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Walking to the garden as she does everyday, her routine Celestia prepared to take care of her plants. Years have gone by, then decades, then centuries, with her imprison in the castle, unable to leave. She has rebuilt the castle since then, doing all the work to maintain it and everything else.

Luna still visits her and kept her inform of what has been going on with the outside world. The castle and Everfree forest have been deemed a historical landmark and has been kept free from any kind of development. From the highest point of the castle, Celestia is able to make out lights beyond the forest tree line, that had slowly grew and expanded over time.

She does get the newspaper, the only outside news she gets besides Luna. The ones who deliver her the week’s worth of supplies, have rarely spoke to her as they are under orders not to talk to her. With the transport they used having changed over the years, first carts, then trucks and now hovering vehicles. She does see flying crafts that fly over the forest time to time, making her wanting to see the outside world.

She read how much Equestria has changed under Sunset’s rule and how she had her own children with her former secretary turn wife, Becky who has been transferring her memories into one body after another over the centuries. Those children had children of their own and so on. Generations of descendants that she has never seen outside of a photo in the paper or talk to, as Sunset has never once allowed her to leave the castle grounds.

She wants to make amends to Sunset for what she failed to do, but Sunset has long since grown out of needing her and wants nothing to do with her.

“A thousand years of being alone,” Celestia said to herself but thought of how Luna was all alone on the moon. “Sunset has been kinder to me, than I was to Luna.” (1)

The sound of giggling stop Celestia as she neared her garden. She hurried to the garden, wondering if Luna had brought one of her grandchildren to see their great aunt again.

A young human girl with bright green hair with stripes of yellow is running around the garden as an older girl with purple hair and yellow stripes is chasing after her. Both of them have wings on their backs and a unicorn horn on their foreheads. And both of them looked like Sunset.

“Can’t catch me!” the little girl shouted as she ran and into Celestia’s legs. Causing her to fall on her butt and looked up at the white alicorn in front of her.

The older girl stop running and stared at the white alicorn in front of her, never seeing another Alicorn but for Luna and Cadance’s families.

“Who are you two?” Celestia asked.

“I’m Green Light,” the little girl said.

“I’m Violet Star,” the older girl said staring at Celestia. “My sister thought it be nice to explore the forest and see where great aunt Luna goes off too. I didn’t think that there would be a castle here or another Alicorn pony living here.”

“You didn’t know? I suppose Sunset had all knowledge of the castle and of me erased,” Celestia said sadly.

“You know grandma?” Green Light asked.

“I am Celestia, I was her mother before, I abandoned her and as punishment, was left here to be forgotten,” Celestia said.

Green Light eyes widen as she bolted to her sister and hid behind her. Violet Star’s eyes narrowed remembering the stories of grandma Sunset’s mother.

“I see you two heard of me. You two are the first of Sunset’s family line who has visited me,” Celestia said.

“Heard enough about you,” Violet Star’s eyes narrowed said lifting up Green Light in her arms and flew off.

“Off with you then. Leave this monster to her imprisonment,” Celestia said to the fleeing form of her grandchildren that like Sunset wants nothing to do with her.

Leaving her alone to her prison.

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Author's Note

1 - As bad as Celestia has it, Luna had it worst on the moon.