by Jonesly
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It was a quiet day in Ponyville. Twilight Sparkle was in the library of her new castle, arranging some new arrival books on a shelf in a corner. The library was smaller than the one she had lost, but she was determined to grow it into something at least respectable, if not overwhelmingly impressive.
“Twilight..” A voice whined. “I need a new book to read.”
Twilight’s ears perked up. “New book? Did you say new book?” She looked up to find her marefriend looking at her with a faint smile.
Celestia nodded. “Yes, I have some spare time coming up and I want to catch up on some pleasure reading. You’ve read a lot more then I have in the last thousand years, so of course I’m asking you for recommendations.”
“I see... “ Twilight said, already dividing her attention between Celestia and the bookshelves surrounding her. “Putting aside the silliness of implying I’ve read more in my 22 years of life then you have in your 1058...What is this spare time?”
“Budget meetings. I’m taking a book because I’m only needed for signing off on the final document but for some reason tradition dictates that I be there.”
“Mmm hmm.” Twilight hummed, starting to move down the row of bookshelves. “Sounds boring.”
“Oh it is.” Celestia affirmed. “But no one expects me to pay attention. So I’ve taken to catching up on my pleasure reading during meetings.”
“What a novel idea. I wish I’d thought of it.” Twilight said absently, her focus on the bookshelves in front of her.
Celestia froze. “Did you… YOU DID! Hahahaha. That’s great. My work with you is done.”
Twilight glanced her way before turning back to the books and running her hoof along the row.“What are you on about?”
“You punned, Love.”
Twilight stopped and turned her full focus on Celestia. “I did?”
“You did.” Celestia said with a mad grin.
Twilight scowled. “Horseapples. I’ll have to be more careful in my speech.”
Celestia’s grin faltered. “You mean it wasn’t on purpose?”
“Of course not, you know my opinion on puns.” Twilight turned back to the book shelves. “Pun bombs should be carefully planned and dropped. Used casually they lose their impact.”
Celestia softly stamped her hoof. “Drat, I’d hoped we’d entered a new chapter in your life, but I see now that we’re not on the same page.”
Twilight sighed with long suffering patience. “Anyways, how about The Kin by Dockinson.” She levitated a book down from the top shelf and blew dust from its cover before presenting it.
“That one I haven’t heard of, I’ll take it.” Celestia accepted the book and with a pop and a stream of green fire, sent it off towards Canterlot.
“Nice, now would you like to go get some dinner with me?” Twilight asked. “We could go to your favorite cafe? The Prench Laundry?”
Celestia’s ears perked. “But its so hard to get into, we’d be waiting for hours.”
Twilight smirked. “We’re already booked.”