**********Laputa 3rd POV**********
Starlight Shimmer wasn’t sure why but today she was feeling better than normal. It could have been the altitude. Or possibly the extremely comfy bed she now owned. Maybe it had something to do with her new job. It was quite possible all of these things contributed to her good mood. It didn’t matter to Starlight. She just knew she was happy. Starlight joyfully trotted down the castle halls into the kitchen, a book in her magic. Her mood soured slightly when she saw ‘him’.
“Morning, Star,” he said without looking up from the newspaper he was currently reading. That always creeped her out. The way he could just sense who was nearby was unnerving. It felt like he was always watching her. She knew he wasn’t but still.
“Good morning, Sasuke,” Starlight replied. She made her way through the kitchen and grabbed bowl of cereal. She sat down next to Sasuke and he handed her the parts of the newspaper he was done with. It had become their morning routine for the short time they lived in the castle. If she was being completely honest with herself, she didn’t dislike Sasuke. In fact, she really enjoyed his company sometimes. But the other times he was… she shivered just thinking about it.
Starlight kept reading the newspaper trying to find out what was going on in the home she had left behind. It appeared there was no news from the summit yet. Her favorite coffee shop was going to open another store close to her apartment! Or her old apartment. She still wasn’t used to the fact she was living in a castle with an evil creature, his griffon minions, and her resurrected-from-the-dead hero who happened to be the greatest wizard of all time.
“So today I want to have a meeting with everybody,” Sasuke said pulling Starlight from her thoughts.
“Ok. What do you want to talk about,” Starlight asked.
“Just a few things that I noticed,” Sasuke said holding up a piece of paper. “I made a list.”
“Of course you did,” she said, rolling her eyes. “I bet you also-”
Starlight was interrupted by a portal that opened up in front of Sasuke. His eyes reflexively did that thing where they change color (she meant to ask him about that). He stared into the portal.
“Sasuke?” she asked starting to feel afraid.
“Yeah,” his voice sounded distant. “I’m going to walk into this portal. Can you handle the meeting? Great. Awesome. Bye.” Sasuke walked into the portal without giving Starlight a chance to respond. It closed behind him so she couldn’t even follow.
“Buck me,” Starlight said cradling her face in her hooves.
A flash of light illuminated the kitchen and Starswirl appeared.
“Where is it?” Starswirl asked frantically.
“Wha?” Starlight barely had time to compose herself before Starswirl was on her shaking her with his forehooves.
“Where is it, Faust dammit!?” Starswirl asked again.
“Where is what?”
“I felt it! A door into the void! I know it was here!”
“It randomly showed up and Sasuke walked into it. Then it was gone.”
“Oh. Then it’ll show up again when he comes back,” Starswirl calmed down and started walking away.
“Wait!” Starlight called after him. “Aren’t you worried about Sasuke?”
“Of course not. It’s not like he would be stupid enough to walk into some random portal to Faust knows where. I’m sure he knew exactly what he was doing.”
Starlight took a moment to contemplate Starswirl’s words as she looked over the list Sasuke left behind. Everything was going to be fine, right?
***
Starlight stood in front of a group of griffons and a unicorn. After looking over Sasuke’s list she wasn’t sure how she was going to talk about some of these things but she had to try. Starlight cleared her throat and began her speech.
“Thank you for gathering here,” Starlight started. “Sasuke had some things he wanted us to go over while he is… indisposed. First on the agenda: If someone writes their name on a bag and puts it in the refrigerator, don’t eat it. Apparently we’ve been having a problem with a lunch thief. Stop it. Second thing on the agenda: I don’t care if you are part owl, if you wake me up one more time with your midnight mating calls, I’m going to rip out your vocal chords and make a guitar.”
Starlight paused when she noticed the strange looks she was getting. “I’m just reading what he wrote, I swear. Anyway the next thing on the agenda: there are plenty of bedrooms. There are plenty of rooms with locks. I shouldn’t know what your O face looks like. I’m not saying don’t have sex. I realize that you’re all young and high on adrenaline and hormones but please for the love of God put a hat on the door or something.” Two griffons were bright red and staring intently at the wall. Trying to stop her imagination from running wild, Starlight continued.
“The next thing on the agenda: the newspapers, where are they coming from?”
One of the embarrassed griffons spoke up. “A gray pegasus mare with messed up eyes has been delivering them every morning. Since she showed up I thought she was part of the group. Like an intelligence agent or something.”
Starlight made a mental note of that before continuing. “The next thing on the agenda is the…” Starlight cringed, “fishy smell. Hygiene is important. Enough said. And now...”
***
Several hours later a group of mentally exhausted and thoroughly embarrassed creatures walked out of Laputa’s conference room.
“I can’t believe he knew about-”
“Let’s never speak of this again.”
Starlight didn’t catch the rest of the conversation. She was too busy trying to scrub her brain of the things Sasuke had made her say. Her bright red blush was very clear through her coat and her walk was stilted and stiff. She now had a more intimate knowledge of her griffon roommates than she ever wanted. She was busy trying to think of memory erasure spells when Starswirl walked up behind her.
“So that was interesting,” he said.
“Interesting?” Starlight asked. “How can you be so nonchalant about what just happened.”
Starswirl shrugged. “I died. After you die, nothing really gets to you anymore.”
Starlight was about to speak again when the portal from the morning opened up in front of her. Sasuke walked out of it looking tired. That did nothing to cool Starlight’s anger.
“Where have you been? Why didn’t you say anything before you left? Do know how worried I’ve been?”
Sasuke opened his mouth to speak but Starlight cut him off. “Do you realize all the crap you had me say? The things I’ve seen cannot be unseen! How did you even know half that stuff? Nevermind, I don't want to know. ”
Sasuke sat quietly, allowing Starlight to continue her rant. And so ended another day in the life of the little unicorn.