- >Some time later, you hear hoofsteps. You roll over and pretend to be asleep.
- >After a lengthy pause, the clip-clop sound approaches your bed.
- "Anon, are you asleep"?
- >You don't reply, but she continues anyway.
- "I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for what I said at the castle.
- >I didn't realize how hurtful it was to say I didn't want you to live here.
- >I really don't know anything about you. It never occurred to me you were
- >a person I could just ask. I'm going to start right now, and the first
- >thing I want to know is, Will you ever forgive me"?
- >The hoofsteps fade into the night.
- >Can you ever forgive her?
- >That's the last question on you mind before you drift off to sleep.
- >You thought sleep could give you a short reprieve from fact you
- >were now in a world completely inhabited by small horses.
- >That was wrong.
- >You find yourself standing next to a large dark blue one with wings and
- >horn, same as the others.
- >Celestia was taller than you; Twilight was shorter.
- >This one could look you directly in the eye.
- "Greetings, new citizen. I am Princess Luna".
- "I thought Celestia was the leader around here".
- "Humpf, I know she gives that impression, but it's really more of
- a timeshare. She wouldn't be in power so long if 'twas not for me
- taking care of everypony's subconscious issues, which is why I am here.
- Your dreams were very troubled".
- >She was right about that.
- >It was weird talking to one of them in your dreams,
- >but what did you have to lose?
- "Luna, I thought that escaping my old life would be a dream come true.
- Now that I have, it's lonely. I'm the only one".
- "You are not so alone as you think, young human. I too, am an outcast.
- One thousand years ago, I tried to overthrow my sister out of jelousy.
- She banished me to the moon, and even though I was allowed to come
- back, I may never be trusted as I once was".
- That sounds rough, but it doesn't really make you feel better.
- What did you do to deserve this?
- "Nothing, sometimes things just happen. The only thing we can control
- is what we make of it".
- "How-"
- "did I read your thoughts? I am already in your dreams. Reading minds
- is a parlor trick in comparison. And one last thing, The fact I am
- here proves your mind is not so different from those around you.
- You have much more in common with ponies than you think".
- >You sit down and think about what you've heard.
- "Princess Lu--"
- >But she's gone.