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// Adjustment 
// Story: A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW 
// by De Writer 
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 Over on the Emperor’s Lash, Hissin’s sensor slave caught his attention. “Sir and Master, I am getting small space-time disturbances from the Chain. I believe that their origin is from blue being that is shutting them down.”

Hissin made up his mind. “Communications! Tell all stations to shut down all power in an orderly fashion. Even emergency lights need to be shut down. Let the ones who might be upset by the darkness know that it is for a period of only about two hours. We must endure it.”

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There was a diffident tapping at the Observatory door. It was a pegasus in the Royal livery. He hoofed over a sealed note and offered, “You set me to watch the Chronicle for any messages from De Writer. This was placed there not five minutes ago. Baron Nagoodny tried to tell me that it was nonsense and to not deliver it. By your order, I have brought it to you.”

Celestia smiled and said, “You have our thanks, Flegair. You may choose what you wish from the pies and drinks in our Kitchen.”

Opened, the note said, “I have got you a two hour window, Luna, dear. Both the wreck and the Emperor’s Lash are fully powered down. Love you both. I wish that some loophole in the Exile allowed us to see each other again.”

“So do we, dad, we miss you.” the Twins sadly responded to the personal part of the note.

Celestia promptly took one of Luna’s complex Inequality Matrices and began reducing it to a solution. Luna looked up from her work and softly said, “Thanks, Tia. I never forgot that I love you, not during the Nightmare Wars nor during my Exile to the Moon. It was something that I clung to. It kept me sane.”

Celestia drew a deep breath and shaking her head, replied, “Same here, Luna. All of those years after you were sent to that exile, I had to do some horrible things. I was a flat out tyrant for two centuries. Knowing that I loved you and that you loved me was all that kept me going.

“Here, this matrix is done. I love that solution. Purely elegant use of angular momentum.”

Luna smiled. “I thought that you would like that. I think that you can use the idea when you are working on Axial tilt corrections.”

Opening the totally sealed, thick walled steel cabinet that held prepared Scrolls of Creation, Luna took out one, resealed the cabinet, and began to transcribe their joint mathematics onto it.

Finished, Luna paused only long enough to double check that the transcription was perfect. Spreading her huge wings, cupped to help focus the powers about to be unleashed, Luna began to read the mathematics aloud in the extremely ancient Language of Creation taught to them over 3000 years ago by the Titan of Life Creation. Power grew and built in a spherical form that elongated out through the now open top of the Observatory.

This time there was nothing in the way of the enormous Creation Magic pulse that twisted the very nature of space itself. It gripped the whole lunar orb and performed several alterations of the moon’s orbit, its axial tilt, rate of rotation and the space around it. The massive but precise adjustments lasted for almost an hour.

When she was done, the sweat drenched Luna sat back and heaved a sigh. “It felt good. I think that it went well. As soon as I rest a moment, I will check.”

Celestia sympathetically began to rub her sister down with damp towels. Luna stretched and luxuriated to the ministrations for a few minutes.

“Thank you, Tia. I will go check on the corrections now.”

Staring through the eyepiece, this time, Luna began to make neat notes while humming the ancient Rom air, The Two Green Vines.

Celestia heard he sister’s happy humming and sighed in relief. She knew that all was well with this correction.