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Night 149
You’re out in the gardens with Luna, Equestria’s moon goddess, looking up at the stars while sitting out on a blanket. It’s always nice out here, even better with Luna’s company. From the corner of your eye you see Luna turn her head to you.
”Anon, we wish to know-”
“I, Luna, use I.”
It’s been taking her sometime to get used to modern speech. She puffs her cheeks out in annoyance “-I wish to know, what were the nights on earth like?.”
You bring a hand to your chin in thought, so many ways you could answer this.
“Restless I guess would be a good start.” you say looking at her.
The alicorn tilts her head to the side; her mouth set in a puzzled frown “What do you mean?”
“Well” you begin “There is always something going on back on earth, no one even has time to sleep anymore.” You take your eyes from Luna back to the light laden sky. “The night sky is different too, not just in normal appearance and star formation but there is so much light coming from human cities that all of this.” You gesture to the sky with a hand, Luna’s eyes following intently. “Is almost impossible to see normally.”
”Im…possible?” the goddess asks disbelievingly.
You nod.
”That…that sounds horrid…” Luna says, looking up at the black, dotted sky with her ears laid back, the thought of an invisible night troubling her.
You wrap an arm around her waist in an effort to comfort her.
It works some as she stops dwelling on what you said, turning her cobalt eyes to look into your own.
”Well, w-what do you think of the night here Anon?” Luna asks, trying to hide the self- consciousness in her voice.
You take a moment to think.
“The night here…” you trail off, looking at a nervously shaking Luna.
“Is simply exquisite”
Luna blinks and inspects your face for any sign of deceit.
”Do you really mean that?” she asks with a hopeful undertone.
“A work of art even, earth’s night skys have been hailed as the ultimate beauty more than once, but one look at your work Luna put’s it all to shame, I’ve always loved the night, the stars, the moon.”
You give her a smile and pull her closer so that she’s up against you.
“But you give me a new appreciation of them, and I’m glad that I get to sit here and enjoy them all with the one who rules over them.”
Luna stares at you silently for a moment, and then a serine smile finds its way to her mouth.
She lays her head on your shoulder, nuzzling her muzzle onto the crook of your neck
”If you think that this is all something Anon, then watch this.” she says, voice no higher than a gentle whisper.
Her horn lights up silver, and you watch in awe as the cosmos above you shift, the very laws of space and physics bowing to the alicorn.
Stars move in graceful arcs to a single area in the sky, leaving silver streaks in their wake as they formed an image to match Luna’s whims.
Lined up, you see what she wanted to make.
Up in the pitch black sky, are yours and Luna’s faces next to one another, sporting smiles while underneath is the old symbol like Equestrian word for ‘friends for life’.
You hold Luna tight with a shaking arm, too moved for words.
Luna wraps a downy wing around you in response, the warm appendage warding off the night chill.
”I’m happy that you’re here Anon.” she says, voice still soft.
“Happy to be here with you too Luna.” you say, finding your voice.
You look back up into the glimmering heavens, the pony next to you held tight.
They say that life is an awful, ugly place without a best friend.
And the scenery has never looked so beautiful