Sunset Shimmer knocked on the arched stone doorway to an ancient ruined castle as she stepped inside, whistling a wee tune to keep herself occupied.

“Hey, hope you’re decent in here,” Sunset chuckled and winked at Twilight Sparkle, who was already making herself comfortable inside the castle.

Or at least as comfortable as one could get in a rundown junk heap like this one; structures like this castle falling apart at the seams were a depressingly common sight on the First Circle, which had maybe at one time had a thriving society, but now was just home to bands running around tearing each other to shreds for magic, and the only thing these castles were good for anymore was sleeping in ‘em.

“What were you doing out there?” Twilight asked, arms crossed and hoof tapping against the dirt. It was almost cute how high strung she was.

“Setting up a hex,” Sunset said casually, rolling her shoulders back and letting her jacket fall off of them before tossing it to Twilight Sparkle. “Here, take this. Gets mighty cold down here at night, and I don’t want you keeping me awake all night with your teeth chattering or anything.”

“Thanks, I guess,” Twilight croaked, eyeing the jacket suspiciously, “but shouldn’t one of us stay awake and keep watch?”

“If you want to,” Sunset shrugged. “It’s just gonna make you miserable all night though, and I don’t wanna drag your tired ass around all day tomorrow. That’s what the hex is for, dummy. I drew up some runes around the castle, and if anyone tries to cross ‘em, it’ll activate the spell and I’ll know about it. I’ve been roughing it out here on my own for eons, you think I don’t know how to sleep? Geez.”

“Fine,” Twilight sighed relentingly, and it was kinda satisfying to see her admit defeat.

“That’s the spirit,” Sunset said and popped the button on her shorts.

“Woah, what are you doing?!” Twilight squealed, jumping back and covering her eyes with Sunset’s jacket.

“Uh, loosening up my shorts?” Sunset let out a scoffing laugh. “Can’t have them choking my massive cock while I’m asleep, y’know? Not like I’m taking them off.” Sunset grinned at Twilight, whose eyes were just barely peeking out from behind the jacket. “Unless you want that.”

“As if,” Twilight scoffed in disgust, crossing her arms.

“You could always get out of your clothes too if you want,” Sunset gave a catlike smirk as Twilight’s posture stiffened up and her face turned bright red. Seeing her squirm was just too much fun.

Oh well, all good things gotta end, and Sunset was getting sleepy, so she lied down on the ground and looked up at the ceiling for a bit.

This castle was massive, and she could barely even see the ceiling for how high it was. She wondered what this place was built for, and how it must have felt for the people who made it and used it over the years to see it failing more and more each day to serve its intended purpose.

Sunset’s ears flicked up as the sound of Twilight’s snoring reached them. Sure didn’t take her long to fall asleep, even after all that whining. Sunset looked over and bit down a chortle; Twilight’s snore was ridiculous— all deep gravelly inhale, then soft little chirpy mewmewmewmewmew exhale. She looked and sounded so silly, especially after all that huffing and puffing she did while awake.

Sunset rolled over and rested her cheek on her hand for a sec and just kinda looked over Twilight, snoozing away underneath Sunset’s jacket. She certainly was easy on the eyes, but it wasn’t just that; she was endearing to Sunset. She was so unlike the monsters Sunset was used to— hell, she wasn’t like anyone Sunset had known on the surface, for that matter.

She was so sickeningly sincere in everything she did, and that made her look like an idiot. And yet, Sunset couldn’t help feeling maybe a little jealous? Like imagine feeling confident enough to just wear your real feelings on your sleeve like that.

Couldn’t be Sunset.

Twilight’s eyes slit open as she woke up, and she didn’t see anyone in front of her. Her ears twitched, and she didn’t hear anyone speaking or walking around her. It seemed she was the only one around, so it was safe to get up.

It was a ridiculous thing and Twilight knew it, but she had a hard time waking up when people were looking at her. The idea that someone may have been watching her while she was asleep was really embarrassing. She probably looked like such a goof while she slept.

Twilight remembered that Sunset existed, and that she was probably around, so Twilight put on her glasses and took a look around for Sunset, finding the demon still snoozing away right next to Twilight. Funny that Sunset could’ve slept anywhere and yet she chose to roost right next to Twilight.

Looked like she’d been tossing and turning quite a bit in her sleep, cuz her yellow fur was tainted with dirt all over her stomach, which was bared because her shirt had become ruffled during her sleep, coming up even over—

—her bare chest.

Twilight bit down a squeal so as not to wake Sunset up, and scurried away from Sunset, hands covering her eyes. She couldn’t just look at Sunset like that, it’d be extremely rude!

Twilight stood up like a shot and paced back and forth, biting down on her nails. Should she cover Sunset up? If she had her magic she could just use that to drag Sunset’s shirt back down, but having to do it with her hands was… if Sunset woke up and saw Twilight’s hands on her shirt as it was raised above her chest, what would that look like?

Twilight didn’t know what to do and she wiped sweat off of her brow with Sunset’s jacket. If only she had a way to cover Sunset that didn’t put her in an awkward pos—

Twilight looked at the jacket in her hand dismally as a searing blush spread across her cheeks.

Oh. Right.

Twilight couldn’t risk just tossing the jacket onto Sunset and missing, so she walked up next to her and knelt down beside her, taking great care the whole time not to look at Sunset’s exposed chest, and she gently draped the jacket over Sunset’s body, breathing a sigh of relief.

“What’s the matter, Twilight?” Sunset snarked. “Don’t like the view?”

Twilight yelped and jumped up. She hadn't realized that Sunset had woken up and was now looking right at her with that smug grin on her face.

“You were— I was— your shirt—”

“Yeah, it happens,” Sunset chuckled. “I toss and turn a lot. I don’t mind if you take a peek though.”

“Indecent!” Twilight squeaked, throwing her hands down in front of her furiously.

“Gawd you’re such a little narc,” Sunset groaned and rolled her eyes, tossing the jacket aside and forcing Twilight to close her eyes. “Alright I’m putting it down now, so last chance to look at the goods.”

“Please,” Twilight groaned.

“Alright, alright, you can look now,” Sunset said, and Twilight hesitated for a moment, because she wouldn’t put it past Sunset to just say that and trick Twilight into looking so that Sunset could tease her. But sure enough, Sunset was now fully clothed, even clicking the button on her shorts into place as Twilight opened her eyes.

“It just wouldn’t be right to look—”

“So you admit that you wanted to,” Sunset cut Twilight off, sinister smirk on her face.

“N-no!” Twilight shrieked. “I’m not—I don’t—”

“You can’t fool me, walking bi pride flag,” Sunset scoffed, cocking her hip to one side. “You’re so obviously into me, it’s almost embarrassing.”

“I’m not,” Twilight said sternly, pushing up her glasses. Matters of physical attraction aside, and Twilight wasn’t willing to comment on that issue one way or the other, she found Sunset’s attitude to be constantly infuriating, which was something of a turn-off, to say the least.

“You not into monsters?” Sunset laughed. “Cuz I could show you some—”

“I’m not into jerks,” Twilight said flatly, and Sunset’s eyes flickered with recognition for an instant as she clammed up. Did that actually get through to her?

“Too much of a good girl, huh?” Sunset chuckled into her hand and turned around, affecting a shrug for good measure. “I guess I can respect that. Anyway, let’s get going. We got a lot of ground to cover if we’re gonna make it to our destination before we turn old and gray.”

“What is our destination anyway?” Twilight asked, picking Sunset’s jacket up off the ground and tossing it to her.

“I’ll tell you on the way,” Sunset turned and snatched the jacket out of the air before draping it across her shoulders in one smooth move. Twilight had to admit at least, that the jacket looked really good on her. “But long story short, we’re headed for Paradise.”

twilight's little lesbian moment with snoozin sunset here is i think where this story rly started to click with me lmao. i love these gay horse women

but that said, there's alot of other gay horse(?) women in the underground, and starting tomorrow we're gonna get to meet a few of them and see things from their perspective...

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