It was a wonderful piece of silverware, Celestia considered, as the shiny grey metal tool glittered in the golden glow of her magic hold. Truly a beautifully crafted instrument. The fine engravings alongside its surface had been carefully carved in with marvellous precision, the geometric patterns pleasant to the eye but not too prominent or wide or deep, as to not be a distraction to the touch should a pony without magic have to hold it. The metal itself was some of the finest, a flexible but sturdy league of steel with inserts of gold in a weaving pattern reminiscent of wheat.
It also cut wonderfully well into her cake.
The alicorn brought the tiny bite at the end of her fork to her lips, quickly wrapping them around it as the morsel of sugary deliciousness melted inside her mouth. Cream, mostly, but with just a hint of cherry laced into it. Just the right consistency for it to disappear inside her mouth without the need for chewing, while still not leaving her unsatisfied, still having a certain weight she enjoyed feeling over her tongue before it disappeared.
It was a very nice cake. She would have to make sure the restaurant was paid for it, as they'd insisted she eat there for free. She expected it would be a fair amount of bits to cover for the whole thing, she was eating in the town's priciest restaurant after all.
It wasn't hard to see why their prices were so high though. The food was fantastic, the service impeccable, and the view...
Celestia looked to the side, past the confines of the relatively tiny disk of floating rock her table was seated on, away from the set of crystal staircases connecting it to other such disks below it and further inland and eventually leading back to solid ground. She looked instead towards the larger floating crystals not too far from her, and at the rivers of water that streamed around them in all directions, and at the way the light was caught and warped by them as the Sun set behind them.
Yes. The view was certainly worth it.
Bit of a shame about the ponies whose houses had used to sit on the portion of land that had suddenly decided to ignore the known laws of physics and scatter into tiny floating fragments hanging in the air between land and sea, but at least it made for a very pretty piece of scenery.
Celestia took another bite of her cake.
She'd need to invite Twilight there at some point. The younger alicorn would surely enjoy it.
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Bit of a shame about the ponies whose houses had used to sit on the portion of land that had suddenly decided to ignore the known laws of physics and scatter into tiny floating fragments hanging in the air between land and sea,
This seems rather like something Discord would do. Indeed, where is Discord? What is his take on all this? Is the Behemoth, in fact, a reimagined version of Discord, bringing chaos and a breakdown in all the old rules simply by it's presence?
It's quietly disquieting how even Celestia just takes ponies' lives being uprooted so calmly, almost callously. But even she has only so much compassion to offer at any given time.
And to be fair, it is very good cake.
little early to judge, but it almost seems tia is nonplussed by all this. what's more, none of the prior chapters say anything about something like this. only recovery, and rebuilding. struggling to hold on... makes one wonder, about this place she is eating at.