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// The Unexpected Journey - Chapter 156 
// Story: Diary of the Night 
// by CalebH 
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Twilight Sparkle




This—this is weird. I’m not used to keeping anything like this secret. Especially not from Spike. Princess Luna made me swear, with every swear I’ve ever heard and a whole lot that I hadn’t. I never knew promises could be supplemented with magic like that. It’s a fascinating but Princess Luna made me promise not to look into it. Something about the oath-breaker’s curse. 

When I asked her what it was she looked scared. She started doing a lot of dispellings. It was fascinating seeing her work. The abjuration matrices were so ancient I had only read about them. Some even involved chanting! This is only the fifth time I’ve ever seen a spell with vocal components done. It’s so amazing to see how speaking can affect the magic being cast, how words can bend the energy in a way horns and matrices can’t even begin to and--and I’m gushing again, aren’t I?

I nearly lost my dinner when I saw Chrysalis. There was a lot less blood than there should have been, I guess I have Princess Luna to thank for that. Even just thinking about that splintered spear coming out of her makes me queasy. 

I—I’m a bad pony. Once I’d gotten over the sight I couldn’t help but think about it. She hurt so many ponies, she would have left Equestria as nothing but a husk with all the love sucked out of it! How could I not think about it!?

How could I?

I spent the last two years saving the world with the power of friendship and harmony and the first time killing is easier it’s all I could think about? What if we had just decided to kill Nightmare Moon? Princess Celestia would still be inconsolable and we couldn’t have survived Discord and everything else without her. 

What if Nightmare Moon had decided to just kill us? Princess Luna took down Chrysalis and from the look of her it was a pretty one-sided fight. Why didn’t Nightmare Moon just kill us?

I put the best protection spells I could around Chrysalis and hid her in the basement. The library could explode and fall on top of her and she wouldn’t even feel it and if I get any more ideas it will at least take me some time to undo.

Your faith
Twilight Sparkle