The dream realm was shining like stars all around as I exited the last of the bad dreams. Tonight was a good night.

Just a couple of thousand bad dreams. Thirty or so that were bad enough to need my attention to check for actual Nightmares.

A total of one contained an actual Nightmare. A scrawny little thing that tried to turn into a clown to scare me. I’m not even afraid of clowns. It almost got away, I was so busy laughing at it.

Which might have actually been its plan. Fair enough, almost worked. Which made it smarter than most of its kind.

Even more important to smash it before it grew older and stronger.

I glanced up at the ‘sky’ above. It always reminded me of Luna.

Now… work over for now. What to do now? Get some actual sleep or…

I could go find Luna. I did plan to do that later in any case, but the question was if I wanted to do something else first.

Celestia maybe?

Ooh, I just remembered that idea I had earlier. Now, where is Cadence?

A small application of will and the silvery portals rearranged all around the area before the one before me was replaced to one that felt very much like Princess Cadence.

The silvery portal shimmered healthily. Someone was dreaming nice dreams. From the colour, they didn’t seem to be too private either.

I learned very quickly to stay far away from any dreams with a pink shine to them.

This one was nice and silvery with a slight clear blue hint to it. Nice and peaceful dream. Reaching out I touched the silvery surface before trotting through into her dream world.

Reality shimmered around me and congealed into a living room. In the middle was a little purple unicorn and a young, but still older alicorn, looking like she was in her young teens.

“Come on, Twily, you can do it!” she cheered on the little unicorn who had a deep look of concentration on her face, slowly lifting a couple of books, causing them to orbit around her.

D’aww!

They were adorable!

Still, not something I should really be intruding on. This was a happy memory for her.

I tapped my hoof against the floor, sending out a pulse of will and magic, solidifying the dream and making the dreamer aware of what was going on.

Cadence started slightly and blinked, looking around.

I gave her a small wave. “Hey Cadence.”

She blinked twice. “…Page? Is that you?” she asked before looking around again at the playing Twilight. “Am I dreaming?”

“You are,” I confirmed with a smile. “I was patrolling the dreamscape and thought I would stop by and say hi,” I said as I looked at Twilight. “She is adorable.”

Cadence smiled and looked at her. “Yeah. Yeah, she was,” she sighed before she looked back at me again. “What is it like? Dream walking?”

I shrugged my wings. “Like this. Honestly, I stay out as much as I can, I only check the really bad dreams for Nightmares. I try not to violate privacy when I can avoid it.”

“Nightmares?” Cadence asked with a frown.

“…You don’t want to know. How’s things in the Crystal Empire?”

Cadence smiled and then sighed. “Good, it’s a lot of work but things are going well. Even the... changelings.”

“No trouble then?”

She shook her head. “…No. I may not like them personally, but they haven’t caused any trouble,” Cadence admitted. “Model citizens while they gather their love.”

I nodded. I expected them to behave.

Changelings were very reliable like that. Not exactly prone to acting out.

“Actually, there is something I would like to ask you about…” I said and looked around before moving over to jump onto the couch to lay down, folding my wings again. “About Celestia.”

Cadence smiled and settled down in one of the armchairs. “Oh? Why me?”

“Well, it involves your Domain so I figured why not ask an expert?”

Smiling brighter, Cadence spread her wings. “Okay, this is what I know that she’d like. You should surprise her, none of these normal ‘surprise flowers or chocolates’ things, what you should try is to…”

“Not me!” I exclaimed, staring at her. “What? Cadence, are you okay? You do remember that I’m with Luna, right?”

Cadence's ears drooped a bit and she sighed, shaking her head. “So for whom then?”

I gave her a suspicious look. “… A friend of mine. Thunder Cloud, he is a member of the Royal Guard and I do know he finds her interesting and attractive. He is just… intimidated. He wouldn’t ever dare to approach her. I want Celestia to be happy.”

She looked thoughtful for a moment as she watched me. “Page, I’m not sure that will work.”

“Why?”

“Celestia needs someone that can keep up. Someone that can see her for her and not be intimidated by who she is,” Cadence said with a sad smile. “If he can’t do that on his own…”

“… I’m just looking to give him a chance to get to know her. Let her get a chance to know him. Anything else would be up to them.”

Cadence frowned. “I’m not sure it will work, Page. But if you just want to introduce them, why not hold a party and invite all your friends?”

I blinked at her in surprise. “…I’m such an idiot!”

“It come with being male I think, Shiny is the same at times,” she commented with a smile. “Just remember that anything more than introductions would be up to them.”