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// #NightmareRemains - Chaos Ending 
// Story: Pen Stroke's Scattered Pages 
// by Pen Stroke 
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As you reach out to touch the page, you are reminded of the rage-filled sounds that had drawn you to this remnant of Nightmare Moon. It had sounded angry, but also… sad in some ways. You knew the story. Princess Luna had grown jealous of her sister, and taken on the mantle as Nightmare Moon to try and usurp the sky and the kingdom. But then she was just defeated by a rainbow, all her feelings washed away?

Perhaps her actions had been bad, but her feelings had been not. To feel unappreciated and jealous was entirely valid. Nightmare Moon had just been the culmination of Luna’s bad choices. But if this remnant was capable of speech, surely it was capable of feeling. You wonder if that’s what you’re facing: all the jealousy and anger of Nightmare Moon that had been stripped away with Luna along with the dark powers.

But as you touch the page, the feeling in your heart is that you want Nightmare Moon to be happy. To find her peace and work through her problems. To find redemption not by rainbows, but by understanding. The page flashes to life as those feelings flow into it; it forces you to squint your eyes and turn away as it becomes bright as the sun.

When the light finally passes, you look back to see the remnants of armor have transformed into soft cloth and merged together into a single blanket, on which a fairly young foal is resting. The foal was black as night, and with hair that seemed on the edge between Luna’s familiar cyan and a darker, richer, nightly purple. You see the foal possess wings and a horn, and you stand stunned for a moment as you try to comprehend what you may have just invited upon the world. 

“Oh, isn’t she a cutie,” Caramel Malt says as she moves to pick up the foal. “We should get her back to Ponyville where it is safe. We can figure out what to do after that.”

You watch as Caramel Malt turns and starts moving for the exit, and you can’t help but turn to follow. You don’t know who may come to care for the filly. Perhaps it will be a new duty of Twilight Sparkle, Celestia’s Faithful Student, or perhaps it will fall to someone else. Still, this filly was sure to cause a chaotic stir in Equestria.