"Sweet Tartarus, that's what happened to the library?"

Pinkie spared Sombra a light giggle as he gawked at the demolished building, his eyes wide as he looked over himself with renewed respect. The recently released stallion has several bandages on his limbs and a cast on his right foreleg, while several band-aids covered his ears and cheeks.

"Yeah, it was... pretty bad," Pinkie told him, careful to keep the negativity out of her tone. She wasn't going to think about how she had found him in the burning foundation.

Sombra looked over at Pinkie as he found the slight change of cadence in her voice and sighed. "Pinks, you know that what happened wasn't your fault, don't you?"

Pinkie looked over at him with a hard expression. "If I hadn't left you all alone in the library, you wouldn't have gotten hurt! I feel horrible for arguing with you about it!"

"But, I'm fine, remember?" Sombra told her as he held up his cast, then put it down as he realized it wouldn't help his case.

Pinkie sighed. "Yeah, but--"

"No 'buts', Pinks," Sombra interrupted as he held up his other foreleg, "neither of us knew that Tirek would attack the library, much less with me in it, so you shouldn't feel so guilty on the matter."

"Yeah!" exclaimed Spike, who was accompanying the couple for their trip to the broken library, "Besides, I don't know if you told Sombra about it yet, but Twilight got an awesome new castle!"

"What?" Sombra blurted out, his wide-eyed gaze going over to Pinkie, "When was this?"

"Oh, it happened after Tirek sucked all the magic from me and the girls, then we found the sixth Harmony Key and we opened the box which gave us bright, rainbow-riffic powers that let everypony get their magic back and now Twilight has a super sparkly castle that looks like a tree!"

Sombra sat there for a moment in dumbfounded silence, then let out a tired sigh as he shook his head. "I should really stop asking for synopses of your day when I've been through a lot of psychological and physical trauma..."

Pinkie giggled. "Come on, ya wanna go look at the castle? You can sit in my chair there, if ya want!"

Sombra arched a brow as he ceased his ragged head-shaking suddenly. "You have a chair at Twilight's? What is that even supposed to mean? What, do you have your name etched into it?"

"Naw, man!" Spike told him, "Pinkie and the others got thrones with the castle! And I got one, too! Now who's useless?"

"Wait a second, back up a moment..." Sombra said as he held up his forelegs in a 'back-it-up' motion, "Are you saying you have a position in Twilight's castle?"

"Yeah, I guess."

"An actual, physical position that may or may not come with political power?"

"Well, Princess Celestia said that Twilight was now dubbed the Princess of Friendship and that since we were her friends, we held some of that responsibility, so yeah, I guess we do have some political power!" Pinkie gasped as she put her hooves to her face excitedly. "Ooooo, do you think we can order endless amounts of sweets?" Another gasp. "Or maybe a chocolate fountain?" A third gasp. "Or a chocolate fountain full of endless sweets?!"

Sombra could only stare as he looked at the mare before him with a new perception as she continued to name off several things she could do with her new found power(though small in comparison to a princess), and as he came to realize the benefits of just knowing her, he began to think of all the benefits of being with her.

And, he realized, just how much distance and bandaging was between him and this amazing, powerful mare, the conclusion he drew being that there was simply too much of it.

"Or maybe we can get a-- GAH!" Pinkie was cut off by Sombra tackling her to the ground, the action causing Spike to gawk at the two of them.

"OK, I may be a kid, but I know enough to know that something is about to happen that's not meant for my innocent eyes!" Spike exclaimed as he held out his claws in emphasis of his statement, "I'm done for the day, and I bid you both goodbye!"

Without another word, Spike ran off and left the couple alone. Well, as alone as they could be in public.

"What was that for?" Pinkie questioned as Sombra looked down at her alluringly.

"You. Me. Bedroom. Now."

Pinkie blinked at him in surprise. "Huh?"

"And tell me more about the things you want to do with your position as a delegate for Equestria or whatever it is you do. I'd like to exchange ideas... amongst other things."