When the Sun fails to raise on the day of the Summer sun Celebration, Prime Minister Twilight Sparkle visits her estranged brother, prince Shining Armour with grave news about princess Celestia and a surprising proposal for a political alliance on not exactly equal terms.

A short AU story with the main point of divergence being Luna becoming the Nightmare around twenty years later than in the canonical timeline - which places her return later in Twilight's life.

Kindly proofread by Koekelbag, who provided a lot of extremely useful feedback.