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The Little Princesses
At the end of long aeons, after continents had risen and fallen and the oceans had gradually evaporated into space, the globe of Equus still was a celestial body, if only just. The stars had formed new constellations and the sun’s fires had dampened and gone out on one side; still it circled a planet whose diameter could now fit within a standard hoofball stadium. Eroded to the barest rock and cratered by micrometeorites, the tiny world barely supported any life, and what it was capable of sustaining was getting more and more annoyed as time went on.
With a particularly grumpy grunt, an ancient alicorn with a coat of grayest white exerted all her magical force to pull the insultingly tiny sun up over the horizon to bathe her and the desiccated soil beneath her with the very gentlest and dimmest parody of sunshine. She sighed and rested on the rim of a small crater, watching the little dot cruise over the sky while emitting little light to scatter into blueness in the whisper of atmosphere that remained. Still, she watched it intently, waiting for it to turn deeper red as it descended in minutes towards the opposite horizon.
Just as the shadows of craters and rocky spires were lengthening in the pale crimson sky, a beam of blue light shot from the other side of the tiny world and the sun was swiftly yanked down, plunging the world into night.
Celestia winced and lifted her head to the sky. “LUNA! Too soon! You took it five minutes early!”
On the opposite side of the world, the Ruler of the Night Sky hauled up the tiny solar remnant and rotated the unlit side to face Equus, giving the world a moonlit tinge. She called back over the horizon. “Yet you took it from me yesterday, ten minutes early! Count your limited blessings, sister!” She gave the part time moonlet a jaunty caress as it sailed rapidly over her side of the sky and bathed the ancient landscape in a modest silver shine.
It had barely embarked upon its descent towards the other side when it was grabbed by an orange lance of light and yanked down, twirled as it went so as to cast its feeble beams of sunshine over the argent highlights and to shine into Luna’s night-adjusted pupils. “Odd’s bodkins, sister, do you mean to make this a core of contention?” Luna shouted. She waited just the right length of time for Celestia to begin to doubt whether Luna would retaliate, then set forth her beam again to grab the sun/moonlet once more. But this time what she pulled up over the horizon was something flat and square… a piece of paper? Where had Celestia gotten the strength to conjure it? She pulled it close and saw the rude sketch of a horse’s posterior scrawled upon it.
“Oh, that positively tears it!” she screamed, and took up several clots of ground the side of golfballs in her hornfield, launching them over the edge of the world.
Celestia, who meanwhile had been enjoying a quiet sunset in peace for the first time in centuries, heard the patter behind her like rain and was jolted from her seat by multiple mini-meteorites that pelted the ground with little craters. As she was thus distracted, Luna began to yank the moonsun over to her side again. “Foul play, sister!” cried Celestia. “You don’t think that I will long stand for this, do you?” She lanced out with her ray and started the little starlet spinning rapidly, so fast that Luna would need to spend most of her time with the orb trying to slow it down so that the moonside pointed towards her.
“Oh, so you really wish to go there, do you sister?” came the voice of the night from the far side of the world. “Just you wait–”
Suddenly, into the sky halfway between them rose a deep violet haze streaked with deeper purples.
“Would you two keep it down?” shouted the alicorn between them. “I’m trying to sleep!”
The purple tones receded as both Day and Night fell into silence. Some minutes thence, the moonlet was politely passed from the other side to Celestia’s purview once more. She let it spin through the sky for its appointed time, enjoyed the few minutes of sunset, and let it spin around again to bathe the other side in moonlight.
Peace once more settled over Equus for a blessedly brief time.
With a particularly grumpy grunt, an ancient alicorn with a coat of grayest white exerted all her magical force to pull the insultingly tiny sun up over the horizon to bathe her and the desiccated soil beneath her with the very gentlest and dimmest parody of sunshine. She sighed and rested on the rim of a small crater, watching the little dot cruise over the sky while emitting little light to scatter into blueness in the whisper of atmosphere that remained. Still, she watched it intently, waiting for it to turn deeper red as it descended in minutes towards the opposite horizon.
Just as the shadows of craters and rocky spires were lengthening in the pale crimson sky, a beam of blue light shot from the other side of the tiny world and the sun was swiftly yanked down, plunging the world into night.
Celestia winced and lifted her head to the sky. “LUNA! Too soon! You took it five minutes early!”
On the opposite side of the world, the Ruler of the Night Sky hauled up the tiny solar remnant and rotated the unlit side to face Equus, giving the world a moonlit tinge. She called back over the horizon. “Yet you took it from me yesterday, ten minutes early! Count your limited blessings, sister!” She gave the part time moonlet a jaunty caress as it sailed rapidly over her side of the sky and bathed the ancient landscape in a modest silver shine.
It had barely embarked upon its descent towards the other side when it was grabbed by an orange lance of light and yanked down, twirled as it went so as to cast its feeble beams of sunshine over the argent highlights and to shine into Luna’s night-adjusted pupils. “Odd’s bodkins, sister, do you mean to make this a core of contention?” Luna shouted. She waited just the right length of time for Celestia to begin to doubt whether Luna would retaliate, then set forth her beam again to grab the sun/moonlet once more. But this time what she pulled up over the horizon was something flat and square… a piece of paper? Where had Celestia gotten the strength to conjure it? She pulled it close and saw the rude sketch of a horse’s posterior scrawled upon it.
“Oh, that positively tears it!” she screamed, and took up several clots of ground the side of golfballs in her hornfield, launching them over the edge of the world.
Celestia, who meanwhile had been enjoying a quiet sunset in peace for the first time in centuries, heard the patter behind her like rain and was jolted from her seat by multiple mini-meteorites that pelted the ground with little craters. As she was thus distracted, Luna began to yank the moonsun over to her side again. “Foul play, sister!” cried Celestia. “You don’t think that I will long stand for this, do you?” She lanced out with her ray and started the little starlet spinning rapidly, so fast that Luna would need to spend most of her time with the orb trying to slow it down so that the moonside pointed towards her.
“Oh, so you really wish to go there, do you sister?” came the voice of the night from the far side of the world. “Just you wait–”
Suddenly, into the sky halfway between them rose a deep violet haze streaked with deeper purples.
“Would you two keep it down?” shouted the alicorn between them. “I’m trying to sleep!”
The purple tones receded as both Day and Night fell into silence. Some minutes thence, the moonlet was politely passed from the other side to Celestia’s purview once more. She let it spin through the sky for its appointed time, enjoyed the few minutes of sunset, and let it spin around again to bathe the other side in moonlight.
Peace once more settled over Equus for a blessedly brief time.