While Canterlot High could rightly be called a hectic and busy place on most days, there was one spot on the campus that was usually devoid of any kind of excitement; the library. Thanks to the efforts of aides like Miss Cheerilee, this place was the pinnacle of quiet study, and most students just stuck to themselves, silently reading their books in their own little corner, creating an atmosphere of peace all over the place. And it was in this place that Sunset now found herself, standing beside one of the library's many bookcases. There, she looked over book after book, narrowing her eyes until she found exactly what she was looking for, at which point her face lit up with a smile. As she carefully took the book from it's resting place, she flipped through a few of the pages, giving an approving nod after confirming that this was indeed what she needed.

And so, with her search finished for the time being, she made her way towards the front desk, ready to check the book out before leaving. However, before she reached that desk, she stopped, as she'd caught sight of someone familiar in the corner of her eye. Turning, she found that she had not been imagining things, as there, sitting alone on one of the library's many study desks, was Sonata. She was looking through a book of her own, with a strained look on her face, and was completely alone. Curious, Sunset decided to walk over, and as soon as she was close enough, she spoke up to the blue girl, making sure to keep her voice as hushed as possible in this library environment.

"They there, Sonata. You studying?"

The youngest Siren sister looked up from her book, breaking out into a small smile when she saw Sunset.

"Hey there, Sunset!"

Her voice had been loud and, as students now expected in this place, that now caused Miss Cheerilee to suddenly appear out of nowhere behind a nearby bookcase, giving a loud "shhh", complete with a disapproving glare in Sonata's direction. A look of embarrassment crossed the Siren's face as she shrugged her shoulders and chuckled nervously, prompting Cheerilee to slowly and creepily retreat back behind the bookcase again, while keeping her eyes on her the whole time. With that incident now behind them, Sonata turned to Sunset, now knowing to keep her voice down.

"Um...yeah, I'm studying. I've got this history report due next week and I need to really get to work on it."

Sunset's smiled faded a little, and she looked around their immediate location, and saw, as before, than none of Sonata's sisters were here with her.

"Adagio and Aria aren't here to help you?"

Sonata shook her head.

"Nope. Just me. Dagi and Ari said they'd already done theirs. And, well...they've tried helping me before on this kinda stuff, but...I kinda couldn't really pay attention to what they were saying. There was this really pretty butterfly near us and..."

Sunset, despite herself, stifled a giggle, before, to Sonata's confusion, taking a seat beside her.

"You know, I could help you, if you like."

Sonata turned to her with a now-massive smile on her face.

"Really? You'd do that for me?"

Sunset nodded.

"Sure. We're friends now, right?"

Sonata looked like she was right on the verge of letting out a very loud "squee", but, remembering what happened the last time she was loud, she slapped her hands over her mouth, simply resorting to giving Sunset a nod, to which the latter merely smiled.

"Alright then. So, what are you studying for?"

Lowering her hands, Sonata pointed a finger at her book.

"History. I've got to write a paper on this old English king. You know, the really fat one?"

Sunset raised an eyebrow.

"Henry the Eighth?"

Sonata nodded.

"Yeah, that's the guy. The teacher said I've gotta talk mostly about his wives, and, you know...how they died and stuff."

Sunset gained a small smile at that.

"Well that's no problem. During my first year here, the teachers actually gave us a fun way of remembering that."

Sonata raised an eyebrow, showing clear confusion.

"Fun? In homework?"

Sunset giggled slightly.

"Well...maybe fun is the wrong word to use, but it did help us. They came up with this little rhyme to help us remember what happened to each wife."

Sonata scratched her chin a little before putting on a smile of her own.

"Huh, well...that sounds alright then. How'd it go?"

Sunset cleared her throat before responding to that.

"Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived. That was the order of the wives and what happened to each of them."

Sonata grimaced at that.

"Yeesh!"

Sunset nodded in agreement.

"I know. Old Henry wasn't exactly the nicest guy when it came to his women."

Sonata nodded herself before leaning in with a sly smile.

"Plus, he was, like, a major flirt with all the other girls. It took pretty much all the magic me, Dagi and Ari had to keep him from groping us every day."

Sunset looked to her with confusion in her expression, only to then have it morph into a look of shock and realisation.

"Wait...you mean...you girls actually met Henry the Eighth?"

Sonata nodded.

"Oh sure. We've been in this world for centuries, remember? Been all over the place, met a whole bunch of people."

But, her face then became one of disgust as her old memories resurfaced.

"I tell ya though, that Henry was the worst. We weren't in his court very long, but it was long enough. At first, Dagi just wanted to charm him like everyone else, you know, get in good with a king and all that? But, you know, Dagi has some pretty high standards, and there was no way she'd want to be anywhere near that guy after some of the stuff he pulled while we were there."

Sunset nodded.

"I can imagine. I heard he did some pretty nasty stuff to most people."

Sonata nodded back.

"Yeah. But, it all came back to bite him, right? A few days after we left, Dagi told me that all the castle's doctors said he died of "silliness" or something. Guess that'll teach him, right Sunset?"

Sunset looked to the blue girl before her, gazing at the completely innocent and oblivious look on her face, and tried, in vain to get herself to explain things.

"Silli...no, Sonata, it wasn't silliness, it was..."

But, one look at the sweet smile on Sonata's face, and the way she tilted her head, and Sunset now found she just couldn't go through with it, and instead let out a long sigh before putting on her own smile.

"...Sure, silliness, that was it."

However, mere moments later, Sunset gained a look upon her face that was very reminiscent of Rarity whenever the latter had an "idea" pop into her head. Turning back to Sonata, she placed a hand upon her shoulder.

"Hey! You know what this means, right? If you were actually there, that means you could write all sorts of stuff in your report! You now, first-hand accounts and all that kind of stuff!"

Sonata, hearing that, broke out into a massive smile, but, yet again, covered her mouth when she was on the verge of "squeeing". After nodding in silence for a few moments, she lowered her hands and spoke softly.

"That sounds great, Sunny! I can't wait to hear what my teacher thinks when I tell him about all the weird stuff that Henry guy did while we were there. Like when he tried touching Aria's butt in the castle gardens and she punched him in the face for it? Took him a whole day to regain consciousness! That was really funny!"

Hearing that, Sunset's mind conjured up an image of the teacher in question looking over that particular passage in Sonata's as-yet unfinished essay. Needless to say, the prediction she came up with did not bode well for the youngest Siren, or her grade-point average. So, her smile faded, and after a while, she let out another sigh before pointing a finger to Sonata's history book.

"On second thoughts...let's just stick to how he used to cut his wives' heads off. Much less controversial."