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// What would he do? 
// Story: Born of chaos and heartbreak 
// by Slick Dash 
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Nopony’s sure why she has it. It doesn’t seem all that special. Just a normal, average suit of armour made for a stallion. Maybe it’s something special. “Is it her own?” 
“Don’t be stupid girl! She’s an alicorn, that’s the armour of an earth pony! A stallion, not a princess!” the cleaner snapped at her daughter, helping her lug the large pile of laundry to the washing room.

“But mum. Why does she have it then?” the small filly asked curiously. The two didn’t realise where they were headed, and with the laundry blocking their vision, they didn’t see the dark furred alicron ahead of them. In their rush, they collided with the large mare, and the laundry fell to the floor. 

“Oh dear!” the maid cried as she tried to catch them. She caught one sheet but knew the others were lost. Well, extra work for the cleaners then! As she stooped down to pick them up, she saw they weren’t touching the ground. A sheet of dark blue magic held them in the air. The two earth ponies looked up and saw who they had bumped into. 

Princess Luna stood above them, her horn glowing softly, holding the sheets in place. With a smile, it glowed brighter, and the sheets all folded themselves before floating into the waiting arms of the maid and her daughter. “Thank you your majesty!” She cried, bowing to the dark princess of the night. The princess gave a small nod, and moved to allow the two to pass. They did so.

As Luna made her way down the hallway as before, she was stopped by the cry of the child. Luna turned to see her rushing back to her, her eyes gleaming with excitement. “You’ll know Princess Luna!” she cried. Her mother realised what the child had done, and rushed to catch up with her. 
“Tallulah!” she said angrily.
“I just thought that she might know!” protested the little filly. Luna held up a hoof to the frustrated mare, showing it was fine. 

“What is it I ‘might know’ little one?” she asked amusedly. The little mare bounced happily at the princess co-operation. 
“That suit of armour! The one in Princess Celestia’s room, do you know why she has it?” Luna’s face fell at the question. The maid saw her reaction, she grabbed her daughter. 
“Come along! We have a lot to do!” she ordered, sending the princess an apologetic glance as they left.

Luna nodded to her absentmindedly, thinking hard. She hadn’t been in her sister’s chambers for decades. Her incarceration on the moon had seen to that, but in her few years since she had been back, she still hadn’t gone to those chambers, it didn’t feel right just yet. But now the dark princess’s mind was a blur of thoughts and emotions.

She still had it? Even after so many centuries, she still had that suit of armour? Luna walked to the window in the hall; you could see the solar tower from here. Tia’s room was right at the top; she looked hard, almost as though there were a chance to see the suit from this far away. Of course she couldn’t. 

After so many years, so many centuries to move on and find new love. Or simply to just come to terms with what happened, Tia had still kept his armour. She looked down into the gardens, littered with statues that looked like chess pieces from up here. She could swear she could see him, posed in that final act of fear as he pushed against the elements of harmony. What if he knew? What if the chimera knew that his beloved Celestia still had his armour in her room?

Would he change? Would he stop his chaotic ways? What would he do, after all he did, after how much he had changed, after his crusade against all that reminded him of Tia and Luna’s father. Luna couldn’t help remember how he used to be, that stallion, the one that time forgot, the stallion who came out of the Ever Free forest with her sister safe in toe. That heart must be there still, somewhere hidden away. What would the chimera do, if he knew Tia still cared?