Ponywatching

by ThunderTempest

Prompt #356-Luna's Discovery

“Don’t you see, this could completely revolutionize Equestria?”

“I agree with you, Luna, but...”

“But what, sister?”

“I am not sure that our little ponies are ready for it,” explained Celestia, “I’m not even sure I’m ready for it,” she added under her breath.

“I...had not considered that, Sister,” murmured Luna, looking over her discovery with new eyes.

“It is a fine find, Luna. But it is not one that is...easily accepted. Many ponies would revolt over this. It has just as much potential to harm as it does to help.”

“So, then, sister, what shall we do with them?” Luna pointed a hoof to the twin stone slabs that lay propped up against the mountain, where Luna had found them, and had been studying them. Celestia was silent for a while, as her wings gently ruffled while she was deliberating.

“We shall take them. Hide them until our ponies are ready for their contents, and then perhaps let them be discovered by somepony else.”

“By somepony else? Celestia, this was our find, and we are not keen on letting somepony else take all the credit for something that we toiled to remove!” yelled Luna, setting her hooves in the ground firmly as her nostrils flared. One metal clad hoof scraped the ground sharply, as the Princess of the Night lowered her horn.

“Luna,” whispered Celestia. The Lunar Princess jerked up, to look at her older sister.

“I know that this will not rest easy with you,” continued Celestia in the same whisper soft tone, “But think, if these were introduced by one of us, there will be some who may think that we are trying to gain more power over the ponies.”
“But that isn’t true, Celestia,” replied Luna, “We just want to help.”

Celestia nodded, “I know, Luna. But there will always be ponies who think that, and neither of us can change that. However, if we let them be ‘discovered’ by a normal pony one day, the number of dissenters will be greatly reduced.”

“Another one of your white lies for the good of the country?” muttered Luna, making a face like she’d bitten into a sour grape, and Celestia gave a sad smile.

“You are the Elements of Loyalty, Honesty and Magic, Luna, and you do each of them credit. But telling the truth all the time does...”

“Does not lend itself to ruling a country. We know, Celestia. You have said so before,” interrupted Luna, “We will go along with this plan, sister. We will not necessarily like it, but we shall go along with it,” huffed the younger, as her magic grasped both of the immense stone tablets and lifted them up, enshrouding them in a gentle dark blue shimmer.

“We shall put these in the Canterlot caverns. It is as good a place as any, and nopony goes in there.” Celestia made a noise of agreement with Luna’s suggestion. Her mind was still reeling from the implications of the two stone slabs.
‘The Laws of Dramatic Storytelling as Applied to Equestria,’ Thought the alicorn as she unfurled her wings in preparation to fly after her sister, and return to Canterlot in order to lower the sun for the night.

‘Who’d have thought that our lives could be governed by the same ones that govern narratives?’

Author's Note:

Written for Prompt #356-'I Have Found It'
The Prompt: The Discovery
OR
The Prompt: The invention

Comments

[Malandy]

What was it that they found???

[ThunderTempest]

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Her mind was still reeling from the implications of the two stone slabs.
‘The Laws of Dramatic Storytelling as Applied to Equestria,’ Thought the alicorn as she unfurled her wings in preparation to fly after her sister, and return to Canterlot in order to lower the sun for the night.
‘Who’d have thought that our lives could be governed by the same ones that govern narratives?’

[Malandy]

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Oh! I thought that was a comment on what they were doing with the slabs.... Hiding them and leaving them for future ponies to find, like in a story... I feel unobservant...

[reader238]

5364376 I believe this story is the one you are looking for twilight discovers literary analysis