Chapter 49
The party was in full swing.
Okay, party might be a bit understating it, it was closer to a full on carnival or full on town market. I’m not sure who(Pinkie) had set it up, but the entire town of ponyville and half of Canterlot seemed to have showed up.
There were food stalls. Games.
Merchants!
Somepony(Pinkie) had set up and organized this in… what, a week? This power is beyond that of an alicorn.
When I get back home, I’m going to see if I can hire her as a general organizer. Because anypony that good at herding cats(ponies), is wasted on just parties.
I had not planned to get involved, it was their goodbye party and a thestral alicorn in the middle of it would attract too much attention from Midnight and Talon. I didn’t want that.
I didn’t hide, but I kept to the outskirts, relaxing on the grass next to one of the trees. Besides, I wasn’t a big fan of crowds in the best of times.
But Pepper… Pepper and Fluttershy was in the middle of it all, keeping close to the Princesses. Letting Ponies see them, see that they were accepted.
I knew how Fluttershy felt about it, she was terrified. But she did it anyway.
Bravest pony I knew, indeed.
The sound of hooves on grass approached and I looked over in the light of the setting sun and to my surprise I saw Applejack approaching.
She carried a pair of bottles in one hoof, stopping a couple of steps away, giving me a small bow, “Your Highness.”
“Applejack,” I said and gave her a nod back, “But you don’t need to bow to me. What can I help you with?”
She approached and laid down on the grass next to me, pulling the corks out of them with her teeth before passing one over.
I took it and took a sip, “Apple family cider,” I said, “It’s good, I can’t afford this very often.”
Applejack looked at me, raising an eyebrow, “Can’t afford it? Yer a Prince.”
I smiled faintly and took a sip, “Nocturnis isn’t a rich village, Applejack. I have donated most of my own bits to it as well. The bits it would cost to import a cask or bottles all the way to Nocturnis would buy a family of unicorns, earth ponies or pegasi hay, rice or grain for a week or two. Importing luxuries are low on my list of priorities.”
“I see.”
“Thestrals may be good on fruit and other local food,” I said, “But almost twenty percent of Nocturnis isn’t thestrals and need imported food to be healthy.”
Applejack nodded, “Can’t live on nothing but apples,” she admitted, “Need hay or grain to stay healthy.”
I nodded and took another sip before glancing down at it, “but this is definitely on the import list as soon as we can afford it,” I said before I looked at her, ”You want to talk about Midnight.”
Applejack shook her head, “Nah, she knows what she wants to do. Ah get it, she has a mare back in Nocturnis. Friends. Family. Ah wanted to ask ye about Fluttershy.”
“What about?” I asked and flicked one ear.
“Anything special she needs now?” Applejack asked, “Ah’m not sure anypony else has asked.”
Nodding, I looked down towards the rest of the party, “Well,” I said, “They will need more fruit in the mix than grains, but mostly they can eat like any other tribe. With one difference.”
“The… fish,” Applejack said, shifting a bit uncomfortable, “Ah remember the dinner. Pepper did not look like a fan.”
“Takes some getting used to for some ponies,” I agreed, “But we really do need it to be at our best. Not a lot, but we need some. That or some special kinds of beans works as well.”
I sipped the cider again with a small smile. It really was nice… it wasn’t quite as difficult to get in Nocturnis as I had implied. Nopony would raise an eyebrow if I imported a cask of it from time to time, in fact I was strangely certain my ponies would insist if I mentioned I liked it, but it still felt wrong.
Maybe now with the barrier up, when things had stabilized a bit. Or maybe we could make our own, we did have plenty of fruit.
But most of the local stuff tended to be more towards either wine or hard liquor, not cider. Wonder if Applejack has a cousin or not that wouldn’t mind moving?
“Many earth ponies in Nocturnis?” Applejack asked after a moment.
I raised an eyebrow at her, “Uhm,” I said and then frowned, thinking for a moment, “...Sev-no, six families. Two of them merged a month ago. Well, two months now. Twenty three in total, counting foals. Most ponies in Nocturnis have wings, but we do have a small but growing population of earth ponies and unicorns. With the barrier up, it will get easier for them when we can move some construction to the ground level.”
“Ah’m not sure I could live in trees,” Applejack agreed and poked at the grass with her hoof, “I prefer to keep my hooves on the ground.”
“As do most ponies without wings,” I said before I smiled, “Admittedly for very understandable reasons.”
Applejack laughed softly and nodded, “As ye say,” she said and slowly got onto her hooves, “Come, Twilight would like ye down there with them.”
“I think that would be a bit too distracting for everypony else.”
Applejack frowned at me before she raised an eyebrow.
I sighed and climbed to my hooves, “...That and I’m worried about something going wrong on the way back. I don’t need hundreds of ponis staring at me, I don’t like the attention.”
She nodded, “Ah understand. But it would mean a lot for them.”
“I’ll come,” I said with a small sigh, joining her and walking down the small hill towards the party.
Applejack smiled as she led the way, “There’s more cider down there,” she teased.
I couldn’t help but grin, “There is that.”
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Damn... So mutch fun yet i mist wonder...
When will the Thestral Statue try Woo Celestia and Luna
The Thestral Statue is so stoned all the time...
How detailed is it 
It's rock hard all the time
O my... I have a brilliant idea. Let Discord relocate the statue to the Sister throne room. So when they sit on their throne they cover the Statue croch, but when they lay down the petitioner has problems not staring on the Statue sheat
O no... They get displaced on Earth's now
Can't we have Applejack eating a Banana or something? Don't know why, but Applejack eating non Apples is funny as Lunas rump is blue
Maybe as ponies learn about him the truth can come out and bat ponies can live normal lives without fear. Considering with more non bat ponies as friends the bat ponies stand a better chance against the idiots who would ruin everything just because they wish to hate.
Chrysalis: "Greetings little Predator, you feed my hive well with the today celebrated Festival."
Page: "Always a pleasure to help."
Pharynx: "Would you like to donate a batch or three to the Hive? We shall honor your service to the Hive with a head pet or something..."
Thorax: "We really should have a rehearsal before you try 'your thing'."
Page: "Thanks for the offer, but I rather not."
*Chrysalis makes puppy dog eyes*: "Please ~♡"
Pharynx: "If you give this Hive a clutch of warrior drones, we give your Equine Bats a equal number of Worker drones for this Nocturnis PLUS Mangos to take to your timeline!"
Page: "You drive a hard bargin..."
Thorax: "Plus a Cuddlebug Harem for this version of your Luna. She will never be Cuddlefree on a lonely night."
Page: "You drive a very hard bargin..."
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this would make your costume complete!
*holds out some fake glasses with a nose and mustache*
...I'm not falling for that one buddy *hold out a T-Posing Celestia* By the light BE GONE!
HISS *explodes into darkness*
11358535
So about 40% funny? I mean Luna's rump is largely black with a little white.
great chapter
AJ can be forgiven for not knowing but page is extremely poor for a noble, let alone prince. his success as a writer made him comfortably wealthy but if we're gonna use real world nobility as examples, at the level of royalty he's at in the relative time period, he'd be expected to casually have vast business interests, land holdings, and even dabble in colonial/overseas ventures. He's not personally collecting taxes or export tarrifs off of Nocturnis, and he doesn't have any dynastic wealth either. heck, he doesn't even own a railroad, cmon page get that sigma grindset going already!
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Well, in addition to the apples, they DO produce corn, wheat, grapes, carrots, and tomatoes based on what can be seen from various camera pan-overs of the farm on different episodes.
So, who knows if Sweet Apple Acres actually have any banana trees or if that was all just nothing but a Flim & Flam advert trying to sell long soft yellow peelable apples?
...HOURS LATER...
*Page is found doing a pole dance routine upside down in a small tree*
Drunk Page:
FLY me to DA moon~! Let me SNUGGLE into those STARS~! 
Let me THEN STOP by to see what its LIKE...on Celestia's PLOT~! 
Luna:
You know what? I should have tried harder to convince him to stay if I knew he is this fun drunk.
*Page ends his song with a snore and a loud thud to the ground*
Celestia:
Hm..the tabloid mill is enough of a hassle as it is. Can't risk it. RETURN TO SENDER! 
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He does have a railroad. It was a plot point in Welcome to the Jungle.
11358529
At this point, Page has nearly forgotten that he used to be human. At the very least, it doesn't come up much. The mention of legumes is so subtle it may just be apophenia.
Nice
Thanks for chapter!
Have a good day!
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its not really the kind that makes money though
11359176
A lot don't. That's why Britain had to nationalise them.
11359259
well yes but specifically a lot of nobility owing to their large tracts of land were able to make a lot of money on the initial railway mania in britain, where they were often the first in and first out
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania
also since it required an act of parlaiment to approve a railroad's charter you can kind of see the quid-pro-quo going on there especially when most of parlaiment was hereditary at that point
This chapter is barrels worth of fun
👍
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I doubt the climate would work well for bananas tbh, even with artificial management. Something tells me the civil service would take a dim view of farmers trying to arrange ultra-localised weather patterns, given the time and energy that would have to go into that...
That said, potential civil service story right there. And now I'm sad GhostOfHeraclitus has vanished.
Several grammar jackboots today:
Pepper and Fluttershy were in the middle of it all
and lay down
Importing luxuries is low
hundreds of Ponies staring
Applejack is always a win.
As a redneck, it always bothers me when I see AJ saying "ye" instead of "ya." I know that it can be hard to write accents, but "ya" sounds so much better, ya know?