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// 55. Hurt by Knight of Lycaeus 
// Story: The Sun and the Stars: A Twilestia Prompt Collab 
// by Fuzzyfurvert 
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by Knight of Lycaeus


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Celestia quietly made her way into her student’s room and as she closed the door behind her, her mind wandered back to earlier in the day. This afternoon Twilight had come to her chambers for her magic lesson, today Celestia had promised Twilight they would start on something more advanced. A small smile appeared as she remembered how excited the filly was when she told her.

“Oh, yes! So what are learning today Princess?” asked Twilight.

“One of the more advanced forms of magic is learning how to use the elements; I thought we could start on learning how to do so with something small.”

"Which one will we be starting with?”

“The basics, but I’m going to show you each one and let you have a sense of how each one is formed.”

The lesson had progressed well and Celestia carefully demonstrated each one while explaining that at its most basic, conjuring the elements required being able to feel the elements with one’s magic and allowed her student to examine each one as she conjured them up.

“There are many different elements and I have just shown you most of them, but today we’ll be working with the four most basic. Perhaps you could name them for me?”

“Oh, let’s see. There’s earth, wind, water, and fire.”

“Correct, now that you’ve had a feel for each of them I would like you to try to draw on each.”

“Ok Princess” she answered as she began to concentrate.

Celestia watched Twilight carefully as she drew on the first one. Little happened with the first as was expected when one tries using them for the first time and she could see her student was becoming discouraged. She reassured Twilight that this happens at first and that the point of this exercise was to have a better feel for how element functioned. It was when she reached the last, fire that something did happen. Instead of small sparks as would usually appear on a first attempt, she managed to conjure several flames before her control slipped creating a small bang as the spell misfired. Celestia quickly snuffed the flames out before tending to her student who she saw was unconscious and slightly burned especially around the tip of her horn but was otherwise fine.

That had been hours ago, Celestia had cast a quick healing spell on the burns before bringing Twilight to her room and ensured she was comfortable before she left to attend to the rest of her duties. Now she was back, here to check that her student was fine after today’s accident. Seeing Twilight was still fast asleep she gently nuzzled her before whispering to her a soft good night.