This time as we were walking, we talked about Princess Celestia instead of me, about how her greatest student was progressing well in her friendship studies, and her sister, Princess Luna, whom had recently gotten back from a 1000 year banishment. I decided not to ask about that, as she sounded sad about it. I decided to listen attentively rather than talk. That's not to say I didn't say anything, I would occasionally say "Yeah" or "Okay" and even "Mhm". I avoided the last one because that sounds rude and lazy. Granted shrugging is also lazy.

We arrived at the dining hall, with two guards posted outside the door, as it was for anywhere the Princess usually went. They opened the door with their magic, allowing the Princess and I to enter. I looked around the room and gasped. It was a very beautiful room, with a stained glass window every 6 metres. It was a very white room, but the stained glass windows livened it up in a quick hurry. As I looked around I noticed another pony in the room, this one a dark blue. I looked at Celestia, silently asking who it was. She spoke up

"Luna, this is the human you found last night, the one that fell outside of Canterlot"

The sister, Princess Luna, looked up from her newspaper, staring quizzically at the Princess and I.

"Pray tell, sister, what is a human?" at the word "Human" she raised her hooves and did what I could only assume was the pony variant of air quotes. At this point I stepped in, explaining to her what I didn't explain to Celestia.

"A human, or homo sapien, is a bipedal being, more intellectual than any other animal on our home world, Earth. We evolved from apes, or monkeys. Throughout our time of evolving, we became omnivores." The sisters cringed

"However, humans do not need to eat meat to sustain themselves, in fact many people decided to live as vegetarians, using tofu and beans as a substitute." I quickly added, trying to prevent them from losing the breakfast they hadn't had. I explained to them that that was the extent of my knowledge, which was poor compared to many. I didn't pay attention in school, all right? Celestia had already moved towards the table, gesturing towards the chair next to her own, I sat down in it, surprisingly somewhat comfortably, considering it was a chair meant for little pony beings who were much smaller than me.

While seated I was a tad bit shorter than Celestia, meaning we met almost eye to eye. Although her chair had a much larger cushion, and the chair was larger overall. We all sat silently, the only noise being Luna at the other end of the table, flipping her newspaper to straighten it and flipping pages. Meanwhile, me and Celestia sat side by side, studying each other. I looked at her, examining and trying to rationalize why she had wings and a horn, instead of one or the other like the guards. She had a comical sun on her thigh, presumably because she controlled the sun. I presumed that her sister had a moon, considering she controlled the moon. I finally broke the silence.

"What are those marks on your thigh?" I asked, Celestia looked at me and looked back, as if she had forgotten about it.

"Oh, those are Cutie marks, us ponies get them when we realize our special talent. Mine represents my ability to move the sun and Luna's represents her ability to move the moon." I nod

"Fair enough."

A server came in with our food, Celestia and I had gotten the same thing, pancakes with strawberries, bananas and whipped cream. Luna just gotten a black coffee. She claimed she was going to bed relatively soon, but with the amount of sugar in that coffee, I don't think she'd be sleeping for quite a while. I was concerned with how I was going to get back to my room, through the labyrinth of halls. I turned to Luna,

"Princess Luna, how exactly did you find me?" She had long since finished reading everything in the newspaper, turning her full attention to staring into her cup of coffee, occasionally sipping it. She snapped her head around, looking for whoever asked her a question.

She looked at me and began to explain.

"Well, last night we were raising the moon and painting the night sky, when we suddenly found a star that did not move, they say there is a star for every being in Equestria, pony or otherwise. I can confirm this, though some become very dim as that pony reaches the end of their lifetime, as the light in their eyes dies out. But this one was different. Yes, I could sense it represented a life. But it was of a species unknown to anyone, perhaps t'was the reason it refused to move under my will. Then out of the corner of our eye, we spotted something moving rapidly to the perimeter of Canterlot, headed straight for the mountain. We flew towards the projected site of impact. That is where we found thou in a small crater in the side of the mountain. Thou were very hurt, skin burnt and cut from the impact. 'Tis a miracle that thou are alive and well. I was unsure of where to take thou, considering I have long since turned my guest room into something else, I took you to my sisters guest room. That is also how you will be getting back to your room, since you were wondering." I stared at her, confused as to how she knew what I was thinking. Celestia spoke up,

"Sister, you know it is rude to intrude on others thoughts!" Luna raised her hooves, almost as if surrendering

"We are sorry sister, it's just so hard not to. His thoughts are so loud, and curiosity got the better of me." She turned to me. "My apologies, Thaddeus, we did not mean to intrude. Forgive us?" I looked at her intently, trying to remember how to determine if someone was lying.

"I accept your apology, and as long as you don't start snooping I don't mind if you occasionally do. You might find something that I'm too afraid to say." I turned to Celestia "The same applies to you, Princess."

I turned back to Luna, with one question in mind. "Princess Luna, when you found me, did I have a wound on my back? Somewhere near my spine?" She shook her head

"Even if you did, I wouldn't have been able to identify it, you were cut and bruised everywhere, as well as charred." I sighed, before Celestia decided she had a question.

"Sister, if Thaddeus here was cut and bruised everywhere, why are there not scars and bruises remaining?" Luna shook her head again.

"I am not certain sister, I have been asking myself this question since I had seen him walk in with you." I was deep in thought, thinking about the same thing everyone else was. Why was I not scarred, or bruised if I had cratered a mountain? Even if healing worked differently here, I'd at least think there'd be scars. I saw a golden flash from my fingers, and apparently everyone else did as well. It was similar to the golden fleck I saw when I was back on earth. EUREKA! It came to me, or at least what I thought it was. I had a theory, but I wasn't sure how to test it. I spied the fork I was using to eat my pancakes, but decided that Celestia might not appreciate me using it for my plan. I spied a paring knife on the table.

"Princess Celestia, could you please pass me the paring knife?" She flashed me a look, as if to say "Why?" but kept silent and took it in her magic and gave it to me. I took the hilt of the blade and pressed it against the tip of my thumb on my left hand. Celestia gasped as she saw what I was doing, and opened her mouth to say something.

I took 4 short breaths and pulled the blade across my thumb. I gasped as the pain registered, and I could hear Celestia choke on her words as she saw me cut my thumb. Luna sat at the other end of the table, eyeing me with interest, while confused as to why I would do such a thing. I sat there staring at my thumb. I was about to ask Celestia for a band-aid or something, to clean the blood and cover it up, but a flash of golden light came from my thumb, and when it disappeared, the cut was gone. No scars, no nothing. There was no trace of it being there except for the blood on the knife and the drop of blood rolling down my thumb to the palm of my hand. I grabbed a paper napkin off the table and cleaned the knife and my hand. Luna was the first to break the silence

"I guess we get our answer as to why he heals so fast."

I turned to Celestia, looking at her apologetically. She stood up, saying nothing while pulling my chair back with her magic. She motioned for me to follow her. I stood up and walked out the door, turning to look at Luna. It was at that moment I knew, I fucked up bad. Luna had a concerned look on her face, which wasn't there before Celestia had stood up.

As I walked out, Celestia grabbed me and pulled me closer, nearly stabbing me in the throat. She looked up at me, looking me directly in the eyes. She grabbed my hand with her magic and pulled it lower, presumably asking me to kneel. I got on her level, looking at her eyes. She shakily exhaled, and finally broke the silence.

"Thaddeus... please don't ever do that again. I can't stand watching my subjects hurt themselves, and you are no different." We continued to look each other in the eye, not saying anything. Celestia finally broke the staring contest, taking my hand in her magic as she inspected it, looking for any imperfections, there were none, none of my scars were there. The burn from playing with lighters was gone, the scar from slicing my thumb open, gone. All of them gone. I no longer had the scars to prove it. My nails should have been jagged, the skin chewed, but everything was perfect. I looked back at Celestia, she followed a moment later, dropping my hand from her magic.

We went back to staring into each others eyes, I stand up, looking down to maintain eye contact. I bend down and pick her up, embracing her. She squeals as I picked her up, presumably not used to anyone picking her up. I chuckle a bit, holding her in the embrace. It's warm, it's comforting, and she smells like cake. I decide that's an all right thing to say.

"You smell like cake, Princess." I chuckle again, quickly adding "Not that that's a bad thing, I happen to like cake, and I used to bake cakes all the time."

Maybe I'll wake up early and make a cake for her. I thought. I finally release the embrace, putting Celestia back down on her hooves. She was impossibly light, which made me think that he sister must be even lighter, since she's smaller. Maybe I'll test that, I thought to my self. Although who knows who was listening. We walked back into the dining hall, Luna looked in surprise to see that neither of us were upset. In fact, I was feeling quite happy, and Celestia had a light blush on her face, but I decided not to embarrass her. Celestia and I finished our breakfast, each requesting a Hot chocolate from the server who came to take our plates. They came and took Luna's empty cup. and left. Luna decided that she was going to go to sleep, as it was too late for her. As Luna made her way out the door, the server came with our hot chocolates. I decided to let mine cool off as Celestia began drinking hers. We sat there, remaining quiet.

"Y-you're very good at hugging." Celestia said, blushing while yanking me from my thoughts

"Hu--Pardon?" I questioned, not sure I heard her right.

"You're very good at hugging." she replied, still blushing. I opened my mouth, but closed it as I realized she wasn't done speaking. "Your hugs are tight enough to radiate safety, but not too tight, so as to allow me to breathe." She added, blushing brighter than before, quickly taking a sip from her drink.

"I should probably get back to the day court." She sighed, standing up from her chair. I quickly pushed out of my chair, turning to face her.

"May I come with you?" I asked "It's all right if I can't." I added. She turned to face me.

"I'd love if you would come with me"

We walked back to where I had first seen her, I took a seat from the side and kept quiet unless I was asked something from Princess Celestia. It became very boring very fast, and I was surprised that Celestia could stay awake. I looked up at her, and I could see the tiredness in her eyes, how she sighed each time a pony left and another came in. The end couldn't have come soon enough. Finally the guards announced the last pony who had come and gone. Celestia slumped in her throne, exhausted, and probably had a headache. She slowly stood up, and I did the same, walking over to to her side.

"Today was a longer day than usual." She remarked, yawning. "I'm so tired." She walks off towards the door. The two guards open it as we walk up to it, I silently thank them with a head nod as we walk through. She trudges through the halls, slowly. I smirk as I slow down to walk beside her.

"What happened to Miss Speed walker?" I remark, chuckling at the look she gives me. I bend down beside her, picking her up like a baby, and begin walking at a normal pace. She gasps, startled by my sudden actions, but relaxes after she realizes what I was up to.

"What if a guard see this?" she asks, looking at me.

"I don't know, we'll have to play it by ear." I respond, still walking straight. "Which way do we go, Celestia?" I ask, still unsure as to where her room was.

"Right, and then take the second left." She whispers, I barely hear her. I turn right, and look down, only to realize that she was sleeping, light snores escaping. I smirked, taking a left, and walking up to the door I hadn't come out of earlier that day. I used my foot to turn the handle, which probably wasn't the most ideal choice, but I had a sleeping princess in my arms, and I couldn't drop her to open a door.

I walked into the room, which was alarmingly bright, it was wonder anyone could sleep in here. I walked over to the bed, having to lean over to place Celestia in the middle of the bed. I turned around to see the door closing, a golden glow around it. I turned back to see Celestia, slightly awake and using her magic to close the door.

"Stay for a while? Please?" I rolled the thought around in my head. You can't really say no to a princess, and even worse was the puppy eyes she was giving me. I sighed,

"I suppose I can spare a few minutes. It's not like I have anything better to do." I walked over and sat down on the edge of the bed, listening to her breathing. She pat the bed with her wing, asking me to move closer to her. I obliged, lying down next to her. I inhaled deeply, taking in all the scents. The cake smell, the smell of freshly cleaned blankets and sheets, and another smell I couldn't identify. The room dimmed magically.

About 40 minutes later Celestia had fallen asleep, but I couldn't bring myself to leave. Partially because I was being held, and partially because I might wake her up. Instead I sat there, thinking about what had happened today. I decided that if I was going to be here for a while, I might as well get comfortable. I rolled onto my side so I was looking over Celestia's head. I accidentally poked myself in the forehead with her horn, making me wince as she moaned. The tell tale golden flash alerted me to the fact that it had been healed. I wiped the drop of blood with the sleeve of my shirt and discarded it over the side of the bed. I said I was going to make myself comfortable, and I meant it. I was not going to discard my pants. I felt as if the shirt was close enough as it was. I wiggled my arm under Celestia, pulling her closer as I wrapped my other arm over top of her, pulling her into a hug. I felt my eyelids grow heavier as I grew warmer from the body heat. I finally fell asleep, the both of us had a smile on our face. Quite possibly for the same reason.

Author's Note

Howdy,

It turns out I lied about it being a month or so until I could update this story. Mostly because this chapter is rushed as fuck. Because I'm dumb. But I felt like I needed to write this, so, yeah, here it is. I hope you like it. Criticism is welcomed, constructive or not. Don't be an asshat about it though.

Have a good one,

William Quinn

Also, there's a small "Easter egg" in here, see if you can find it. As an added incentive to find it, I'm going to implement a points system that is going to extend over all my stories. (If I ever write again...) (Hint: It has to do with a music play-list.)