Cobalt’s Story

As I began to wake, I noticed a large warm mass huddled against my back.

Even with my sleep-addled brain, I could still surmise that It wasn’t Azure; She was both smaller than I was and would have no reason to leave her bed to join mine, atleast that I knew of.

Of course, the blue-green muzzle nestled into my neck was also a bit of a giveaway.

I took a moment to consider my situation; Thankfully, today was my day off, and I didn’t have anywhere to be currently. Somehow, it never occurred to me to ask why Cobalt was snuggled up against me, it was simply a fact of life at the moment. Instead, the first question that came to mind was why he currently had my barrel in a one-hoofed death grip, Cobalt never struck me as a clingy pony.

Waking up like this was, admittedly, a nice change of pace from waking up alone. It was a lot warmer, for starters. Another pony just delivered where a nice comforter couldn’t.

I briefly considered going back to sleep for a while, but it was then that the pressure in my bladder decided to make itself known. “Hey, uh, Cobalt...?” I ask, not much louder than a whisper. I received a snore and a nuzzle in response, which felt mighty weird and sent a tingle up my spine. I tried to wiggle out of his grip, to no avail. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised, he was and earth pony after all. “Cobalt, let me go, I gotta take a piss!” My voice went a little louder, but he just mumbled something about flowers and buried his muzzle deeper into my mane. Now, if I was a more vindictive pony, I might have decided to hold this over Cobalt in the future. Thankfully for him, I was just mildly irritated. My position as the little spoon left me woefully unable to get him off with my hooves, aside from either trying to buck his ‘special bits’ or headbutting him, neither of which I particularly wanted to do. “Cobalt!” I was an octave or two below my speaking voice now, “with Celestia as my witness, get off of me unless you want a wet belly!” Cobalt groaned, mumbled something, and seemed to loosen his grip just a little, but it was enough for me to wiggle out of and rush to the bathroom.

After relieving my poor bladder, I set about seeing if there was any food left in the dorm; I always kept some fruit or greens on hoof Incase I didn’t want to go out that day, or Cobalt got hungover, or at least a dozen other reasons.

After a search of the cabinets and magitech freeze box came up fruitless, I gave a small sigh and resigned myself to shopping for the essentials. I mean, sure, the castle kitchens catered to the guards of course, but I was going to need to restock regardless.

Speaking of restocking, I wouldn’t have to pick up any more mane or tail products any time soon, thanks to Azure. I’m not sure where she gets all her soaps from, but I was going to have to ask and get some of my own.... What? My coat looked and felt buckin amazing after using her conditioner, do you know how hard it is to make a black coat like mine actually look nice? Sure, it’s a little embarrassing that I smelled like a florist afterwards, but at least I could say it fit with my purple mane.