UGH, why does the world hate me?

I had to let my body violently spasm as I laid of the stone floor of my bathroom; the near freezing temperature of the rocks beneath me working to sooth my migraine as well as soothe my upset stomach.

I repeat, why does the world hate me? First the attack yesterday, now I’m throwing up.

I had to rather carefully yet quickly extradite myself from Luna’s cuddling embrace and Weiss’s steady heaving body in order to sprint down the dungeon corridor to the bathroom in order to vomit.

Speaking of which, I pulled myself upright from the floor and pushed my face over the toilet bowl just as the dry heaving turned into not so dry heaving. Of course, the added pressure that my stomach was forcing onto me was reciprocated in my head, making me imagine a volcano ready to blow its lid.

Once I'd calmed down once again and landed in a heap on the floor, I let out the most pathetic of whimpers as I clutched at my stomach in agonizing pain.

Then the pain began to recede from my body; as though a gentle rain was washing away the dirt from my body, the pressure and storm in my stomach began to clear away while a warmth began to fill me from within.

“What?” I mumbled almost incoherently as I cracked open an eye to watch Luna’s glowing horn wave slowly over my body.

“Is this helping?” Princess Luna quietly asked of me.

“Princess, you have no idea how much it helps.” I mumbled, closing my eyes again to let the magic warm me and calm the raging tides within me.

Temporarily anyways.

I pulled myself back up to the toilet and gave another couple rounds of dry heaves before collapsing back down again, hitting the flush in the process.

“Are you going to be alright? I can use a restorative spell but it’ll take some time to prepare.” Luna offered, the glow on her horn subsiding and with it, the warmth and comfort.

“N-no thank you. I just need to get to a point of stability that I can just sleep it off.” I replied through shutters before making the attempt to sit up.

“There must be something I can do to help.” Luna replied in concern, sitting back with a huff.

“Ginger.” I replied, lifting myself to sit up against the nearest wall. So far, so good. “Ginger is great for settling upset stomachs.”

“I think we’ve got some ginger root somewhere in the castle, how would you like it?” The Princess looked eager to assist me, even if it meant serving me up tea.

“Tea works with a single spoonful of some kind of sweetener, honey is best but a teaspoon of sugar should be fine.” I requested, rubbing my hand over my sweaty forehead; despite how I felt like I was in the arctic without a blanket.

“Of course, I shall have it prepared immediately! It will take a couple minutes though.” Luna replied, standing up to turn from the room. She held up however and turned back to me. “Would you like assistance getting back into bed?”

“I think I'll manage.” I groaned as I stood up, using the stones of the wall behind me for support. Nearly dropping again had Luna rush to my side and support me with a wing. “Or not.”

“Rest easy. I shall support you no matter what ails you.” Luna announced, helping me from the room and into bed again before taking Weiss back to her own room lest I contaminate the small dragon. “I shall be back shortly with the ginger tea.”

And with that, Princess Luna excused herself from the room while I buried myself under my covers, my head the only evidence of a human being under the bed.

***

“You really care for him, don’t you?” Celestia asked of her sister, leaning against the kitchen doorframe.

“I do sister. I don’t know why it is the case since he’s already established where he stands with me in regards to attachment but I just can’t help it!” Luna replied with a sigh, magically tying up a couple silver dollar sized slices worth of ginger from a root plant before setting it into the tea cup.

“I mostly find it interesting how you seem to have fallen for such an odd creature.” Celestia announced, stepping into the kitchen entirely to partake of a cake at random set out for her alone. “I could understand it if he were a pony or even an alicorn like ourselves, but he’s not even Equine! I do not understand your fascination with him.”

“I’m aware that he is not equine, nor is he dragon or griffon. Need I remind you that it is not uncommon for inter-species relationships in Equestria?” Luna looked back at her sister with a raised eyebrow.

“As I understand it, it isn’t common for inter-species relationships for humans. I believe he described such affairs as immoral and illegal in his cultures.” The older Alicorn explained, sitting down on a kitchen chair to eat as she watched her younger steep the tea.

“I’m aware, he made it perfectly clear some days back. He is quite content at leaving our friendship as just that, a friendship.” Luna retorted with a grin.

“And yet you smile still?”

“Indeed. Apparently and according to him it is not uncommon for animals in the human world, horses and ponies included, to ‘adopt’ a human into their family. This usually means that the idea of cuddling or other shows of affection common between partners is not uncalled for. It merely shows that said animal thinks of the human as part of their group.” Luna explained as she sat down at Celestia’s table with the teacup in her blue glow.

“You plan to use this to your benefit and hopefully persuade him into a relationship then? I don’t think that is wise, dear sister.” Celestia remarked before stuffing half of her slice into her mouth.

“Which is why I will play the patient party. I hope to have him establish the relationship when he’s ready.” Luna replied, spinning around in her seat to lean back against the table, her forehooves resting on the table surface as her head dropped backwards to look up at her sister upside down.

“And if that never happens?” Celestia asked with a mouthful before swallowing and giving her sister a lick across the muzzle.

“Tia!” Luna shrieked, sitting up to wipe off her face. “That smells like icing!” she added as her sister chuckled with a piece of cake hovering nearby. “Regardless, even if that never happens, I will ever remain his best friend for as long as I am able.”

“And what of Weiss and Eben?”

“I get the feeling that Weiss is more of a daughter to him than anything else. Eben and he are more along the lines of co-workers however.” Luna explained casually while stirring the tea.

“And you haven’t considered using magical interference to alter his perceptions of you?” Celestia’s comment had Luna raising an eyebrow as she continued to watch the tea stirring. “Have you?”

“Tia, you wound me with your lack of confidence in me!” Luna mocked, placing a hoof against her breast as the spoon was released from her magical grip and spun with the liquids.

“That is because I know you well enough, dear sister. I do not put it past you to use underhoofed tactics such as magical intervention or dream therapy in order to achieve your desired plans.” Celestia’s voice dropped all familiarity and was left with all business, the voice she regularly used for official princess matters.

“Ugh, don’t worry, Tia, I’m not going to do anything underhoofed to him. I doubt that such tricks would work on him anyways, what with him not being a creature of magic.” Luna replied with disgust. The blue alicorn stood up from her seat and took telekinetic hold of the teacup before strutting from the room, irritant.

I suppose it is true, I couldn’t use my magic to influence his perceptions of me even if I wanted to. All my tricks rely on aligning magical signatures which he does not have. Luna let her mind wander through her magical repertoire to see if she had some kind of magical spell she could use on the man under Canterlot, however true enough, they all relied on aligning their magical signatures to the same polarity and letting that slowly draw him to her.

Letting out a small tch from frustration, Luna pulled the dungeon door open and began the descent down, her shoes providing adequate protection from the stone surfaces.

As Luna neared the bottom of the staircase, she began to hear the distinct sound of harmonized singing between a male that sounded like her man and a female sounding like her man’s white dragonling.

The songhowever, was one that spoke of loneliness and sorrow making the Princess wonder if perhaps she was closer to her end goals than she’d originally thought. Maybe she could wiggle herself into his life sooner than she thought if this was the kind of music he sung with such fervour.

***

“Did I get the chorus right? I keep messing up a couple lines.” Weiss asked of me, looking over her notes of the song I'd just taught her.

“Nah, I think you did flawlessly.” I replied in a coarse tone of voice. “If anything it was I who fucked it up with my voice as it is.” I took a second to allow a yawn escape, threatening to pop my jaw out of place in the process.

“I think it was beautiful.” Luna remarked, entering into my room with a teacup hovering next to her. “You’re voices compliment each other quite well even if you’re suffering so.”

“Thank you Princess.” Weiss gave a dip of the head for both of us.

“Awesome, tea’s here.” I noted as I sat up as best I could to receive the cup of tea from the Alicorn as she stepped up onto the foot of my bed and got comfortable.

Taking a light sip, I could already feel the relief of ginger and honey soothe the sandpaper in my throat. Taking another sip I could swear I almost immediately felt better. Or tired. It could be feeling tired.

With a yawn, I decided that it was feeling tired and set the tea aside for later.

“Thanks for the tea Luna, I appreciate it.” I mumbled as I burrowed deeper into my covers. “I’m gonna get some sleep though, so please see yourself out.”

“Of course, I will see you when you awake.” Luna nodded as she stood and hopped off my bed, taking Weiss with her. “Sleep well.” she bade me as the two exited the dungeon entirely, the heavy wooden door clicking shut behind them.

Author's Note

I have nothing intelligent to say here, save that I wrote this in a couple hours simply to fill space before I start work on the next chapter which will be rife with Season 5 finale spoilers. I've been putting it off for a couple days now to let people actually watch the episode(s) first.

But now, I am le tired and I require sleep. More sleep. I seem to be sleeping a lot... Maybe I should go see someone about this?

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