Author's Note

* This is a bit of a mess, mostly a canvas to let me put down my ideas in the format of a short story that I hope to have the ability to expand on in the future.
** I am using my own history here so it may not line up with recent mlp episodes.

::1:: The Client Unknown

"I drew a small sketch of her this morning," I said to Lady Green. She has been my "Client" as we call them to not make them feel unwelcome, for the greater part of two years. She is wearing her normal green flower dress, a short and old dress, frayed around the sides, that her late husband got for her before his passing. I was able to convince my boss to let me wear a cheap suit and not my normal white coat for our informal dinner date, it is one of the few times I have been able to take her out from that dreaded Hospital and into the streets of Canterlot, a bustling city at the heart of a rising empire. "She had on some sort of armor, something like the old Lunar Queen had on in those old fillies’ tails. It was smaller and very worn out draped on her small frame. Her mane and tail were a bit of a mess, and she seemed tired and almost worn out. She had a look of loneliness in her eyes, something I have only seen in myself after the loss of my mother. But I digress, I'm sure you don't want to talk about my nightmares over our lovely dinner," I said, hoping she would change the subject.

"No no dear, you know as well as I do there is not that much to speak on about the hospital these days, the Princess is to worried about next year’s Summer Sun Celebration to give us much thought. I may be old and dying," I wince, which she senses and chuckles at, "o yes, I am and both of us know it, it’s not a secret, now I still enjoy some poring of emotions, I was a therapist at one point. Now not many people are willing to talk about the Lunar Queen with the two hundred and fiftieth Summer Sun Celebration going on next year. Why don't you tell me about when you first noticed her and when your dreams became nightmares when we get back to my room tonight," she seemed almost too excited about having a new patient even when I'm supposed to be the doctor here.

The walk back to the hospital was short and quiet, I thought over my dreams and Lady Green walked besides me, her leg and hoof over my shoulder so she can walk with me. Canterlot is a dangerous place at night so we always walk with a guard, but it still seems like there are eyes everywhere looking at us. This night was strange though, it was cold but not too cold, rainy but not to rainy, breezy but no to breezy, then it hit me, there was no moon out tonight. Not many people know why it is like this, I am included in the unknowers, but every year it has always been like this and I must of forgotten it was today, something I normally don't do, I guess this mystery mare has made my mind a mess.

As we reenter the Hospital and a nurse comes by to help escort Lady Green to her room, a commotion from the director’s office gets my attention. "((You can't just)) ... let her be allowed in here, we have no extra doctors besides DB and he is working with Lady Green and you know how she gets cranky if she is forced to have more than one doctor."

"Director, I know you concerns but all we have to do is a single weekly session with the transfer and do regular checks on her to see if she awakes, we can have DB do checks on her every few hours and brief him on the counseling sessions," a harsh female tone said. "Lady Green can stay with DB as her doctor and DB can get some extra pay for a quick walk to the back of the Hospital every few hours so it is a win win for everyone, no higher up will even know she is here."

"I hope your right about this, she is on bad terms with the Council, so if this gets back to me than they sure as hell will be told the Princess had something to do with this and you know how much it will devastate her, so close to the celebration," the director stated pissed.

"Director, Director, please calm down, you know very well what the Council does to war criminals such as her, she wouldn't be around to see the next day's moon if they get a hold of her," the voice spat tensely. War criminal, not sure what war they were talking about but there hasn't been any major crimes in Equestria since the fall of the Gryphon Empire a hundred years ago. It seems strange for the Director and that Mare to keep anything away from the Council, they have keep Equestria together and filled in where the Princess cant.

"Lieutenant, you should be leaving soon, you are already under watch from the lunar guard and I don't want them to get on my back for something you brought me into," the Director stated annoyingly.

"Yes well you will want me there when you explain all of this to DB," this so called Lieutenant said.

"Well yes but with the guards on you we better hold the transfer back a week so they don't get suspicious, we can call it our "Friendly" weekly get together like old times "Friend"," he said.

"I will be," the Lieutenant said, fallowed by a small sound of magic and a quick flash of light let me know that the mysterious mare had left. With her leaving and the Director on his way out the door, it was now time for me to also make my leave, wondering who my new sleeping "client" would be. With that, I start to prepare for my long session with Lady Green and my fall back into the world of nightmares this old mystery mare has put me through during my quick walk to the staff room.