Student and Teacher, Servant and Mistress, Citizen and Ruler, Friend and...Lover?
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The water of the river of the Duat tastes, Twilight thinks, like how she imagines magic would taste, if it were a liquid splashed upon the tongue and not a vague feeling in her horn. Twilight hasn't used her horn in a long time, though – the dead have no need for spells. The Duat is beyond such things, in any case.
As Twilight pulls herself out of the Duat, hooves digging into the thick and lush soil of the riverbank, the water pours out of her mouth and escapes back into a current that has flowed unceasing for countless eons. It glints, like mercury, reflecting the pulsing light of the fierce and mighty stars of the Duat's sky, closer here than anywhere.
Twilight remembers. Memory and thought and knowledge are not constrained to mortal bodies and their constraints in the spirit world. And so she has witnessed, personally, the stars as they were first born from Luna's own flesh, the tears from her crying eyes in the beginning of all things given life and purpose in the realm of the gods.
And she remembers, too, the feeling of sand under her hooves made of meat and bone and not the stuff of spirits. She remembers, as if it were yesterday, the feeling of a warm body against her own – fur against fur, silken sheets and honeyed lips and all the pleasures of the flesh.
She remembers the sound of a laugh that is like the trickling of the water of the river of the Duat, and the heat of the Sun in all its glory.
She smiles. Twilight remembers these things every night, for it is the hour of the dead.
The Sun is a barge, built from gold by Celestia's own hooves, forged when she first fought the Serpent, Discord, at the beginning of all things. It burns surprisingly softly. It is not for battle, this hour, but for celebration.
Around it, the dead awaken from their slumber.
Slowly, gliding across the river of stars like a dream, the Sun comes to rest by the riverbank, where Twilight stands, waiting, as she has for countless years. There is a moment, where the Duat itself holds its breath, and then Twilight rises by some unseen force, crests the side of the great golden barge, and lands lightly on the deck.
Celestia is waiting for her.She is pristine white, like the heart of the Sun over which she holds dominion, and her hair glows all the colours of the rainbow, and blows in an unseen solar wind. Her eyes are lined with kohl, and she bears a gentle smile.
She does not wear her battle garb, for it is not yet the hour of battle, although she carries with her the symbols of her office – a flail, and a crook.
"Hello, Twilight," says Celestia. Her smile, slowly, deepens, until her lips part and reveal gleaming white teeth. An honest, open smile, now.
"Hello, my love," says Twilight. The magic of the Duat suffuses her, pays fealty to her station. She wears now the regalia of a pharoah, dark lines of kohl lining her eyes also, and she too smiles.
The dead celebrate, for this hour, as they do every night.
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Kinda confused by this one.
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The Duat is the Egyptian afterlife. It's essentially the world of the gods. At night Ra sails through it on the Sun, which is a giant barge, and it is divided into 12 sections, each representing an hour of the nighttime.
When the Sun travels through, the souls of the dead wake up, and go back when it has passed.
Essentially, Twilight is a dead pharaoh who was Celestia's lover in some form, and when Celestia passes through the afterlife, Twilight wakes up to meet her, and they enjoy each other's company.
I can't believe it! This collab was updated! Also props Pearple Prose! I love Egyptian mythology and this MLP spin off makes me happy
It's been a long while since this collab updated last, if memory serves. Still, it's nice to see it's still alive.
Don't really know much about Egyptian mythology, but this was pretty interesting anyway.
...Also, does anyone know where the heck the little emoticon-like character tags have gone?
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In the comment area, look on the tool bar above the text field for a little smile face. That'll give you a drop down of both pony and non-pony emotes.
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Thank you. I haven't visited Fimfiction much lately due to REAL LIFE ISSUES(tm) and being a forgetful dolt... I barely recognize the site lol.
Edit: By the way, how active is the collab nowadays? Feels like most of the old authors that used to write for it don't anymore, or just don't write much of anything at all. Or is it just me?
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That is not just you. A couple of us as still quite active. Pearple, for example, was gone for a bit and now back with an itch to write. A couple of the others haven't logged in in so long, I think it's safe to we won't likely be seeing them again.
In all honesty, I should have been trying to drum up attention for the collab again, but same as yourself, I've had to deal with a bunch of REAL LIFE ISSUES(tm) in recent months. I'd really like to get to 500 chapters, but I'm not holding my breath. There is at least one other twilestia prompt in the works that I know about, and I plan on doing a couple more myself.
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These things go in fits and spats. Some of those now gone are just gone, but some may be back later, their muses refreshed, and still others may come in new from elsewhere.
In any case, I enjoy what is here, and may try to add something myself later on.