A throbbing, dull pain in the back of your head made you grit your teeth as you fluttered your eyelids open. Your head was spinning terribly. Everything was still blurry, but you were able to roll over and at least attempt to get back on your hooves. It took a few tries and a few falls, but you eventually succeeded. However, you still had to rely on one of your legs to steady you against a nearby wall as you took deep breaths to try and return blood back to your head. The only things that really hurt were the bump on your head and your horn. Since you saw no blood, you took attention away from yourself and onto your surroundings.

The room was a wreck. The coffee table was smashed to bits, all of the furniture was overturned, and nearly half the books that were originally on their rightful shelves were now limp on the living room floor. There was a black circular burn mark on the rug beneath you where the ball of energy exploded. You were relieved that it didn't start a fire. It took you a few moments to find Rainbow Dash, since she was underneath a pile of books. However, a few blue feathers that stuck out from the mound indicated where she was.

"D-Dash? Are you alright?"

The books shifted and stirred before a blue hoof reached up from underneath them.

"Yeah! I'm good!"

"Twilight?"

You made your way through the mess, taking it slow so that you wouldn't lose consciousness again. Stepping on top of books certainly wasn't good for their shelf life, but you were too determined to find Twilight to care. Despite your caution, you ended up slipping on one and falling straight forward onto another pile. Your hooves were barely able to extend forwards to catch you before you landed.

"Dammit... What the hell happened..."

Before you could get back onto your legs again, you felt movement beneath you.

"Ughh..." Twilight's voice reached your ears from underneath you.

Books went flying as you desperately tried to dig through and find her.

"Twilight, talk to me! Are you okay?!"

"Yeah... I think so..."

You were relieved to see her stand back up as she brushed a few open books off of her back.

"That. Was... AWESOME!!!" Rainbow Dash performed some excited flips in the air, but then quickly made her way back on the couch as the bump on her head started throbbing again.

"Well... It certainly was unexpected, that much is for sure." Twilight rolled her eyes before using her magic to start cleaning up. You knew that Twilight was gifted in magic, but her being able to use so much magic after taking a hit like that astonished you. However, that was to be expected of the Element of Magic.

"Yeah... Sorry about that..." You hung your head and frowned as you helped her out. The apology could have been a bit better, considering you could have just killed all three of you.

"It's fine." Twilight gave you a reassuring smile. "Although, we should start having these lessons outside from now on."

"Right..." You smiled back and rubbed the back of your head, trying to feel for the bump. A sharp tingle told you exactly where it was and you winced.

"Actually, I was somewhat at fault here. Princess Cadence warned me that your new horn might have some unstable qualities, but to be honest, I shrugged it off."

"Unstable qualities? What'cha mean?"

"Huh? You mean she never told you?"

"Told me what?"

"She imbued your horn with a shard from the Crystal Empire's Crystal Heart! Geez, I thought it was important enough of a subject for her to tell you."

"Wow, really?!"

"Yes. That's why it has a transparency to it and that's probably the culprit of this little mishap. Speaking of that, how exactly did you do that? I've never seen a spell like that before."

"I'm not entirely sure..." You rubbed your forehead and closed your eyes as you tried to recall everything that happened before the explosion. "I was just trying to levitate the feather."

"That can't be all that happened. What were you thinking about?"

"I was trying to pick the feather up using a magnet or something, and then when I saw the giant ball of doom, or whatever that thing was, I imagined two positive ends of a magnet pushing away from each other."

"That's odd..." Twilight stood there rubbing her chin and looking down for quite a few moments. "You should probably talk to Princess Celestia about it during your meeting today, but for now, let's just clean everything up. I suppose all this constitutes an early dismissal of magic practice for today."

You sighed and helped Twilight out with the books. She had already taken care of nearly half of them, and you didn't exactly know which books went on which shelf, so you were only able to help out a little before realizing that it would be best to just let Twilight take care of it and not get in her way.

Realizing that you hadn't heard a peep out of Rainbow Dash for a while, you turned around and scanned the room for her. However, she wasn't very hard to find. She was back on the couch laying down with her ice bag on her head, but what struck you as odd was that she was staring right at your plot.

"Uh... Dash? You mind not staring at my ass?" You were more amused than upset.

"Alex, I don't think it's your plot that she's focused on..."

You turned back around to Twilight who was looking at you in a very similar manner. You knew that Twilight wouldn't be staring at you so crudely, given that she was sober, so you bent around to see what they were so interested in.

You didn't really think about earning a cutie mark before. You realized that you didn't have one when you became a pony, but the issue of how you would wind up earning one was never a big concern to you. That was why when you saw a clear and definite cutie mark right on your flanks, you were shocked.

It was quite an odd cutie mark, or at least, it was one that you wouldn't have expected. It was a purple hued combination of various runic looking symbols arranged in a circular pattern that didn't make much sense to you. The symbols themselves seemed like they were written in a foreign language. It almost looked like some kind of ritualistic circle that one would draw on the ground with chalk before starting a ceremony.

Upon closer inspection, there were three larger symbols spread around the circle symmetrically with smaller ones in between them. Three large lines connected the three larger symbols to make a triangle that passed through the inner circle and in the center was a white colored shape that resembled a crescent moon. It took you a few moments before you could bring yourself to speak again.

"What the..."

Rainbow Dash flew gently towards you about a foot or two above the ground and got a closer look. "Looks like some sort of magic symbol thingie."

"Or more like a magic rune... But..."

"What is it? It doesn't mean anything bad, does it?" You got a bit nervous.

"Well, that's just it. I don't have a clue what it says or what it means."

It shocked you a little to hear Twilight say the words "I don't know", especially when it came to something like magic. She snapped out of her stare and continued.

"Okay, now you should definitely talk to Princess Celestia, as well as Princess Luna, about this. Wait-" She looked at her coo-coo clock that was mounted on the wall next to the kitchen.

"Oh my goodness! We were knocked out so long that I didn't realize what time it was! You need to go now or you're going to be late!" Twilight frantically began to search for a couple of books and stuffed them into a saddlebag.

"Yeah, Mr. Important, you don't wanna be late to your royal meeting." Rainbow said with a giggle as she played around by flying upside down around you.

It was always nice to walk through Canterlot and have nearly every pony admire you and what not. However, your mind was too preoccupied with worries and concerns over what just happened to linger with them for too long. You've made this trip dozens of times before during the last couple of months, so you were able to make it straight to the castle without stopping to ask for directions. In fact, you were able to remember a few desolate shortcuts and alley-ways that Twilight had taught you that helped you get to your destination quickly without having to get caught up in the crowds.

Instead of making the mistake of going through the front entrance and attracting a ton of attention, you slipped around the left side of the castle and made your way to the back one.

"Hold it!" You suddenly found yourself standing a hair's width away from two sharp pikes right in your face.

It was fairly late in the afternoon and there wasn't much light in the sky, so you couldn't blame the guards for raising their attention at you at first, even though you were fairly familiar with them. However, as they analyzed your face, they backed down.

"My apologies, Sir Alex." One guard said as they both lowered their pikes and moved out of the way.

"S'alright. And didn't I tell you two to just call me 'Alex'?" You teased them with a grin.

"B-but sir, we have orders to address our royal subjects as-"

"Don't worry about it. It's not like I'm going to complain to the Princesses about it or anything." The door closed behind you and you trotted further inside, leaving the guards outside with faint smiles on their faces.

If it were two months ago, or even just one, you wouldn't have had the balls to talk to the guards that way. This wasn't because you were afraid of them, but simply because you had a bad habit of being shy towards new ponies. Once you started visiting the castle more than once a week for an extended period of time, you eventually began to learn the names of the guards and even strike up some conversations with a few. You didn't do this to abuse your position, but rather to help their day be that much more eventful since all they did was stand in one place expressionless all day long.

As usual, the only thing that you could hear in the long corridors was the clapping of your hooves against the tile and marble floors. This quality was magnified by the fact that you were using the back route to get to Celestia's chambers rather than using the main chamber. Brilliant blue torches blazed on the walls next to you and almost gave the hallways a haunted feeling to them, but the knowledge that the Princesses of Equestria were no more than a few hoof steps away from you made you feel a little more secure. You slowed down your trot as you passed by Luna's chambers. You hadn't seen her in quite some time and looked forward to chatting with her again, but you were already quite a few minutes late for your meeting with Princess Celestia. Although, something in the back of your mind was telling you that she might know something more about your cutie mark than Celestia might.

The color of the torches abruptly switched to an orange-yellow glow, which told you that you were close to Celestia's room. You recalled your past visits and counted the number of doors until you found the one you were looking for. You took a deep breath and cleared your throat before knocking on the solid iron door three times.

"Who is it?"

"I-its me, Princess..."

She laughed a little. "Late again, are we?"

You gently pushed on the door and trotted in with a bit of shame on your face. "I'm sorry, your highness... I was having a magic lesson with Twilight and-" Celestia's face immediately went to your plot.

"Oh my, is that a cutie mark?"

"Huh? O-oh, I mean... Yes, ma'am! It is..."

"Goodness! Congratulations, Alex! I didn't think that you would earn your cutie mark this quickly! However did it happen?"

"Well..." You looked down at the floor. "I don't really know... Like I said, I was having a lesson with Twilight and one of my spells... Well, it had an unexpected effect."

She rose from her couch and made her way towards you with a concerned look on her face. "I see... Tell me more."

"I was trying to use a levitation spell on a feather, sorta by visualizing a magnet picking the feather up, but I ended up using this weird spell that created a big white ball of light and ended up exploding."

"Oh dear... And Twilight didn't know what it was?"

"No, ma'am."

Celestia looked down at your hooves for a few moments before turning around and looking at her book shelf. "I was intending to have another lesson about wildlife on your home planet this evening, but it appears that much more important matters are at hand. If you would, please clear a space on the table there for me."

"Y-yes ma'am." You did as she said and tucked the miscellaneous papers under the table.

She turned back around with a few books floating above her head that glowed with her magic's golden hue. Not wanting to disturb her, you took a seat in the large armchair that sat opposite of the couch and waited for her to finish her research. You felt a bit guilty for not helping, and you started to get a bit drowsy after quite a few moments, but you as well as Celestia knew that you wouldn't know enough about magic to help.

"My, my. This is interesting." You perked your ears up.

"What is it, your highness?"

"If my studies are correct, the only other pony that was able to perform a spell like this was none other than Starswirl the Bearded. He studied spells that sound very similar to the spell you performed. According to him, these spells use a kind of 'pure magic' that-"

"Sister, dost thou know where my-"

Luna came through the door behind you but quickly froze when she saw that her sister had company. You turned in your chair to see the majestic Princess Luna with a provocative wet mane and a bath towel wrapped around her, which was almost enough to make your shaft rise.

"I am sorry!" Luna quickly fled behind the door and closed it shut.

"Luna, wait!" Celestia caught the door with her magic and opened it again. "Me and Alex could actually use your help."

Luna hid behind the door and peeped her head around the corner. You thought she looked totally adorable when she was out of her normal character.

"Very well, but could I at least dry my mane? I was not exactly expecting company." Her cheeks reddened a bit.

The club that Vinyl worked at always looked odd when all the lights were turned on. Because she was so used to seeing the floors and walls alight with lasers and lights, she almost felt as if she was in a different place entirely. She knew that by the time the party was over and the lights came back on, this place would be a wreck; she relished in the clean walls and floors for as long as she could since she knew that it was always hell to clean up afterwards.

Vinyl turned around and looked over her set up one last time. It was the same as it had always been. The four sub woofers on each side of her table, the mid-range speakers on top of those and the tweeters on the very top were in their rightful place. However, she always developed a feeling in her chest that told her that she was forgetting something whenever she was setting up, even when nothing was missing. She nibbled on her hooves and stared at the floor nervously.

It didn't take long for her to realize what was missing.

"Vinyl? What'cha freakin' out about now, girl?" One of her "roadies" had apparently spotted her overactive nerves.

"Oh... Uh... It's nothing, just making sure everything's in place."

"Come on, you never look like this over something like your setup..."

Vinyl should have known that her friend would see right through her, as she always had a habit of doing. Since they had been friends so long and had done so many shows together, they almost shared the same brain.

"I don't know... It's just that Alex is usually here by this time..."

"Aw, you miss your stallion-friend don't you? That's so adorable!" Vinyls friend teased her by pinching her rosy red cheeks and talking like a mother would to her baby.

"Hey, cut it out..."

"Sorry, just trying to cheer you up. Besides, he's never missed one of your performances before, has he?"

"Well... no." Vinyl shuffled her hooves around nervously.

"So quit worrying, girl! And if he does show up late, I'm sure it's for a good reason. It doesn't take a love guru to figure out how much that colt likes you."

Her last comment made Vinyl smile a bit, but her head still remained glued to the floor.

"There's that smile!" Her ears perked up to the distant sound of a bell tower chiming and she abruptly turned around and looked at the digital clock on the wall behind her.

"Oh shoot! You better hurry and get your set ready, it's already ten!"

Vinyl already had everything planned out for her performances way in advance, but she thought it wouldn't hurt to look over it once or twice before everything started. She started to turn away but a hoof on her shoulder caught her.

"Don't worry, Vinyl. He'll show. He's a good guy."

"Thanks, Cloudchaser." Vinyl gave her a quick hug.

Vinyl knew that it wasn't like you to be late to one of her performances. The fear that you might not come at all plagued the back of her conscious even with the recent support of her roadie. It wouldn't destroy her emotionally, but since you promised you would go tonight, it made her a bit uneasy for you to show up later than you usually did.

It wasn't entirely your fault that you fell asleep. The room itself was dim with only a few torches and candles illuminating the table that the two sisters researched heavily upon. It was very peaceful and quiet which, accompanied by the fact that it was an hour or two past your normal bedtime, put you right out.

You felt a sudden tap on your shoulder. Since it was such a short sleep, your mind took a bit longer to escape the groggy stage of waking up. You groaned, rubbed your eyes and stretched in the armchair. It didn't quite hit you that you fell asleep in front of royalty until Princess Luna cleared her throat purposefully in order to get your attention. Embarrassed that you had dozed off in front of them, you quickly sat up and shook your head in an attempt to wake up.

"We think we may have found some useful information, Sir Alex."

"Yes. From what we've found, it appears that your cutie mark resembles a form of magic that has been lost to us for many centuries."

"Wow, really?" The weight of the issue escalated, and you were now wide awake with your ears perked in the air.

"Quite so. As I said before, the last pony who was able to perform a spell like this was Starswirl the Bearded. My sister and I looked into some of his research and... It might be possible that..."

"What's wrong, your highness?"

Luna stood up. "My sister is trying to say that thou may hast ancestry with Starswirl."

"Ancestry?" Your eyebrow raised and you thought about it for a second or two before continuing.

"But wait... That doesn't make sense. He's a pony and I'm not. Well, at least I didn't start out that way."

"Neither did Starswirl." Celestia rose from her couch and put her books away one by one.

It took you a few moments to collect what she said.

"What do you mean?"

Celestia finished putting her books away and joined her sister back on the couch. "Starswirl the Bearded was the very first human subject that came to Equestria. He was the one who created the magic necessary to bring human subjects here, although none of my resources say how he developed it in the first place."

The realization hit you pretty hard, but it didn't make up for the amount of confusion that was still going on in your head. You decided to save the more complicated questions for another night, though.

Luna continued. "Nopony in Equestria has been able to replicate that kind of spell since Starswirl was alive, so we have sufficient reason to believe that thou might be related to him by blood."

You thought their explanation was a little too forced given the fact that these two sisters had lived for thousands of years. It was hard to believe that they simply didn't know about what was going on until just now.

"Wait, so you only found this out now? Surely you had to have known before hand..."

The two sisters shared a distressed look between themselves and then turned back to you with a bit of guilt in their eye.

"You are correct, Alex." Luna said after sighing and finally forgetting about your fabricated surname. "We had to research exactly what specific kind of magic thou hath performed in order to know for sure, however, we did posses prior knowledge of your connection to Starswirl. We apologize for not being entirely honest with you."

Celestia backed her up. "We decided that it would be best not to tell you about your connection to Starswirl until after you had made the choice to stay in Equestria since it would have been biasing your decision, but I suppose the issue was forgotten due to other more pressing issues. I apologize as well, Alex."

"Oh, no, it's okay!" You smiled to reassure them. "I'm sure you two are real busy with other princess duties or what not so I can't really blame you for forgetting about something like that. So... You're saying Starswirl came into Equestria as a human, and decided to stay just like I did?"

"Precisely." Luna yawned widely, which you thought was pretty cute.

"I-I'm sorry if I'm keeping the two of you up..."

"It's quite alright." Celestia got up from the couch. "Although, it is getting quite late and I have a couple of meetings very early tomorrow."

"And I require my beauty sleep." Luna raised her chin comically and smiled as she got up as well and trotted past you.

"But Princess Luna, don't you usually watch over the night?"

"We hath invented ways in which we can sleep but still watch over the night skies simultaneously. Dream walking is one of those ways." You followed Luna out of Celestia's chambers.

Suddenly, a grin grew on your face. "Oh, I'm very familiar with dream walking, Princess Luna... Trust me."

She turned around and gave you a look that said "Shut up, you idiot!" written all over it.

"What was that?" Celestia looked confused as you and Luna walked out the door and then turned around to face her.

"N-nothing, sister! It's nothing..." Luna's dark blue cheeks started to glow pink. Celestia raised an eyebrow at her, but was either too tired or too uninterested to pry any further.

"Well, it certainly has been an eventful night for all of us. Alex, I'd like you to do some research on the type of magic you used earlier today. I think it will lead you to finding what your cutie mark represents. I'd also like you to look into Swarswirl the Bearded's history, which I'm sure Twilight will enjoy. Hopefully then you will be able to find some answers to your questions about your connection to him. I'll be sending some research materials to Twilight's home to aid you."

"Yes ma'am, thank you."

"Until then, goodnight."

"Goodnight, Princess."

Celestia looked over at Luna. "Goodnight, Luna."

"Goodnight, sister." Luna leaned in and gave her sister a hug goodnight which you thought was adorable.

The door to Celestia's chamber closed and the two of you were left outside in the hallway with the torches flickering on the walls. You could hear faint hoof-steps lead away from the door as Celestia slowly made her way out of whispering distance. Luna placed her ear onto the door. *Thump thump thump thump*.

Once she was sure that Celestia was far enough away from the door, she turned back to you.

"Alex! I thought we had agreed that thou would keepest that a secret!" She whispered at you with embarrassment in her tone. She still had a shade of red on her cheeks.

"I'm sorry, Princess." You said after chuckling under your breath.

"It is not humorous! I was simply relieving myself after being abstinent for a long period of time... I thought you would understand..."

Luna's face began to look a little more sad than embarrassed at that point, which stopped your desire to tease her dead in its tracks. Now that you thought about it, if you were trapped for one thousand years with absolutely nopony else, you would start getting pretty lonely too. Not just sexually, but emotionally as well. The more time you spent with Luna, the more you began to realize that the thousand years she spent in exile weren't funny at all, and that joking about them in any way whatsoever usually ended up hurting her feelings. In reality, you were just trying to cheer her up, but you started to think at that moment that perhaps enough was enough.

"Look, Luna. I'm sorry. I can't even imagine what you had to go through..." Your head lowered, but Luna stood there silent.

You leaned in close to her so that Celestia wouldn't hear. "You know how I feel about what happened back then, I don't stand by her decision, and I still don't. If it were me, I would've done it differently."

"I know... It's just that..." You started to take note that she would cut her royal Canterlot speech when she got serious and emotional. You looked into her eyes with concern as she searched for what to say.

"Just because I am a princess does not mean that I do not have my... needs. However, I cannot simply go out into the commons and satisfy myself with any colt... Sometimes I feel as if I am trapped by these royal walls that are meant to keep me safe."

"What about guards?"

"What about them?" She looked at you with a puzzled expression.

"I dunno... Maybe they could help you out."

"Oh, goodness, no! That would be so unprofessional and unethical..."

You stood there thinking about a possible solution to the problem. It didn't take long to realize that it didn't have an easy solution. If she couldn't figure it out in the time she's been back from exile, it didn't make sense that you would be able to figure it out on your own in five minutes.

"I should retire for the night... I am sorry for keeping you so late, Alex." She turned and walked away before you could protest.

A deep wave of guilt flowed through you for making Luna's emotions about her exile relapse and you scolded yourself for being so careless. You decided to take it easy on her from now on after seeing just how much she went through on a daily basis. More than that, you felt pity for her since she had to bottle up her desires because of her title. You knew that she would likely be ridiculed, or even worse, dethroned, if she was caught having an affair with anypony. The guards wouldn't work. They would spread the word among themselves like wildfire. You thought up with a thousand possible solutions and a thousand reasons they wouldn't work within just moments, and you knew that there wasn't any way to solve her problem.

All you could do now was watch her walk away. The brilliant orange torches glowed against her fur, making it look even more beautiful than it already did. Her tail swayed back and forth with her hips. You tried not to stare, but you couldn't help it. You couldn't help but look at that royal plot behind that beautiful dark sparkly tail. Your mind instantly cursed you by bringing back memories of that night in your dream; the dream where Luna had her way with you.

You bit your lip hard and tried to block what your mind was urging. You looked at her thick dark blue cheeks and remembered that night when you were in bed with her and making love to her; when you lifted that plot up and penetrated it's warm opening with your-

"God dammit, Alex..." You whispered to yourself before running for her. "Princess Luna! Wait!"

Thankfully, you were just able to catch her before she closed the door to her room. You held the door open with her hoof and breathed a little heavier for a few seconds to recover from sprinting.

"Goodness, Alex. What's the matter?"

"That night... That you came into my dream. Did you enjoy it?" Luna's face turned red once more as the memories came back to her as well. She shifted uneasily and opened the door a little wider.

"I suppose... Why?" You knew that she enjoyed it more than she was letting on.

"Well, you said there was nopony that could help you with your... needs."

"Yes?" She was outside of her door and looking you right in your eye at this point.

You sighed and went for it, since you didn't know how else to say it. "I could help you with that, if you wanted. You can trust me not to tell anypony and we've technically already done it once, so..."

Her already red face brightened more as her eyes darted away from you and looked at the ground.

"It's the least I can do for you." Even though you felt like you were breaking some kind of code by touching royalty, you picked her chin up so that she was looking at you again.

"A-are you sure? Thou would do such a thing for me?"

"If it can help ease the suffering you've been through these last thousand years in any way, I'd be happy to, your highness. You picked up her hoof and kissed it delicately to seal the deal.

"My, you certainly know your way with mares, Sir Alex." A tiny, cute smile formed on her lips. "Very well, I accept your offer."

She slipped back inside her room. "I will send an escort for you when I need your... Services... Until then, good night."

The door shut and you cold hear the deadbolt slip into place as you were left by yourself in the empty hallway with a large erection that Luna miraculously didn't see.

She looked up at the clock. Eleven. Time to start.

The doors flew open and a stampede of ponies came in. Loud cheers erupted from the crowd as the lights dimmed and Vinyl revved up her sub woofers with a low rising bass tone. She got a comical salute from her friend who worked the bar over to her left, which told her that it was party time. Vinyl's hoof raised and saluted back to her and with a *zap!* of her horn, her trademark purple club shades were on, which drew in more cheering from the plethora of ponies.

"Are you ready to spin this shit?!"

You heard Vinyl's amplified voice muffle through the brick walls of the club as you tried to work through the crowd to get in. You were lucky enough to run into quite a few ponies who were polite enough to realize who you were and step out of your way.

"Shit..." You cursed yourself for being so late as a wave of guilt flowed through you.

Your fears were confirmed once you finally passed through the large double doors at the front of the club. Vinyl was already getting ready to play and the bar was already packed with ponies. You let out a sigh of defeat and leaned against the nearby wall to catch your breath from galloping the entire way here from Canterlot. You mentally wanted to blame the train conductor for taking two detours on the way to Ponyville, but you knew that it wouldn't have changed much.

"Alex! You're tardy to the party!" Pinkie Pie nearly made you jump out of your skin. She rolled around on the floor laughing at her own joke while you recovered.

"Oh, hey Pinkie."

"Get it? tardy.... To the paaaarty!!!"

"Yes, Pinkie, I get it." You couldn't help but smile a little.

Suddenly, Pinkie flew a few feet up in the air and her eyes opened wide. It was followed by a gasp that made you a little uneasy.

"Omigoshomigosh! You got your cutie mark!!!"

"Oh, uh... Yeah."

"It looks kinda funny. How'd ya get it?" Pinkies sudden change from hyper to sober almost made you bust out laughing.

"Well, I'm really not sure. In fact, it was partially the reason why I was late."

"Huh? What'cha mean?"

"I was in a meeting with Princess Celestia and-"

"Ooh well aren't you mister important! Oh by the way, there's somepony outside that wants to see you. I gotta go dance!" And just like that, she zipped off into the large crowd in the center.

"Alrightie then..." You giggled a bit at Pinkie's randomness, but you weren't surprised.

You knew that Vinyl would be playing up there for quite some time, so you decided to go and meet whoever this was right now and get it over with. A deep sigh escaped your lungs. You turned around and made your way back through the crowd until you saw the double doors leading out into the cold night. They gave way with a gentle push of your forehead and you were greeted by a stiff gust of chilled wind.

Pinkie Pie caught you by your tail. You expected it to hurt, but oddly enough, it didn't.

"Hey! Don'tcha know it's chilly out there?! Here! Take this!" She wrapped a bright pink scarf around your neck that was made of a thick wool. It warmed you almost immediately as you tucked your muzzle deep into it's soft texture.

"Thanks, Pinkie. I appreciate-"

She had already gone back inside.

"It..." You couldn't help but smile at her quirkiness.

"Alright, Mrs. Mystery Mare." You spoke to yourself comically as you pushed your way through the cold towards Sugarcube Corner.

"You've got some explaining to do."

Author's Notes:

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~Canadianbrony91