Chapter 15
Poke.
Poke. Poke.
I blearily forced my eyes open. Something was poking at my back. Carefully scooting away from a still sleeping Sunset, I rolled over to see Flower Rain with one hoof lifted, standing next to the bed.
I blinked at her sleepily before I nodded and scooted further back to roll onto my hooves, moving slowly not to wake Sparks or Sunny. Flower Rain wouldn’t be waking me if it wasn’t important. Especially not this early.
Moving out of the bubble of darkness into the bright sunlight, I suppressed a hiss as I shaded my eyes.
“Sorry, your majesty,” Flower Rain said quietly, looking almost as sleepy as I felt, “But I was just woken up myself by one of the Day Ponies… and I thought it was important to pass on to you that the train has been spotted and should arrive in an hour or so.”
I looked at her sleepily. Then I looked over towards the open balcony door and the sun high in the blue sky. It was noon, if that.
Don’t fire her, she’s the best assistant you have.
Don’t fire her, she’s the best assistant you have.
Don’t fire her, she’s the best assistant you have.
I turned back to her, “Somepony clearly bucked up somewhere, but why is the train arriving a couple of weeks early important enough to wake me up at noon?” I asked her calmly.
Flower Rain swallowed slightly but met my eyes, “Because the scouts reported that the train has a pair of Royal Carriages on it.”
I stared at her for an embarrassingly long time as my tired brain tried to parse that sentence and come up with the implications. Slowly, every so slowly my hamster started to move and the gears started to turn, the rust slowly falling off.
“Ah,” I finally said, closing my eyes for a second, “An hour, you said?”
“Yes, your highness.”
“Do you think we can set up a royal welco-” I started to say before I frowned, “Actually, no. Buck that. If they want a royal welcome, they can give us more than an hour's bucking warning and at a sane hour. Get a dozen guards moving, that’ll be enough.”
Flower Rain nodded firmly, “Of course, my Prince. Rooms as well?”
I nodded, “Yes, but that’s not as hurried. Let ponies sleep a bit longer. I could use som-”
A big cup of ice cold and almost completely black ice tea with half a dozen icecubes floating in it was presented to me by a slightly amused looking Flower Rain.
I smiled at her as I took it, “...Had a bribe ready at hoof, huh?” I asked and sniffed at the very strong black tea.
“Better safe than sorry,” She admitted with a small smile and stretched her wings, “With your permission, sir, I’ll get things moving.”
“Go ahead, we don’t have much time.”
As she retreated to organize things, I took a slow deep breath, sipped my tea before putting it to the side and lit my horn, canceling the bubble of dark silence around the bed, revealing Sparks cuddling Sunset tightly.
I couldn’t help but smile at the sight, but it only took a couple of seconds before the bright sunshine caused Twilight to squirm and groan, blinking her eyes open before quickly covering them with a wing,
“Nooo…” she groaned, “Page… what are you doing...!?” she protested with a whine from behind her wing and feathers.
“Up! Both of you!” I said and jumped onto the bed, laying down next to them, “We have an hour to clean up!”
Sunset opened one eye, glaring at me, “You have three seconds, Bat.”
“The train is arriving in an hour and it has a pair of royal carriages on it,” I said and stretched with a groan, “Figured you two wanted to know.”
Silence.
Then Sparks extracted herself from the tangle of legs and rolled over to sit up, rubbing her eyes with one hoof, “...Come on, Kitten, We need to shower.”
Sunset groaned, “Nooo… they can wait. Too early.”
Twilight seemed to have absolutely zero patience with that at the moment and Sunset was promptly surrounded with a shimmering magic field and bodily floated behind Sparks as she headed for the bathroom.
Rubbing my eyes, I glowered in the general direction at the sun and then moved to take my tea again, moving to exit the bedroom to the outer room, finding Amber already there and awake, laying sideways across one of the chairs, her forelegs hooked over the armrest. Looking way too rested for my taste.
“Good morning, sir.”
I glowered sleepily at her, “Good morning, Amber,” I grumbled and sipped my tea, “Do you ever sleep?”
“Of course, sir.”
Was it Luna… Celestia… or even Cadence that was coming?`It sure as hell better be Cadance, or I’ll be annoyed.
But I’d be too glad to see either of them for real to yell at them, damn it! At least Cadance would have the excuse that I didn’t talk to them at least twice or thrice a week.
“Okay,” I said, looking at Amber, “How do I look?”
Amber tilted her head slightly, regarding me for a moment before she answered, “Sleepy.”
“...gee, thanks,” I said and sipped my tea before putting it down and heading for the shower. Maybe some water could wake me up.
It did not.
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Nice
Uh oh. What's going on that requires Page's attention this time? Because last I checked, Cozy was nowhere to be seen, and moreover she wouldn't even be able to use her initial plan thanks to a lack of school of friendship. And the pony of shadows is out, too, since he was never freed.
...maybe it's actually a legitimate visit? Wjth... with no strings attatched? Impossible. Page never gets a break like that.
Well that's a wakeup call. I wonder who is in those royal carriages?
I’m just imagining him getting all sarcastic when whoever is coming walks off the train. I’m assuming this is where the overarching conflict starts rearing it’s ugly head but I still think it’d be funny for him to be like “Alright, you better have a damn good reason for waking me up this early” and I love it
She's not wrong
At first I realy thought Amber was the one waking Page.
Cadance "ATTENTION CITIZENS, THIS IS AN OFFICIAL LOVE INSPECTION BY THE OFFICIO AFFECTIONORUM. DO NOT BE AFRAID, KEEP DOING ALL THE LEWD THINGS YOU ARE DOING. THANK YOU"
Page "You know, I'm starting to think maybe crazy runs in the family..."
Huh... Chrysalis coming for a personal Bootycall?
Luna come to snuggle and snu-snu ?
Celestia visiting because the Nobels made her need a vacation?
Skitter comes by to snuggelbug?
Non Pony royalty coming by to offer a trade agreement followed by traditionell amazon snu-snu endurance party ?
The others from the mane six come to visit there friends? Pinkie party pony Pie to give the population a party ?
This will be great
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The wake up in the day?
The unannounced visit?
The potencial for a group snuggel or...
Being nice in general
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Actualy he had a major event break for 2 years so...
Time to start the Chaos ones more
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-Queen Bootycall
-Princess Snu-Snu
-Princess i come to visit my Husbando for some snuggolos
-Princess Sunbutt to rescue Page from burnout?
-Princess Snuggelbug
Perhaps visitors from another Parallel Timeline?
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There a lack of Page Trademark foals running around.
Perhaps Snu-Snu princess come to push the development along? Discord lack of progress is alarming
10928690
No one knows why I say nice on every chapter. But it must be done
the *god damn give us SOME warning before you arrive* welcome is being rolled out
it contains half-awake guards
liters upon liters of coffee
a mat with the words welcome thrown on the floor
and a half sleepy grumble of welcome
Is it me or she is slowly becoming a butler Walter (Hellsing) style?
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This is the way
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Sounds about right
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It's Blueblood, isn't it?
A week early?
Oh I see. When we need you here you take your sweet flipping time, but when the big bosses are breathing down your neck you suddenly know all the shortcuts to get here.
Buttholes.
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Hope it doesn't end the same way.
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...I...I need this to be a thing
And So Murphy has once again decided to use his powers to annoy Page in lack of sleep and make him work out a Royal Welcome.
I'm sure Cadence is on the train as her Snu Snu senses went tingling when Twilight and Page decided to become an item as well. (Plus Luna and Sunshine would have told her)
Anypony's guess who is in the other carriage.
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Jupiter's balls! Didn't think of that... Wait a minute, we kinda have here mentioned nazi vampire army of super soldiers...
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I prefer the various permutations on "my duties include taking out the garbage, which in this case is you" but your choice is cool too.
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....But there is a distinct lack of zeppelins.
I admit it, I'm a simp for Amber.
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Well that would be one way of eliminating BB.
Maybe the big reveal of this story is, there is no reveal. It's just a SoL of Blank Page figuring out how to run a city-state. All to prank the readers that keep trying to add three more levels of intrigue to every sentence.
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Maybe
Surprise diplomatic visits are the best diplomatic visits. Well, sort of since Page presumably is holding a fiefdom under the crown rather than acting as an independent ruler. And yeah, I'm almost with Arexander in wondering if it's Blueblood come to be annoying...
In fact, this is seeming more and more like Dwarf Fortress, bloomin' noble migrants.
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Toy forges are forbidden!
10928873
The second story in the series had that bit in its long description "enough slice of life to make an entire cake of life" but canon hadn't been derailed quite enough to get away with living up to that just yet.
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I'm perfectly OK with this.
*Prince Blueblood leaves the train*
Prince Blueblood: HELLO CITIZENS OF NOCTUNIS! I come here on this beautiful bright afternoon to announce your city has been chosen to host the upcoming Royal Airship Charity Race! A true hono--oh. Hello there Prince Page...is that a ballista? Uh dear uncle...why is it pointed at me??
10928641
that was a beautiful use of Cadance!
...I should feel slightly jealous that someone out-Cadanced me but...
for some reason i am thinking all 3 princess,
Maybe the princesses are coming with some sorta long range transport device. :P
Nah probably not, that'd be too convenient.
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And so is my bet as well.
You know, Page, I find coffee helps me wake up in the morning. It's a pity all you have is tea.
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Coffee is terrible. Last time I tried coffee it tasted like someone had pissed in another persons ass, let it sit for a few hours and then drained it into a cup before serving.
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A copious amount of flavored coffee creamer helps. but black coffee does taste like ass
10971785
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I'm sorry that you guys are drinking absolutely terrible coffee, then.
There is good coffee out there, you just have to find it.
10971785
I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but you may juat have been drinking burnt coffee. Yeah, coffee is really easy to burn. You wouldn't think with it being a liquid, but if it's made in a percolater, or heated with a hot plate, it's probably burnt.
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Which is why I absolutely adore the fact that my machine makes an annoyingly loud sound when it's done. :D
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Funny enough, the most likely stage to burn coffee at is the roasting. It really is a very exact art.
Also, fun fact: did you know that the darker coffee is roasted, the less caffeine it contains? Light roasts are better for waking up, dark roasts are primarily for flavor