What Do You Do All Day?

Well, after living the adventure-filled life of an exile in the Everfree Forest alongside Nightmare Moon, you'd think that I must be exciting and full of rambling stories about battles with monsters and creatures of the night - er, or day, since... again, Luna and I are considered evil and all - but I'm really not. Most days were... pretty tame, actually. Or pretty stupid. Or worst of all, there was adventure but it was the adventures of married couple who do not understand that they are not children and haven't learned to act their age.

For example. Teaching Luna to make coffee was an adventure. As a thousand years in the past they did not have 'infernal kitchen implements!' getting her to understand that you do not have to set things on fire or blast them with lightning to make them work - I don't think they did in the past either, to be honest, but Luna's... impatient... - took a little work. So did dealing with the problem of teaching a winged unicorn who spent ninety percent of her time eating and drinking in taverns proper manners. I cannot fathom what it must have been like for her when she became a princess in a castle, because she very quickly regressed from faking Canterlot high etiquette to using her hooves like a five year old.

Please don't tell her I said that. She'll beat me. More frequently.

Back to the coffee. Luna loves her coffee. Black, cream and sugar, spiced, flavored, she adores it. It's one of the things we share, to be honest, but Luna likes it even more than I do. So, eventually, I had to show her how a coffee maker worked. Three machines later, due to Luna tampering with one and breaking the other two 'attempting to make the coffee boil faster,' she's now probably better at it than I am. And see that pointless anecdote I just told? That's a lot of what life is like, even our weird life.

Sure, there's doing patrols of the forest every now and then, and skirmishes with enemies... both pony and not. But a lot of days I spend either doing normal(ish) couple things with Luna or writing, usually in the form of transcribing a story of Sleipnir's past that Luna's told me. Or I'm cleaning. Or cooking. Those aren't things Luna's exactly... suited for. She's a warrior at heart, I think... and I admire that. Me? I'm the gloomy poet that just got lucky enough to get to stick by her side through thick and thin. Maybe, though, that's what makes life kind of special... maybe that's why it seems so fantastic sometimes, despite how much of it is monotony despite the way saying 'living in exile' must make us sound like constant adventurers.

So uh. Yeah. That's what I do all day. I live with Luna. And believe me, that's hard enough as it is on a normal day, undead and monsters and getting shot at aside. But I wouldn't change it for the world, for the universe, either.