Cadence traveled down the hallway like she always did when she was preparing to settle down for the night. Only this night was different.
She was already asleep and passed out on her royal bed. The dream she was having though, was another matter. One that was both all too realistic and disturbing at the same time. It would be the disturbing part that would affect the Love Princess' sleep the most right now. There was darkness stirring somewhere in the Northern Kingdom.
One that was all too familiar.
What?!, she screamed, the shadow getting closer and closer, and that small pegasus again. Standing in the middle of the room, crying awhile staring south. Always to the south it seemed. Cadence had been having the same dream for the last week or so. It was the same every night. And this was no different.
There was no way else that the Princess of Love could describe it. It was like something was whispering into her ear the most horrific things imaginable. She just could not shake the feeling that she was being watched, even in her dreams. But that wasnt the only thing that was driving her mad tonight.
Princess Cadence was having the same dream from last night, again. She'd find herself in the halls of her castle, the long corridor to the throne overwrought with snow, and the roof of it melted away by what seemed like erosion from the passage of time. What chilled her heart every night though, was the small white pegasus filly that was always standing at the entrance to it. She seemed so lost and innocent, yet she always appeared translucent when Cadence approached her.
And yet she always seemed to look past Cadence and towards the south of Equestria. And the same question always left her lips. It was always the same question Cadence had noticed.
"Why didn't you come back for me Luna?", the small pegasus filly lamented. And before Cadence could answer her, she'd wake up every single time. It was the most nerve wracking thing. As she awoke, she snatched a quill, ink, and a scroll in her lavender magic and set about asking Princess Luna about what her dreams have been meaning as of late.
Dear Princess Luna, I have been witnessing the most unsettling thing in my dreams as of late. Every night I go to bed, I am seeing a small bluish white pegasus filly standing in the corridor to the Crystal Throne room. I don't know quite what to make of it. Every time I try to approach her, she always looks past me, staring towards the south. And she's constantly uttering,"Why Luna? Why did you abandon me here?", and before I can say anything to her, I always wake up.
If there is anything you can do to help me interpret what it means, I would be greatful
Your niece Princess Mi Amore Cadenza
(Princess Cadence)
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Canterlot
Luna's patrol of the Dream Realm could be relaxing at times, giving a nudge here and there to fillies in need, as she had done with the CMC on more then one occasion. But this felt different. She couldn't assuage the feelings she had been getting as of late, and when she woke up, she was a bit surprised to see one of her night guards in her bed chamber.
"Forgive me Princess, but you have an urgent letter from your niece in the Crystal Empire,", The Guard levitated the scroll of parchment over to the princess before seeing himself out.
As Luna read the scroll, she felt a pit start to form in her stomach. The description of the filly was all too familiar. Luna climbed out of bed and opened her writing desk, pulling out her own quill and ink, and wrote a response back to Cadence as soon as the scroll was pressed against the wooden oak desk.
"I am quiet familiar with the filly you described, but there is no way it could be her. For you see she died nearly one thousand years ago, prior to my becoming Nightmare Moon. She was a dear friend that I still find myself thinking about. Her name was Snowdrop, and she was the most innocent pony that I ever had the pleasure to be friends with.
She was also blind, and yet that doth not stop her from being so charming while in her presence. I wanted to write this to you so that you would be able to communicate with her. If needed I shall learn the extent of her being in your dreams the next time I doth patrol the Dream Realm.
Signed Your Aunt Princess Luna
Could it be after all these years, these centuries, that she found a way back? Without her sister's knowledge Luna had taken the body of her cloest friend Snowdrop, and buried in a place that seemed fitting for the filly's name. The cave she visited in the Crystal Empire's northern wastes seemed the perfect place to lay her dead friend to rest. Before leaving, Luna encased the body in ice, to prevent any predators from finding it and using it for food. Little did she know that her long dead friend's spirit had lingered, not ready to leave the world of living. Always wondering why Luna had abandoned her there. And yet neither of them had an answer.
Luna had thought that she had placed most of doubts of her abilities in the past. But this was proving to be something else entirely.
"Calm yourself Luna, you have a job to do,", The princess of the night told herself as she climbed into bed and readied herself for her duties.
Luna decided to pay the Dream Realm a visit ahead of her scheduled rounds, and found something most disturbing when she got there. It was over wrought with nightmares. She could see Twilight Sparkle being in a nightmare scenario where her friends all abandoned her, and a shrouded figure was pretending to be her only real friend. When asking the figure's name Twilight was simple told by them, "my name is Midnight",