In the Eyes of an Immortal

You grin down at a diminutive -at least from your perspective- Luna, and nuzzle her softly. "It's good to have you back, Luna," you whisper in her ear before backing away at the strange looks you are getting from the six ponies behind Celestia.

"Uh.... who is that pegasus?" a loud whisper is directed at Celestia's student -Dusk Shadow? No that wasn't it. Dusk... Sparkle? Almost right, you were sure. No, Twilight! Twilight Sparkle! It had been too long and yet was happening right now in front of you, you remember. Yet... it hadn't happened like this, nor from this perspective. You shake your head at the circular thoughts -it was no point trying to analyze the situation; there was a major event happening RIGHT NOW, and a dear friend to console, from the broken expression on Luna's countenance was anything to go by.

You completely missed any response Twilight Sparkle made to the question in your musings, but Celestia had stepped forward in any case. "This is Starflower, my little ponies. She is a... friend of mine and Luna's, from ages long past." Celestia glances at you and pauses, as if expecting you to say something. What would you say? That somehow you had come from the future and thrown into the past in a body you don't recognize, only to realize that you were immortal in every sense of the word and knew things you weren't suppose to, yet forbidden by your very essence to say a thing about these events? Yeah, that would go over well.

Luckily, you didn't have to say anything, as one of the ponies spoke up in disbelief. Celestia's student. "B-but... Princess... She's a pegasus. How could she possibly live that long?"

That was when you decide to intervene. "Pegasus I may appear to be, but it does not define all that I am, Student Twilight Sparkle. I am more than just pony, you see. I am made also from the Soul and the Stars in the sky, something remembered from days past, yet living in a future not yet happened. I am an observer, above all. I see what is to come for Equestria, and can be asked many questions about wisdom, and yes, perhaps friendship, but I do not intervene with one's own choices. I am here... yet, you must treat me like nothing more than dust on the wind for I cannot give you what I do not have." You fall silent, thinking that perhaps you had revealed too much, yet... it was nothing more than what the Princesses knew, and these ponies were the Elements of Harmony ponified. Perhaps it wasn't such a bad thing that they knew of your existence.

You turn away, your body clearly see-through as you move. You've used too much energy in that speech, given too much away for the fates to be happy with you. But you know it needed to be said, for even Celestia never truly understood why you chose to say nothing though you clearly knew more than you let on -though Celestia of all ponies understood more than most, in her own semi-omniscience. And you know that your determination will only be further tested by the events that would soon fall upon the land. You only hoped you would be strong enough to resist the temptation to tell all.