There in her room, a white alicorn with fiery red hair and beautiful blue eyes stood before Celestia, a crown of golden laurels and a dainty little necklace adorning her ivory form, her hooves clad in little hoof-gauntlets. Poor Celestia... was terrified. This female alicorn - whoever she might have been (the Solar Princess swore she knew; she just couldn't remember...) was not only very tall and imposing; her magic was also... also... impossibly strong, surpassing her own, so much so that Celestia could feel the power in the air from where she stood.
"Wh-who..." Celestia trembled, suppressing a whimper. "Who are you?" she finally managed to ask.
The red-haired alicorn answered her question, though not in a way Celestia expected. Music began to fill the air as the strange alicorn began to sing, her voice soft; infinitely caring, infinitely gentle... "I am the red in the rose, the flowers on the blankets on your bedroom floor," she began.
"And I am the gray in the ghost that hides
With your clothes behind your closet door.
I am the green in the grass that bends back
From underneath your feet.
And I am the blue in your back alley view
Where the horizon and the rooftops meet.
If you cut me I suppose I would bleed the colors
Of the evening stars.
You can go anywhere you wish
Cause I'll be there, wherever you are.
(Wherever you are)
(I will always be your gaze
When we are lost in the Technicolor phase)
I am the black in the book
The letters on the pages that you memorize.
And I am the orange in the overcast
Of color that you visualize.
I am the white in the walls that soak up
All the sound when you cannot sleep.
And I am the peach in the starfish on the beach
That wish the harbor wasn't quite so deep.
If you cut me I suppose I would bleed the colors
Of the evening stars. (my darling)
You can go anywhere you wish cause I'll be there,
wherever you are.
(Wherever you are...)"
Perhaps it had happened during the song, or maybe after; Celestia didn't know. All she knew was that one moment she'd been cowering away from this mysterious red-haired alicorn--and now she was within her embrace! Better yet, Celestia recognized her, remembered her; that song, her voice... Sheltered, foal-like within the redhead's wings, Celestia struggled to blink back the tears misting her eyes - the tears that just wouldn't stop coming - as she shyly, hesitantly, softly whispered, "M-Mommy...?"
The big alicorn nodded, and then - "M-h-om..." - Celestia was weeping, weeping, weeping softly in her embrace. As she wept, so too did the red-haired alicorn embracing her. Celestia would cuddle normally with her for a while; then she would wedge her muzzle beneath the redhead's chin and weep, silent and uncontrollable for a few minutes; then, without warning, the Solar Princess would nuzzle her furiously; then she just resumed clinging to the redhead - to her Mother, Faust, trembling as though she were dying of cold. "There, there; ssh, ssh, ssh; it's all right little one, Mother's here, Mother's here..." Faust whispered. It was then that another, darker alicorn came out from the shadows, teary-eyed, hesitant, unsure; but room was made by the redhead as she embraced both of her children.
"My babies..." whispered Faust, holding her children gently but firmly that she might never let them go. "Oh, my beautiful, beautiful little fillies; my wonderful baby girls..."