Celestia had long dreaded this day. However, she didn’t abhor it, nor did she hate it. She could not bring herself to hate things that had to be, and fear of the same thing would only lead her immortal life to be wrought with worry.
But she could dread. She could hope it away, though she knew the good it would do. Her life was made on difficult decisions and great moments of pain. Be them sacrifices she didn’t wish to make or judgements that would alienate herself from the ponies she loved, they came down to moments she dreaded, and ultimately had to endure.
This was one of those moments.
This was something she could not-- and would not-- enjoy.
Across from her sat her student. Nay, her prized pupil. A mare that had passed every test and shined with a beauty that so few could comprehend. She had the mind of a sage, a figure that belonged in a painting, and the compassion of a saint.
Twilight Sparkle. Her name was a testament to who she was.
A gem found in the median of two sides of a coin. It appeared every day, but only in the ghost of a moment. Yet when a pony let his or her eyes fall on the beauty that was that passing in time, they would be captivated by the shimmer, lost in its visage and depth.
Curiosity was always in her bones, well before it was ever on her mind. It only made sense that as she grew her desire to learn grew with her. And as her knowledge became greater and her potential more pronounced, it was only so clear that Celestia take the bright and talented mare beneath her wings.
And as time went on from there, the months turning into years, Celestia only felt the greatness within her student grow. Strong with perseverance and dedicated in purpose, the lingering doubts about her precious student’s fate began to dwindle into scarce obscurity before vanishing into nothingness.
Just like the moment the diarch was currently in, Celestia saw signs as they were happening. She knew her student would solve a problem centuries old; fix a mistake that she couldn’t have prevented. And that one simple test, that last small requirement to reach, and her student had done what no other pupil beneath Celestia had done before.
Twilight Sparkle became an alicorn, a princess, a ruler with a heart as large as her mind.
It was a joyous day, a wonderful day, a moment that Celestia knew would come and felt blessed to witness: watching her student fulfill her destiny. A single moment, no matter how fleeting against the years in her life, that made the curse of her immortality completely worth it.
That was how Celestia knew this moment would come. Because that moment had come to pass, so too would this one now occur; and it was doing just that. This conversation, this reaction, even the cups of tea that sat on the table between them, forgotten beneath the words she had spoken.
Celestia wanted to see so few things in her eternal life, and there were just as many things she hoped to never witness. But the moment she was in was making her wish away the instant in place of another.
She didn’t want to see Twilight’s eyes opened wide with terrified realization, her chest still in shock and breath caught with surprise. She wanted to see her student smiling with shimmering eyes, to have the same look of adoration and devotion that the diarch was so used to, so attached to.
“Celestia,” her name came from the newly crowned alicorn, so much colder than the warm tone the title was usually spoken with. “This… I-I can’t…”
A patient sight left Celestia’s lips. It was the only way she could keep herself calm.
She knew this moment would come, had suspected it for a long while, and only just recently confirmed it. Celestia held no surprise or horror for the moment she was in, but she did find much to wish against and dream of reversing.
And to think, her day had begun like any other.
Oh shit.
This is gonna be a big one.
~Skeeter The Lurker
3320499 You do realize that:
Not only do you, by signing your every post, make your name plate -just left from your post, above the little avatar you put into your account- absolutely obsolete!
No, it's also (at the very least for me) hilariously stupid! (See the aforementioned name plate just left from your post, above your avatar)
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It's an old roleplay habit that people use on forums or comments, it's perfectly respectable and I do not found it hilariously stupid. Since Skeeter did not write something rude or uncalled-for he have the right to put his name in his comment if he want and you're not here to write your opinion about it! If you really find his roleplay disturbing then send him a mail via the website service.
Well, first chapter in, and I have to say that, even though I wish this chapter was substantially longer (Ya know, to at least one thousand words), I can see why you didn't do, and I can respect that since you seem to make up for it with the eye catching description and the four thousand word chapter proceeding this one. I guess I'm a bit of a nitpick when it comes to subjects like these, so please excuse my behavior.
Away from the short chapter, I have to admit that you opened the story up pretty well with your introduction about the table scene, and Twilight and Celestia's serious discussion. That can catch even the most eccentric reader, so I'll have to keep an eye on this to see where it takes me.
Might even have to donate a fave and a like...
~Formal Document
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I hate to butt in, I really do, but I think that you should let a sleeping dog lie. This subject will probably turn into some kind of war, and I'm sure the author of this amazing story won't take fond to that, so I must ask you that you delete this comment and leave it alone. Not a command, just asking politely.
~Formal Document
What happend?! What did she say that made Twilight be like !?
god you went on and on about celestia, past mistakes which we never even know what they were, just went rambling on and on about this and that. GET TO THE FUCKING POINT?
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Chill out, this chapter isn't even long.