Not what you would expect for a Princess

Ten enjoyable weeks pasted by with him as Canterlot's newest Royal Repair Pony. He spent these ten weeks fixing burned out lights and fixing old cracked castle walls while at the call of the Princess at any time during the day or night. This meant that she could call him at any time and that meant 3.30AM or at one 1.00PM depending on what went wrong. But she usually had him fix things between and 7.00PM but even that was sort of vague depending on what she needed to do that day. In fact for two or three nights he even fixed things while the Princess was up in her bed in the middle of the night. He even had one night where he even walked into her bedroom at 2.30AM in the morning and said to her, "My Princess what needs to be repaired?" She was sitting up in her bed and said, "Lotto the royal bedroom window won't close its letting in some really cold night air could you fix it?" He said, "Yes my Princess." He would start working on it and he would start making a lot of noise working on it which did wake some other ponies sometimes. As for Princess Celestia she would be sound asleep in dream land as if his noise and banging around relaxed her for some reason. Not to mention she even started snoring while he was repairing it and that really load he couldn't believe how load she was snoring and it was even loader then his drills and hammer.

During this time he was also starting to understand Princess Celestia average day around her castle and how he played a role in it. Celestia would get up around 6.30AM or depending on what time she felt like ending the night and bringing up the sun which depended on kind of mood she was in. He had suspected that with her family being around such a long time in power that most likely there could have been generations and generations of royal guards and repair ponies working in her castle for her mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Unknown to him he was never really told that she was really over 1500 years old. He had always thought that she was around the same age as him only she was double his size do to her being an Alicorn and her naturally being bigger than him.

As for her family members which he never knew much about he suspected that they moved away or that they had died while she was at a young age. But he did understand that she had a sister named Princess Luna who was in charge of the night time in Canterlot granted he really didn't know much about her or had seen her yet. He most likely didn't want to ask her about her family members in that it would most likely upset her. He also understood that to talk to the Princess about her social life or to simply talk to her unless asked by her was off limits and could get him kicked out of Canterlot. He knew this but he had a strong desire to want to talk to her for some reason about things that didn't have anything to do with fixing things in the castle.

As much as he would love to try and talk to her out of the blue to see what kind of reaction he would get from her. He didn't want to get kicked out of Canterlot for upsetting her so he never said anything back to her unless she said something to him like everyone else did in Canterlot. He was sort of on the very shy side and rarely talked to other ponies and as far as he cared about being needed by Princess Celestia to go fix things around her castle. This was the closeted he ever had to any kind of fun relationship with a lovely mare that he really cared about. But it was kind of very one sided though do to the Canterlot rules that he had to listen to her and obey. It was almost like she was a 150 foot tall giantess mare 40 times his size and he was this little two inch tall figure trying to please her with him having to run out of the way every time she took a hoof step. Things where like this until unknown to him he was going to start to see a side to Princess Celestia he never knew she had inside of her that not even she knew about existed. This all started out one morning in Canterlot that started out like any other morning in Canterlot for the last 1500 years expect for a few things that were going to change for that matter.

Princess Celestia got up one morning feeling very edgy and nervous she looked at herself in her mirror and put her clown and golden jewelry on. Once she left her bedroom she was greeted by her royal guards and she said, "Good morning my defenders." They all walked towards the highest tower in the castle where she checked on the sun every morning to make sure it would come up. She still felt odd and looked at her two royal guards and looked back at herself and had a puzzled look on her face.

She checked the sun's path and it was stable for now. After that she walked down her castle hallways to collect information and give out her daily orders to her castle servants from the maids to the cooks. She looked at all of them and said things like, "Today I would like to have the blue bed sheets put on as this week's theme and I would like the green pillow cases on Tuesday. Now for dinner I would like some celery soup along with something new that you royal chefs can pick out in that I like surprises. Her royal chefs said, "My Princess you will like our new hot breakfast cereal we have made for you we brought it in from Mr. and Ms. Cake in Ponyville. " She tried a spoon full and said, "Hum this is pretty good I do like how you chefs keep things fresh these last thousand years or so.

After getting her personal life around the castle in order she would go take care of the Kingdom's royal business. In this case for today the City of Manehatten was asking about her funding a new project to make the city's port twice as big as before to handle even larger ships then before such as ships at least 300 hooves long. She looked over at the new funding plans for the port and approved parts of them. She did this while talking to several representatives from the city itself. After that she talked to several Canterlot noble unicorns about the same old Canterlot gibberish and a part of her felt oddly annoyed by them. She had a puzzled looking at them as if she had forgotten the thousand plus years she had come to understand them and how to give orders to them.

As for Lotto in her daily routine in all of this and how she treated him was she really didn't have a set time when she would go up to him or have a note sent to him to go work on something. But on this particular day she came up to him in pony to him. Lotto looked at her and he said, "Yes my Princess." Celestia looked at him and sniffed him around his head and said, "Well for today's project I would like you to put in some new floor tiles in my study." He happily said, "Yes my Princess but it will be kind of load for you to work in it today so you might need to use the observatory study which has been newly renovated." She said, "I don't mind you working around me it helps put some life into room I'm." He went over and started working on the floor tiles pulling out old ones and putting in new ones. Celestia meanwhile walked in and looked at him with a puzzled look on her face while he was working.

Something in the back of her mind seemed to be making her mind kind of antsy this morning. She looked at her royal guards and a new voice in the back of her mind that was her inner self talking said to her, "They are of good strength but you know they are taken and besides you know the golden rule Tia."

She looked at herself filling out some royal paper work and looked at herself in the room's mirror and said, "Huh is there something that you want?" Lotto looked across the room at her and said, "Princess Celestia did you ask for something?" She looked at him with an odd look on her face and said, "No I don't think so?" She got back to work and that voice in the back of her mind said, "Hum that is a nice healthy strong Earth Pony there we rarely see one of those guys around here in Canterlot. You did a good job of finding me some good eye candy now Tia." She smiled and said, "Hum he's only been here ten weeks and he is my new repair pony Lotto you see. Not to mention he is not taken by any pony else." The Voice said, "This I like."

She picked up another scroll and said, "Who is this part of me that is talking I've never met you before?" The Voice said, "Why Tia I'm the part of you that is going to make sure that our kingdom continues even after we are gone?" She said, "Gone you know silly we are several thousand years old so what is this gone you mean how can we be gone if we cannot age?" The voice said, "Tia you know as much as I do that we cannot live forever despite what we are? If another villain or invader shows up or if things change in Equestria we could possibly be gone like that." She got nervous and upset and dropped her scroll on to the floor where it rolled up to Lotto. He looked at her and said, "Are you OK my Princess?" She said to him, "I'm fine." The Voice in her said to her, "No we are not fine by far with what could happen to us unless we take action."

He looked at her again with a confused look on her face and she said, "It's only some upset stomachs that are all." He got back to work working on the floor tiles in the room they where in." Celestia said to this voice in her head, "So what you are saying is that it's time for change In the way I do things?" The voice said, "Yes Tia if you don't take action now things will change if you want them to or not." She said, "I guess so that it might be time in that you might be right in how long we might not last." She looked around the room with a puzzled look on her face but it soon started to turn into sadness.

She got back to work filling out her royal scrolls and looked back at Lotto and she smiled at him. She stood up and said, "Hum Lotto have the royal waiter bring us some tea and cake in that it's time for a little break." He said, "Yes my Princess." Within a few minutes one of the waiters came in and brought in a tray of cake and tea and she started slowly nibbling on it feeling uneasy. The voice inside of her which was the thing making her kind of antsy all along this last month and unsettled. It said Tia why don't you say something to him that doesn't at all relate to work or repairing things or you being princess. You know to check out this new potential real state you brought me you know to see if he's more than simply eye candy. She thought to herself and said to the voice inside of her, "It couldn't hurt to at least ask him if he's been anywhere interesting." She said to him, "Have you been anywhere interesting to before you came to Canterlot?"