Sunset Shimmer suddenly felt a moment of trance, as if, for a split second just now, some pony had been talking about her.
But immediately, she dismissed this vague sixth sense, because her public reputation remained in a state of neither good nor bad; besides Aurora, what pony would be thinking of her?
And Aurora was busy dealing with the celebration activities right now; she probably didn't have time to think about them.
"Achoo!"
Almost simultaneously with Sunset Shimmer's hallucination came Twilight Sparkle's sneeze. She rubbed her nose in confusion, feeling a momentary doubt about her emotional fluctuations that could not be explained by science, but in the end, like Sunset Shimmer, she chose to put it behind her.
"Do you have a cold?"
"I don't know... but I don't think it's a cold."
Twilight Sparkle quickly denied that the sneeze was caused by a health issue. Since she had already decided to go to Ponyville with Sunset Shimmer tomorrow, she didn't want to miss it because of a cold.
"Come to think of it, it's already autumn, and the temperature is gradually starting to drop, so you should be a bit more careful."
Sunset Shimmer thought for a moment. She remembered that Aurora had stored some things here in advance that could be used at any time, so she got up and rummaged through a nearby cabinet.
"Found it! I think this will make you feel better."
Everything in this small cabin was arranged neatly and orderly by Aurora; Sunset Shimmer easily found a few clean blankets and chose one to drape over Twilight Sparkle.
"Thank you! I didn't expect the things here at Flying Light's place to be even more complete than I imagined."
"Yeah, she's always been this thoughtful."
After the brief conversation, both ponies paused, and the cabin suddenly became strangely quiet at this moment. Sunset Shimmer subconsciously looked towards the door, then spoke hesitantly.
"Today Flying Light isn't here, and it's really a bit hard to get used to."
Twilight Sparkle also nodded along.
Usually at this time, Aurora would create topics so the three of them could chat together, or they would be doing the same thing together.
In the eyes of both of them, Aurora was a pony with many ideas, and Sunset Shimmer knew this might be related to the "original" things Aurora had been pondering all along.
Heaven knows where she got so many wonderful inspirations; when they were learning the same magic, Aurora's perspective was always the most tricky one. She would take every syllable of a spell apart, exploring the connection logic and pronunciation habits within it.
Sometimes she would piece together some strange things herself, then ask Twilight Sparkle, who was good at calculation, to compute them, and ask the handy Sunset Shimmer to build models.
Although the final results often ended in failure, both of them felt that Aurora's ideas were very interesting, and they could also learn something from these strange brainchildren.
"Sunset, Flying Light will be going to Ponyville with you tomorrow, right?"
Although it was a question, Twilight Sparkle's tone carried a bit of certainty. After all, in her impression, Sunset Shimmer and Aurora often acted together, and this time should be no exception.
"Uh... actually, I haven't had a chance to ask her yet."
"Then when she comes back, let's invite her to go with us; I think she'll agree."
Twilight Sparkle said happily.
In Twilight Sparkle's impression, Aurora had always been a gentle and easy-going senior sister; in her view, Aurora was as good a pony as Princess Cadance.
Seeing Twilight Sparkle's eyes shining, Sunset Shimmer guessed that she must be secretly counting Aurora's merits again.
However, Aurora did usually spoil this junior sister, so it was only natural that Twilight Sparkle liked her.
However, Twilight Sparkle didn't know yet that the kind and gentle Senior Sister Flying Light she liked was, in essence, a schemer.
Seeing Twilight Sparkle so enthusiastic, Sunset Shimmer didn't want to pour cold water on her, so she didn't say her inner thoughts out loud.
Actually, she felt that Aurora wasn't very interested in this mysterious rainbow explosion.
This made Sunset Shimmer feel strange; Aurora had always been a pony with strong curiosity towards the unknown, yet she seemed exceptionally indifferent regarding this rainbow explosion event.
When the explosion occurred, she did show normal surprise, but that was it; it was as if it were just a sudden fireworks show that wasn't worth much attention.
However, Sunset Shimmer couldn't prove this hallucinatory sense of inconsistency and just assumed it was suspicion caused by her own nervous tension.
Perhaps Aurora was just too invested in her own research and simply wasn't interested in that mysterious phenomenon?
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