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// Good Morning 
// Story: Snow White Walls 
// by Equimorto 
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"Happy Hearth's Warming."
Twilight stared through her glasses, sitting on her delightfully grey chair, against the wonderfully light-blue wall behind her, with an expression halfway between relief and disbelief. "Really?" she finally asked, finishing the task of tying her hair back in a bun she'd stopped in the middle of. "Is that really the first thing you say?"
Sunset smiled back at her. "I missed you."
Twilight's answer was a silent one, but the way she rushed towards Sunset to hug her spoke well enough. If it hadn't been Twilight giving it, Sunset would have feared for herself at the evident attempt to crush her bones with affection. Instead, she just put a hand on Twilight's back and let it sit there.
After a moment, Twilight pulled back, and reached for her phone in one of her pockets. Alerting the others, no doubt. A few seconds of typing later, she turned back to Sunset.
Sunset looked back at her. She was silent for a bit, then decided she should probably speak. "So... How is it?"
Twilight gave a nod towards the nearby desk, and Sunset followed it to set her eyes on the fractured remains of her geode, collected inside a small round glass container. "Princess Twilight said there's a chance it might fix itself, with time," Twilight said. "She's not certain about it though. Nor does she know whether the stuff she had to do it it will help with that or make it worse, but at least it helped get you out of there. It did, right?"
Sunset nodded. "It did. Well, there's that." She sighed, looking at what was left of the geode. "Sorry about it. This whole thing was my fault."
"Please don't say that," Twilight replied. "Not right now, at least. You're okay, and that's what matters." A moment passed by in silence. "Besides. Serves you right. Punishment for all the magical artefacts you got away with smashing, you should be glad those never blew up in your face."
Sunset rolled her eyes. "Oh, please. Breaking magical artefacts is one of the first things they teach you when you get to them in magic school. The inner circuits of those things are way too intricate and delicate for them to do anything but sputter and fizzle off if you hit them hard enough. With nothing to direct it the magic just disperses."
Twilight adjusted her glasses. She didn't reply, but she did throw a look at the broken geode.
"Very clearly not a typical Equestrian artefact," Sunset replied. "Constructed tools are a thing, stuff that magic generates by itself is a whole other pair of horseshoes."
Twilight chuckled at the expression. From outside the window, they both heard the sound of a car approaching. "Must be the girls," Twilight said, walking up to have a look and nodding in confirmation after she did.
Sunset smiled. "Hey. Do you think I can act like I'm the present to make up for how I didn't get anyone anything?"
Twilight looked at her, raising an eyebrow. "You know? You might actually get away with that. Except for Rainbow." She walked back to Sunset's bed, and sat down on it.
"I'll just buy her a sandwich," Sunset replied. "Or a book, I guess. Or something else, I'll think of something." She took one of Twilight's hands in her own.
Twilight smiled at her.
Sunset's smile turned into something a little closer to a grin. "If my geode ever gets fixed, would you mind if I had a look into your head afterwards?"
Twilight hesitated, noticing the other's expression. "Why?"
"Oh, you know." Sunset bit her lip, buying a second of time or two as she eyed the door and listened to the sounds behind it. "It's just that I, well... I think I found someone I want Midnight to meet."
Pinkie Pie barged into the room and tackled Sunset almost off the bed, cutting off anything Twilight might have meant to say after hearing that.