Dream Stalker

How strange.

Luna hadn't felt that same surge of being pushed out of a dream in centuries. The process of someone waking up in the middle of the dream usually felt like gentle waves pushing at her body, edging her out of their subconscious until the link that she made was severed and she would find herself back in her own body and out of someone else's dream. What she just felt was familiar, though placing exactly where it was from was another story. She could tell that whatever had pushed her out of Twilight's dream had been some form of magic. Luna's brows furrowed as she tried to place exactly why that surge of magic had been so familiar to her.

Luna's hooves were thundering down the hallway as soon as the connection had clicked in her mind. A dreamvisitior. A shudder traveled through her wings as she rushed past guards who seemed to be taken aback by the tall mare barreling down the hallway in their direction. Luna paid no attention to them, instead veering to the left and running out to exit the castle and out to the gardens. Her chest expanded and shrunk quickly, her breathing rapid as she slowed her pace once the doors closed behind her.

The Canterlot gardens were a place that Luna was finding herself going to with increasing frequency over the last few months. They provided a quick getaway from other ponies, and that was even more the case in the middle of the night. Aside from a few guards who sometimes walked around the perimeter, the gardens were empty save for the animals that resided in the trees and bushes. The breeze and fresh air were fairly reliable in calming Luna down when her mind was racing as fast as it was now.

Someone had found a dreamvisitor, she was sure of that now. And Luna had no idea who had it, or how she was supposed to be able to find it. She knew that she had to find it. If magic like that got into the wrong hands, they would be able to use it to find weaknesses in anyone who they'd met or even seen, so long as they knew the name whose dreams they were trying to invade. How was she even supposed to begin looking? She couldn't just put up posters advertising that she was looking for a star shaped gem, anyone could buy a gem and carve it into the proper shape. Luna needed to think about this in a way that would be productive to finding the dreamvisitor, and make sure it would never be allowed to fall into the wrong hands, if it wasn't already.

Luna adjusted her wings and turned back towards the castle, having paced around the gardens long enough to regain her composure. She would give a small smile towards one of the guards standing inside the door as she turned towards a hallway that would lead her to her sister's bedroom. As much as she new Celestia didn't like to be woken in the middle of the night, Luna felt that this was something that couldn't stand to wait until the morning. As Luna made it to the door of Celestia's bedroom, she glanced to the guards who stood on either side of the door.

"I need to speak to my sister," Luna was hoping that they'd let her in without needing her to specify exactly why she needed into the room. It was very hit or miss when it came to the guards. Half of them still thought that Luna was going to turn into Nightmare Moon at any moment and try to kill Celestia, but at least they tried to act civil towards her while on duty. Luna had seen into all of their dreams, she knew that they all feared her. Tonight she was lucky, breathing out a soft sigh as they stepped to the side to allow her entrance into Celestia's room, and she was quick to enter, listening to the door click shut behind her before making her way over to the bed her sister was sleeping on.

"Tia," Luna spoke softly, a hoof reaching out to lightly nudge Celestia's shoulder, gently trying to wake the sleeping princess. "Tia, wake up. I need to talk to you."

Celestia's eyes squinted in her sleep, almost like she didn't want to be pulled out of her dream just yet. Another few nudges from Luna would speed up the process however, and her eyes blinked open in the darkness of the room. "Luna, it's late."

"I know. But this is important," she help her breath for a moment before saying the nest sentence in a rush. "Someone found the dreamvisitor that I lost."

Silence filled the room as Celestia processed what Luna had just said. "And you're sure it's the dreamvisitor? Maybe someone just woke up in a strange way."

"No, it couldn't be. I know what it feels like when someone with a dreamvisitor enters a dream that I'm in. Someone was in Twilight's dream, and we need to figure out who that was and where they are." Luna took a step back from the bed and glanced towards the door. "I'm not sure what we should do."

Celestia closed her eyes, taking a moment to think a few things over. "I'll send a letter out to Twilight in the morning. I think it's best that she knows what happening before anyone else."

"Thank you. I'll let you sleep now." Luna made her way out of the room, not glancing at the guards as she walked back to her bedroom. She could only hope that the dreamvisitor hadn't found its way into bad hands. She felt that the peace of Equestria could be at stake if it wasn't.