//------------------------------// // Prompt #17: Chain of Evidence // Story: Ponywatching // by ThunderTempest //------------------------------// Twilight Sparkle, Dream Diary, Day 14 Post Coronation. Beginning this log for posterity, as Princess Celestia and Princess Luna have both reported that occasionally, they receive prophetic dreams. Princess Cadence cannot recall ever having similar ones, but she has not lived as long. Age of the alicorn may be a factor in the frequency of such dreams. Regardless, it may be interesting to receive an insight into my own dreams, even if they prove not to be prophetic. ----- Dream Diary, Day 18 Post Coronation. Subject of dream: unclear. Heavily featured pink and purple. Also featured an odd taste of butter in mouth. Possible meanings: Uncertain. ----- Dream Diary, Day 24 Post Coronation. Subject: Pinkie Pie, Rarity and myself. Surroundings appeared to be train carriage, a replay of the events leading up to the National Dessert competition. I had just finished exposing Rarity to Pinkie Pie, but before I could say anything further, Pinkie Pie said that I was such a smarty-pants, but she still loved me. Rarity asserted her agreement. Confused, as neither Pinkie nor Rarity has never indicated strong feelings other than friendship toward myself. Meanings: Perhaps my friends see my intellect as annoying? Will make discreet inquiries. ------ Dream Diary, Day 42, Post Coronation. Subject: Uncertain. Recall Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash being present. Orange, white, pink also featured. Can clearly recall Fluttershy saying ‘Keep doing that, Twilight.’ Meanings: Likely nothing more than recognising that friends are attractive combined with onset of summer. ------- Dream Diary, Day 66, Post Coronation. Subject: My friends standing between myself and Tirek. Magicless, forming a barrier as we rise into the air, the power of friendship running through us. Clearly remember a voice whispering that no matter what, we would always be together. Curious, as this was not how the events happened. Meaning: It seems obvious, stating that my friends and I would be together for as long as possible, but there was an undertone in the dream that implied that we would be more than friends. ------ Dream Diary, Day 67 Post Coronation. Same dream as previous night. Ended with everypony saying ‘I do’. Woke up to Pinkie Pie saying ‘I do I do I do!’ to Spike’s offer of waffles. Coincidence. ----- Dream Diary, Day 104 Post Coronation. Subject: I am dressed, in white. The dress is made by Rarity, obviously. I hear mutterings in the background, things which seem to remind me of my Brother’s wedding. I can see my brother, shaking his head and pretending not to laugh. I look at the other five mares around me, and somehow, I feel a sense of completion. As if nothing better than them will ever happen to me. Meaning: Unsure. Have been feeling oddly giddy around friends for the last few months. Requires investigation. ******** Twilight Sparkle watched as a montage of her previous dreams paraded in front of her, blushing at a few. “Do you not see what this means, Twilight Sparkle?” said Princess Luna. “I don’t know! I just know that when I’m around them, I feel happier than anything I have ever felt in my life,” said Twilight. Luna sighed. “I forget, sometimes, the stories my sister has told me about you before you were sent to Ponyville. And perhaps, I am not the princess that you need to talk to.” “What does that mean?” asked Twilight. “You are in love, Twilight Sparkle. With all of your friends. It is elementary, when one examines the evidence,” said Luna, “You feel happy, complete, around them. You think of them all the time. Even your dreams are centred on them.” “But I’m just, well, me!” said Twilight. “Twilight Sparkle, you are not doing yourself justice. There is something special about you that, with time, ponies come to see. Five ponies, in particular.”