...After I became Princess Celestia's student, I have been living in the castle. During the holidays, I usually study on my own. Occasionally, when the Princess is not busy, she will make me a pancake... You haven't tasted the pastries made by the Princess yet, have you?
No. How does it taste? If it's good, I'll go beg the Princess to make me one next time.
That's hard to say, I remember you don't like things that are too sweet.
Flying Light followed the lead Sunset Shimmer gave to move the topic along, and even made a little joke.
Flying Light had speculated about Sunset Shimmer's background in this regard. After all, in the movie, after she went to the Human World, it was as if she had no ties to Equestria at all.
The flow of time in the two worlds was not the same; Sunset Shimmer might have only stayed in the Human World for four years, but perhaps more than ten years had passed in the Pony World.
And during this period, apart from Celestia who might occasionally think of her rebellious student, it seemed that no pony would ask about Sunset Shimmer.
No wonder she usually had no enthusiasm for holidays; the difference between holidays and normal days for her was probably just being a little more idle.
On this point, Flying Light could empathize with her feelings a little.
If there were no one in the world that you cared about or who cared about you, the only things worth being happy about during holidays would probably just be the break from work or high overtime pay.
But this lifetime was different. She had parents who cared about her, which gave Flying Light a different understanding of the meaning of holidays.
I say... senior student, if you don't have any special arrangements for Hearths Warming Eve this year, why don't you spend it at my place?
Sunset Shimmer stopped in her tracks and looked at Flying Light with a stunned expression.
She thought to herself, is Flying Light pitying me?
But Sunset Shimmer never felt that there was anything wrong with her life. She was Princess Celestia's top student, and just this status alone was far beyond other ordinary ponies.
Although her family background couldn't compare to Flying Light's, it was definitely not a case where the word pity could be casually applied to her.
On the other side, Flying Light had issued the invitation to Sunset Shimmer as if it were a casual remark, but after the words were spoken, her heart jumped to her throat.
She herself knew that bringing up the topic at this time would make Sunset Shimmer misunderstand her meaning. But her time was running out...
Thinking that if she could really invite the senior student to her home for the New Year, she would have to prepare so many things! And it couldn't be too abrupt, she couldn't make the senior student feel uncomfortable, which required very meticulous planning; it would be best to design every step properly.
Before this, it wasn't that Flying Light hadn't thought about inviting Sunset Shimmer to stay at her home, but she had spent too much time thinking, so she often missed the right opportunity.
It was helpless to say, but Flying Light was the kind of pony who thought more than she did, and this time, she had thought too much.
There weren't many days left until Hearths Warming Eve, and if she didn't succeed this time, she probably wouldn't see the senior student for the entire Hearths Warming Eve.
Gulp!
Thinking of such a terrible consequence, Flying Light knew that if she didn't give it her all now, she would lose everything.
...Please, have pity on me, I really want to spend the holidays with you...!
Please! If there's no senior student for Hearths Warming Eve this year, I...!
Flying Light's expression carried a subtle hint of coercion amidst the pleading. And this was caused by her long-term vegetarian diet after becoming a pony.
It had nothing to do with a future of slacking off, and nothing to do with the ideal of exhausting the truth. This time, Flying Light loaded her dignity into the chamber, just to save a pony.
Sunset Shimmer, who had originally wanted to refuse, found the words stuck in her throat. She scratched her head and turned her head away, blushing slightly.
She felt as if the ponies passing by were all looking at them with strange eyes.
She herself felt embarrassed for Flying Light. Did Flying Light have some kind of problem? Would it kill her to speak properly?
Flying Light... you've really opened my eyes today.
However, Sunset Shimmer felt that if she refused even after it had come to this, then she would be the one to die of guilt.
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