Prologue - A Book of Night
-~Luna's Library~-[/b]
Prologue - A Book of Night
Opening her eyes slowly, a certain alicorn felt the corners of her mouth turn into a slight smile. I must have slept here again. I really should get out with my subjects more often. It seems that I’m here all the time. Looking around for a while, she let a sigh escape from her mouth. Yet I have so much work left to do.
It was just about high noon, so the midnight mare knew that she hadn’t been sleeping for very long. She remembered coming to get a head start early in the morning, just after Celly had raised the sun. A pained look crossed her face. She knew she was forgetting something, and she absolutely detested that feeling. But Princess Luna had work to do, work that couldn’t get done with her just dillydadling all day long.
The vast space inside the secluded building was only half filled. Luna remembered working on this before she had ever been crowned a ‘Princess’ over two thousand years ago. Back in the days when Everfree Forest wasn’t so out of the way and ponies would come visit her library daily, in the days where she was just your average pegasus. It was very small back then, with only a few bookshelves taking up the gargantuan space, but it was home to her.
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“Hello! Welcome to the Evertown Central Library! I hope you enjoy your stay!” Luna beamed at the pretty mare in front of her, ready to attend her. She was just a mare out of school, already with her first job as the only librarian for a library inherited from her late uncle. The midnight mare absolutely loved it here, and would spend hours just looking at the evening sky through the window. Some nights she may decide to go stargazing, while others she might want to just fly away into the seemingly never-ending abyss of night.
She was a great flyer, and prided herself for her ability to fly in the night without any trouble at all. She loved anything and everything to do with the night. She was even the only library in all of Equestria that was open after dusk, though she didn’t get much business during the evening hours. She often wondered why more ponies did not stay awake during the night. More for her, she had always supposed. But with a library to run all by herself, sometimes you needed that extra push. Still, she made great business and held as Fillydelphia Weekly’s top rated library. ‘Princess Celestia is proud. I hope.’ she thought, only making her more joyous.
Princess Celestia was the young mare’s hero. Never before had she seen a mare with that much sheer power to raise the sun and moon both at dusk and dawn. She made sure to watch it from afar every time she could, but she was getting busier and busier as the days went on and could barely make it once a week anymore.
Sometimes she wondered what it would be like.
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Keeping the library was not easy work. It was probably one of the smallest public libraries that many ponies had seen, filled with many intriguing titles. She didn’t go for the simple ones, the easy ones, she went for the interesting novels. ‘Green Dot’ was a book about imagination that had only 200 copies around the world. It had easy enough words for a foal’s book, but an odd enough concept that a grown pony may not even understand. That one had been horrible to find, and she had actually gotten her hooves on it only a year ago. Still, it was checked out nearly all of the time and was one of her more popular books.
Who knows? Maybe someday that small library that she called home would be one of the grand libraries that you only saw in Canterlot. Maybe someday Evertown would become known as well as Manehatten. She didn’t know, but she was excited to someday find out.
Luna smiled again at the customer she was serving. “Oh, I’m sorry. I was just daydreaming.”
Picking up a certain book, Luna felt the tugs of a smile pulling at her face. There it was. Green Dot. She hadn’t read it herself for a very long while after she had gotten it, and that had been just before she had been sent to the…Luna didn’t like to think about it.
Luna stared outside. Oh, how could she forget? How could she forget about her dear niece’s wedding? And it was virtually sunset, too. She had barely enough time to raise the night sky.
She raced out of the library, knocking a shelf in the process. She didn’t even see the mysterious book that had fallen from said shelf. The enigmatic book with a silver heart on the cover.
Before long after that, she was already at the royal wedding, sad to see that it was almost finished. She thanked her glorious navy wings that got her here and quickly made a grand entrance near the group of ponies containing her sister.
"Hello, everypony. Did I miss anything?”