>setting down your tea, you stare at Nightmare Moon again
>the afternoon sun glints off of her onyx helm, her midnight mane in a state of rest, like a deep cavern pool.
"Nightmare Moon, if I may be so bold as to inquire about your experience on the moon?"
>she holds the dainty cup of tea in her hooves, the swirls of vapor giving way to her sigh
>"A horrible feeling of desolation pinched my heart. I listened rigid and heard nothing but the creep of blood in my ears."
>"Great and shadowy and strange was that world, and I drifted solitary through it's vast mysteries."
>setting down her cup, she looked at you with her catlike cyan eyes
>"A remote faint question, 'where I might be?', drifted and vanished again in my mind."
>"I found myself standing astonished, my emotions penetrated by something I could not understand."
>she looks away, her face donning a mask of sorrow
>"I felt naked. I felt perhaps as a bird may feel in the clear air knowing a hawk wings above will swoop."
>"Despite my bitterness, I began to feel the need of fellowship..."
>"I wanted to question, wanted to speak, wanted to relate my experience."
>she gazes again at you, like a beggar who knows he will not receive any alms that day
>"What is this spirit in ourselves that forever urges us to depart from happiness? To toil and to place ourselves in danger?"
>"It was this restlessness, this insecurity perhaps that drove me further and further in my exploring expedition of the moon"
>"As the hush of the moon filled me, the sun touched the mountains, and became very swiftly a blazing aura of liquid flame, and sank..."
>"then, slow and soft, wrapping the world in fold after fold of deepening darkness came the stars, sprawled across the sky, and then the splendor of the sight"
>"In the sky, one bright bright planet shone kindly and steadily like the face of an old friend."
>"the full temerity of my banishment suddenly came upon me."
>"At last, I began to feel the pull of the earth upon my being, drawing me back again to the life that is real, for a princess of the night"
>you rest your hand upon her outstretched hoof on the table
>you give her a reassuring smile, that filled with solace for what she went through.