It wasn't just boredom, though. Lily could tell the corporal was on edge about something. Heck, she’d even flipped through the issues of 'Cosmoponitan' and 'Canterlot Match' scattered on the coffee-table. Not with any real interest, just as something to do. That big book penned by the Royal Engineer, though, was conspicuously absent from her idle reading activities. There was definitely something going on, and as soon as Sparkshower got back, Lily was going to get some real dirt on the situation.