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// Luna 
// Story: The Pre-Banishment Diaries 
// by Drunk Luna 
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4,255 years BNM (Before Nightmare Moon)

Dear diary,

I had a great birthday!  Mother and Papa gave me a beautiful necklace, and Tia surprised me with a copy of the spell book that I always stole from her room.  Vanilla Bean, the best chef in the castle, made my favorite dessert, a triple chocolate cake with ganache filling and raspberry compote.  I’m completely stuffed.  

Tia made me feel a lot better about the fact that nopony in my class wanted to come to my birthday party, even though her party had at least fifty guests.  She told me that it’s better to have a small group of friends than to have a bunch of friends who only like me because I’m a princess.  Mother said I’m good at weeding out ponies who are fake; she told me I have something called “the gift of discernment,” whatever that means.  

Starswirl says my moon-raising and constellation-forming lessons are going well. The moon is so heavy, though!  Papa makes it look so easy to pull up into the sky; he doesn’t even break a sweat when he does it!  Tia is already raising the sun all by herself. Sometimes I feel stupid because I can’t memorize spells as quickly as she can.  I actually dropped the moon last night, and if Starswirl hadn’t been there, I could have caused a catastrophe.  Raising the moon and reigning over dreams is such a massive responsibility, and I’m not sure if I can handle it.  I mean, I know my cutie mark makes it pretty clear that my special talent is raising the moon and ruling the night, but the thought of being in charge of all of that is absolutely terrifying to me.  I don’t know how Celestia is able to manage her role.  Well, we’ll learn together, I guess.