“Fluttershy, meet Owlowiscious. He’s an owl.”

Twilight Sparkle had adopted Owlowiscious one night; he was her new assistant.

“Erm—Twilight? Why are his eyes closed?”

“Owls are nocturnal.”

“Oh, my—I hope I’m not too late!”

Unlike Owlowiscious, I was a morning pony.

“Well, I could make you a schedule…”

“Erm—actually, I’m going to take a nap.”

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“Spike and I are going out to watch a magnificent meteor shower.

“Please take good care of Owlowiscious while we’re gone.

“If you need somewhere to sleep, you may have my bed.

“Make yourself comfortable at the Golden Oak Library.”

I could see that Owlowiscious was still asleep.

“Good day, Owlowiscious.”

With that, I put Twilight Sparkle’s note to me under my wing and trotted upstairs to her bedroom.

“Twilight was so kind to me!”

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“What a shower!”

“I’ll say!”

“Hi, Twilight! Hi, Spike! Hi, Owlowiscious!”

“Hi, Fluttershy.”

“Owlowiscious is just about ready to wake up.”

“Oh, my goodness! Finally! I can’t wait!”

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I got straight to work taking care of Twilight Sparkle’s owl.

I fed him all his favorite foods. However, he needed to eat healthy foods. Therefore, I also fed him some foods he did not like much.

I groomed his feathers very carefully. Afterwards, I got to tell him some knock-knock jokes. He liked all of them a lot!

My nap was too short to allow me to stay awake very long past my usual bedtime. Since Twilight and Spike had taken the bedroom, I had to go to sleep on the library rug instead. Owlowiscious just flew down to me and gave me a friendly good-night wink.

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“Awww—she looks so cute when she’s asleep!”

“I agree, Spike.”

“Twilight, do you think we should wake her up? She’s sleeping on the rug!”

“We shouldn’t wake Fluttershy. She deserves to sleep in.”

“Can I sleep in, too, Twilight? Please?”

“Sorry, Spike, but you need to wake up when everypony else does. Leave Owlowiscious to me.”

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