Luna changes her speech to include the archaic informals when she considers someone a friend. This happens with Twilight after the trip to the moon, but happens with all the Elements of Harmony. The only pony she always uses them with is Celestia, for what I hope are obvious reasons.

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In case you were curious, Greek has four words for 'Love'. Philia is the word for love which implies friendship or sibling-hood. Eros, as I hope is obvious, is romantic or passionate love. (Fear not. I have no plans of delving into erotic fiction. Write what you know, ya know?) Storge (which I mistakenly had as stogé, but I caught and fixed it), is the love between parent and child.

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I just wanted to take a moment and say that you are all awesome. I've gotten more, better feedback on I Watch the Moon than on anything else I've ever written. Even the... less than glowing comments have been fair, and not nearly as snarky as I'd feared.

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I have been... fortunate(?) to have taught. It's nothing formalized or even paid, but I teach 5th graders once a week. (Not English or composition, so don't fear for the state of education when you see how crappy my writing is.)

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So, a lot of the feedback that I've been getting is that my story is pretty unoriginal. Sorry about that. I didn't do it on purpose.

One of the marks of this is apparently Luna's disuse of her title 'Princess'. I didn't realize this was a thing. No. I'm serious.

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I always loved Babylon 5, and the Vorlons, with their cryptic, ominous statements always struck me as both beautiful and dark.

And so it begins.

It's a simple statement, which says next to nothing. What begins? Breakfast? The workday? The thousand-mile trek to Mt. Doom to drop the One Ring into the lava, saving us all? It holds infinite possibilities.

And yet....

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