The sound of hoofsteps echoed through the halls of the school as they new students poured in to begin the new term. As Havran rounded the corner to catch up, he noticed that the mass of new students was…rather small. They were also being escorted by a pair of royal guards into the school and out into the courtyard in the middle of the building. One thing he took notice of was the age difference of the group. It ranged from ages nine to fifteen years of age. But, there were so few for a fully populated school.

Havran grasped at the hood of his longcoat, slowly pulling it down to reveal his face to the group of fellow students. Some were shocked, others curious. Thankfully, none seemed disgusted by his appearance. However, one new student would see his face and quickly make her way towards him, gently tugging at his sleeve and looking up at him with a small smile on her muzzle. Havran looks down to see that very same lavender unicorn he had met that day a month ago who had gotten separated from her brother.

Havran offered her a gentle smile in return before bringing a hand upon her head, gently petting the top of it as she looked up at him with one eye closed “Aaah, so you made it in after all. Good job!” he said before removing his hand from her head. Havran also took notice for a moment that in fact, all the students here were unicorns. Not a single pegasus or earth pony in sight. Then again, it made sense, unicorns are magical creatures after all.

“Yeah! It happened about a couple weeks ago. I was having so much trouble during the entrance exam and then, BOOM! This colorful rainbow ring filled the sky with a huge explosion of color!” she said as she opened up her arms as much as she could to emphasize the explosion. Havran thought back on the day when he heard and saw the explosion as well. He remembered he was doing a little bit of studying on the realm’s language out in the very courtyard until he heard and saw the sonic rainboom as well. It was truly a sight to behold, even for someone like him.

“Wel, I am glad things worked out for you in the end. And I can’t wait to learn with you. My name is Havran by the way, I never did get yours when we met that day.” he said before offering a hand out to her. The normally shy and antisocial filly didn’t hesitate to take Havran’s hand “My name is Twilight Sparkle, I hope you can show me more of your magic sometime! That was amazing how you brought the little snow animals to life! I can’t wait to see what you will do next!” she said as her tail sways behind her in excitement.

Everyone was talking to each other until Celestia came out onto the elevated podium before the children and cleared her throat, making everyone quiet down for what she had to say. “Greeting my little ones! It is with great pride that I welcome you all to my school of magic! Here, I will help you cultivate and grow your skills as magic users and help you develop mentally and physically as well. While we do focus on your magical abilities here, we also want you to have a strong body as well as a strong mind. Also, I would like to point out…” she continued on and on for what felt like hours, going on about the rules, curfew and the various other things of what not to do while studying at this school.

“And with that, orientation is over. Now, if you would please follow me, I shall show you all where most of your lessons will be taking place.” she said as she motioned the group of children to follow her. As the walked in the group, Havran noticed that Twilight stuck rather close to him. Like, very close. It didn’t bother him in the slightest of course as he could see the look of worry and nervousness on her face as they walked along. It looked like he wasn’t the only one with butterflies in his stomach today. He slowly reaches down and gently takes Twilight’s hand into his, squeezing it gently as he looks down at her, this making her come out of her frayed nerves a bit “Hey, I am a little nervous too, but it’s going to be just fine. You got a friend right here.” he said as he gently squeezed her hand again.Twilight nodded quietly as she scooted in a little closer to Havran. While he wasn’t her brother, he was someone she somewhat knew, and that was enough for her at this time.

Once they finally got to the room, Both of them sat at one table along with another filly who’s name was Moon Dancer. Once everyone was in their seats and settled in, Celestia levitated a copy of the syllabus for the year’s lessons to each student. Thankfully, Havran had learned enough of the realm’s language to understand it as they read over it with Celestia. From what he could tell, there was not only magic, but alchemy, botany, sword combat training, all sorts of things that one could participate in. But, the core learning was academics and magic.

Other than magic, alchemy certainly caught Havran’s attention. While he had the knowledge of alchemy from his last life, learning this world’s alchemy could be fun and exciting for him as well. After havintg explained the syllabus to the class, Celestia tells everyone that today was only a half day, and that they are dismissed to go and explore the school and familiarize themselves with it. Havran however, had the whole month to get himself settled in. So, he just packs up his books that were handed out during the reading and makes his way off to his ‘room’. Following close behind him however, was Twilight. The little unicorn seemed to follow Havran like a lost puppy for quite some time.

Havran turned to face her and arched a brow “Shouldn’t you be off getting yourself familiar with the school? Or heading home?” He asked as he approached her. Twilight grabbed her upper arm, rubbing up and down it as she digs her hoof into the solid marble floor “I…I don’t wanna do it by myself. And you are the only one here that I know. So could you please..?”. Havran saw the look of worry and anxiety on the unicorn’s face. He couldn’t say no to that, no matter how much he wanted to. He give her a smile before waking up beside her and offering his arm to her “Havran Mortanius, at your service.”. Twilight beamed happily as she took hold of his arm and the tour began.

Along the tour, they made their way to the royal library, in which Twilight began to gush about how she loved reading and just loved books in general, she sped around the library, admiring the tall beautifully constructed shelves upon which the massive treasure trove of knowledge filled tomes that adorned them. Once she realized she was overdoing it, she quickly calms back down with a nervous giggle and sheepish smile, blush forming across her cheeks in embarrassment. Havran didn’t mind, however. He to enjoyed learning new things, just not on her level of excitement.

As Havran continued to escort Twilight around, he became curious about her entrance exam “So, what did they have you do to prove your magical worth to gain entry in here?” he asked in genuine curiosity. Twilight looked back up at him to answer “Oh, I hatched a baby dragon egg! The cutest little dragon popped out when I finally did it. I named her Barb!”. Haran arched a brow in surprise, he was certainly intrigued at meeting this little dragon she spoke of hatching. After all, Havran loved dragons in his past life, and that love carried over to this one it seemed. “Dragons are wonderful beasts indeed, always so misunderstood. But, if you fail to respect them, they will burn you.”.

“I know, but I will make sure that Barb is a good little dragon. She will be raised by me after all!” Twilight said with her chest puffed out as she showed her motherly instincts at such a young age. Havran nodded as he listened to ehr talk on and on about how much she loved her little dragon. They continued to just walk around with Twilight hanging onto his arm, not really noticing that the other students that went passed them staring and giggling about who lovey-dovey they looked. Lots of teasing was sure to happen throughout the year.

By the time they realized the tour had come to completion, it was now noon. And Havran’s tummy started to growl from hunger. He then looks back to Twilight and offers her a smile “You hungry? I’d be happy to prepare you something back at my room. After all, Celestia didn’t say anything about not visiting each other’s rooms.”. Twilight thought on it for a moment. He was right, she didn’t say anything about that at all! Not to mention, lunch did sound pretty amazing right now. “Wait…how are you going to prepare the food? The dorms don’t have kitchens…” she said as she tilted her head in confusion. Havran chuckled lightly and pushed his thumb into his chest to point at himself “I do though!”

Once they had both made it to his room, Havran tok out his wand before wordlessly casting a spell to unlock the door, the click echoing through the hall before the door swung open. Havran allowed Twilight to enter first before he went in behind her, closing the door. Once she took in the ‘room’, she was absolutely in love with it. The room she stayed in was significantly smaller and didn’t have a planetarium! She looked over at the fully kitchen he ahd and gasped as she saw him wave his wand around a few times before the knives went to work on cutting up some veggies and tossing them into a now boiling pot on the burning stove top along with the fresh seasoning and broth mixing together by a large wooden spoon mixing it all on its own as well.

“I…I want this room!” she said as she ran around, looking at all the addons that she certainly didn’t have. Havran chuckled as he leaned against the island in the middle of his kitchen “Extension charm made all this possible. Along with a little bit of conjuring magic..and a few borrowed items here and there. Wait until you see what i did to the bathroom.” he said as he pointed to the doorway that was on the second floor next to his bedroom. After she had explored both the upstairs and downstairs thoroughly, she sits down at the table and huffs a little “I am super jealous right now. Your magic is so amazing that it can do all this…”.

Havran chuckled again before he grabbed two bowls and two spoons from the cabinets, the ladle that was sitting near the pot of soup lifting up and filling the bowls to the top before he carried them over to the table, setting a bowl in front Twilight before sitting across from her “Dig in, it is my own recipe.” he said as he took a spoonful into his mouth, closing his eyes at the tasty warm soup that was being consumed. Twilight was hesitant for a moment before taking a bite herself. Her eyes filled with hearts as she quickly fell in love with his soup. She started to eat it with as much gusto as he was, going back for a second bowl for sure.

After they had finished lunch, they sat on Havran’s couch for a while, talking about Twilight’s family and how Havran came to be here.Three o’clock rolled around, Havran had fallen asleep due to a full tummy. No6t only that, but it seemed that Twilight had fallen asleep as well…on top of him. He blinked a few times as he watched her sleep, her soft snoring making him stifle a chuckle before getting up very, very carefully so as to not wake her by placing a pillow under her and placing a blanket atop her slumbering form.

A few more hours rolled by as Havran sat at his desk, working on learning more words in the pony language and also writing down things in a tome he had been filling up with his new discoveries for later study. As he was deep in his work, Twilight finally awakens from her nap to see that Havran was nowhere to be found on the couch. She sits up and looks around, finally seeing him at his desk working away. The way he looked while so focused, the scribbling of his pencil and the organized chaos of books and papers on his desk, Twilight couldn’t help but feel a bit of…attraction toward the human. He just seemed so astute.

Havran heard the movement behind him which made him turn his head and see that she was awake. He sets the pencil down and stands up, walks over to the couch and leans over the back of it with his hands clasped “Did you have a nice nap?”. Twilight nodded before stretching out her arms and drowsily stood up from where she was now sitting “I did…sorry about fling asleep on you. I do that with my brother a lot and I just miss having someone there for me is snuggle up with.”. Havran shook his head while giving his hand a gentle wave “It didn’t bother me one single bit. I understand that you are missing your family.”.

After they hung out for a little bit longer, Twilight reluctantly left Havran’s room. They both stood at the door as Twilight madam her way out. “I look forward to learning with you in this school, Havran. I really do…” Twilight said as she placed her hands behind her back and smiled warmly at him. “I think it will be quite fun indeed, Twilight. I am glad to be of service anytime you need my help. You take care alright? And make sure you don’t miss dinner, that soup can only tide you over for so long.”.

As Havran closes the door, Twilight walks down the hallway back to her own room with a feeling of butterflies in ehr tummy and her heart beating ninety miles a minute. Why was she feeling like this? She certainly didn’t feel this way around her brother even though she feels the same kind of comfort with Havran. It was something more. She was both confused and excited about this feeling. Havran on the other hand, was absolutely clueless when it came to feelings of love. He may be a powerful wizard, but he was certainly lacking in other areas. All of which will come to light further into the school year.

Author's Note

I am gonna try and take Havran's and Twilight's relationship not too fast. I want their friendship to build up before they go into romance. I am also considering a time skip to when they are maybe a couple years older as well.

May the darkness grant you peace.