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3 - Will Captain Sugar Skull enter your suspect list?


Twilight Sparkle sighed, trying to hold the tears. Tears of sadness for Trixie, and tears of frustration of having to deal with yet another pony – and goes double to this particular pony.

"Captain Sugar Skull. Some Bridle agents just leaved. Gallop, find then and I am sure they will tell you everything you want to know. Good night."

She was about to close the door, but found the stallion hoof blocking it. For a moment, she considered applying all the strenght her magic allowed.

"I just need five minutes of your time, your highness."

The new princess sighed. "Leave your crossbow at the door. I don't want another meeting with those things. Five minutes."

He did what she asked for, glancing the surroundings before stepping in.

"Should I first congratulate you on your coronation, or say I`m sorry for the loss of…"

"Captain, I really don't have patience for either tonight. Start your questioning at once."

Sugar Skull put a small hourglass on the library table and started: "Can I have a glass of water? Tea?"

The frozen look at Twilight face was a quite clear answer.

"Right. Was there somepony watching the library during your coronation?"

"What kind of question is this?"

"I want to know if there are magical listening devices around."

"No. The Bridle agents try to install then, I refused."

"They insisted on it?"

Twilight Sparkle bit her lower lip

"Could you launch a counter-spell on this room, your highness?"

"Why? You obviously don't trust Bridle, captain, and I don't trust you and your execution squad. So maybe I'd welcome a possible third party listening to this."

"Ah." The stallion grabbed a book, start to read it at random. "Princess Sparkle, could you please talk about your relationship with Trixie?"

"Are you really interested on it?"

Sugar Skull shook his head negatively, returned to the book, saying matter-of-factly

"Please, your statement, your highness"

Twilight Sparkle tried to keep her calm, almost without luck:

"What. On. Tartarus. Are. You. Really. Doing. Here?"

Sugar Skull looked at the hourglass. "Ok, they had time enough to act. Answering your question, your highness, I already know everything that has to be known about your adventures with Trixie. Well, I am a bait. I am keeping Bridle around us, watching me enter and exit, trying to figure out what you and I will do next, while my ponies take the amulet and its keeper to safety."

Twilight Sparkle tried not to scuffle at her visitor. "Safety against what? Some ponycidal maniac?"

"Against Bridle."

The alicorn sighed, at the end of her patience "Captain, right now I don't give a flying feather about disputes between law agencies. But I do know you're bluffing. You have no way to know where the amulet is. And the only way to know about me and Trixie is… if you asked her."

The thought of the trigger-happy Night Guard close to Trixie, and mental images of her fate made some tears of rage appear on Twilight face, and her horn started to glow menacingly. The stallion took some steps back, untill was cornered between a bookcase and a very angry Twilight. He raised a hoof.

"Wait, we didn't had any direct contact with Trixie, and, by the Moon, we don't kill innocent ponies."

"Then, explain yourself, captain. And pray I believe you."

The stallion smiled, and returned to his all fours. "Tell me, princess, who do I serve?"

"Everypony on Equestria, I would hope, but I guess you want me to answer 'Luna'."

"And who is Luna?"

Twilight shook her head, her mind too tired for these games, but answered:

"The Princess of the Night."

"And of what else?"

The realization hit Twilight as a ton of bricks. The princess with full domain over... Her jaw hung open, in shock. Sugar Skull approached her and said in a very low voice, on his way out.

"Dreaming about Luna lately?"

And closed the door.