The airship was big. As big as a large modern day jetliner, but fatter. Which honestly was kind of expected, it was a airship after all.

While it did have the expected gondola beneath it, it also had rooms through it. I could only put that up to magic.

Which was also how it moved, a magically turning propeller at the rear.

“Captain Stellarite,” I said as I walked the gangplank onto the ship.

“Lord Page,” He answered with a smile, “Welcome onboard.”

He was a unicorn with dark grey coat and darker mane.

“Thank you. But you didn’t need to come meet me, I’m sure you have more important things to do.”

He grinned briefly, “Protocol, sir. But you’re also right, this is a rather busy time. If you’d excuse me, I’ll have somepony direct you to your quarters?”

“Please.”

He nodded and motioned to a pegasus mare with pale pink coat and blonde mane in a similar uniform but with less bling and without the hat, “ Crewmare Steel Night here will be assigned to you while onboard, sir. She’ll show you where your quarters are.”

I smiled, “Hello,” and then thanked him, letting him get back to the much more important matter of actually being Captain.

“Hello sir, and welcome onboard the Honeydew,” she said with a cheerful smile, “If you’d please follow me?”

“Of course,” I agreed and then followed her through the corridors. Didn’t take long to get to where we were going,

“Here you go, sir,” she said and opened the door before following me inside.

It reminded me more of a full on hotel suite than anything on a ship. Seriously, place was larger than Luna’s and my primary rooms in the castle!

“Bathroom through here, sir,” Steel Night said cheerfully, “Full bath included. Through here is your bedroom,” she continued before trotting over to a rope by the door, “If you pull this, it summon a maid or myself if you require any sort of assistance.”

I nodded with a smile as I looked around, “Thank you, this is great.”

She bowed and then trotted out with a smile, “I’ll go see what happened to your luggage, sir.”

Nodding, I then looked around as I trotted over to jump onto the bed. Wow this place was amazing.

That’s it, this is how I travel from now on.

Fuck flying chariots and trains. Airship is where it’s at!

“Seriously! You get this place!?” A very familiar voice called out from the main sitting room, “Are you kidding!?”

“What?” I asked and jumped off the bed to move out to join Sunset, “You don’t?”

“Mine is a shoebox!” she complained before trotting up to peer into the bathroom, “It’s smaller than your bathroom!”

I grinned, “Sucks to be you, doesn’t it?”

Well, make sense I suppose, space would be a premium.

She rolled her eyes, “Well, that’s not happening. I’m moving in here.”

“My, my, how forward. What would ponies think?”

Sunset stuck her tongue out at me, “Oh please, half the castle already thinks we’re together. It wouldn’t change a thing.”

“Eh, good point,” I agreed, “Fine. But the bed is mine.”

She fluttered her eyelashes at me, “You would leave me sleeping on the couch?”

“Damn right.”

She snorted and then grinned, “Still better than my so called ‘bed’. So how soon do we leave?”

“Not completely sure, should be any minute. As I understand it, they were basically waiting for us to get onboard.”

Sunset nodded, “The Legion is already onboard, I talked to Bright Glow before coming here, everyone seems to be ready.”

“Been on one of these before?”

Sunset nodded again, “Once when I was a little filly, Princess Celestia gave me a tour once. Oh, we should head onto the top deck for departure, it’s the best view.”

“Sounds like a plan,” I agreed and motioned towards the door, “Lead the way.”

“Should be able to remember how to get there,” She said and trotted towards the door.

It didn’t take long to find our way there. Basically, we just looked for stairs leading up and asking a couple of ponies on the way.

We emerged into the cool winter air just in time to see the large propeller at the back of the airship start to slowly turn.

Sunset looked around and put her hooves on the railing. I moved to stand next to her, watching Canterlot start to slowly pull away.

Shifting my wings, the air tugging at my feathers and mane before I looked at Sunset again as we started to rise among the clouds.

She was clearly freezing.

“Come on, let’s head back inside. Find something warm to drink.”

“S-sounds good.”

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