"That could have gone a lot worse," Twilight mused.

"I quite agree. Do you know, I thought that I might have turned you against me the first time we met?"

"Goodness, no. None of the other guests were very nice, so I wasn't surprised that you lumped me in with them."

"Well, I am sorry for doing so!"

"Apology accepted, Princess."

"Please, call me Luna."

Twilight smiled. This morning could have been a complete disaster, but it was turning out quite nicely. Of course, she could have done without the embarrassment, but that was neither here-nor-there now.

"Would you like to come in whilst I clean up?" she asked.

"Yes, please."

The two entered through the door into Twilight's room, and Twilight immediately went into the bathroom and locked the door behind her, leaving Luna to stand around and be nosy.

Looking around at the desk, she noticed that things were kept very neat and in their proper place. There was very little clutter, and the few things that were there were dusted.

"Hm, she keeps her things a lot like I do," thought Luna. Her eyes slid to a drawing of a purple pony called "You" and a pink pony called "Me". They seemed to be having fun at a discotheque of some form. Opening the card revealed a long and hard to read letter. She was just reading about how somepony called Spike had broken a library ("I wonder how you break a library?") when the bathroom door unlocked and Twilight emerged, glitter-free. Luna slammed the card closed and hoped that Twilight hadn't caught her reading private correspondence. If she did, she didn't seem to mind.

"That's a letter from my friend, Pinkie Pie. She's the pink pony on the front."

"Aah, I was wondering what kind of name "Me" was. Wait, I think I remember somepony mentioning this one before. Isn't she the one who threw me that Ponyville party after I came back? And the one who tried to get the snobs at the Gala to do the pony pokey?"

"That's the one! Her special talent is throwing parties and having fun, so that's why I asked her what we should do. Did you get to that part?"

Luna cringed inwardly. So she did notice after all. But then, it seems that she really didn't mind at all. Flipping it open, she tried to focus once more.

"I'm not sure I can read that much, you know. My brain feels like popping."

"Oh, you get used to it. But anyway, she suggested that we bake something. Would you like to try that?"

Twilight looked at Luna expectantly. Luna frowned a little.

"Baking, huh? I've never tried that before…" she said, before giving Twilight a big smile. "So I guess we should do that! I love learning to do new things."

"Me too, Luna, me too." Twilight sighed a breath of relief. Had Luna not wanted to bake, then she had no idea what they could have done. They probably would have ended up in the archives or the library, discussing ancient Equestria and things that happened long ago, and as appealing as that sounded to Twilight, she thought that perhaps Celestia wanted them to try something involving less dust.

"Twilight?" said Luna.

"Yes?"

"Do you know how to bake?"

That derailed Twilight's train of thought. She had been thinking of baking in the abstract and hadn't considered that they'd need know-how to make anything.

"Well, no. But it can't be that hard, and there's going to be somepony in the kitchen and we can just ask them to help."

"I think that Zut Alors is on shift at the moment… I have a plan."