It was a day like any other; Sink and I were guarding the door to study 11P, making sure that Lord Solaris was left undisturbed while he played Extreme Jenga with Prince Artemis. We had been standing there for an hour or so when Sink spoke up.

"Uh, Seeker," she started, "I've gotta go do this thing."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"I've just gotta go do a thing, I'll be back in a bit." Sink quickly headed off down the hallway.

"Sink! Wait! You can't keep leaving your post like this!" No matter how much I called, she wouldn't come back. For a moment I was tempted to go after her to make sure she stayed away from the bathrooms, but the moment passed and I went back to guarding.

A little while later, I heard the sound of galloping hooves. I looked down the hallway to see Ass Caresser, the royal masseuse, sprinting towards me. She reached me and stopped to take a few breaths.

"Ass? What's wrong?"

"I..." She gasped. "I need to see Lord Solaris!"

"Okay." I turned around and opened the door. Ass ran through. About thirty seconds passed before Ass and Lord Solaris came quickly through the door. Ass went back the way she had come from.

"Seeker," said Lord Solaris, "come with m- Wait, where's Sink?"

"She, uh, said she needed to go somewhere, your majesty." Lord Solaris groaned and rolled his eyes.

"Dammit, Seeker, why do you always let her go?"

"I-I just-!"

"Do you know how much work it'll be to tell somepony else to fix that?"

"Well-"

"Can you just skip to the important parts?" Asked the turquoise stallion, cutting me off.

"It's not a proper story if I don't go over everything!" I retorted. The stallion put his face into his hooves and groaned.

"Fine! Just get on with it!"

"Do you know how much work it'll be to tell somepony else to fix that?" Asked Lord Solaris.

"Well, it-"

"Rhetorical question!" Lord Solaris lit up his horn and teleported Soap Squeeze, the head royal janitor, next to us.

"Gah!" Exclaimed Soap. "Don't do that!"

"Sink is going at the sinks again." Soap groaned loudly and glared at me.

"For Solaris's sake, Seeker! No offense, Lord Solaris."

"None taken."

"Why do you always let her do this?!"

"B-But I-" I started before being cut off.

"You know what, Seeker?" Asked Lord Solaris. "Forget it. Go help Soap instead. Maybe this time you won't fail." Lord Solaris walked off down the hallway, leaving Soap and I to ourselves. Soap turned to me again, shaking her head.

"I-I was just trying to-!"

"Shut up and get the unclogging potion," Soap said bitterly before walking away. I sighed sadly. Why do I alway let her go? I need to-

"Why do I need to hear about all this?!" Interrupted the stallion again. I glared at him.

"It makes a nice lead in!" I exclaimed.

"We don't have time for 'lead ins'! I need to know what happened without the dramatic retelling!"

"Jeez! Fine! As I made my way to the potion storage I fell down some stairs, which is why I was cut up. Then when I finally made it there I passed out from blood loss. There, happy?" The stallions right eye twitched.

"Are you telling me," he started in a quiet voice, "that you don't even know why everypony's missing?"

"Well... No... I don't..." The stallion gained a weird expression.

"Would you excuse me for a moment?"

"Uh, okay?" The stallion left the room. I heard a muffled scream. "Are you okay?!" The stallion came back into the room looking a bit less stressed.

"Okay. From the sounds of it; the sink was blocked just before I was found in the gardens. How long does it normally take Soap to unblock them?"

"Usually a few hours, Sink is really good at blocking them up."

"I'm gonna go check if they're still blocked. You should probably just stay here before you give me a stroke from anger." He started to walk out of the room again.

"I'm sorry!" The stallion either didn't hear me or ignored me. Maybe I should go help him... I stood up and stretched out, making by back and wings pop, then set off after him.

Author's Notes:

Chapters should start getting longer again soon.

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R63 names used from here.

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I finally made enough progress in my serious story to post it!
Here's a link.