The white floor was replaced by a greenish dirty ceramic floor, the walls became light gray, the ceiling became the usual broken polystyrene typical of run-down offices, and the light was provided by a wooden ceiling fan-lamp. On one side of the room, there was a younger Twilight, likely not older than four, sitting on an examination bed and keeping in her hooves a brown envelope closed with a light green lace tied up on a steel ring.
"I-it's me there?" Twilight asked to herself, still standing under the arch "No way."
All of sudden, filly Twilight rose her head, saw her adult self, and smiled at her.
"Hello, Big Twilight. What'ca doing?"
Twilight looked at her younger self surprised and wondering.
"H-how do you know me?"
"Dunno," filly Twilight answered "I just know it."
"That makes sense," Twilight thought "I mean, she could ask me the same question... also, I wonder what she is doing here. Maybe I can ask her..."
And with that decided, Twilight walked towards her younger self, put herself to face level with the filly, then asked in a calm tone.
"So, Twily, my dear, what are you doing?"
Filly Twilight's eyes shone and her smile stretched as much as it could on her innocence-filled face.
"I'm waiting for mommy to come to pick me up."
"Oh, okay, makes sense." Twilight said "But what were you doing previously? You know, before you come here to wait for be picked up by your mother?"
"A nice stallion asked me to lay down on a bed and put some kind of heavy apron over my waist, saying that he was going to pictures of my body while I was hugging with a colt."
Twilight looked confused at her filly self, before slowly realizing what the filly's words were implying, and start to sweea a little.
"Care to give me the pictures?"
"Of course!" The filly said as she handed over the envelope.
Twilight took the envelope in her magic, and carefully undid the lace's node for open it up. After doing that, Twilight carefully slide the contents on the floor, only to reveal some X-ray sheets.
"Mmm... X-ray shhets. Makes sense. But what are they showing?" Twilight murmured to herself, while the filly watched without saying a word "There is only a way to find out, and that is find a decent light..."
That begin said, Twilight turned her head around and saw a wall lightboard and a table made of fòrmica just behind her.
"Uhu... it wasn't there before, but whatever." she said, as she went there with the then-unreadable sheets, took one of them and put the rest on the table. She put the aforementioned sheet udner the grib of the luminous board and finally gave it a good look.
Twilight noticed the appearance of two images in the same sheet and a label over them.
" 'Pre-excited Stage?' " Twilight murmured to herself, as she saw that the sheet actually contained two X-rays, specifically, the low-frencency radiography of a colt's pelvis and the coleography of a filly.
"What?" Twilight murmured to herself "What does 'pre-excited stage' even means? And why those two foals got their pelvises X-ray like this for multiple times? Seems wasteful and dangerous... "
Then Twilight took the second sheet.
"Then again, maybe the next sheets will show me the reason for these."
That said, she pinned the second sheet on the board. What she saw made her regret that instantly.
"Is he... in her... no, please, no, not even in my dreams!" She shouted, as she jumped and looked away from the sheet. "Why? Why?!"
The room and everything in it, filly Twilight included, started to disassemble and recompose itself in a radiology room, where filly Twilight and a gray colt did the deed on the bed while the X-ray machine clicked on the side of the bed.
The sight made Twilight desire to puke an run away, but said desire became near to be set in action, as a robotic and far away voice asked "Please, proceed to show oral intercourse."
The colt deattahed himself form the filly with a satisfied groan, whiel the filly kept moaning of pleasure for a bit.
Twilight averted her eyes, her face green and her cheecks puffed out, trying to get out of her sight the chilling and mean display of madness.
"Please, make it stop!" Twilight pleaded to whatever entity was merely watching that scene unfold.
As soon as Twilight said those words, there was a joyous tang coming from above Twilight, followed by an echoing shout.
"Vade retro, incubum!"
Surprised by the development of the events, Twilight turned her head around, and saw Princess Luna blasting away with ease the two lustful foals and all the equipment around them.
"Princess Luna?" Twilight whispered to herself, while she cancelled the nightmare's setting away for make room for the Dreamscape's wonderful sight.
"Yes, Crepuscoli Scintilla, We are in your dreams once more!" She declared with her stentorian voice "Your troubled sleep was as luminous as a fixed star in Our sight, bringing us to intervene."
Twilight got up on her fours only to bow at the Princess.
"Thank you very much, Princess Luna."
"That is is no concern. However, this time We do not understand what is the deep cause of your suffering, of what brought you to dream two little children fornicating. We feel a sense of guilt, a sense disgust towards happenings of the days past, a primal and irrational fear of violation. So, for help Us in understand your pain, we need you to reveal what is sickening you during this time."
Twilight took a deep breath, before starting to explain Orvosti Ostba's entire story, how he told Twilight about getting punished at home failing in doing his task and how everybody reacted.
At the end of the tale, Princess Luna's face was wearing a frown of bewilderment.
"Sexual attraction towards foals is still an accepted practice? It surprises Us how the world changed little, since We were imprisoned in Our celestial body."
Twilight blushed, at the thought of contradict Luna.
"Actually... it is not, Excellence. It has not been so for around a century, and it is one of the highest crimes that a pony can commit."
"It has been so for such a little time? This is a most interesting thing to behold. " Princess Luna said while she looked with widened eyes at Twilight for a few moments, before recomposing her demeanor. "But do not let Us not wander off the topic at hoof. If We understood all correctly, and forgive Us if we do not, your issue is with this young companion of yours, that is begin compelled to edify you upon the various lewd uses of a diaper?"
Twilight nodded with a lowered head and a slightly red face. At the sight of the nod, Princess Luna quickly stated.
"We feel that the solution for your intricate case lies upon heartening you that you are not directly responsible for the actions of that colt's mother, for you did not wish him to be instructed about indecent acts and be chastised for his failure to transmit his acquired knowledge to you. However, if you wish, We can bring you into the dreams of the colt, so that you may see what is truly happening to him, and thusly put your soul at peace."
Twilight's heart felt a little lighter and smiled as she thought.
"Visit Orvosti's dreams? That's a good idea. It would prove or disprove Luna's words about all of this not begin my fault after all, it would give me further clues about the truth of this issue, and it would allow me to soothe his pain, whether by simple sweet talking and hugging, or by mind cleansing by Princess Luna."
"Of course I want to visit his dreams!" Twilight said "After all, visiting him sounds a way better option than remain in my mind to idly chatter."
"T'was not idle prattle, but helpful words of mine. However, if you wish..."
Luna’s horn glowed with a blue aura, and her and Twilight’s figures started to flicker .
“So be it!” Shouted Luna, before disappearing with Twilight.
A couple of minutes traveling in a multicolored tunnel later, Twilight and Luna reappeared in a different version of dreamscape, one where the floor looked like an orange moquette, and the stretching black infinity was replaced by a more soothing light blue tone and some hills in the distance. However, Twilight's attention was upon a little snoring figure lying down on the floor, a figure that Twilight recognized as Orvosti's.
"Okay..." Twilight murmured to herself as she got near, thusly noticing little details like him wearing a white diaper and that he was wearing a beige shirt that was too big for him"how do I communicate with him?"
Princess Luna answered indirectly to Twilight's question by going near him, and gently shaking him up. The colt slightly stirred, and rose his head up... before jumping away with a shrill shout, followed by an hiss that echoed in the relative emptiness of that place.
"Fear not, my child, for I am the Rectifier of Nightmares and the Night Guide of all my subjects, be them foals that have barely witnessed the light, or be them elders ready to join their lost loved ones in the Elysium!" Princess Luan said with the Royal Canterlot VOcie, oen that made Orvosti tremble and attempt to hide under his nightshirt.
"W-wat did I d-do?" he said in a quivering voice "P-pwease... dun huwt me..."
Princess Luna kept saying.
"For what We could ever process you, oh my little subject, for you are not felonious?"
Twilight smiled at Luna's attempts to calm down Orvosti and let her heart warm up a bit, beofr walking towards the two saying.
"Princess, Your Highness, he cannot understand you very well. In fact, he is begin scared by your tone and language," then Twilight lowered to Orvosti's eyes level and she started to pet his mane, before going on speaking with "Orvosti, there is nothing to be worried about now. you are not in trouble, me and Pricness Luna just want to help you out."
Orvosti nodded fearfully at Twilight, causing her to giggle a little, and to Luna to look a little offended at Twilight.
"We do not appreciate this interruption of Our speech," Luna said "but We will tolerate it for now."
"I know, but I felt that it was necessary to act for the mental well-begin of your little subject," Twilight said to Luan in her most polite tone, as she kept streaking Orvosti's mane.
"We understand." Princess Luan said "But let Us not lose ourselves in this matter."
Twilight nodded, as she turned to the colt, who, in the meanwhile, had stopped trembling and was just sniffling a bit.
"Calm now, Orvs?" Twilight asked to the colt, and the colt nodded.
"Very well then, because I have a few questions for you. Answer me truthfully, because, in the Dreamscape, Princess Luna and I can see if you are lying." Twilight said, before giving a quick wink to Luna, who was raising her hoof in objection about the statment.
"Wat awe da questions?"
"Well, first, what did your mother do this afternoon with you, after Kidnergarten?"
"She put diapee on, den anothew diapee on me and towd me to 'wub da two diapees aftah wetting.' I did tat wif hew, den mommy took some beads on stwing, and said dey wewe fow 'gwon-up punishment' and den showed me how use dem when you naughty, wike toys in special box."
Twilight looked sideways at Orvosti, before quickly realizing what he was talking about, thusly making her stare at him disturbed.
"Uuhh... your mother is... is... really mean." Twilight said, trying to keep a hold upon her language, as Princess Luna remained there, deep in thought.
"You say?" Orvosti asked with wide eyes and a surprised frown.
"Yes, trust me, she isn't doing anything nice to you." Twilight shook her head "But, anyway, let's move on, before I start a rant against your mother. The second question is, does your mother reads some book insistently?"
"Yes," the colt quickly answered "something wif a some kind of bwue as covew and a red houwgwass ovew it."
Twilight gulped at the description of the book's cover.
"O..okay, very well, let's move on... third question: did Princess Celestia ever tried something similar to what you do with your mother?"
"No." He answered dryly while looking away.
Twilight sighed of relief.
"Very well then. Fourth and final question: do you think me and the Princess can do anything for help you?"
Orvosti looked around him unsurely, murmuring something unintelligible, and, overall, seemingly shifty in his lack of response.
"Nothing?" Twilight asked in the attempt of exhort the colt to answer in the gentlest way possible, but receiving only silence from the colt. Seeing the lack of response form the colt, Twilight decided to give him a quick hug.
Princess Luna suddenly shook her head and said.
"Gah! We do not realize what would the use of several beads transfixed on a string as punishment-giver. But, let Us not lose Ourselves. Twilight, We are pained to announce that Dawn with pink hooves is going to be raised soon. Make haste in your decisions, so that we may leave before it's too late."
Twilight took her courage with her two hooves, as she broke the hug and got up for look in Luna's eyes.
"Princess Luna, Your Excellence, can I ask you a favor for me and this colt over here?"
"What is it?" Princess Luna said, as she averted her eyes form Twilight's.
"Could you please cleanse Orvosti's mind from all the damage and filth it has gathered due to what is happening to him?" Twilight said, as she got up with a sigh.
"It will be done at once!" Princess Luna declared, as she lip her horn with a blue aura, and created two magical filaments, filaments that reached a confused Orvosti, before starting to dance over his little head...
"It... it huwts! Oooww!"
And moan while twitching in pain.
Feeling that trying to soothe his pain could have interfered with the process, Twilight limited herself to smile emphatically to the struggling colt. This went on for two good minutes, before Princess Luna dropped the spell.
"That has been done." she said "Not let us leave."
"Bye-bye, Orvosti, we will see in Kindergaten this morning..." she said sadly, as Princess Luna's horn glowed blue once more and enveloped both the lunar princess and Twilight in the same aura, making them both disappear shortly after.