"Grandpa, calm down, you're making everyone nervous" - said Wood, we are waiting in the new Ponyville hospital, Smith was delivering her first foal, her husband was with her in the delivery room.
The news of her pregnancy was a surprise, but a very well received one, it was an interesting few months, the already energetic in itself Smith seemed to have no control in his cravings, as a precaution I made him drink from the water of the canteen, that gave her all the strength necessary for her first pregnancy.
But that did not reassure me or Strong.
"I'm very worried, it's been over two hours!" - I screamed, that's a long time, no ?, damn it!, the last time I was in labor, it hadn't lasted long.
Although that had been my first time.
"It took me almost three hours from the first contractions with Smith, and she was a high-risk pregnancy, so calm down, you make me nervous," said Seed.
Strong lost the ability to speak when he gets very nervous, God knows why, but I don't blame him, we both looked crazy walking from one side to the other in front of the door.
Then the doctor came out, a terrestrial pony with fluffy hair and brown fur, but I didn't like his look at all.
"Doctor, what happened? How is my daughter?" - Seed asked, worried, even scared, something was not right.
"We had no complications in the delivery, her daughter is fine, but I regret to report that one of her foals was born dead, but her other son is fine"
.... did she have twins?
"Twins ?, but we always thought there was only one, what happened?!" - Wood shouted.
"It can happen, it is very rare, one of the fetuses may not develop well, it is not known why, in this case, it was their heart and brain, although the rest developed, it is just a body without life, sorry, you can enter "- said the doctor as he left.
As we walked through the door, the spell that kept the noise separate from the outside enveloped us, and we heard a cry, not just from the baby, also from Smith.
I could not move, what the hell had happened?!, Smith had taken healing water from the magic fountain of the continent !!.
The sight tore my soul, Smith was holding two small packages, one pink and one blue, her husband was at her side, also sobbing.
Wood and Seed ran to hug Smith, nothing but cries could be heard in the room, Strong just dropped his hat while crying too.
Why had it not worked? The healing water must have ensured a healthy pregnancy for her and for the two lives within her!
"Grandpa, don't blame yourself, this is not your fault" - someone said to me, then I saw Smith's eyes, red from crying.
"Your water worked as it should, because, from the beginning, my little girl had never lived" - said Smith while hugging her children more.
.............. It would never have worked since the filly was dead from the start, soulless, an empty shell.
So for the first time since I woke up at this time, I cried.
We cried for what seemed like hours, until Seed spoke.
"What are their names?"- she asked in a voice so sweet, it seemed to calm Smith's heart, at least a little.
"If it was a girl, Buttercup apple, if it was a boy, Bright mac" - said Smith while she showed us her foals.
The foal had yellow fur and red mane, even with all the scandal, he slept peacefully, on his neck hung the golden tear, at this age, only the apples can see it, he looked very much like his grandfather, but with the color of his father.
The filly had yellow fur, her mane was deep golden, I could swear by my hammer that she looked like she was sleeping, she did not have a golden tear.
Then a nurse came in, Smith handed over her foals to check on Bright, while Buttercup was also taken away.
Seed stayed with her in the hospital with her husband, when we returned to the farm everything felt off.
All these years I was always aware that I would see this family grow and die at some point, but that even I had never heard of such a disease.
Can I bring Buttercup's soul to life by uniting some of the parents' magical essence? Tools with a conscience are almost a conscious being, but I had never tried to create life, i even can? I should?.
No, life is not played with, and less with the family, the least I can do for my granddaughter who was denied the opportunity to live, is at least immortalizing that she tried.
And with that idea in mind, I used all my power.
Three days later, it was Buttercup's funeral, Smith had left the hospital that same day, but along with her daughter, something in her died too.
Even her husband, who was a living copy of her, also changed.
The funeral was small, just us, and it was in a section of the farm, destined to bury our members, we never expected that it would be released like this.
Already at sunset, everyone was preparing to rest.
"Wait, please" - I said as I looked at the small mound of earth, her gravestone was simply a small shoot from a tree.
"Smith, your daughter, my granddaughter, deserved a full life in this world, but even I cannot bring the dead, but I can do this for her"
Taking out a small package from my bag, I gave it to Smith.
Everyone saw us, they knew that I had not left my forge in all this time, honestly, just before the funeral I had managed to finish it.
When Smith opened the box, a dim golden light came out.
And Smith started to sob.
"This is all I can do for her, but you are her mother, and it is your decision, with this star, you can see her, she will join the stars in the sky, she will be eternal, the only golden flower in a white field "
Smith only saw me with sad eyes, but with gratitude in them, with a hug that I returned, she walked to her daughter's grave.
She held the flake of light for a moment and laid it on her daughter's grave.
A pillar of golden light that would normally blind anyone rose from the ground, within it was a silhouette of a small filly.
Then it shot out into the sky, and a new star was born.
For centuries that star would be known as the golden star, patron saint of foals, a star that even the gods could not move, until the end of time