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Secret of Flying

by Hiver

Chapter 42

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“How are things going with the minotaurs?” I asked Celestia as I settled down next to her on the balcony overlooking one of the gardens.

She shrugged her wings. “Slow. Tedious. But well enough, I suppose,” she said before she smiled and poked me with her wing. “I wouldn’t mind if you joined us tomorrow. Perhaps a new point of view will help.”

I cringed at that before I shook my head. ”Can’t. Luna returns tomorrow.”

“It will be good to have her back.”

Nodding, I looked out at the trees below. A gardener was working on trimming the rosebushes.

Maybe I should take up gardening. I likely should know some of it in any case, if I were to own a timberwolf.

“Bit for your thoughts?” Celestia asked after a moment.

I shook my head. “You would be overpaying. Was thinking about Fern.”

“How is the timberwolf?”

I looked over at her at her tone. “You don’t like him?”

Celestia sighed. “It is not that, Page. It’s just that I don’t wish anypony to be hurt. In my life, I have never heard of a timberwolf being tamed.”

She had a point there. Normally they hunted ponies… not beg to taste their tea. But Fern had never hurt anypony.

“He's never hurt anypony.”

“I know,” Celestia answered and nodded. “Just… be careful. He is still little but he will grow.”

Nodding, I frowned down at my hooves. “I am.”

We settled down into silence again and just enjoyed the warmth of her sun for the moment. It was nice for me…

But I knew it was even nicer for her.

Both Luna and Celestia were under so much pressure. Constantly, even during just the normal day to day operations.

All of Equestria rested on them both.

Celestia carried it all alone for a thousand years along with… locking her sister away in the moon. There were no words for how much I admired that. I couldn’t do that.

I didn’t have that much responsibilities. To be honest, I didn’t have any really.

There was nothing that said I even had to deal with dreams. It wasn’t really my special… thing. It was involved, yes, but I think my actual thing was imagination. Or… maybe inspiration.

Not dreams.

I just did it because I could help Luna. To take some weight off her, if even just a little.

Finally, I looked up at Celestia. “Sunshine?”

“Hmh?” she asked and looked over at me in question.

“Is there anything I can do to help?”

“How do you mean, Page?”

“Not just… going to a cultural thing in your place, but… something I can do to help out day to day,” I explained and shifted my wings. “You always have so much to do, same as Luna. I don’t want a throne or a crown, but I want to help out if I can. I help Luna with dreams… not all of them, but enough that she can actually put it out of her mind if she wants to. So that she can focus on other things.”

Celestia smiled and leaned in, giving my ear a nuzzle. “Thank you, Page. But I don’t know what it would be.”

“Neither do I,” I admitted and flicked my ear. “Just… I want to help out if I can.”

She nodded and then eyed me. “Maybe I should just put you in charge of the Guard. You get along with guardsmen.”

I gave her a flat look. “If you do, I swear I’ll use the Guard to take over Equestria and put a democracy in place. As revenge.”

That got a giggle from her and a poke from her wing. “Better not then. Whatever would we do with ‘Darth Page’?”

“Cower in fear, of course,” I said with a grin and then slowly flicked my ears in thought. Hmm.

Now that was an idea.

Not exactly the conquer Equestria thing, but other parts… yes. Definitely workable.

I grinned and quickly jumped up. “Celestia, you are a genius! Thank you!”

That got me a head tilt. “…I’m afraid you lost me.”

Shaking my head, I stretched my wings. “No time to explain, I have too much to do before tomorrow.”

Celestia shot me a suspicious look. “What exactly are you up to now, Page?” she asked with a smile as she got up.

I gave her a quick hug. “You’ll see tomorrow. Have fun with the minotaurs.”

“Yes. Fun.” She snorted. “That’s one thing to call it.”

“Hey, see it like this… if you get tired of talking, headbutt them,” I suggested. “They have those horns for a reason.”

Celestia looked at me for a long moment before she started to laugh. “Maybe having you not join the negotiations is for the best. But I’ll keep it in mind,” she then added, sticking her tongue out at me.

Winking, I jumped off the balcony and took to the air. I had some things to do and not a lot of time to do it. First of all, I needed to track down Cloud and Swift, I would need their help with this. Sunset as well.

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