The Best Night Ever (Private with The_Pariah)

"Nah, it was just about my job security..."

Silver cocked her head. "Job security?"

"Well, more precisely, me becoming your heir."

"Not strictly so, in the sense of an heir... but yes?"

"Well, unless I'm immortal, that's going to fall flat on its face."

"Really?" Silver asked. "How so?"

"Well, eventually, I'll die, and then I'll need a successor myself... and so on and so forth, until someone turns evil."

"You're more like..." Silver wrinkled her nose. "A kind of stand-in while I'm off-duty. Like a backup monarch. I don't think we need a backup-backup monarch."

"Yes, I know, but I was talking more if you died..."

"Oh, if I died." Silver paused. "Well, I guess Luna would be able to help, and Twilight too."

"True enough. But if you die, I'll be dead first..."

"Oh. Right." Silver mulled over it. "What do you suggest?"

"Just train me to be a back up."

"To be a backup monarch?"

"Indeed, in case something like what happened a few days ago happens again."

"Very well." Silver nodded. "Something to take care of in the next few days. It's a tough job, though, and hard to learn."

"I can take it Silvy~"

"Mm. I don't doubt that. You're a bright one... Platinum."

"Also, don't talk about this night... and what I'm wearing unless it's absolutely necessary."

"I wasn't planning to." Silver replied. "I can't imagine that it'll be great publicity for the Palace if the Princess' loyal bodyguard were found to be a cross-dresser..."

"Eh, let them talk. You trust me, no?"

"Of course I do." Silver waved a hoof. "I just don't want to give the nobles any ammunition against you."

"They have very little to begin with."

"It's not the amount of ammunition they have, it's how accurate they are with their sniping." Silver said. "They're excellent at exploiting weak points."

"And I have impenetrable armour... and a fair amount of ammo myself."