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// Witchcraft (Fluffy) - Pearple Prose 
// Story: Dark Paradise: the TwiLuna Group Collab 
// by Habanc 
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Written by: Pearple Prose



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"Okay... How about now?"

Twilight peered up at the night sky through her telescope, her eyes dancing back and forth between the constellations and the star maps by her hooves. After a few moments of terse silence, she nodded. "Yep. Everything checks out." Twilight ticked off her checklist.

Luna sighed in relief, wandering over to a nearby cushion and collapsing onto it. "I am glad! Always a bother getting the stars back a certain trickster god messes with them like that." Luna glanced up at Twilight, who was idly clearing up the star charts and getting ready to turn in for the night. "I thank thee for thy help, my love."

Twilight chuckled, walking over to her lover and curling up next to her on the seat. Luna wrapped her wings around her and rested her head in the curve of her neck. "No problem, Luna. Though, I'm kinda curious; does moving the stars drain you at all?"

Twilight felt Luna's contemplative hum against her neck. "The actual magic itself does not draw from a mana pool, like unicorn magic does. Rather, alicorn magic flows from the world itself. Some old-fashioned types called it "witchcraft". I suppose you could say that it is a mechanism of the world, and that we are the ones who maintain it."

Twilight hummed. "So what else can you do? Moving the celestial bodies is one thing."

"Well, there is one thing..."

"What is it?"

Luna didn't reply. Instead, Twilight heard her hum. The hum slowly got louder, and she started whispering words in a forgotten language under her breath.

"Look at me." Luna commanded, her words thrumming with power. Trembling, Twilight turned to face her.

Then Luna booped her on the nose.

"See? It makes you look cuter."

Twilight glared at her. "You're a real witch, you know that?"