I woke up, set the moon so my sister could rise the sun and then I took a half hour cold shower.
Just to be clear, being interested in females is not something I got after becoming a magical pony princess. As a human female I was Bi, I just had not dated any women since my time at the University when I wasn't a pony.
What was a tad creppy to me was the age difference but at least we were both adult mares. And I was a tad scared that Applejack would feel like it was her duty to date me because I was a princess. Plus ya know, the whole thing of not wanting to conplicate the life of the mane six more than needed since we did need the girls to face Discord.
Then I was torn between eating breakfast and going right back to bed, but hunger won out.
So I had breakfast with Celestia.
"Sorry that I didn't visit your dreams Tia, I got held up too long helping a child."
"So you are helping children's with nightmares again? That's wonderful!" Celestia then stood up and have me a hug.
"A single child and she is from Ponyville... how are you doing?" I hugged my sister back.
"Well, I admit that waking so early is not fun, but it leaves me time to do other things." Celestia said thoughtfully. "How are your plans to move to Ponyville for a while?"
"I... I haven't been working on that. I decided to help ponies there with their nightmares first." That had been by accident but it did help my plans. "And not just kids, but the Element Bearers and those close to them. They probably attract enough trouble already without having to deal with Nightmares."
"Oh absolutely, no power comes without a price, even if the Elements Of Harmony are shared by six instead of two, their lives are gonna be more interesting that they have been before."
"And do you have spies on Ponyville?" I just had to ask.
"No, if they truly need my help, I am sure they will ask. That's the true purpose of having made so young Spike flames have teleporting abilities, so my dear student has an easy way to contact me."
That reminded me, did Sunset Shimmer exist? I didn't want to ask so I didn't know how to find out.
After all, I had to worry about Celestia not thinking I was a fake Luna, so better not try anything like pulling Sunset name out. Is not like I could claim I got that name from a dream like I could with other things.
"Sooo... did anything interesting happen during my lunar timeout?"
"What do you mean by interesting?"
"Did you mayhap have a double life pretending to be a regular pony with the help of magic and before you knew it; the other identity ended married and with adopted kids?"
Yeah, turns out Alicorns can't have kids, dunno why, but that's how it is. Maybe is part of the price for being an alicorn.
Celestia looked around making sure it was just the two of us, whatever servants were around quickly left us alone, taking the hint.
"Yes... how did you know?" Celestia asked me with her head down... she seemed.... ashamed? Dammit, why I had to keep getting ideas out of fanfics to ask her things?
I quickly walked to her side of the table and nuzzled her.
"There is nothing wrong with that sister, if anything, having done that must have helped you to understand our little ponies better. In fact if I had done the same, mayhap I would not have ended so angry and sad."
Of course I had said that as much to her as it was for myself. Because I was after all, lying to Celestia to make her happier. And what about the rest of Equestria? Well is not like no pony else was left that knew Luna before her banishment, so I didn't care since for them I was the only Princess Luna they had ever seen.
"But Luna, I lied to all those ponies, lied to my husband and children, and I even faked getting old as I saw my loved ones getting older!"
"So? Honesty may be one of the Elements Of Harmony, but too much honesty hurts and destroys. And relacionships are not possible if you are completely honest. Did you truly love them? Then it was at most like a small lie, the lie helped your husband and children like it helped you. After all, what are Dreams but lies one tells to oneself during slumber? Yet without dreaming ponies lives would be much worse."
By worse I meant dead, I had not investigated if ponies had done experiments about preventing dreaming like humans had. Something I actually didn't want to look into since I was sure that with Luna powers I could actually prevent anyone from dreaming if I knew how.
"Lulu, I don't know if you truly believe that or you are saying that to make me feel better, but thanks." Celestia nuzzled me back, and we both stayed like that for a moment more until I walked back to my chair and finished breakfast since I was still hungry.
It was things like these that made me realise how hard it must have been for Celestia all the centuries she was without her sister.
A part of me felt horrible because of my awful lie, for my pretence of being her sister. But then a crueler part of me said, 'didn't Celestia just admit of having done the same thing at least once?'
It was a sobering thought to find out Celestia and myself were the same in that regard.
After that I went back to bed, woke up late in the afternoon and I decided to write a letter to Moon Dancer.
Dear Student of mine Moon Dancer,
It has occured to me that perhaps you may resent me, for I barged into your life and forced you to leave the confort of your home and books, to do a task you may think foalish.
But I assure you, it was a task that needs to be done, just as you needed to move on with your life.
And I do think you are a smart mare with potential, otherwise I would have not make you my student. It was not just anger at how rude you were with me.
No matter what feelings you may have for Twilight Sparkle, I can confirm to you that the young mare didn't intent to be cruel and unkind, but was busy with an important task.
That task being the defeat of Nightmare Moon.
The fact she seems to have forgot about you after completing said task is regrettable, but life not always goes the way we want.
That happens even if you are a mighty alicorn princess, so I say is better if you finally move on instead of suffering for somepony that ignores you. Had I done that myself long ago, there would have no been Nightmare Moon.
So I honesty hope you are fullfiling your task and trying to make some friends in Appleloosa; while investigating how other smart species live and interact with ponies.
And if do you feel you truly need my help, you can ask that for me. That's one of the privileges you get for being my student, and yes you can brag about that if you want, as long as you do so in moderation.
Kind regards, Your Teacher, Princess Luna.
P.S: I think that once you have calmed down, you could write a very polite letter to Twilight Sparkle to tell her how do you feel. Politeness is a powerful weapon that can be mightier than a sword or a spell, if used right.
Then I sent the letter by Pony Express mail, and by that I meant I got one of my servants to do the task for me.
Is not like sending letters using magic was a spell that came to me by instinct, and I didn't want to ask Celestia how she did it.
'Mmm, thinking about it, writing letters to others besides fair Moon Dancer might be a good idea.'
Dear and fair Applejack-
I stopped, thought about what I was doing, and threw the unfinished letter to the paper trash can next to Luna's writing desk.
'I can and I must lie to Celestia, to keep Equestria and myself from burning to ashes, but I cannot do that to Applejack, that wouldn't be a good idea. Mmm, should look into disguise spells and look for an Applejack lookalike then?'
After all, everypony lies to get one night stands, don't they?
Unfortunately I had no time to get to look into said spells because I received a letter.
To the fair and kind Princess Luna,
My name is Swetie Belle, I am Rarity's sister. I don't know if this letter will get to your but I need help! Everything I try to cook burns, even orange juice! My parents seem okay with it but I saw the look of horror my sister gives me every time I try my hooves at cooking.
Please, please, pretty please with a sugar cube on top, is there anything you can do to help me? I know you help ponies in their dreams but I don't think this can wait for long.
Your fan, Sweetie Belle.
So I flew to Ponyville as quick as could, don't ask me how I didn't crash or made a foal out myself.
When I landed on the town, everyone was panicking, but not thanks to me.
A weird mix of bug and bear, perhaps of wasp and bear, was attacking the town.
"YOU DARE TO HURT MY LITTLE PONIES, FOUL BEAST?"
My shout was so strong it created a shockwave that destroyed all the windows in town, and made the bear thing yell in pain.
That have me time to think what the buck to do, because mighty alicorn body or not, I didn't know how to fight or wanted to end dead doing so.
The creature had a bear like body with fur in white and black, four arms, two smallish feet for it's size and most worrysome, a big wasp like sting, or maybe hornet sting, that could probably kill my little ponies if they got hurt by it.
If that wasn't bad enough, besides bug like insectoid antennae and the sting, the creature had wasp like wings, that despite being a tad smaller that it's arms, that let the bear thing fly.
And it was flying to hit me with it's sting, only to stop when a brave pony mare kicked him on the side. And so she saved me from being stabbed to death since I had just stood there like an idiot.
Said brave mare being no pony else than Applejack.
I still don't know exactly what happened, but one moment I was starting at the bug bear thing with anger, then at the smaller Applejack and when I looked at the monster my horn burst with power born out of fear of losing the mare I fancied, and...
Let's just say the Canterlot castle maze garden would have won a new statue, had I not kicked the recently petrified creature until only stone dust remained.
And then of course I blacked out, because why not?