The moon was very bright, sitting high in its place atop the sky. The stars were out and twinkling happily. The cold night breeze blew in softly from the open windows of Canterlot Castle. It was calm and quiet.
‘So why is somepony crying?’ Celestia asked herself as she trotted through the castle, looking for the sobbing pony.
She went from the kitchens in the basement to the throne room and still couldn’t find the tearful pony. She checked the servant’s quarters, startling many maids and causing a few servants to jump right out of their beds only to hit their faces on the floor as they attempted to bow as she passed their rooms. Still, finding nopony there that had so much as a tear in their eye.
With only one pony left whom she could think of, and she felt like a foal for not going there first, before disturbing the whole castle, Celestia made her way up to the tower room adjacent from her own. Luna’s room. Upon opening the door she found the source of the loud sobbing.
Luna was sitting on her balcony, looking out at her beautiful, star strewn sky, and weeping. Celestia sighed, walked up to her sister and put her hoof on the sobbing pony’s shoulder.
“Whatever is the matter Lulu?” Celestia asked as the startled night princess turned to look at the newcomer who had touched her so lovingly and gentle.
Sniffing and attempting to dry up her tears with her hoof, Luna replied, “Nothing is the matter dear sister. I was just so moved by my own beautiful sky, how it sparkles and gleams, how it seems to smile down upon me that I simply let out a few tears. That is all.”
Celestia nodded and said, “M-hmm,” sarcastically before looking up at the sky herself. She smiled down at Luna and let out a little laugh. “Is that so? Am I to believe then, that it has nothing to do with that grouping of stars right there?”
Celestia was pointing to a group of six stars which, incidentally, resembled Twilight Sparkle’s cutie mark and, also incidentally, was placed rather closely to the brightly shining crescent moon. Luna began to blush and became very flustered.
“How long have you been having these feelings for my pupil?” Celestia asked, putting a stop to Luna’s sputtering.
“I-I... have been feeling this way for a couple of months now.” Luna said, resigning to her sister’s will. “I-I was unsure at first but this time away has shown that I do feel love for her. I have been feeling a great longing in my heart sister.”
Celestia sat by her sister and wrapped her wing around the night princess. “So, since Nightmare Night, correct?”
Luna nodded, focusing on her hooves. “You know that you won’t get anywhere unless you talk to her, why don’t you send her a letter, maybe even invite her over for dinner some night.”
Luna looked up at Celestia and smiled. “I was afraid you would be against it. I was afraid that you would hate me for it even. Thank you so much Tia for being so accepting.”
Luna embraced Celestia tightly and smiled before running over to her desk and pulling out a quill and parchment. Celestia watched with a small smile of loving concern, while she encouraged Luna finding a love, she didn’t want to see her beloved sister get hurt from the pain of rejection.
“L-Luna, you know, if… if she doesn’t accept your request… Please don’t get your hopes too high.” Celestia stepped over to Luna as she spoke, setting her hoof on Luna’s shoulder again and giving her another concerned smile.
Luna was too focused on her letter to really hear what Celestia had said, she merely nodded as she hummed while her quill moved across the parchment. When she felt her sister’s hoof upon her shoulder, she smiled up at her without really seeing Celestia and quickly turned her gaze back to her letter.
Celestia’s smile dropped and she sighed. Luna just kept humming her little tune as Celestia walked out of the room. The quill stopped and Luna picked up the letter in her magic to review what she had written.
Dear Twilight Sparkle,
It has been a while since our last missive and I wanted to know how you faired. I do hope you are as well as I. Last time we wrote, you told me about a new book you were reading. Have you finished it? Is it good? Who was the author again, I’m afraid I’ve forgotten. I do remember it had to do with myself and I was curious about it. But back to the point, I write you now so as to invite you to dine with us the night after next. I was only thinking that we don’t get to see each other very often and a meeting would be nice.
Sincerest,
Princess Luna
Luna looked over the letter a few times before deciding it was good to send. She rolled it up and put her official seal on it and began focusing her magic on the scroll. In a flash of green fire, it was gone, undoubtedly being belched out by Spike now.
Luna smiled to herself and stepped back out onto the balcony to gaze at her moon and her stars as she waited for the reply. It was very late, past midnight, so she was unsure if she should expect it soon or in the morning. She waited, ten minutes… Fifteen minutes… Half an hour… After an hour had passed she was forced to resign to her bed, accepting that it would take until morning for the reply to come.
She lay her head down on her pillow, pulled her covers up to her neck with her magic, and before she knew it, she was asleep. Passing through the veil into somepony’s dream, who’s, she was unsure, but it had to do with large amounts of vanilla ice cream.