While working in the dream realm, Luna meets with a terminally ill filly and carries out a task that never gets easier, though she has performed it countless times.

This story now has a YouTube reading by Mystery Pony Fiction with Lotus Moon as Luna! https://youtu.be/eLbNgGqroA8

A standalone piece in the Spectrum-verse. TV Tropes page here!

Chapter II, Orion, is an entry in the Imposing Sovereigns III contest, with the prompt Luna/Kindness. Yes, it's allowed.

Featured from 12/01/2021 to 14/01/2021.

Edited and proofread by VoxAdam, pre-read by SockPuppet, Kizuna Tallis, Doctor Fluffy,TheIdiot, Grace, and daOtterGuy. Thanks, everyone .

Cover by OGRE

One of Luna's many duties is to act as a guide for the souls of the dead.

In their eyes, they see their final dream.

In her eyes, she sees beauty.

Second place in a Quills and Sofas speedwriting contest. The theme was: Luna Ascendant; the prompt was "A Final Dream". Special thanks to Shaslan for the wonderful cover art - I could not have asked for a better representation of my story.

CONTENT WARNINGS: Implied self-harm, implied suicide, death.

For many countless years, the Sun and Moon have watched over the magical world of Equestria. Due to a miracle, they are given a chance to walk upon the world they gazed from afar. Join them as they see what Equestria has to offer.

The following events of this story will take place during Season 4.

Everypony makes mistakes, from the youngest foal to the wisest elder. Ponies do not get much elder or wiser than Princess Celestia, so much that most would say she's an exception to the rule. She has led the ponies of Equestria for over a millenium, bringing about an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity. Some ponies think of her as a god, an utterly infallible being who they can always count on to make the right decision no matter what. Others beg to differ, but reason that a thousand years on the throne give her a foresight which others lack.

In truth, she is neither infallible nor omniscient. She makes mistakes like any other pony. Sometimes her plans go awry, sometimes she simply doesn't see danger coming. Her errors are few in number and often work out for the best, and the ponies closest to her tend to forgive her. They know her, after all, and unlike the masses they know she's only a pony.

The Princess, however, is not so easy on herself. For when you are both the absolute ruler of the land and the one everypony relies on to literally keep the heavens up, any misstep can have grave consequences.

She is the sun. The day, the light, the waking, the Alpha.

She is the moon. The night, the dark, the sleep, the Omega.

In another time they would have been enemies. So sometimes it's hard to remember that they're sisters.

Prophecy is a dangerous game; meanings which are obvious can become obscure in an instant, and fates are laid bare only in hindsight.

After the fall of Discord but before the rise of Nightmare Moon, a dragon breaks the peace between its race and ponykind, and Princess Luna flies to mete out justice.

Editing courtesy of the speedy, thorough, and unfailingly helpful Pascoite, whose assistance has proved invaluable once again.

Cover image by the astonishingly talented GenjiLim, used with permission.

Now in (breathtakingly excellent) audiobook form, courtesy of Illya Leonov and co.!

Now available in Spanish, courtesy of SPANIARD KIWI.