When Twilight Sparkle becomes curious of a rumor regarding a ghost in the Royal Library she asks her beloved mentor and teacher, Princess Celestia weather she knows anything about the subject. Twilight is soon told a story about who this ghost is and at the same time regaling a story of Celestia's very distant past.

Celestia's tale takes place in her youth back before she was a ruler, but merely a princess with her sister, mother, and father. She reveals that even she, a princess the likes of a goddess can be very much like any other pony under her rule.