Letters of an Ignored Daughter

Dear niece,

Sorry not be your mother who is answering you, but Celly is sleeping after a long exhausting day. Having all Equestria on your back is not easy. But I'm not writing to talk about her and yes about you.

I could say things like "are you kidding me?" But I completely understand what you are feeling, my dear niece, and I hope through this letter be a balm to your torments.

I was born among the most powerful alicorns: my parents and my older sister. I saw my father raise the sun early in the day and lower it in the evening. Then mom raised the moon and this meant it was night. But I had never seen her lowering the moon.

Then one day my father interrupted a play between me and my sister, saying he had something important to talk to Celly. They were taken to a private room, and I was curiously listening on the door.

He told her that he would teach her how to raise and lower the sun. And very soon, mom teach me to do the same with the moon. I was scared. The moon was a very large glowing white ball to me. Mom always slept a few hours in the morning, so I thought that the moon was very heavy. I was afraid to fail, just as you are today.

For me, using my magic to move the moon was to do the impossible. Look, I was just a little filly. Celestia was only a few years older than me. I hid in the forest, if they do not find me, they could not force me to do the impossible. That's what I thought.

The guards of my father spent hours and hours searching for me, but I did not answer any of them until I heard the voice of Celly. She managed to find me in my hiding place and take me back to the castle. My father gave me a scolding because I had ran away, he told me that mom was so sad that he had forgotten to raise the moon and he had to do.

So the lessons about the moon began. Mom watched me raising the moon and spent the night awake with her. She teach me the Dreamwalker, a spell that allowed her to enter the nightmare of the foals and calm then down. I have make many friends in the dream world. When the dawn came, mom lowered the moon. We were going to sleep.

One day, my mother and I were walking to the balcony as usual and she told me that I would raise the moon for the first time. I got scared and told her that I was just a little filly and the moon was enormous. But I did not try to escape again.

Dad and Celestia had just lower the sun and were waiting for us. I looked at the sky and lit up my horn and as I was lifting my head, the moon was rising in the sky. It was not as heavy as I thought. It was like levitate my crown to my head in the morning. That night, the night I got over my fear, I made the impossible happen. And that was how I got my cutie mark.

I know it is an old story but I hope I have helped you. Give your best and make your impossible happen. I believe in you, my niece.

With love,

Your aunt Luna.

PS: Your mother woke in middle of the night to eat a piece of cake and catch me writing this, she said she believes in you and she will be there to watch you, I would be there too, but I have to command the court in her absence. Do not forget, you are capable and I believe in you.