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// As the Moon Rises 
// Story: One Little Letter 
// by The Human Pinkie 
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My Dear Sister,

I...I'm sorry. I should have listened to you, dear sister. Now, because I haven't, you lie asleep in the moon, while as I stay here, alone and saddened, yet unharmed. You shouldn't be the one to suffer, I should. No, I shouldn't have been sent to the moon, for I'd be constantly worried for your safety, and you haven't spent as long as I in your chambers hunched over books, often through the late hours of the night. I guess, in a way, I have gotten payment where it is due. 

My heart breaks as I gaze into the moon, a constant reminder of what I have done. That monster, that thing, whatever it was, was not you. You were just a tragic bystander, no, make that victim. I will rid you of the burden that is, as "it" calls itself, Nightmare Moon. Somehow, someway I will save you. Even if I have to travel to the moon and carry your sleeping body back.

I love you, Luna. You are the joy in my life. If it was up to me, I'd never raise the sun nor the moon at all and keep them forever suspended in the air, but you and I both know we can't do that. Our kingdom and the ponies and other souls sleeping unknowingly and warmly in their beds, as well as the duties that come with it, must come..first. They must awake in the morn. If the sun does not awaken every morning, then their crops will die and we will slowly watch as everyone we have every known slowly die out until we are to ignorant and mentally gone to remember that they were even here.

I would have considered running away in sorrow if I didn't know how foolish it is to do so. I have a kingdom to uphold, even though it could never succeed the happy memories and dreams you and I have shared. Most importantly, though I hope that someday you might return in a glorious descent. I will...wait until that heavenly day's arrival. I will wait far beyond needed, I'll wait for all time.

Even though you may never read this, be it because you never come back, or I engulf this parchment in flames, let it be known that you are my light. You are and will be the reason I raise the sun and moon, the reason why I wake up in the morn and flutter asleep at night, you are my sun. Without you, I'll fall to the hands of death.

Though I still have much to learn, I bid you farewell. I will find you, and when I do, I'll keep you close and safe, forevermore.

Your faithful student and sister,
Princess Celestia