The time: 7 years before Luna's return.
The place: Celestia's room.
For 993 years, Celestia has spent Hearth's Warming Eve alone. While every other pony in Equestria celebrates, their hearts light as the feathery snowflakes drifting from the sky, she sits on her own, thinking and reflecting. The other ponies have their families, their festivities. She isn't going to keep them from that. But Celestia has no family within reach. She has no distractions, no festivities, nothing to do to keep her from herself. She spends this night instead remembering what once was, and what could have been. It is painful, but it's all she has left.
But elsewhere in the castle, one little filly sits apart from the others at a party. She is different from them, and achieves their state of lightheartedness with much more difficulty. So she goes, as countless other ponies have, to Celestia for comfort.
It's an alright story, a little bit on the 'OC pony shows up and fixes everything' side but not too bad; the formatting is messed up though that needs to be fixed, also this typo.
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she'd just stand slightly behind me,
just stand (remove a space)
5651546 Thanks for telling me. I fixed the thing about the extra space, but I'm not sure what's wrong with the formatting. Again, I'm not pretending to be a great author, so if you could elaborate, that would be really helpful. Thanks again!
I know that the plot is a little cheesy. This is my first story though, and a bit of a test run. I'll try to avoid that sort of thing in the future.
I realized a little late that formatting displays differently on different computers and web browsers, so it might just be on my computer, but the story is missing it’s spacing. Although it displays correctly on the download.
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It looks like this online:
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It looks like this on the download:
Great story!
5657283 Thanks! It's great to hear positive feedback, especially since it means that someone has actually read it.