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// Epilogue 
// Story: To be Young Again 
// by Chatterjoy 
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	Twilight and Celestia walked down the hallway. Celestia had explained everything to Twilight after she had exited the bathroom.

The newer Princess’s face was bright as a tomato. She couldn’t believe she could be so foolish as to try to read a spell before finding out its effects. Twilight would have thought she would have learned that lesson when she did Starswirl’s spell that messed up her friends’ destinies. 

“Relax Twilight. It was not that much of a problem,” Celestia said as she draped one of her wings over her student.

“But it sounds like I caused every pony so much trouble!” Twilight protested. Her wings shuddered and the purple pony looked away in shame. She felt like she had ruined Celestia’s reputation as much as her own with her plunder. 

“Follow me Twilight and we will see if you did cause that much trouble.”

Twilight followed Celestia back to the white Alicorn’s chambers. The room had been cleaned up a long time ago, and Twilight was positive this is where most of her shame came from. Celestia showed Twilight a binder and when she opened it the pages were filled with nothing but pictures of her as a filly.

Twilight recognized some of them as when she was Celestia’s protégé but most of the pictures were recent ones; the days after her not so brilliant transformation. 

“Twilight, I admit I thought it was going to be disastrous after I found out about your transformation, but it wasn’t. Do you know why?”

Twilight shook her head in a negative response. 

“Dear Princess Twilight, these past few days I learned a valuable lesson.”

Twilight blushed and hid her face behind one of her wings. Was Princess Celestia really doing this?

“I learned that mistakes happen but they can happen for the good of others. This mistake taught me that I am more than just a Princess, and that I can search out for my own happiness. But the most important happiness this mistake taught me was something I should have learned long ago.”

Twilight’s interests perked.

“It is not something I am entirely wanting to share, but know Princess that this lesson was invaluable in every aspect of what has happened. Your loving mentor, Princess Celestia.”

Twilight couldn’t help but let out a giggle. Celestia giggled with her, but brought the younger Princess in for a hug.

“Twilight no matter what would happen I will always be with you. Your family, friends, Luna, and me. Always.”

Twilight slowly pulled away from the Princess.

“I have one question Princess. How did the curse break?”

“Right before you transformed you called me ‘Mama’ when you had accepted me as your mother a bond was forged so great that it broke the curse. That is why the spell said a mother’s hoof. You needed to acknowledge some pony as your mother for it to break the spell.”

Twilight nodded still a little unsure. 

“I’ll leave it be for now. I sort of understand it.”

“Then that is good enough for now. At the moment I have a very funny picture you should see it was so cute!”
That next moment the entire castle shook as Twilight’s untrained Canterlot voice rang through.

“P-PRINCESS! THAT IS COMPETELY UNAPPROPRIATE AT THIS TIME!”