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// Little sis 
// Story: The Last Shadowlight 
// by Idhrenion 
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	The doors opened inward as if expecting my presence. I walked inside and looked around, Shining Armor was speaking with a few of his guards, but Celestia was nowhere to be found.
“Sir. News from the frontlines”. I mocked, with an over exaggerated salute. He turned to face me, and was about to say something before he noticed who I was. Without hesitation he began galloping in my direction, quickly picking up speed. He was traveling so fast it was a miracle that he slowed down in time. In fact, he didn’t, I was knocked to the ground by the force of the impact. However, he seem completely unaffected. 
“Shadow”! He yelled, as he hurried to help me up. “Where have you been? My sister has been dying to meet you”. It then occurred to me that I had never actually seen miss sparkle before. I thought since she was a personally prodigy of the princess that she would be staying in the castle, but I had never seen her while I was making my rounds.
“Actually, she is the very reason I have returned to Canterlot”. Although she was a big part of why I came back, I wasn’t about to tell Shining the main reason was because I was lonely. “I had expected to speak to Celestia about her training, but I can see she is not here”.
“Well follow me you can speak to twilight in person, she really has been looking forward to meeting you”.
“As long as she doesn’t bombard me with endless questions…Wait a minute, why does she want to see me? As far as she knows I’m just an ordinary citizen of Equestria. Right”?
“Don’t worry, as promised I kept your secret safe, but I did tell her that you knew a lot about magic”.
“Oh, I suppose that makes sense” After waving goodbye to the other guards we headed to twilights home away from home. A short walk later and we had arrived at a decently sized tower near the edge of the castle grounds. Up a small flight of stairs was twilight’s home. Shining wasted no time and quickly knocked on the door.
“Little sis, open up, I brought a surprise for you”. Little sis? Shining was already quite young, could his sister be even younger? A small noise came from inside, then the door slowly opened to reveal a small purple filly. 
“Brother”! She exclaimed, running up and hugging him. This must have been his other sister.
“Excuse me little miss, but is twilight here”? I asked, smiling. She giggled and looked at shining and then they both laughed. “What’s so funny”? Then it hit me, like a flower pot, and an anvil, and some bales of hay, and a grand piano! “Don’t tell me this is twilight sparkle”.
“OK” She said in the cutest voice possible. “We won’t tell you”. They then began laughing again, and this time I joined them. The laughter hid my astonishment, I felt the magic surge that miss sparkle had caused, and now to find out it was the work of such a young filly. Not much longer after that she invited us inside and offered us tea. 
We talked a great bit about how she learned magic and what she thought of her studies. I learned as much as I could about how she was being taught, but ultimately I knew I’d have to hear it directed from Celestia if I wanted the full picture. She was very interested with my magical knowledge, and I promised her that if she finished her studies I would teach her everything I knew. She quickly learned that I wouldn’t budge on my decision, and after learning that she ushered us out and jumped right back into the books. 
Shining and I then made our way back to the castle to see if the princess had returned.