Princess Celestia is one of the two main rulers of Equestria. She is supposed to always keep a level head, no matter the situation or circumstances. She just has to! And Celestia has always been very good at doing so until the incident occurred.
Philomena, Celestia's phoenix is injured and suffering. Celestia starts to ponder how her little bird even feels about the life she is living and must be forced to make a difficult and heart-shattering choice to get herself back on track and to rid the pain and misery of her beloved pet.
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Interesting opener... I'll certainly keep my eye on this.
Alright; 2 nitpicks.
1: Your use of the 'tragedy' tag isn't proper. A true tragedy is (basically) where the main character's own hubris and over-confidence causes them great suffering. I doubt that's what'll happen here, so I'd suggest dropping the Tragedy tag. It's easily the most mis-used tag here.
2: The foreshadowing at the end of the chapter was... a bit too obvious. Foreshadowing is good if its lowkey. That wasn't really lowkey.
Other than that, I kind of look forward to the next chapter. This is a neat idea for a story.
7955709 I dropped the tragedy tag because you are correct on that. And also, the foreshadowing is a lot more lowkey than what you may be thinking.
And I am glad you do enjoy what I have so far. I'm planning at least 2 more chapters.
Okay... Since I'm a mythology nerd, I can't ignore one very obvious, very grave, mistake.
Philomena is a Phoenix, and unique to the Phoenix is the ability to rebirth itself from the ashes that are left when it burns upon death, whether of age of external causes. A phoenix would, essentially, be completely unable to die.
7956180 More will be explained in the following chapters. It's called fiction for a reason.
I did do research before beginning to write this too, trying to get as much info on phoenixes as I could. I think what I have planned makes some sort of sense.