"Silver," came Twilight's voice as she walked into her room. "I have a question."
Silver slipped off her bed, smiling at Twilight's presence. "Of course. What's up?"
Twilight wobbled a hoof. "Chances are against it, but I want you to think hard. Is there anything at all in this world, Equestria, that also exists, or interacts with your world, Earth?"
Silver lowered to her haunches and looked thoughtful about it, tapping her chin. "I... was sent back to Earth once."
Twilight leaned forward, eyes sparkling with curiosity. "You didn't mention that. What happened?"
Silver waved a hoof. "That wasn't very important, but one part was. My desk was still there, in the other world, even though it's here too. My computer, my books, some of the clutter, all the things on that desk were apparently copied, rather than moved."
Twilight clopped her hooves with excitement. "You're the best!" She turned to leave and Silver conjured up a quick hand to gently catch her.
Silver moved up alongside Twilight. "What are you up to? I'd like to help if I can?"
Twilight stopped trying to get around the invisible hand and smiled at Silver nervously. "I..." Silver gave her a flat look. "Oh alright. I want to see if I can make a portal to your world, like I did for Canterlot High."
Silver tilted her head. "Is that possible? Where would you even come out of? Would you become a human?"
Twilight spread her wings. "I don't know! That's exactly why I want to find out. Your world is full of wonders from your description,"
Silver shook her head as she leaned in and nuzzled Twilight's neck. "Nothing Canterlot High doesn't have, I think. You just haven't explored much past the high school there."
Twilight tapped at her chin a moment. "I don't think they're the same, but we're just throwing around theories at best. We need to test and see to be sure. Besides, Canterlot High is a direct mirror of this world, and yours is clearly farther removed. In your world, our world is a story, and there isn't a perfect copy of everypony. Your 'mirror' was an entirely different pony! My copy could be an accountant or something."
Silver tilted her head a bit before nodding. "Well, sure, but my copy was a much better copy than you give credit for. We were both authors, both brown, both kind of messy... We invented a roleplaying game to play a member of the other's world! That's a pretty good mirror in my book, even if our personalities diverged a bit. A lot of our differences became so great after I came to Equestria."
"Where is Rough Draft anyway?"
Silver restrained a giggle poorly. "He married Trixie. They're expecting a foal."
Twilight's jaw fell for a moment before she shook herself clear. "Good for them. I guess your copy is also eager to start a family. I still want to see where this goes. Will you help me?"
Silver nodded firmly. "Of course!"
Twilight lowered to the ground. "Hop on."
Silver tilted her head one way and the other as she circled Twilight. "Aren't I a little big?"
"Nothing a little magic can't overcome." She ruffled her wings a bit, then waited. Silver slid up onto Twilight, trying to mount her as Silver had long ago as a human to a horse. She leaned forward and hugged around Twilight's neck as Twilight rose up. "You have decent posture for never riding a pony before." Twilight rose up to her hooves and trotted out onto the balcony. She spread her wings wide and took off into the sky. She made a slow banking turn towards Canterlot and began ascending towards the mountain city.
Silver felt her heart hasten and a giggle began to force its way free. She couldn't help but to keep right on giggling, looking down at the ground so far away and the whistle of the wind zipping past. She was scared, and giggling was the first and only response she had for it. It was exciting and terrifying at once to ride Twilight so far and so fast. She held on firmly to the belief that Twilight would never let her fall. They shared no words as Twilight made the trip that would take the Friendship Express the greater part of a day in about fifteen minutes going in a straight line.
Twilight soared over the city of Canterlot and started to descend, landing neatly just before the castle. She strode past the guards who startled a moment on realizing the shape on Twilight was not Spike, instead a being quite a bit large to be riding a princess around. Twilight paid them no mind, moving through the castle towards the Sun Court. "You should probably slide down, unless you're that eager to show off that you have riding privileges with me."
Silver darkened and hugged Twilight's neck from behind. "And if I am?"
Twilight craned her head to look back at Silver. "Then you stay up there, but don't blame me when people say things."
Silver nipped into Twilight's thick mane before rising up straight, looking more proper as a horse rider... Which she knew well she was not.
Twilight opened the court doors with a flick of her magic and strode purposefully into Sun Court. All eyes snapped towards her, then her passenger. Murmuring spread wildly. Celestia sat on her throne, watching Twilight approach. She turned to the current supplicant. "Please, sit yourself. You will be called up as soon as this business is concluded."
The supplicant, a pegasus stallion, nodded dumbly, then scooted out of the way. Celestia smiled at Twilight. "A rare and unexpected visit, Princess Twilight Sparkle. How can I help you today?" Her eyes moved with practiced deliberation, making it clear that her attention had slid to Silver. "And Silver Stars. I see you are doing well."
Twilight nodded her head at Celestia. "A pleasure as always. We've come for Silver Star's possessions. I would like to study them."
Silver raised a hoof, wobbling dangerously as her balance shifted. "I gave her permission to."
Celestia put a hoof to her chin. "The scholars of the academy will be sorely disappointed to lose access to them, but they do belong to Silver Stars. You will share what you find, of course?"
Twilight gave a single firm nod. "Of course! I'll have a full report ready as soon as I've reached a conclusion."
Celestia smiled. "That is all that I ask." Her eyes turned up to Silver again. "I would like to speak to you. Meet me after court, before you return home." Her eyes fell to Twilight. "As always a pleasure, Twilight. You know where to go. Travel safely."
Twilight carried Silver from the room, the nobles there still speaking to one another in hushed tones. Once they were outside and the doors closed, Twilight let out her breath in a loud sigh. "I hate court. Well, that went well. Let's get your desk."
Silver tilted her head. "Celestia said she wanted to talk to me. I don't think ignoring her command would be a good idea."
Twilight lowered to the ground. "This is your stop then. I'll get the desk and bring it to the castle, then return for you. That sound OK?"
Silver shuffled a little. "Would I be a bad pony if I said I'm a little intimidated by Celestia?"
Twilight shook her head. "You'd be a pretty standard pony, now hop off. She won't hurt you."
Silver slid to her own hooves and turned to face Twilight. "See you soon."
Twilight was soon gone, trotting towards wherever they kept curious magical artifacts.
Silver turned to find Luna staring at her only an inch away. Silver squealed like a little girl and collapsed in place.
Luna gave a wry smile. "I still have that effect, it seems. Come, we have much to discuss." She wrapped Silver in her dark magic and walked off with Silver secured.
Silver placidly lay there, not trying to struggle against the trip. "Celestia wants to talk to me after court."
"Is that so?" Luna looked over her shoulder at Silver. "We'll just have to return you before court is complete. Fortunately that is a few hours yet."
Luna made her way swiftly to her quarters. Its scent brought back memories for Silver, most of them good. Luna set Silver down on a pillow, then waved the door shut. "Do you still trust me?"
Silver tilted her head a little. "I... mostly? You let your sister have her way with me. You didn't warn me before I took somepony's life with a power I didn't know I had."
Luna nodded at each retold sin. "This is true. I would apologize, but you've had enough of those."
Silver held up a hoof. "Do you think you did wrong?"
Luna looked Silver over quietly a moment. "Yes. I think about you, and Night Watch, quite often. I wonder if I didn't try hard enough. I wonder if I should have gone to arms against my sister. I wonder if I was a fool for letting you so close to me at all." She leaned in close to Silver. "You fill me with wonder, for all meanings of the word."
Silver gave a slow nod. "Apologies may come cheap, but that doesn't make hearing you think you could have done better meaningless." She smiled gently. "You're still enchanting. Have you fou--"
"No." Luna ruffled her wings. "I have not found another. Unlike you two, or four, now. You all smile together, the very picture of harmony. There is no jealousy. There is only understanding. I thought I brought you to my side, but you never stopped being a sun pony, did you?"
Silver canted her ears forward. "You shouldn't associate yourself with disharmony. Night and I are still happily lunar ponies, and we bring a different side of things to the herd for it. We are different, even if we can all work through that." Silver rolled onto her back. "I don't regret being a lunar pony. Don't make it a thing synonymous with bad."
Luna nodded softly, eyes half-lidded. "Very well. Prove it. Prove you still care. Let me gaze into you one more time."
Silver blinked at the question, standing up. "What would that prove?"
Luna spread her wings slowly. "Prove? Nothing... But I want to know what you felt, when you decided to leave. What you saw in your wives. Why you took Twilight Sparkle, and why you avoided me. I want to know how you truly feel about me, and about my sister, and about this world. Do you hide your hate, or do you truly forgive all the slights? I will not force you, or deceive you. It is your decision alone." She brought down a wing, tickling Silver across the nose and making her sneeze. "My sister is correct in that. You are adorable when you sneeze."
From the title, I expected more science! to happen, but we are still in the lead up to it, with plenty else to distract us before the portal opens or fails.
5875508 Twilight had science on the brain, but rarely does the world let her work her science in peace.
Will the typo's be banished to the moon?
The name of the school in Equestria Girls and Rainbow Rocks was "Canterlot High."
There needs to be a closing quotation mark at the end of this sentence.
"Being" instead a pony.
There are two spaces between "didn't" and "try."
She wonders if she was a fool "for" letting her so close.
Don't capitalize "Lunar" here.
"What" she saw in her wives.
5875841 Typos detected, will destroy them properly when I get home.
5875841 Typos banished to the moon!
I have decided to make this post a little different. the reason well just read the post.
the chapter, well to say this is good just is not fitting. it is supper good.
now how I am feeling?
I have decided to answer the author notes.
Silver finds herself confronting the moon mother. Will they reconcile things?
I am going to say yes Luna is trying in her own way to come clean to silver and I think deep down Silver has a true respect for Luna. love? at one time yes, now 30% chance. will they get back to gather? no.
or can things only become worse?
I am going to say no if any thing they will become vary close friends. This meeting is about apologies that do not need to be talked about this is more about Trust. and forging a real friend ship of respect.
Will Silver let her in, or try to keep her out?
this is the easiest one to answer he was vary and still is in love with Luna but love fast and night more and Twilight is right there with the other two. in short yes Silver will let Luna in.
this may sound a bit confusing to some pony's right now , but remember this is my feeling at this time.
Harts Fire
5875857 Wow, there's so much going on in this chapter I barely know where to start! Seriously, several big things are afoot, and any one of them has the potential to be huge.
Let's start with the most notable: Silver and Luna have met again for the first time since Silver left her, and for all the softly-spoken words and quiet conversation, there's a clearly-building tension in the air. I say that because Luna is very, very clearly not in a good place; it's almost to the point that alarm bells are going off in my head. Silver very cogently noted that she's associating herself with disharmony, the antithesis of Equestria's most fundamental value - that alone should be a big red flag.
Of course, it's entirely possible that I'm reading too much into that, and that Luna is simply speaking in a despairing tone because she's still dealing with heartbreak. But that's sort of the nature of having that much power - you have far less leeway available to you when it comes to suspicious activity. As it is, I am heartened to hear that Luna's at least willing to admit to the possibility that she was in the wrong, but that she lists that alongside so many other possibilities and "what if's" suggests that she has no real idea what should have been done differently, on either of their parts.
What worries me most, however, is her demand that Silver "prove" that she still cares, and that her demand is something so utterly massive. Silver might have been the one who walked away, but she doesn't owe Luna anything; a bad breakup is an awful thing for both parties, but the way Luna is acting right now - despite her words that allude towards some degree of contrition and regret - doesn't come across as someone seeking reconciliation, but rather demanding an explanation. To some degree, she might be entitled to that, being that she was the one who was dumped...but she's giving Silver an ultimatum, that she be allowed to simply rip the answers from her directly.
I find that worrisome, especially when Luna has some gall to ask for trust, of all things. Trust, when she didn't tell Silver she'd equipped her with a potentially-lethal bite. Trust, when she deliberately misled Silver about her (Luna) being pregnant. Trust, when she's been making physical alterations to her body without telling her (yes it was for a good reason, but the ends don't justify the means; Silver was pissed at Celestia for being about to alter her body "for her own good" without Silver's consent, even if it was for the better - does Luna really think she's been operating on higher moral ground?). Who here would allow their ex, after a bad break-up, to go through their most personal belongs - like the ultimate combination of their diary, internet browser history, and phone records - because she wants to know why you left her? Why can't she just ask to talk, to have a back-and-forth exchange?
But for all of this...I can't help but be sympathetic to Luna too. For all of her faults, I think she honestly doesn't understand, or doesn't appreciate, where she went wrong, and desperately wants answers about how things ended up where they did. She comes across as haughty and demanding right now, but that's where she goes when she's uncertain; even when she opened up to Silver, she did so slowly and almost fearfully, dropping her pretenses of formality and social standing only with great reluctance. It makes perfect sense that she'd be back into full "Princess of the Night" mode - minus where her undoubtedly-turbulent emotions keep leaking through - when dealing with the pony who, for whatever reason, broke her heart. It's hard to shut her out even more when you think of her as trying to find a way to ask for answers without compromising any more of her dignity.
Or does she have some further plan she wants to advance? She could very well be pushing an agenda alongside her genuinely wanting to understand what happened - it's not like this would be the first time she used Silver as a pawn. There's just no way to be sure! I doubt Silver will say no to her, though, especially since it really feels like pushing her away now will be final...that Luna will never interact with Silver again, at least not to any appreciable degree, if Silver pushes her away a second time.
This could very well be a critical moment...but for what? Luna's cold-hearted revenge? Or the first step towards her and Silver reconciling, perhaps even getting back together? Would it help her to give her what she wants? Or would it help her more to deny her in favor of talking it, rather than a one-way soul-reading?
I have absolutely no idea what's about to happen, but it might very well be epic.
Alongside that, there's the issue of what Celestia wants. I suspect that it'll relate to either Twilight or Luna, but probably the former. My guess is that it'll be a (rather prosaic) bland statement about her wanting to make sure that Silver will Twilight happy, warning her not to run out on her like she did to Luna, making sure that Silver doesn't seem violent, etc. That's pretty run-of-the-mill, so I'd be pleasantly surprised if Celestia had something else to go on about.
As for Silver herself, I'm a little shocked how casual she was about going to Canterlot to begin with. Did she not realize that she was about to be put onto a collision course with both Celestia and Luna? Did she really not realize that? She's going to the home of the ruler that she admittedly fears and the other ruler that she had a bad break-up with, and the thought doesn't even cross her mind that these issues are going to come up? Silver, what were you thinking?
Twilight, by contrast, was rather daring. This is the pony that was mortified by the thought of the media spectacle that'd be made by her being in a relationship, now walking into Celestia's court in the capital of Equestria, showing off that another mare is riding her. I'm assuming that "riding privileges" has a sexual/relationship connotation here, which may not be entirely accurate (we see Pinkie Pie riding Applejack in the montage for "A True, True Friend"), but even so this seems shockingly nonchalant of Twilight. I really need exposition about why she was so casual about this...did her crying it out with Silver last chapter really turn her around that fast? They haven't even announced their engagement to the public yet (though perhaps they just did).
Beyond that, I'm a little nervous about Twilight opening a portal to Silver's home dimension. There's already a lot of great drama going on right here, and while Twilight did raise some very cogent questions about the nature of Silver's dimension compared to Canterlot High School and Equestria, opening a gateway to another universe has a way of hijacking the story, and not for a short period of time either. Given how the various relationships are moving to a head, I really don't want to see that be interrupted before we finally start moving things towards what feels like a potentially real solution.
5876062 Twilight does have some amount of confidence going on, especially in matters of magic. what could Silver do that she couldn't do better, besides make up new spells?
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I will admit Twilight is super good with magic but remember this is a new magic direct in to the blood if Silver lost control I am not sure twilight is that good.
Harts Fire
so many sneezes
"Oh alright. I want to see if I can make a portal to your world, like I did for Canterlot High."
Twilight didn't make the portal I believe it was Starswirl's private project.
Twilight's jaw fell for a moment before she shook herself clear. "Good on them.
I believe you mean "for"...
Twilight's jaw fell for a moment before she shook herself clear. "Good for them.
They shared no words as Twilight made the trip that would take the Friendship Express the greater part of a day in about fifteen minutes of going in a straight line.
Grammar error: They shared no words as Twilight made the trip that would take the Friendship Express the greater part of a day in about fifteen minutes going in a straight line.
Don't make it a thing synonymous with bad.
Grammar error:Don't make it synonymous with bad.
6593959 More fixes!
OK, so, you've got action - anecdotal comparison - action clarification - action clarification, (I don't know the technical terms) and while I think the whole thing is technically correct, the length and position of each part, in addition to lacking comma breaks, makes the whole thing a bit unwieldy. I suggest something like:
"They shared no words as Twilight, flying in a straight line, covered in about fifteen minutes what took the Friendship Express a greater part of the day."
It's a bit weird to read through, but I think that's because combining and comparing Twilight's timeframe with the train's like this isn't something commonly done in everyday spoken English.