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// Chapter 3 (part 5): What's Wrong? (Princess Luna) 
// Story: Apple Sleep Experiment (Expanded) 
// by SirVindicator 
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It cuts to Starlight Glimmer and Princess Luna in the Dream Realm, in a copy of Starlight's counseling office at the school of friendship. Luna is receiving some talkative therapy with Starlight.

It is just that managing​ the Dream Realm had become impossible. It was the same thing every night since the drought began. Creature after creature having nightmares about dying from the drought or having family members died from the drought or pets died from the drought. I had to keep finding a way to calm them down, granted my job of looking after ponies and other creatures and their dreams was not an easy one before but now it was an absolute pain. I really hope that my sister is having better luck than I am. I wish that this drought would just end! The amount of suffering that has going on continues to bring me to tears. One Moment in particular was happening to comfort Twilight and her friends about Applejack. It is the fact that she could not sleep and because of this I could not reason with her in dreams. I would really like to just lock Applejack away until we have dealt with the drought and then deal with her but that's not my decision to make, it is Twilight's. Twilight, speaking of her she has barely slept and I can see and sense that she is far from well. It really pains me to see her worry like this. I wish I could help her, I wish I could be more of a help to my sister and her colleagues. I'm not like my sister, I need more than just a little bit of time to solve each problem. I solve problems within a good amount of time for each and my own pace. This is the way that I've always been ever since I was very young. I just don't do one-and-done problems and many of them at that.

I then started to look at the ground. I didn't even want to make eye contact with Starlight. Then I looked up at her and she smiled and she told me to just keep going, so I did. I really needed to get this off of my chest.

I feel like this drought is opened up some old wounds and now I need help sowing them shut. Like when my birthday is celebrated, I wish that my sister would assign separate days to celebrate our birthdays. Or my parents, I never really knew who they were, all I really knew was what StarSwirl and Celestia told me. The immortal being that I saw it when I was a goal, his menacing red eyes. His presence send a chill down my spine but he saved my sister from cockatrices. I just have so many things that I still wonder about even after all this time and it just bugs me and--

Starlight cut me off and said, "So, it seems to me like you really have a lot on your mind. You are a pony that likes to have proper closure on something and can really struggle when not receiving. I highly recommend that you and your sister see me at least once every two weeks and talk to me about your issues. I think it would really benefit both of you. I noticed from when the cutie map called me that you two have trouble seeing eye to eye and need prompting. No pony is right about everything and everyone has something good to bring to the table."

Starlight continued, "I will see you in two weeks in the real world or the Dream Realm if you prefer."

And with that the therapy dream ended with me and Starlight and I was back in the real world. She had given me a lot to think about and I needed to talk to Celestia. We have some more issues to work through.