Stars Above

by Amber Spark

Rating: everyone
Tags: Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Original Character
Length: 5205

On her very first trip above the clouds at night, the young Blue Venture finds something she never expected: herself.

On her very first trip above the clouds at night, the young Blue Venture finds something she never expected.

Herself.

Historian’s Note:
Stars Above is set over five hundred years after the original events of MLP:FiM.

Cast: Blue Venture & Family

Featured on EquestriaDaily on April 17, 2018!

Cover Art & Blue Venture's Cutie Mark: Sankam
Cover Text: Amber Spark

Beta Reader & Editor Credits
Heartshine: Smol Pegsus, Big Heart

Word Count: 4,500 Words
Version: 1.5

Published 2018-03-12 17:10:06 UTC
Last updated 2018-03-12 17:10:06 UTC

Heights & Depths

The small filly lay in the dark airship cabin, humming an aimless tune. It wasn’t a particularly happy tune. It wasn’t a particularly sad tune. It was just… there. As if to fill the silence between the bulkheads and the quiet whistle of the ship’s passage through the night.

Somepony knocked at the door. The filly didn’t respond. She stayed snug under her covers, a flimsy barrier from the world that so enjoyed being mean to her. She knew her wonderful fabric shelter wouldn’t last. It never did. But it would be nice for a while.

A while didn’t last long. The door opened.

“Blue?” came a gentle whisper. The voice was warm and kind, filled with infinite patience—though there was a slight edge to it, as if the patience hadn’t always been there. As if the owner of the voice had been forced to develop that patience out of necessity. “Blue, honey?”

Blue squirmed a little deeper beneath her blankets.

The voice coming from the direction of the door sighed with a hint of fondness. “Blue, you know you’re not fooling anypony, right?”

“Immasleep,” Blue mumbled.

“And I’m Princess Luna.” She laughed quietly. “Come on, Butterfly, we’re almost there. You don’t want to miss this.”

“It’s late,” Blue said, turning over and staring balefully at her mother. “Should get back to sleep.”

Her mother sighed again, then stepped into the room, making sure to close the door softly behind her. In reality, Blue was impressed. Daddy must have taken over feeding Emerald Meadow tonight. After all, Blue rarely got to spend any alone time with her Mommy anymore.

Mommy’s horn lit up, a pretty maroon glow that coated the cabin with a magical sheen. Now, Blue was a practical filly. She knew very well there was a perfectly functional light switch by the door. Mommy only brought out her magic for special occasions… or if Blue was sad.

Mommy had been using her horn’s light a lot lately.

Blue sighed and scooted over, though she kept her pillow against her back. Mommy settled down on the narrow bed. It was so narrow, it could barely fit the two of them. Blue took a moment to appreciate just how beautiful her Mommy was, even all frazzled from dealing with the new foal and Golden Aura. Blue, of course, had been the perfect filly for the entire trip. No matter what Aura claimed.

Her Mommy had a pretty dark amber coat—though it hadn’t been groomed for at least a day. Her violet and teal mane stuck up at weird angles from sleep—or lack of sleep. Normally it fell around Mommy’s shoulders like the waterfalls of Canterlot. Her bright golden eyes—the same color as Blue’s—were a little droopy behind her stylish black glasses.

Mommy ran a hoof over Blue’s short charcoal and gray mane. “What’s bothering you, Butterfly?”

Blue huddled into a little ball and glared at the blanket. It had not protected her nearly as well as a good blanket should.

“Bad dreams,” Blue muttered.

“Again?”

Blue nodded, biting her lip.

“That’s the third time this week,” Mommy said, sounding worried. She always sounded worried lately. “You’re sure you don’t want to see somepony about them? You’ve had a lot lately.”

“I don’t need to see anyone,” Blue said. “I just… I just wanna be able to sleep without…”

Blue trailed off, but Mommy finished the sentence.

“The teasing one again?”

Blue bit her lip again and nodded. Then, just like she did every night she woke up from a bad dream, she asked The Question.

“What’s wrong with me, Mommy?”

Mommy, of course, answered with the exact same answer she always gave. “Nothing at all, Butterfly.”

“You always say that.”

“It’s always true.”

“You always say that, too,” Blue folded her forehooves and grumped.

“Butterfly…” Mommy reached out and dragged Blue into a hug. “We’ve talked about this. You’re different than most other foals. Your mind works differently. You see the world differently. And that makes you special.”

She’d heard it all before. They’d still taken her out of school for an ‘emergency vacation.’ Two words to get her away from the teasing and the trouble. Still, Blue knew better than to make a fuss about what her parents were trying to do for her, even if they pretended it was for the whole family.

“I’m tired of being ‘special,’” Blue said. “All it does it make me…”

She stopped speaking, but Mommy knew what she would say. She always did.

This time, Mommy didn’t finish Blue’s sentence. Instead, she just hugged Blue tighter. They sat like that for a little while, with Mommy’s horn for light and the creaking of the ship for sound. It was kinda nice.

Then, somewhere, a bell chimed. Mommy pulled herself to her hooves. Blue tried to slip back under the covers, but Mommy cheated and snatched the blanket away in her magic. Blue glared at her, but Mommy just winked.

“You’re not gonna let me get out of this, huh?”

“Sorry, Butterfly.” Mommy didn’t sound sorry at all. “But you’ve spent your whole life on the ground. It’s time to see where you get your wings.”

“I don’t like my wings.” She kept her pillow over her back, until Mommy snatched that away too, leaving her wings open to the cabin’s warm air. “I wish I had a horn like you, Daddy, Aura or even Meadow.”

Mommy smiled. “But you get to do something none of us ever get to do.”

Blue rolled her eyes. “Yeah, right. Fly. Woo.”

Mommy booped her nose and Blue tried to glare, but Mommy laughed it off. “Now, am I going to have to carry you? Or worse, levitate you?”

“I’m not a baby, Mommy.” Blue narrowed her eyes.

“Good. Then you can stop hiding in here, and come and see!”

Blue could be stubborn. Her Mommy and Daddy told her so. A lot. But sometimes, it wasn’t worth it to be stubborn. Sometimes, It was easier just to go with what her parents wanted. And seeing some fancy lights in the sky wouldn’t be horrible. As long as she didn’t have to deal with anypony from school, she’d be fine. Probably.

Mommy must have seen something in Blue’s eyes. She grinned, tossed the blanket and pillow in the corner and opened the door with her magic. “After you, Butterfly.”

Blue hopped off her bed—making sure to keep her wings locked tight against her sides—and trotted out the door into one of the wide corridors of the airship. Ponies were milling around like a bunch of Fillydelphia taxis forty minutes after rush hour. There were some couples and a few ponies who looked like scientists. At least they had lab coats like Daddy sometimes wore. All of them carried flashing gizmos and gadgets. She recognized a lot of the machines as astronomical measurement devices, like the ones Miss Chariot used in Astronomy class.

Mommy came out and pushed her along with a hoof. “Come on, Daddy already got us spots at the bow of the ship.”

“That’s… the front part, right?” Blue said, trying to remember. She hadn’t paid a lot of attention to those parts of airships. She’d been more interested in the crystals and the engines. Now, those, those were cool.

“You were paying attention,” Mommy said with a huge gasp that was totally over-the-top. “Will miracles never cease?”

“Mommyyyyy…” Blue groaned.

Mommy laughed and guided them along the corridor and into the scattered line of ponies heading up some stairs to the top section of the ship. Blue had to admit, the airship was kinda neat. She’d read all about them, of course. If she hadn’t been crying again this afternoon, she probably would have tried exploring—assuming she could get away from her younger sister long enough to do it.

More than anything, she’d been happy to see there weren’t a lot of colts or fillies her age on the ship. Though, she hadn’t taken the time to look since leaving Fillydelphia. She’d been mostly hiding in one of their two rooms. Meadow had been curious about the ship and demanded a tour from Daddy, who’d been more than happy to give her one. Blue hadn’t gone.

Blue hadn’t felt like it, even if they were going to see all the crew-only areas like the bridge and engineering. Mommy had said Daddy knew a lot of ponies who worked on airships and trains and boats and all sorts of stuff, so he got special privileges.

Daddy had said he wanted something special for Blue’s very first time above the clouds.

They walked up another flight of stairs and Blue thought it would have been even more special if Daddy had gotten cabins closer to the top.

It took them a bit, but they finally made it onto the top of the ship-part of the airship. There was also the big blimp thing above their heads, something her latest book called ‘the envelope.’ It was still a funny name, since you’d need a super-giant letter to fit inside of there. And it’d have to be shaped really weird. Or they could just fill it with a lot of smaller letters.

Anyway, It didn’t matter, because they couldn’t go up there.

Mommy guided them through the ponies standing by the edges of the ship. All of them were talking in hushed tones about the meteor shower they were supposedly up here to see. She didn’t know what was so special about seeing a bunch of debris from space get burned up in the sky. Then again, she couldn’t remember ever seeing a shooting star before. Fillydelphia was really bright at night, so Blue didn’t get to see many stars at all, except for in Miss Chariot's class.

Blue peeked around a pair of elderly mares to look up at the sky… only to see a thick ceiling of white.

“Hey, we won’t be able to see anything down here!” Blue protested. “There’s still a big thing of clouds above us!”

Mommy laughed and tugged Blue along toward the front of the ship. “Yes, I know. Don’t worry about it. Come on.”

It didn’t take much longer to find the rest of their family. Somehow, Daddy had gotten them seats on a special platform built right beyond the ‘bow’ on the weird nose-thing called a ‘bowsprit.’ At least, that’s what her books called it. It had a funny design, sort of like a square crossed with a triangle, with a thick metal railing all around the edge. The whole platform came to a point toward the front of the ship, but the seats were in the back. Still, she could see the sky above her since the platform jutted out from underneath the balloon-part.

The sky was still filled with white clouds, but it didn’t seem to bother Mommy, so she decided to wait to see what would happen.

“Cobalt!” Mommy called, waving as they jostled their way to the platform. “Guess who I found?”

Daddy turned and smiled at Blue. She couldn’t help but smile back. Daddy was a handsome stallion with a sleek red mane, a light brown coat and a pair of horn-rimmed glasses. In his hooves, lay a little sleeping bundle that was Blue’s newest little sister, Emerald Meadow, so bundled up in blankets that Blue could only see a little wisp of her green mane and gray coat.

“Hi Sissy!” chirped Golden Aura, waving wildly from the edge of her seat on the platform. “Ready for the show?”

Blue shrugged. As usual, Golden Aura looked annoyingly peppy and perfect. Her short yellow mane did all sorts of cool little curls above her orange coat. Daddy had once described her as ‘his little sunrise.’ Blue thought she looked like a peach popsicle. Especially now, since she had insisted on wearing her silly little orange jacket.

Blue didn’t need to worry about being cold. It was one of the few good things that came from being a pegasus. She didn’t need a coat, unlike her little sisters. So there.

“Come on, Butterfly, I want you to see this!” Daddy said as they finally made it to the stairs. “Captain Stormbreak’s about to take us up through the cloud layer!”

“Isn’t that gonna be all wet and icky?” Aura whined.

“No, honey,” Mommy said as she settled next to Daddy, leaving a spot for Blue to sit between them. Blue hopped up and settled down. “The ship has aeroshields. Observation ships come with them to keep the ponies from getting too hot, too cold or to protect them from rain and snow.”

“More or less,” Daddy said. It sounded like he wanted to correct Mommy by telling them all what an aeroshield actually did, but he decided not to this time. “Thanks for getting Butterfly, Amber.”

“Of course.” Mommy replied. She gave him a peck on the cheek and then rubbed her hooves up and down Blue’s sides. “You ready, Butterfly?”

Blue tried to look totally uninterested, but she had to admit, she was curious. “Yeah, I guess.”

Daddy ruffled her hair, which earned him a glare from Blue. He laughed and lit his horn. His teal magic lit up their little platform before flying off in a surge of light.

Blue glanced out over the platform. There was a fancy rail at the edge, probably to make sure ponies didn’t do stupid things like lean far enough over to needs dramatic rescues from the ship’s pegasi. She couldn’t see much below, just a bunch of lights from houses and farms and stuff. They were somewhere north of Fillydelphia, but Blue hadn’t paid enough attention to remember exactly where.

“Attention all passengers, this is the captain,” a gruff voice said from a loudspeaker behind them. Daddy smiled. “We’re now beginning our ascent through the cloud layer. We may encounter some mild turbulence, so we’ll be engaging the safety fields now. All pegasi, please keep all four hooves on the deck. All unicorns, please refrain from using spells beyond a class one light spell until we’ve cleared the cloud layer. Thank you.”

The intercom crackled off and Blue peered around, curious about the safety fields. As if on command, shimmering walls of pink magic rose from the deck all the way up to the envelope of the blimp.

“Wow,” Aura murmured.

“Not bad, eh?” Daddy grinned. “Mark Seven Guardian-Class Aeroshields! These do way more than just keep ponies from getting wet. In fact, they’re especially good at keeping curious little fillies on deck!”

Daddy wrapped a hoof around her shoulders. Blue decided to lean against him. She wasn’t snuggling him, of course. That would be silly.

“Ready, Butterfly?”

Blue nodded. Despite herself, her curiosity kept building. These aeroshields were really cool. She wondered if they were just safety measures or if they could be used if the ship were attacked by pirates or something. That might be exciting, being attacked by sky pirates!

The sound of the ship’s engines changed, becoming deeper and sending little shivers up her flanks. Despite the aeroshields, Blue swore she could feel the wind against her face.

The big airship tilted up a little and the sound of the engines way at the back of the ship changed again. Aura squeaked in surprise when the ship jumped forward with a burst of speed. Blue might have squealed a little too, but she wasn’t about to admit that to anypony.

And then, they were in a fog of white. Blue had been in fog before. It wasn’t anything special. Just low clouds. But it finally registered that she’d never flown through clouds before. Now she was!

And just seeing the swirling mist flow around her… it was amazing.

“Daddy?” Aura asked. “Why are the clouds all glowy? It’s nighttime!”

Blue definitely hadn’t been about to ask the same question.

“The stars and the moon light them from above,” Daddy explained patiently. “The light gets filtered down and spreads out, reflecting off the ice and water—”

“Cobalt...” Mommy chided.

“Uh… I mean, moonlight and starlight,” Daddy said, blushing. “Heh.”

Mommy rolled her eyes at Daddy.

The ship bucked a few times as they went through some thicker clouds. Little Emerald Meadow made a soft cry in Daddy’s hooves and he passed her to Mommy, who settled her down in just a few seconds. Blue wished Meadow would calm down like that when she held her.

“We’re almost there!” Daddy said. “You ready, Butterfly?”

“Yeah,” Blue whispered. She hated to admit it, but she was excited now. “Let’s do it.”

“Hold onto your hooves!” Daddy said.

The airship burst out of the cloudbank like a seapony leaping from the water. The ship quickly leveled out, only a hundred feet or so above the cloud cover, but Blue only registered that as a little background detail.

Instead, she jumped to her hooves and ran to the railing so she could see as much as possible.

The aeroshields dropped and the pink tint vanished.

And Blue saw the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen in her whole life.

For as far as the eye could see, there was nothing but an endless ocean of white clouds. They stretched out in every direction. The white fluffy stuff glittered brilliantly in the light of the moon and stars. It was unlike anything she’d ever seen.

Then, she looked up into the night sky.

The universe greeted her with a smile made of stars.

Something inside of her tickled. Or twinged. Or something. She couldn’t really tell. But when she looked up… it seemed like she was looking up forever. There was no end to the stars! She’d never seen them like this before! Any time she’d ever been with her parents out somewhere at night they were usually a city, and stars were hard to see in the city.

She couldn’t see the moon right now, but that’s because it had been pretty low in the sky. It was probably hiding beneath the clouds, but that was fine. It meant just a pony could see even further. She thought about the constellations Miss Chariot had been teaching her in Astronomy and looked for them. She saw dozens, but they were hard to make out against the huge spray of sparkling lights.

A giant strand of glittering stars stretched across the sky, from horizon to horizon. She could see the entire galaxy. She peered at a few fuzzy shapes in the night sky and to her surprise, they came into focus… revealing themselves to be…

Nebulas? Nebulaes? Nebulae?

Blue couldn’t remember the right word… but it didn’t matter. She could see them. It was kinda weird. She’d been taught ponies couldn’t just see that kind of thing. Ponies needed fancy telescopes and stuff! But she knew the pictures from her books. They had to be those things! In fact… she could actually see colors in the black sky above! It was kinda overwhelming.

“I… I can see…” Blue murmured. “I can see the whole universe from here. It’s… wow.”

Blue’s eyes shifted back to the sea of clouds and she gasped. In the far, far distance, she could see mountains piercing the clouds. They were capped with snow and ice, but it was summer! That could only mean… but, that was impossible!

She’d aced last week’s geography test and that had been all about northern Equestria. So, what she was seeing… it could only be the Yaket Range, far to the north, beyond even Rainbow Falls and the Crystal Empire! To the west of that stood a giant towering peak that had to be Mount Everhoof, the largest mountain on the whole continent!

“Butterfly?” Daddy asked as he walked up beside her. “What’s wrong?”

She rubbed her eyes and her hoof came away wet. It took her a moment to figure out why. She had… she had something in her eye. Or her eyes were tired from eyestrain. Or something like that. Definitely wasn’t because she’d never seen anything so pretty in all of her life.

“It’s… so much,” Blue whispered. “I didn’t know you could see all the way to Mount Everhoof from here!”

Daddy stared at her. “Wait... you can see Mount Everhoof?”

Blue nodded and pointed at the mountain. It was still really far away, but she could see it, even it was mostly a blur.

“Blue Venture,” Daddy said in a suddenly serious tone. “That’s hundreds of miles away. Maybe even over a thousand!”

“I…” Blue scratched her head. “Well, are there any other mountains like that around here?”

“No… not except for Canterlot and that’s to the west.” Daddy pointed and Blue followed his hoof. Sure enough, Canterlot sat there. She could see every single turret on Princess Celestia’s gorgeous castle. She could see the docks, the lights of the city… she could even see a few pegasi flying around!

“You can’t really see it more than a blur, but—”

“I can see the palace!” Blue blurted out. “And the lights! And even some airships in the docks!”

“Honey… that’s impossible.”

“But I can!” Blue shouted. “I really can!”

Daddy frowned and glanced behind him. Mommy floated something over in her magic and Daddy took the metal tube and then extended it. Blue recognized it as something airship ponies called a spyglass.

“How many ships are in dock?” Daddy asked.

Blue squinted. “Three. Two blue ones and one big white one with a big sun decorating the front.”

Daddy slowly closed the spyglass and opened his mouth to say something, only to have his words cut off by the sudden gasps coming from all around them.

Blue looked up into the sky… and the sky was falling.

It was beautiful. She could see every single falling star. Every single one. A thousand, thousand of them, starting slow and then building up until it looked like she was in the middle of a rainstorm! With rain made of light! Blue’s breath caught in her throat… and despite herself, she had to stretch out her wings.

She hopped into the air and let the wind take her. There wasn’t a lot of it up here, but the ship seemed to create its own wind and that was enough for Blue. Mommy let out a cry of surprise, but Blue didn’t fly away or do anything silly. Instead, she just did exactly as she’d been taught by the instructors at school.

She glided a few feet above Daddy’s head, flying in a field of stars and light and magic and wonder and the prettiest thing she’d ever seen in her whole life.

In front of the ship, three large shooting stars streaked down from the sky. Then, each of them suddenly burst into sprays of brilliant golden-white light. In that light, Blue could see another airship flying many miles away, watching the show. Then she spotted another… and another.

All of them were here to watch the most spectacular show in the world.

Then, she realized what those ships really were…

They were a way for everypony to get to fly! Not just unicorns, but earth ponies too! Even pegasi like her! With ships like this, nothing was out of reach.

And with the world nothing but a blanket of white, bursting with light from the shooting stars, Blue wondered how far it all went.

Blue wondered how far she could really see. Then… she wondered what was beyond that?

The three brilliant exploded stars shone like tiny suns, bathing the ship in their golden-white light.

Then the light slipped inside of her.

A strange warmth filled her body and she lost her balance. With a squeak, she fell right on top of Daddy’s back, who laughed and caught her in his magic, but Blue barely felt his familiar touch. As Daddy settled her down on the deck, something happened inside of her. Something hot and great and amazing and totally wonderful.

It connected all the pieces of her. It connected her mind, her heart and even the parts of her Mommy said were deep, deep inside. The parts Mommy called the soul.

Mommy had taught them all a lot about Harmony. Blue had grown up hearing all about it, but honestly, the only harmony she’d ever known was just how much her parents seemed to love each other, and of course, how much they loved Blue, Aurie and Emmy.

She’d never thought she’d find harmony inside her. Until now.

“Butterfly!” Mommy cried.

Blue blinked a few times, rubbing her eyes as the shower of stars continued all around them to the gasps and murmurs of the crowd. “Wha? Huh?”

“You… you got…” Mommy seemed totally unable to talk.

Daddy craned his neck around and suddenly let out a whoop so loud it almost deafened Blue.

“Ow, Daddy!” Blue complained. “Stop yelling!”

Daddy yanked her into the air with his magic, then plopped her down onto the deck in front of all of them. Even Golden Aura had rushed up to her and smiled huge. She looked… she looked proud. Blue couldn’t remember Aura ever looking proud of her.

“What are you all staring at?” Blue asked. “We should be watching the stars!”

“We are,” Mommy said with a little sniffle.

“We most definitely are,” Daddy said as he blinked away tears.

That’s when she figured out they weren’t looking at her… they were looking at her flank.

Blue was almost too terrified to look.

Almost.

When she turned, she saw something new on her flank. On her dark blue coat, three golden-white stars above a pair of fluffy light gray clouds had appeared..

“I… I got my cutie mark?” Blue whispered.

She couldn’t believe her eyes. In the last few months, she’d forced herself to stop thinking about her cutie mark. She’d been teased about it for so long, she’d sorta of just accepted that it may never show up.

Just to be sure, Blue checked her other flank.

Three stars above two fluffy clouds.

“I got my cutie mark!” Blue squealed at the top of her lungs. Without thinking, she leapt into the air, shrieking in delight as she flew circles around Mommy and Emerald Meadow, Daddy and even Golden Aura. She spun so fast, she left a streak of what might have been stardust in her wake.

At least, that’s what Mommy said when Daddy finally lassoed her in his magic. Even that wasn’t enough to keep her from prancing around and showing off her flank to everypony on the ship.

Five minutes later, the meteor shower still streaked through the sky. They’d all huddled up on edge of the platform to watch the show. Emerald Meadow had even woken up and was burbling happily in Mommy’s hooves.

Then, Daddy asked the important question.

“So, Butterfly… do you know what it means?”

Blue looked out over the immense ocean of white fluffy clouds. She could still see the airships flying all over the place. She looked at the horizon in every direction.

Then she smiled.

“It happened when I wondered how far I could see. And then, I wondered what was beyond that.”

Mommy smiled and hugged her. Meadow made a happy gurgling noise. Daddy ruffled her mane. Even Aura hugged her.

“I’m going to do it,” Blue whispered, more to herself than anypony else. “Somewhere… I’ll find ponies who get me. Who understand me.”

“We’ve talked about this,” Daddy said softly. “You can find that here. So, what about after?”

Blue grinned. “Then? I’m going to get them all on one of these big awesome airships and we’re gonna see what’s beyond that horizon.”

“That’s my girl,” Daddy said. He looked ready to burst with pride. He squeezed her tight. Mommy came in for another hug and Golden Aura did too. Even Emerald waved her hooves and tried to give her big sister a hug. Blue hugged them all back—even Emmy.

Blue laughed, giggled and cried. For the first time in a very long time, she felt happy. And? She didn’t feel alone.

Blue was a practical filly. She knew eventually, she’d have to go back home and face the bullies and the teasing and the other fillies and colts who didn’t understand her.

But when she looked up at the falling stars, she knew that one day, she would find ponies who understood her.

Until then, she’d burn as bright as she could. Just like the stars above her and her family.

Author's Note

Theme for Stars Above

I hope you all have enjoyed the first story in a whole new universe, "My Little Pony: Unity." Inspired by a MLP D&D 5e game developed by LiamNeighson, Unity takes place five hundred years after the adventures of the Mane 6 in Ponyville. Equestria is a very different place at this time, but right now, that doesn't much matter.

Blue "Bee" Venture is my character in this universe. A pegasus engineer in her late twenties, she's regarded as somewhat as a prodigy in the realm of airship engineering, while also have a major reputation for being rather socially inept (she's not hard to RP, trust me). Of course, there's much more to Bee than this tiny moment. But it's such an adorable little moment, I had to share.

The best part is, the state of Equestria doesn't actually matter here. This story could have happened right after the Elements of Harmony were found or shortly before the Storm King's invasion of Canetrlot. It's a tiny snapshot of one little filly finally finding out what she is meant to do in her life.

You'll be seeing more of Bee in the coming story Silver Lining, Awakening, and potentially much more. You may also get to spend some time with Golden Aura and Emerald Meadow, Bee's wonderful younger sisters (even if Bee doesn't see them as all that wonderful.)

If you're curious about Bee's Special Talent, I call it "Starlight Pathing." In clear weather, as long as Bee can see either the stars or the moon, Bee's night vision is practically unlimited (In actual game terms, it's not nearly this OP). If she's indoors, in the middle of a storm or it's during the day or even just cloudy, it doesn't work. Still, she could have been one of the best astronomers in the world, but she decided on a different path.

The next Unity story will probably be Silver Lining, which reveals just how Bee got her nickname and how she met the pony who would become her best friend: a flightless batpony named Shadow Blossom, a pony with some secrets of her own that may some day come to light.

I've thoroughly enjoyed Bee as a character (and she's adorable and super smol). I hope you end up loving her just as much! In fact, here's some great reasons to love her!

Original Art by Sankam. Coloring by JayMan155

Sketch of Bee as the Alice in Wonderland Dormouse by Sankam

Isn't she adorable? Seriously?!

Thank you again for reading! Until next time, have fun!

-Novel

If you come across any errors, please let me know by PM!