*poke* Got a moment?

Bob

Let me guess, you have work and will be coming home late? :P really, you don’t need to worry just because we have foals now. All I need to do is open the window for a dozen potential foalsitters to show up :P

Do what you have to do :) Just try to be quiet when you get home.

LyraHands

Pfft! I’m always quiet! And it’s not that :) I have a surprise for you :D Something I think you’d really enjoy :)

Bob

You and your surprises :P You and the foals are all that I need :)

LyraHands

I know *kiss* but I promised you something special, and now I finally convinced my boss to give me the go ahead :)

Of course there’s some red tape (because why not :/) but in a week or two... ;D

Bob

Okay, I’ll bite. What is your surprise?

LyraHands

A honeymoon! And before you say a word I’ve spoken with InItForTheShipping and she’ll look after the foals while we’re gone. (Also DarkSparkle is backup, and ColdLight said she’d keep an eye on them during the night.) as you see everything’s covered :)

Can you feel it? Ten glorious days with you and me in the place of your dreams :)

Bob

That’s... actually that’s sweet, but after what Equestria’s been through I don’t think going on vacation somewhere would have the same effect. I appreciate the thought, though :) Maybe next year?

LyraHands

Who said anything about Equestria? ;)

Bob

Ooooh! Now that’s sneaky! I approve :)

LightSparkle did invite me a few times, but it didn’t cross my mind because of the foals. Now that you say you’ve managed to find someone responsible to take care of them... well, it’s tempting, I’ll give you that. I’m just still a bit worried if they’ll be fine. I mean I know I can trust InItForTheShipping. She knows more about magic and foal raising then I do, it’s just that...

I’ll ask LightSparkle if it’s okay for me to pop back home every evening for a bit to see how they are doing.

LyraHands

Err... we won’t be visiting LightSparkle. We’ll be going to Mistmount.

Bob

Wha? O.o

LyraHands

There’s more than one human realm, silly :) Besides the Earth that LightSparkle is in is a mirror dimension. If we go there we’ll become humans and possibly run into copies of ourselves if we’re not careful.

It’s fun, I admit (and you do look very sexy as a human :P) but I was thinking of something more special. I’ve arranged for us to visit the real thing :) Well, there won’t be any Danny or Felina Corp or mystical chases, but the town is exactly as described in the original stories.

Bob

Err... let me get this straight. You want us to go to Mistmount, THE Mistmount, for our honeymoon?!

That’s like.... this is happening so fast! I just learned a few days ago that humans are real, and now you tell me that there are several Earths, including one that has the actual Mistmount?

Bonny, how could you keep this from me?! I mean I know it’s a secret and all, but... seriously?! You know how much that would have meant for me! Hay, if I had known about LightSparkle’s Earth earlier I’d have gone visiting ages ago!

LyraHands

That’s precisely why I didn’t. You’d have gone there, and since things here were a bit... tense for you, you might have stayed. And I didn’t want that to happen.

Besides you would have freaked like a little filly :P I still remember how much you hyperventilated the last few days :P Learning that you could go to Mistmount would have been too much.

To be honest, I have no idea what it’s like there. I know we have friends there and that’s it. I also know we’ll have to be discreet about it. Talking ponies aren’t common there. Same for unicorns. We’ll have to be invisible during our stay, which means no photos.

Bob

Are you kidding? Who cares! Mistmount! I get to be in Mistmount! It’s like... wow! When you first suggested it, it hough you mean asking Princess Luna sculpt a dream for me in which we could go through the MCverse and have fun for a night. This is way beyond anything I could have imagined!

I don’t know what to say. These last few days have been one revelation after another. I... I thought that I cried a lot because of my pregnancy. I was wrong about that as well. I’m so happy right now that... you’re beyond the best things that happened to me! Without your support I wouldn’t have gotten nearly as far. The site would have died, or remained a small place for fans... I’d have remained living with my parents, coping with a life I hated. I’d have remained single, alone, and... I don’t even want to think about that! I’m just so happy right now that I could fly!

LyraHands

How do you imagine you make me feel? *nuzzles* :)

Bob

Umm... seems there’s a change of plans.

Bob

Oh? Is everything okay?

LyraHands

I’m not sure... Remember that red tape I told you about? The one that would take weeks to untangle? Well, I just witnessed a magical scissor appear and cut through it in less than a minute.

Would it be okay if we head off in... say an hour or so?

Bob

What?! An hour? What happened to your work? What happened with all the permissions required?

LyraHands

Well, my boss’ boss just teleported in and had a few words, it seems. Something about you helping save Equestria twice and such. Apparently. I have the rest of the day... provided I go on my honeymoon with you. ;)

Bob

It was Princess Celestia, wasn’t it?

LyraHands

I have no idea what your talking about. Actually, I think you’ve coming down with a strong fever, so I better rush and make sure you’re okay, take you to a hospital if I have to.

Bob

*giggle* Yeah, I think I feel it. Everything looks blurry all of a sudden.

Just get here, you goof. And thank your pastry team from me. *hugs & nibbles*

LyraHands

I love you.

LyraHands

I know. We’ll talk more on the way ;) Do you need to make a post you’ll be gone for a week?

Bob

Nah. The site will be fine without me :) It’s time I experienced the real thing. With you ;)

LyraHands

Author's Notes:

With this EqF is finally over :)

Thank you all so much for persisting it to now (all 370 chapters), going through the highs and lows of the characters, sharing your thoughts and support. I’ll probably write a full blog about this later, but just wanted you to know how much you meant to me. Knowing that you enjoyed a bit of the story and were willing to devote your time often made my day throughout 2017.

As Lyra would say: thank you for changing my life. I hope the story has managed to make you smile every now and again.

May 2018 find you all well and happy :D