Rain beat down on the tent hard, wind tugging at the fabric, but inside it was warm and dry, lit up the fireplace in the middle.
Silver and Meadow were talking quietly at one end of the tent opposite from me, working on some sort of craft that involved wool. Not sure how they got it, but they were working it into thread.
Spear Point were by the fireplace, carefully working the barch of a piece of wood with a stone knife, Luna next to her father and assisting by holding the branch firmly.
He was apparently the tribe's premier spear crafter. I couldn’t argue they were wrong in that assumption, the ones I had seen outside had been of the very finest craftsponyship, carved with patterns of streams and menacing with spikes of flint.
Primitive materials perhaps, but by this day and age, top the line.
And apparently it paid well in other things, going by the blanket I was laying on and the tea I had been offered earlier. Both of very fine quality.
Celestia returned from the fire with roasted carrots on a stick before settling down right next to me, offering them to me.
“Thank you,” I said and took one.
“Our parents like you,” Celestia said quietly with a small smile, “I think they are planning to see if you’d get together with their strange daughters.”
“Strange huh?” I asked with a raised eyebrow.
Celestia smiled a bit wryly, “Our appearance does not exactly make us overly popular in this time of separate tribes,” she said quietly, “Our tribe accepts us, but the rest are hesitant at best.”
“I did think you were a bit old in this frame of time to not have a stallion already,” I admitted.
“We’re far from the only ponies,” Celestia said with a small smile, “Stallions were even more uncommon during this time than in modern day. Plenty of unmarried mares even in our small tribe.”
I slowly nodded, “Ah. That’s why your mothers work so hard to impress me. The nice blanket, expensive tea…”
“They like you,” Celestia said and glanced down at her hooves, “They would have liked you.”
“If they didn’t know I had originally been something else and then a unicorn at least,” I pointed out quietly. A thestral would definitely have been right out.
Celestia smiled a bit, “That was how it was at that time, but in Lunas and my case I think mother would have been… fine... even with a unicorn for Luna and myself. Not happy perhaps, but... It would be a long time before things become better in that regard… and things would get worse before they got better. A lot worse.”
I nodded silently.
Dark times ahead.
“But the start of that is several years in the future from here,” Celestia said quietly with a small smile, “The pegasus city states haven’t even formed yet. But soon… perhaps even now… bronze is being discovered. Things will change.”
“Eventually for the better.”
Thanks to you two.
“Mhmm.”
I looked towards Luna and her dream father, “But this… this is pretty nice too,” I admitted before I glanced at Celestia with a small smile.
“There were hard times too,” Celestia admitted and then laughed softly, “But that’s not the ones you dream of, is it?”
“I try to stop them when you do.”
Celestia nodded and nibbled at her carrot as she looked out across the tent as rain beat the large tent.
“Still,” I continued quietly with a small smile, “I highly doubt that your parents would need to work this hard to find somepony for you two. They would have to be idiots not to see that you’re amazing and beautiful..”
Celestia's cheeks turned slightly red in a small blush before she raised her hoof to them, “Why did I blush at that? We say more teasing things all the time, in casual conversation even!” she asked with a small frown.
“Because it’s your dream,” I explained, “Even as you dream it, it affects you. Thousands of years of experience and life or not, you are still the same filly that grew up here. It’s just much closer to the surface than usual right now. It’s why you were outraged about your mothers comment about inviting a colt back earlier.”
“Oh.”
“It affects Luna and myself as well,” I continued, “Mostly because we let it. I use it to help guide me not to do something wrong enough to break the illusion, Luna… surely you noticed that she’s acting a lot more like she used to back at this time?”
Celestia nodded slightly.
Luna got up by the fire and crossed over to us, settling down by my other side, her wing brushing across my back as she laid down, “It’s getting to be dawn,” she said quietly, “It’s time to wake up, sister.”
Celestia nodded, “It is, isn’t it?” she asked and looked around the tent before she smiled at us, “Thank you.”
“No,” Luna said and leaned in past me, giving her a hug with her wing, “Thank you, sister. It is your dream. Now it is time to wake up.”
Celestia and the dream turned into sparkles of light, leaving Luna and myself in the dream realm. Luna kept her younger form for a moment as she leaned against my side,
“And thank you, My Page. It may only have been a dream, but it was good to see them again,” she said quietly.
I put my wing across her back, holding her close for a moment, “It was your sister's dream, not mine,” I answered and kissed her cheek, “I only helped. And I’m glad you liked it… but we should not do it often.”
Luna sighed and nodded with a small sad smile, “Remembering the past is a good thing, but living in it is not.”
“True, but not really quite what I meant,” I said and then smirked at her, “Don’t want to make a scene in front of even dream images of your parents. You have no idea how hard it was resisting kissing you in there. You’re so beautiful.”
She leaned in and kissed me firmly before she pulled back, “It wouldn’t bother them, just make them move their plans forward,” she teased before she stretched her wings with a small giggle, “Because if we really had met you back then, looking like you are now and acting like you did in that dream? Forget marrying us, if my sister and I hadn't both have been with foal before first snow, it definitely wouldn’t have been due to lack of trying,” she said with a teasing smile before disappearing in a shower of sparks as she woke up, leaving me behind, speechless.
So why haven't Page and Celestia banged yet?
Obligatory Nice
I wonder when page is gonna check up on his micro-universe he created in the dream realm
This was a cute set of chapters.
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There needs to be 3 more books, 2 stand-alone specials, and several non-canonical chapters before that can happen.
Also, nice.
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Because they are too stupid and stubborn and Cadence is likely to soon kidnap them, find a way to lock off their magic lock them in a very nice room somewhere, and pump them full of enough Aphrodisiacs to to send a full grown dragon into a rut, while also lacing all food and drink in said room with just as much, and not letting them out until the room literally falls apart from their antics.
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Maybe out of respect for the others they don't want to get Celestia pregnant before she is even officially a part of the herd?
Lewd
This made me immediately think of Dwarf Fortress descriptions...
...which was evidently very much intentional!
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And after all that, Cadence comes back a week later to find them playing Checkers, with no signs of ANY hanky panky.
Just lots of Trashtalking and Innuendo during their game.
Yikes, good thing that started to even out a bit over time
Yeah... Page wouldn't have been able to handle Celestia & Luna's dream parents asking why their daughters aren't pregnant yet.
Perhaps Page get lucky next groupdream
Quite wholesome and ones more nice lore!
Perhaps Luna or Page could teach history that way
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"So uh... ithere's this turtle."
"Uh huh."
"And on its back are 4 elephants."
"Mkay"
"And on their back is a disk....a disk world...."
speaking of foals it is time one or several of this heard are in foal.
*Sees chapter number*
*giggles internally*
Luna: "Um--Cely? Have you seen Page?"
Celestia: "Not since the dream, Lulu."
*1000 years earlier*
Page *standing outside the village Celestia had just dreamt about*: "Oh, boy! "
"Theorizing that one could time travel through time, Blank Page stepped into the quantum dream realm and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped 1000 years in the past, facing foes he had barely knew about, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better."
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Give it one or two books, it will be back to bite him in the plot.
Nice
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Nice.
Why must you tease us like this?
On today's episode of won't they or won't they, will Page and Celestia finally sort themselves out.
Answer: They Won't
Ah, I see what you did there, nice Dwarf Fortress reference. Let's just hope there aren't too many elephants murdering people, or images of pictures of cheese.
That's chalcolithic (copper age) life for you, Page.
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Based on what Luna said several books ago now, Celestia is infertile so I doubt that's the reason. That or it's something to do with being an alicorn (needs alicorn/alicorn to work, Cadance is special, etc) or she's simply the unluckiest mare in the world despite dozens of marriages over the centuries.
Far more likely, it would simply be very inappropriate on several levels and this not being a clopfic, that actually matters.
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Realistic outcome.
Grammar jackboots:
lit up by the fireplace in the middle
working the bark off a piece of wood
but in Luna and my cases
Grey Velvet: Good morning Princess Celestia~! I have your schedule right her--Princess??
*Crazy Bed-head Celestia stares at her sun from the balcony*
Celestia: Why can't I be brave enough even in my own dreams to snu-snu that stallion?
Grey Velvet: What was that?
Celestia: Nothing...*grabs Grey Velvet and goes back to bed*
Grey Velvet: PRINCESS?!
Celestia: I need to snuggle somepony for 15 minutes and you're the closest thing here!
Grey Velvet: ...Am I a rebound pony?
Celestia: No you're a pillow. Stop talking pillow.
Grey Velvet:
This chapter...
(Looks at chapter number)
Chapter 69...
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Windy Prance you are an evil pony. I am already far behind with my own writing and now you just have to give me some new ideas.....
XD
At this point, we pretty much know that Page will time travel at some point.
We had enough evidence.
Like the Thestral aAicorn statue
So....it can happen
Dear Faust... I love the comment section entertainment ♡♡♡♡♡
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While going back in time to really get their parents approval sounds nice and heartwarming, we know the consequences of when you time travel with good intentions. Just ask Barry Allen.
Gonna toss in a minor grammar jackboot of my own:
Should of course be “Spear Point was by the fireplace”. Looks a bit as though the sentence might have originally started out as something like “Spear Point and Luna were by the fireplace,...”, with the verb then simply overlooked and left in in further editing; that would certainly be a kind of mistake I’m personally somewhat familiar with myself.
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This is actually about 5000 years earlier, according to what Luna said her age was in “New beginnings”
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Ah, thanks.
I was just doing the same "can't count beyond 1000" thing like everypony else in the show (especially Celestia).
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I think that when he will time travel he will:
-Avoid younger version of Celestia and Luna
-Be too far away
-Occupied with something
It can be one option or more at the same time.
Probably good evidence that Page will or already did travel to the past is Thestral Alicorn state.
This object is in the present
But Celestia and Luna didn't meet Page in disguise or not.
Unless they edited their memories to avoid conflicts but probably not.
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Don't forget the 2 obligatory fake outs that set their relationship back
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The first 130 words are already written.
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...really?! Wow I need to be careful with these powers of influence from now on...
I promise to only use them for
goodevilsmutcomedy!Chapter 69...
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Someone referenced me!
Jumps up and down with undue excitement.
Heh.
I posted this in the previous story, so why not here?
Guess what chapter it is!
camo.fimfiction.net/muBTxCMrPaRxdxCZemVhH5rD1FcFm_0eFgy_be5Byao?url=https%3A%2F%2Fc.tenor.com%2FETu__9EhgV4AAAAC%2Ftenor.gif
Guess you could say that Page is a... dream weaver. 😎
I very much love the Quantum Leap and "Discworld" references in the comments!
Chapter 69 happen way to few times
Also... Nice