You know, I sometimes get the feeling that most of these entries begin with me being stared at like I just said or done something either really stupid or unexpected from anyone with a sane mind, like starting to laugh after being hit with a lightning spell. It's kinda strange... Meh, it's probably nothing.

Still, I was laughing until I couldn't breath anymore (and then some) with most of the ponies looking at me like I was crazy or something. Again. And, of course, their confused, half-worried, half-unsure expressions weren't making it any easier to stop and explain. That is, until the Princess herself broke their silence.

"Recto? Are you feeling alright?"
"No, I'm not!" I replied while I could, between two bursts of sweet, sweet laughter. Seeing as she looked even more worried now, I continued. "I'm feeling a lot better than just 'alright'! I've never had so much fun!"
"Being electrocuted isn't supposed to be laughing matter, you know?"
"It isn't? Why? I haven't been hurt and I'm pretty sure it looked silly!" I was starting to cry out of laughter.
"I don't think I understand the logic behind your reasoning..." Twilight said when the 'spell' was broken. Got it? The spell! Gosh I'm funny...

Nonetheless, I calmed myself pretty quickly and replied with my signature smile.

"Well, miss purple princess, I would be pretty worried if you completely understood the logic of someone who lived his entire life in a Mental Institute."
"You lived in a what now?" Applejack asked, surprised.

And I would probably have answered if a white unicorn with watery eyes hadn't jumped and hugged me immediately.

"I am so so-o-rry!" she cried in a distressed tone. "I didn't mean to hurt you! I don't deserve to be in your presence ever again!"
"Uh... It's alright?" I tried.
"Of course it's not! I just..."
"Hey, look at the bright side of the equation : you are a pretty lucky unicorn!" I interrupted her. Comically, she stopped crying for a moment, confusion once again filling her eyes.
"Come again?"
"Well, if you had hit me just a few seconds before you did, Verso would have still been on the front to witness it and would have gotten angry with you, and it doesn't usually end well."

It must have gotten her attention away from crying, because she didn't look so sad anymore, so I continued.

"It would have been just like the time when mister John accidentally dropped a plate on our foot and it hurt just a little bit and Verso got angry at mister John and next thing I know bam! Verso was on the front and mister John was crying on the floor asking for his legs or something, covered in ketchup. The funny thing is that his legs were just next to him and he only had, like, to crawl a meter or two to get them. Mister John wasn't really the most clever guy I ever encountered, but he was nice so it was okay."

And there it went again, everyone was looking at me with those strange stares. I think Fluttershy might have been sick, because she didn't look so well. Well, at least, Rarity wasn't crying and saying she was sorry anymore, so I patted her on the head with a smile.

"But don't worry," I said. "I forced Verso to apologize to mister John in the end, because he over reacts quite a lot some times, and making mister John cry wasn't really nice of him. And in the end, I heard that mister John went to a better place thanks to us, so it's okay."

Glancing around, everything that I could see in the ponies' eyes was a mix between horror and... well, more horror, I guess. Huh, I wonder why? Maybe it was something I said? It was probably something I said, but what exactly?

Thankfully, the new horrified silence didn't last long, thanks to mister Discord who started to clap ever so slowly, the clapping becoming more and more powerful and enthusiastic until it transformed into a thunderous mismatch of percussions, cheers and whistling. Five mister Discord appeared in flash in front of me, each of them carrying a grade varying between eight and ten. I kinda chuckled when the mister Discord carrying the eight grade looked at his board and turned it upside down before nodding, seemingly pleased with himself.

Another mister Discord appeared in the middle of the room, wearing a tuxedo and carrying an old-looking microphone in his claw.

"And that's a wonderful story from the challenger, rating an amazing nine point two out of ten on our "Dude, that's creepy" scale! What an unexpected performance from someone who looked so kind just a few moments ago! Let's see what the current Equestrian champion has to say about it!"

He then grabbed a random perch out of nowhere and a drowsy-looking owl appeared on it, making me squeak in glee. The bird then seemed to wake up all of a sudden and turned its head to try and understand what was happening to it, making me gasp in surprise when it turned its head all the way to behind it, before it started to look at me with its big eyes. I was quickly feeling uncomfortable under its stare and glanced at the others to know what to do. Turned out they were either still looking at me in deep horror or staring at the owl in confusion.

All in all, I don't think they had any idea about what to do either.

The misters Discord-judges nodded and raised their boards again, giving the owl a slightly worse note than they gave me.

"It's incredible!" mister show-host-Discord exclaimed. "The challenger wins!" he said and held our hand up for me to be acclaimed by the invisible crowd. "So, how you feel about this surprisingly great performance today?"
"Huh..." I eloquently answered.
"Would you look at that? He so surprised by his victory that..."
"Discord!" Celestia abruptly interrupted. "Now is not the time for you foolishness!"

Everything suddenly returned to normal, with just confused ponies and dragon switching their stares between the bigger Princess and mister Discord and turning to scared when they gazed on us. That was really strange... Verso often said that nearly everybody was scared when they talked with us, but I wasn't able to pick up that feeling, whereas it was really obvious with these ponies. Maybe it has something to do with their really big eyes? I mean, I know you haven't ever seen those, but hey, they take at least half of their face here!

I'm getting off tracks. Thankfully, the golden aura that suddenly surrounded our body brought me back to my senses as it brought me before Celestia herself, with an expression on her face that I simply couldn't put on any emotion I know. Her horn shone a bit brighter and a golden force-field appeared around us. She took a second before talking and I used it to wow at the magical feat.

"Recto..." she started, just as I extended my own sense-field to better feel how her shield, well kinda was. "What are you doing?"
"These shields are just great! And your is so shiny! I just want to feel how they work so that I can create one too!"

She just stared at me for a moment and shook her head, probably dismissing a thought.

"Recto, did Verso really hurt this 'John' simply because he let a plate fall?"
"I dunno," I answered, to her visible confusion. "It's just like I said : one moment, mister John's plate fell on our foot, the next, Verso was on front, angry, and mister John is scared and covered in ketchup while his legs a bit further away. But the doctors said he went to a better place because of that, so maybe he wasn't scared but happy? I'm not really good to guess human emotions. Verso's better at it."
"Recto, do you think Verso hurt that human?"
"Well, I don't think he got all that ketchup in our room by himself, and he definitely didn't throw his legs away just to cry to get them back. And they said in books that not having your legs was not a good feeling. So I made Verso apologize and..."
"Recto," she interrupted with a very serious tone, "do you think he would hurt Rarity because of this incident?"
"I wouldn't let him!" I answered her with a confident smile. "He knows I hate it when he hurts others, and he never hurt anyone else intentionally since then! Well, except for Luna, I guess, but he was really, really mad at her for a reason. And he will apologize to her anyway."

Celestia seemed to think for a moment and I resumed my magic-gazing. I would like to say I was learning anything, but I truly didn't have Verso's level of skill, so it was mostly just like looking at a painting without knowing anything about arts in general : of course it's pretty, but how did anyone do this? And sometime: why does it look like someone just barfed on a white sheet?

"I suppose you cannot get him on front right now, can you?" she finally asked.
"Nope. When he is sleeping like that, there's no way for me to contact him. I don't even know how he can wake me up when I am sleeping myself."
She sighed. "I would have loved to defuse the situation entirely, but it looks like we will have to wait to be sure. Do you happen to know when he will wake up?"
"Nah. He left in a hurry, and he doesn't usually go to sleep at all, so I wouldn't know. Now that I think about it, he already did it more times since we arrived than he did in the last two years or so, I think. Maybe he has a problem with magic that makes him sleepy?"
"Recto, I really want you to understand that what you said earlier is really serious. It's not something that is acceptable in Equestria."
"I know it's not something nice to do, that's why I make Verso..."
"No, I meant how you talked about it."

Now, that had me confused. Does that mean they were looking at me like that because of the way I told them this story? That seems overly complicated. I wonder how it works?

"What do you mean, how I talked about it?"
"Recto, you were nearly laughing about it, and you sounded like it wasn't really a problem!"
"Well, it wasn't, he went to a better place after all."

She was looking at me with a rather shocked expression, making me wonder if I said something in a wrong way again. She opened her mouth just as I felt a familiar tingling sensation in our left eye and in our mind: Verso was back. It didn't take long this time... I contacted him in a fragment of a second.

Hey! You're back already! So, what was...
Nothing. He weakly answered.Don't worry about it.
Wow, why do you sound so tired?
I told you not to worry. I'm fine. So, what happened? Why is Celestia encasing... Let me look at you memory.
Only if you promise not to get mad.
I knew something happened... He grunted. I won't act before I talked with you about it.

I sighed in relief and he did his brain-tickling memory search. And I must say, I'm really impressed he wasn't really that angry about it. I mean, he was furious, but I've seen worse. Celestia was about to start talking again, but my hearing disappeared again while Verso struggled to contain his rage and to talk more calmly to me.

THAT LITTLE..! I SHOULD PLAY AROUND WITH HER NERVOUS SYSTEM AND SEE HOW SHE LIKES IT, THAT...

As I've said, he was struggling.

Are you sure you're okay? Do you still feel hurt? I should just rip this shield away and...
Verso, I'm fine! We're fine! It was an accident and it really didn't hurt at all... in the first place. And I'm not hearing anything again. Is that normal?
I... I have some things to discuss with Celestia. In private. She is currently talking about it, and it really doesn't concern you at all.
What?! But...
I'm sorry I have to ask you that, but could you go to sleep while I talk with her? It wouldn't take long.
No! I've promised Celestia that...
I promise I won't hurt anyone. I will just talk with Celestia for a minute and then I'll wake you up.
Okay, but...
Recto, you know I don't like keeping secrets away from you, but it's about one of those thing I'll tell you when you are ready. Please...
I... Okay...
Thank you. It won't take long, I promise. Sleep well.
...

***

The timing was really, really bad this time. I had stayed a few seconds longer there, we would have had a few problems I don't really want to think about. And if we hadn't talked so quickly... Well, I arrived on time and we talked quickly, so that wasn't really an issue anymore. But still, I felt bad to force Recto away like that again...

Celestia of course quickly noticed my return, thanks to my eye-color overlapping Recto's. So, after I had blocked Recto from hearing anything problematic by sheer reflex, she rapidly silenced herself and her glare became more... cold. Which was really something when you notice she naturally radiates warmth. And when Recto went to sleep and his eye-color completely disappeared, she went from cold to freezing and nearly agressive.

I didn't like it one bit. But thanks to the very reason I had to go away for a while, it wasn't like I could do anything about it.

"Verso..." she coldly stated.
"Celestia."
"I assume that you already discussed with Recto."
"I did."

I'll admit, to see her grind her teeth made me smirk. However, I could already feel what little was left of my energy already draining away to let me stay on the front and I honestly didn't want to try and see what could happen if I dropped from exhaustion. In fact, she had already picked my strained gaze and short breath.

"What's happening to you again?" she asked. "And, if I'm correct, I assume Recto isn't listening?"
"Let's just say my problems don't concern you in any way and leave it at that," I answered nearly aggressively, forcing her to drop the subject. "And we have to talk about a few topics that Recto mustn't know about."
"You can't decide whether or not he..."
"Yes, you're right, the guy that shares his soul with him probably doesn't know a thing about his mind." She was once again grinding her teeth and I decided to calm down a bit. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't get angry after you. As far as I know, your reaction was to be expected from the moment you discovered his... condition."
"What do you mean?" she asked, taken aback by my sudden swing in mood.
"Surely, you don't think I'm the only one with, say, comportemental problems?" I replied with a smile. "We both lived most our lives in a mental institute after all. Recto have his own problems, but contrarily to mine, they are mostly harmless." Seeing as she was just blinking, I continued. "I checked his memories, he talked about the 'Mister John' incident."

Well, her agressive demeanor returned quickly at least.

"Yes. Did you really..."
"I did," I interrupted her. "It was most satisfying to get back at one of our captors. Besides, he was also drugging our food and thought he could get away with it. As it was harmless the first few times and it actually helped a bit with a recurring headache of mine, I waited before acting," I told her with a wave of my hand, before my stare hardened. "But, after one of our failed escape attempt where I had to... fight with a few of his comrades, he wasn't trying to simply get us our drugged food. In fact, he dropped the plate to get a knife in his belt. The drug prevented me to act quickly enough to stop him before his knife pierced our skin. I saved us from being gutted, Celestia. I crushed his hand to dust and ripped off his legs to inspire terror to the other wannabe-killers of the Institute, and prevent other attacks. And also because it was really fun."

The white Celestia looked nearly green, and she could probably have gone without the details, but she was quickly getting a hold of herself, and stared pensively beyond the physical world. I got the feeling she was starting to reconsider punishing me for self-defense.

"Why didn't Recto mention the attack? And why did he talked about this man's injuries so lightly?"
"Two reasons : first, I forced him into momentary unconsciousness before he saw the knife." I evaded her surprised stare. "I... don't really wan him to see such horrors. We were twelve when it happened, and he is mostly like a innocent kid. And that brings us to the second problem," I said staring gravely back at her. "Recto... is a lot younger in mind than he should. He acts and thinks like a twelve year old at his most mature moments. He is like a child, and that's something I want to protect, Princess." She looked surprised that I used her title for once. "We didn't have a childhood and we were surrounded by people that wanted to study us at best, and wanted to kill us at worse. For Heaven's sake, their entire religion made them think we were a demon bound to destroy the world!" I shouted in rage.

Celestia seemed uncomfortable and evaded my stare. Looked like she wasn't thinking me to be that guilty anymore.

"But, the way he talked about it..." she whispered barely loud enough for me to hear.
"And he doesn't understand the concept of 'death' or 'pain' either," I answered her plea. "He knows that hurting others is bad, and he scolds me about it, but the very concept of being in pain flies well above his head. I don't think he understands what 'danger' means either."
"Well, maybe you could teach him!" Celestia proposed. "It is unhealthy for him not to..."
"No, you misunderstood. He cannot understand it. I tried to force a few of my memories of it unto him, but it just makes his mind fade and I am forced to get on the front until he recovers. Even talking about ends badly. If I hadn't switched off his ability to hear you the moment I did, he would have started to panic, retreated in our mind to 'sleep' and would have forgotten everything about it in minutes. He mustn't be told about it, at all. Especially when I am 'away' myself. The consequences could be disastrous for him!" I said with a sense of urgency in my voice. I stared at Celestia with a glare so hostile she stepped back again and reflexively entered some kind of fighting stance. "And if anyone makes hurts him this way, the consequences would be all the more disastrous for her, am I clear?"
"Are you threatening me again, Verso?" she replied with a clear warning in her voice. I shook my head.
"No, I don't think I could win a fight against you, especially not now." She tensed down a little. "But you are a ruler of this land, and I assure you, I would feel no remorse whatsoever tearing apart its citizens for such a crime against Recto."

Her pupils shrank to pinpricks and her horn lit up like the sun, blinding me for a moment. Her telekinesis field surrounded me with a nearly painful pressure and the air grew hot enough to make me sweat heavily. I may have angered her just a little bit. In fact, if looks could kill, this would probably have been the most terrifying slaughter in recorded history.

"YOU DARE TO THREATEN MY SUBJECTS?" she shouted, her voice like a shock-wave and her eyes starting to glow white as the inexistant wind in her mane grew more intense. "YOUR IMPERTINENCE ISN'T TOLERABLE, HUMAN!"

Yeah, I guess saying to a sun-princess of untold magical prowess that you would gladly kill her subjects without so much as an after-thought isn't the best idea around. I should have seen that one coming. Way to go, survival instincts. Well, I decided to try and get out of this about-to-explode-in-my-face situation.

"I would destroy entire worlds to protect the only thing I have worth living for!" I told her, trying not to look too afraid of her. "I'm pretty sure you would go to the same extents to protect your sister and your ponies! You wouldn't be a good ruler or a good sister if you didn't!"

Her furious expression seemed to calm down, her mane returning to its normal state and her eyes getting their colors back. She was still glaring at me though, and that wasn't a good feeling at all.

"I live to protect him," I told her calmly. "He is the only thing I have. I would gladly turn into a monster to protect Recto, and to give him the life he deserves. I tried to get us out of out imprisonment so many times I lost count to get him to be free to play as he wants. I killed countless people that tried to hurt us and kept his fragile mind away from the horrors of their experiments, taking it all on me. I would die before letting anyone harm Recto in any way. Surely you can understand this feeling, Princess Celestia of Equestria?"

That was it. Her furious gaze was no more, replaced by comprehension and acceptance. She put me down on the floor and nodded, not saying anything for a moment. Still, the terror had taken its toll on my mind and I could feel I wouldn't be able to stay out for long.

That's when we heard clapping. A pair of cartoonishly evil eyes and a mouth with an unmissable jagged tooth appeared on the shield, with a grin that would make the Cheshire cat proud.

"Well, it looks like you two finally came to an agreement. Good for you. However, we still have a bunch of ponies outside and I'm afraid poor Fluttershy won't be able to take it for too long. Also, if the two of you stay alone in here for too long, rumors might start to run."
It looked like Celestia came to a sudden realization and whined. "How, I forgot!"
Seriously? I thought.
"What are we to do with them? Recto probably scared them for life!"
"I don't think they could simply forget about it, now, could they?"
"I don't know what you two are talking about," Discord said with a suspiciously innocent tone. "I mean, Rarity zapped Recto, who told her it was nothing, a bunch a cute bunnies appeared and good ol' Celestia took Recto to a private discussion about his magic studies. Isn't that what happened?"

I looked at him like he was an idiot, but Celestia gasped and glare angrily at him.

"What have you done to them, Discord? You wouldn't have dared to..."
"You bet I would," he answered. "Poor Fluttershy was crying her eyes out."
"I'm not sure I'm following," I said. "What have you done exactly?"

He suddenly popped behind me and bended his neck to look at me upside-down, while his eyes kaleïdoscoped (is that even a word?) in a cartoony mesmerizing fashion.

"Well, dear Verso, I just damage controlled your friend's lack of tact and erased their memories about this little incident."
"Seriously?" I asked, walking further away from the draconequus. "You can do that?"
"Of course I can! I'm Discord!" he said, pointing at him with a cocky grin.
"That's not something to take lightly, Discord!" Celestia shouted at him. "Do you have any idea..."
"Of course I do: now, they won't be terrified of our little human friends and he will be able to make friends with them, as long as Verso keeps their tongue in check. I won't do it every time, after all. Erasing memories isn't all that easy."

I thought about it for a minute: Recto's slipped of tongue might as well have never happened, so the ponies wouldn't fear him. Or me. Which was kinda nice for once. So I had only one thing to say.

"Thank you, Discord, once again."
"You shouldn't have done it, but I guess there is no getting back now..." Celestia sighed.

She dispelled her force-field and we were immediately assaulted by dozens of fur-balls running in every direction, every pony in the room chasing after them, seemingly in an attempt to prevent them from going further in the castle, which was failing hilariously, with some of the equines being swallowed under the swarms of bunnies.

While Discord and I were busy laughing, Celestia glared at us.

"Discord, send them back!"
"Oh, you're no fun, Celly."

He sighed while snapping a claw, which banished the critters away. He also snickered, but that was quickly dismissed. I glanced at Celestia and decided to wake up Recto.

Recto, you can wake up now.

At last! Well, I don't know for how long I slept, but it sure felt like a hack of a long time. I quickly returned to the front as an exhausted looking Verso left his place nearly immediately and sighed in relief as he got to rest on the back.

So, how was it?
Fine. We discussed a bit about magic learning, and Celestia is about to take her decision. Also, Discord summoned a swarm of bunnies, it was hilarious.
And I missed it? Nooo!
'Got your back. He said just as he engraved the bunny memories in my mind.
They're so cute! I mentally squeaked.

That's about as far as the conversation went before we heard an earth-shaking cream of surprise and anger that I recognized as Luna's voice.

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?" we heard. "WERE DO THESE CRITTERS EVEN COME FROM?!"

That's when mister Discord started to laugh uncontrollably, quickly followed by Pinkie and me as we understood what happened. Princess Celestia face-palmed... er, face-hoofed and sighed. It was fun to be back.

When the bunnies were sent back to their proper home and mister Discord chased back to his, wherever it was, Celestia cleared her throat in an official manner. In front of her, the six ponies and Spike were standing, waiting for her declaration, when I was just standing by her side.

"Princess Twilight, Recto and Verso are willing to learn magic, and I think they would need help to properly start to live in Equestria. They are in need of a mentor. Do you accept to help them?"
"I will do my best!" the purple alicorn answered, flashing a smile to both the bigger princess and us. Speaking of this, Celestia then turned toward us to continue.
"Recto, Verso, I think it would be best for you to move to a smaller location like Ponyville, where you would be accepted quicker than in Canterlot, and where you would live in Princess Twilight's home for the moment being. Is that okay with you?"
Yep. I don't think nobles would appreciate us anyway.
"Yes!" I simply answered, excited to discover a new location. We would travel! Isn't that awesome?
"Good," she concluded and turned back to the others. "You are invited to spent the night in the palace and will go back to Ponyville tomorrow."

I was about to ask why we would to wait when a yawn surprised me. I realized we hadn't properly slept in nearly two days and our body suddenly felt exhausted. I sure could have used some sleep... Looking outside, I saw that the sun was about to set, coloring the sky in the most beautiful shades of orange and red. I walked toward the windows, mesmerized by the sight.

"What's happening to him?" I heard Rainbow Dash asking.
"Well, I think we should leave them alone for a moment," Celestia quietly answered. "It's the first time they're seeing a sunset."
"What?!" Pinkie shrieked. "How is that..."
"Hush, I'll explain outside," Celestia answered.

I heard them exit the room and we kept watching through one of the non stained-glass windows, completely absorbed by the sight. That was easily one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen, and it looked like Verso was agreeing. The sun slowly descended behind the horizon and the sky slowly turned from deep red to a beautiful shade of purple, that quickly blackened more and more.

And the sight suddenly became even more magnificent, as, one by one, twinkling lights were starting to poke their shiny nose out in the open, quickly followed by a full moon that quietly rose above the mountains. The view was so breathtaking that both of us were too stunned to turn when we heard the door open again. We heard hoof-steps walking in and stop, probably as the pony making the sound stopped in its tracks, probably wondering what we were doing here, unmoving.

As the pony finally decided to get closer, Verso noticed in a corner of our mind that it was probably Celestia, with her taking longer steps than other, smaller ponies. But we were still hypnotized by the sight and couldn't care less about anything else. I think a tear went down from Verso's eye, as he was even more deeply affected by this for some reason. He keeps saying that he wasn't that moved by the first time we saw the night sky, but I he isn't really being honest with himself and he knows it.

When the pony finally stopped walking right behind us, I started taking, our eyes not daring to move away from what I knew to be the most magnificent thing we both ever saw.

"You remember how happy we were this morning when we realized that we were seeing the real sky and the sun?" I didn't let her the time to answer and continued. "I immediately thought nothing in the world could be more beautiful." She didn't say anything. "But you know what? I was wrong. First, the sunset was even more magnificent than the blue sky, but even that was nothing next to the way the sky looks like now. The stars are so... I don't even have words to describe it! When we were in the Institute, I didn't even think about it. I went to the Sun Room, but even that lacked something. And now... The night is so... so..." I was having troubles to talk, and tears were flowing freely down our face now. "I would have never known. No human alive even knows what the sky really looks like. We had videos and pictures of it, but it was nothing. And just seeing the stars sparkling like that, to see the moon with our eyes... I... I don't think I will ever be grateful enough with mister Discord for allowing us to see it..."

Verso and I both wept quietly, he in our mind and me outside, and even as our vision was troubled with tears, I never looked away from the night sky and its quiet magnificence. That is, until the pony behind us talked in her turn.

"Do you really think the night to be more beautiful than the day?" Luna asked, her voice filled with emotion.

Verso immediately broke out of his transe and took control of our body. He jumped on the side, away from the blue princess and glared at her. He even lit up our hands. I was initially angry that he broke eye contact with the sky, but it quickly faded away when we saw Luna herself. Her eyes were filled with tears on their own and she was looking hopefully at us.

"What are you doing here?" Verso growled.

Luna blinked her tears away and shook her head, her stare turning more irritated toward us.

"It is our throne room, Verso," she said, nearly spitting his name. "I should ask you what you are doing here."
"We were left to gaze outside by Celestia," he replied, making absolutely no effort whatsoever to hide his aggressiveness toward her. "And we were about to leave."

He turned to the door and started to walk to get outside as quickly as possible.

Hey! I still wanna look at the stars!
I think there will be windows in whatever room Celestia will give us. We will continue there.
"Wait!" Luna called us.

Verso gritted our teeth but he stopped and turned to face her, letting his anger toward her fully visible on our face.

"What? Do you really want to talk with the 'parasite' so much?" he growled again, with venom in his voice.
Luna's gaze evaded his and she looked guilty. "I... I wanted to apologize. I am sorry I called a... a 'parasite'," she whispered just loud enough for us to hear.
"Good for you. Goodnight," Verso spat back.

He turned back and would have left if I hadn't stopped him and immobilized him.

Aren't you forgetting anything?
Recto, this isn't funny. I don't want to stay near her any longer than necessary.
You said you would apologize for hurting her if she apologized first! I scolded him. Silly Verso. She did, and now it's your turn!

To say his part of our mind grew into an inferno of anger would have been an understatement. He was truly and completely enraged and I feared he would try and hurt Luna again, but he got a hold of himself.

Fine. He said in a tone that said it wasn't fine at all. "And I apologize for trying to erase your existence from the surface of the planet," he quickly said without even looking at her. There, happy now? Can we go anywhere that's not near her?
I would have replied, but Luna did first: "You don't have to apologize, I deeply insulted you. But, can I ask you a question? Both of you, I mean."

Verso was about to explode with rage and our hands kept shaking with contained fury. His expression must have been equally terrifying because I could see a bit of fear in Luna's eyes when he turned to face her.

"No, you..."
"Of course!" I interrupted him taking the front place from him before he said anything mean to her.

I think the sudden change in mood between his completely enraged state and my usual cheerful attitude surprised her.

Recto! What are you...
If you're so angry with her, I won't force you to stay outside and face before you calmed down. And she has been nice, except for the whole 'insulting you' problem, but she apologized for that.
" What... Nevermind. I wanted to know, do you really..." She looked away, blushing a bit. "Do you really think the night is more beautiful than the day?"
I blinked at her strange question, and smiled a bit more. "Well, yeah. I mean, the day is basically a gigantic fireball hanging in the sky, and even though it is really pretty, the night has thousands of small light hooked on the ceiling, where they twinkle and sparkle all the time. Oh, and you also have the moon that's sooo pretty! I mean, I guess the sun is pretty too, but you can't really look at it directly so you can't say how pretty it is, but the moon is all glowy and have pretty craters on it to make it even more pretty and I think I used the word 'pretty' enough times to say that the night is pretty pretty and this sentence magically makes sense and that's fantastic and though Verso is pretty angry I know he thinks the stars are a lot prettier than the sun and..."
"Okay, I think I got it," Luna giggled. She looked kindly at us and continued: "Thank you for answering me, have a goodnight."

I nodded and walked out. When the doors closed behind us, I realized we were facing a problem.

"Hey, Verso?"
What? He grumpily replied.
"Do you have any idea where our room is?"

I used a quick spell to make sure the door wouldn't make a sound while it opened and I quietly entered the dark room, closing the door behind me. I quickly looked around and saw him sleeping with what sounded like a happy snore, sitting on a chair in front of a window, wrapped in a blanket. It looked like he fell asleep while he was still gazing at the sky. I silently closed the distance between us a looked at his face.

If his expression is anything to go by, it looks like he is having a good dream. Maybe something like Tia's usual cake dream?

My suspicions were quickly confirmed when he calmly whispered something about a 'chocolate milk heaven' in his sleep. It nearly made me giggle, but I quickly evaded the thought. I was here for a reason. His species was too unusual for me to find his dreams from my room, I needed direct contact to attune myself with his thoughts.

"I'm sorry," I whispered as I lowered my horn to his forehead, "but I have to be sure."

I casted the sleepwalking spell and entered his mind.

Author's Note

Woohoo! Who would have thought another chapter would be coming out so soon? Certainly not me, I only started to write it about six hours ago. Also, I think I should have eaten somewhere in beteween, but meh.

Heh, I bet you guys weren't expecting a Luna's PoV scene now, did you? I wonder what she's going to see in Recto's dreams? Maybe some Discordian-level of chaos and sweets related madness? Who knows...