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"And then I told him that if he didn't clear out right now I'd defenestrate him! You shoulda seen him run! It was awesome!"

"Defenestrate! Wow, Rainbow, all that reading's paying off, isn't it," said Twilight, smiling, "bit of a serious threat, though? Wasn't he an earth pony?"

"Gross, Twi! I wasn't actually going to do it! I just knew he was gonna run off 'cuz he was afraid for his fenestras."

"That's not... what?"

"Oh! Does that word have an egghead plural again? Fenestri? Fenestrae? Fenestrim?"

"No it's just that... I mean nopony would want damage to their fenestrae. I certainly wouldn't. Even if the temporal ones are closed, but... "

"What! You... you don't have those. Right. Because you are a... you know. Mare," Rainbow said, whispering the last word and casting a furtive look around and putting two hooves on Spike's ears. Or where Rainbow thought Spike's ears were which, as it happened, was a few inches off and, by sheerest coincidence, quite close to his fenestrae.

"Of course I do! One, anyway. So do you."

"What?! No I don't! Who told you that?"

"Everypony does!"

"I have two! Temporal. Open ones, too," said Spike smugly, batting away Rainbow's forehooves.

"Oh, well done Spike! You did read that Cladistics for the Curious book I got you," said Twilight with a bit of a hop, clapping her forehooves together.

There was a lengthy silence during which Rainbow looked up, left, right, sideways, back, and in several new directions she invented on the spot. She brushed the back of her neck with a hoof. Finally, gaze firmly fixed on the ground and blushing furiously she spoke.

"Um... guys," she said, voice cracking, "I'm gonna level with you. I don't think I know what 'fenestra' means. 'cuz I don't think it means what I, uh, thought it meant."