Dearest Friend,

It has been too long since we corresponded, much less saw each other. Here it has been many suns, and far more moons since we parted. So long, made longer still when my best friend isn't here to while the years away with.

How have you been? Hopefully time has treated you better than it has for me. How is your brother and sister? I hope you have stuck by them through thick and thin in the years after. I should introduce you to my sister sometime. Throughout the aeons, the memories of our time together and the lessons you taught me have kept my heart safe, but my sister could not understand and so we were separated for a very long time. We are back together now, but so much time has been lost, and sometimes it pains my heart that things could not have been better. I hope no such fate has befallen you.

'Majesty'. A nickname you gave me to add on to my own. We'd dance under the sun together and pretend to rule over our kingdom, our sacred home where built castles of air and sunlight. Have I told you I rule a kingdom now? It is not as perfect as we thought, but with my sister I have ruled to the best of my ability. I hope I have made you proud. I am known by a different name now as a Princess, but never have I forgotten your calling my name across the dreamy valley hills. My old name is my treasure, our secret, so that when I see you again we will have many things more to share.

How many years has it been for you? Have you found a nice boy to care for you? I am afraid that over the years, I could find no one to truly spend my life with. The time I spent with my loves seemed like mere seconds before I had to leave them behind. I hope you have fared better. With your charm, wit, and beauty, I do not think there will be a man able to resist you. Or perhaps you have already found someone to share your life with, perhaps even children to call your own. I dearly hope that one day I can see the family you've built for yourself. I've none for myself, the one mate whom I've shared the closest bond with locked away in another world, like you are to me, so I make do caring for the other ponies.

We will have much to catch up on should we meet. I would love to introduce you to my sister and my fellow princesses. In the same way you taught me about friendship and courage, I taught them, and I see them growing as great rulers in their own right. Our time together still inspires the speeches I give, influences the lessons I teach other my ponies. You should come see my pupil and her band of friends, and see how they live the adventures of our youth. You remember the defeat of Tirek, don't you? It was our first meeting, and when you became our saviour you became my inspiration. More importantly, my friend, dearest to me. Today the Rainbow of Light wears a different name too. Over the years I've had many more adventures, but they weren't the same without you by me to give me courage.

Long in my forays over the years I have tried to find you, though. I was not born with wings to fly across worlds like how you came, and I do not know the path you took to come here. In the depths of the night, deep in my loneliest years, I confess, I'd have given my kingdom up to see you one more time. For you I'd shave my mane so the flies won't gnaw on your delicate skin. I'd be your mount forever so your feet aren't tarnished on ground unfitting of you. I'd live on your farm if it meant I could eat oats from your hand every day, have you groom me and say goodnight to me every sundown. On some days I truly wanted to leave, and I'd spend far too long seeking you out, for that comforting hand to hold me and keep the darkness at bay.

I am not so weak now, at least. That was when my sister left me, and I still hold myself to blame for that. For one thousand years, these thoughts haunted me in the blackest nights where not even the stars would face me. It was through the actions of my pupil and her friends that she was rescued and returned. Every time I look at them, I see us and our old adventures. Alas, I am to be a responsible adult now and cannot wander into the wilds looking for the ends of rainbows. If only we had known being princesses would be so troublesome!

I wonder, where will you read this letter? Will it be in that barn of yours, still with the ponies of your world that you shepherd? Will it be in a palace of your own? Will it be in a simple house, surrounded by a loving family? It pains me to admit that you might probably never find this. For a thousand years I have tried to find my way to you and failed. Perhaps I will put this in a bottle and cast it into the sea. Do you remember the sea ponies we called upon? It is a shame they are gone now, I do not know what happened. The sea is more untamed now, but perhaps through that unpredictability this message will find its way to you.

Why am I writing this letter if I do not know if you will read it? Perhaps it is the young pony in me still clinging of the dreams we'd conjure in the valley. Promises like Friends Forever. Difficult as it is, I still wish to uphold such a promise. I miss you so much, and that small hope is enough for me to pen my thoughts here in the lonely night. It is also a promise to myself, that I shall always live by why you taught me so long ago, that I shall be a pony for you to be proud of. Perhaps I shall never get reassurance from you that I have tried enough, so I shall keep on ahead.

It is coming to be dawn soon. I will have to raise the sun, and my day begins. But first, let me cast this letter into the sea so that it may be carried to you. Today I will raise it in your name once more, and you will linger in my mind my friend, as always and forever.

Yours in Friendship Eternal,

Sundance

This letter drew attention from our society from the usually quality of its paper, a rare kind only used for royal decrees of absolute importance. Her Royal Highness Princess Celestia has requested that any further speculation on this document be made private.

Author's Note

Sudden inspiration prompted me to kick off this little project early.

Don't expect the same for the rest of the stuff here, this one is an exception. This will probably have to be changed to include sex and gore due to the next chapter.