03-15-2019, 12:38 PM
Starbirth
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The observatory was a circular structure high atop the castle. Walls aligned with books so old they were in another tongue entirely. A small metallic staircase led upwards to a powerful telescope. An iridescent glow of blue and white pulsed with the tempo of a beating heart as Nightmare loomed over a small metal box. Despite how pristine its surface and detailed as it was it thrummed with an ancientness that few things could match.
Locks of purple hair blew back and flowed as her shining horn manipulated whatever it was that she was developing in the confines of the metal. Whenever I closed my eyes I still saw color. Light splotched up the walls and blinked repeatedly on the ceiling. Her long horn glowed with nearly as much magical power as what was in the box, a supernova filled the room. Not an inch was spared of light. From the space designated to the telescope light exploded outwards, shimmering tendrils ever reaching freely into the galaxy before vanishing.
My eyes remembered the burst for several prolonged, blue and white seconds. Like remembering the tunnel of life's physical beginning.
Now the glow was smaller. Stable. Nightmare breathed out in satisfaction with an underlying pinch of exhaustion. Mane charmingly disheveled and her body shivered in suppressed excitement. Holding the box in a magical grip she at last turned to me, white fangs oddly bright in the tango of shadows and light.
"What just happened?"
Her hooves moved with swift airy grace and the box made it's way to my hands. The metal was warm as flesh. Inside was a small orb, not unlike that of a shaped gem. Bluish white in color hue.
"I just created the core of a star. It's been quite sometime since I have done so." An endearing, subtle giddiness to her sultry musical voice. She exhaled once like someone finished with a lengthy but elating run in a cool evening.
"This is a star core?" I wondered verbally, not even bothering to conceal my awe.
"Stars in Equestria are not like the stars of your world."
"Considering we can survive on the moon here I'd guessed as much."
"True," she chuckled and we smiled at one another like lovingly dazed teenagers, the energy of the moment crackling with matching intensity of the born star core. "Here, each star is created. Once there was only one, you know."
Together we witnessed the first light of a budding star, the warmth traversed up my arms and filled my heart with the fact she had brought me here with her for this event.
Delicate in precision she lifted the core out of its metal cradle. She indicated with a tilt of her head to follow her. Her hooves clinked and clanked there way up the stairs, shadowy trails of her tail wisping out and vanishing faster than a blink. Eyes following the core's slow ascension it locked into place for a moment before she sent it flying out beyond the telescope. So fast it was simply there for a moment and gone the very next. Traversing an inky black ocean of distance to begin its long lasting life.
She peered with one blue eye into the telescope and called me forth with a wave of a black hoof. Giving way for me she instructed me to "Look" and so I did.
The vision of a single eye projected countless leagues away to the depths of space as the star came into its own. The orb burst like a dazzling balloon, energy spreading out into cosmic nebulousness. Blue and white and purple and red. Splashes of pink decorated the tips and filled the eyeglass and I found myself slack jawed and laughing joyously. The core became a permanent blue, giving way to the color seamlessly. The star still burning in a mixture of captivating colors. Formless and bright. Shimmering. Light flying across the galaxy and it did not escape our knowledge that some would not see it's light for an incredibly long period of time. Implacable the energy would carry on to touch where it was needed.
"We're the first to see it, you and I."
A foreleg slipped around my midsection and I could swear the fresh star was imprinted on my eye. I leaned back against her as the final rushes of what I had witnessed left me weightless. Her lips brushed my ear as she leaned in and kissed my bearded cheek.
Clutching her hoof we looked out beyond the artificial viewer and into the twinkling recess of space's infinite canvas. There were many stars, but the direction of there newest addition was easy to find.
We both knew where it was. The map was our experience.
Turning her face to me with a hand the only stars I saw now were her eyes, and in her radiance she exceeded them. We punctuated the moment with another lingering, soft kiss.
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The observatory was a circular structure high atop the castle. Walls aligned with books so old they were in another tongue entirely. A small metallic staircase led upwards to a powerful telescope. An iridescent glow of blue and white pulsed with the tempo of a beating heart as Nightmare loomed over a small metal box. Despite how pristine its surface and detailed as it was it thrummed with an ancientness that few things could match.
Locks of purple hair blew back and flowed as her shining horn manipulated whatever it was that she was developing in the confines of the metal. Whenever I closed my eyes I still saw color. Light splotched up the walls and blinked repeatedly on the ceiling. Her long horn glowed with nearly as much magical power as what was in the box, a supernova filled the room. Not an inch was spared of light. From the space designated to the telescope light exploded outwards, shimmering tendrils ever reaching freely into the galaxy before vanishing.
My eyes remembered the burst for several prolonged, blue and white seconds. Like remembering the tunnel of life's physical beginning.
Now the glow was smaller. Stable. Nightmare breathed out in satisfaction with an underlying pinch of exhaustion. Mane charmingly disheveled and her body shivered in suppressed excitement. Holding the box in a magical grip she at last turned to me, white fangs oddly bright in the tango of shadows and light.
"What just happened?"
Her hooves moved with swift airy grace and the box made it's way to my hands. The metal was warm as flesh. Inside was a small orb, not unlike that of a shaped gem. Bluish white in color hue.
"I just created the core of a star. It's been quite sometime since I have done so." An endearing, subtle giddiness to her sultry musical voice. She exhaled once like someone finished with a lengthy but elating run in a cool evening.
"This is a star core?" I wondered verbally, not even bothering to conceal my awe.
"Stars in Equestria are not like the stars of your world."
"Considering we can survive on the moon here I'd guessed as much."
"True," she chuckled and we smiled at one another like lovingly dazed teenagers, the energy of the moment crackling with matching intensity of the born star core. "Here, each star is created. Once there was only one, you know."
Together we witnessed the first light of a budding star, the warmth traversed up my arms and filled my heart with the fact she had brought me here with her for this event.
Delicate in precision she lifted the core out of its metal cradle. She indicated with a tilt of her head to follow her. Her hooves clinked and clanked there way up the stairs, shadowy trails of her tail wisping out and vanishing faster than a blink. Eyes following the core's slow ascension it locked into place for a moment before she sent it flying out beyond the telescope. So fast it was simply there for a moment and gone the very next. Traversing an inky black ocean of distance to begin its long lasting life.
She peered with one blue eye into the telescope and called me forth with a wave of a black hoof. Giving way for me she instructed me to "Look" and so I did.
The vision of a single eye projected countless leagues away to the depths of space as the star came into its own. The orb burst like a dazzling balloon, energy spreading out into cosmic nebulousness. Blue and white and purple and red. Splashes of pink decorated the tips and filled the eyeglass and I found myself slack jawed and laughing joyously. The core became a permanent blue, giving way to the color seamlessly. The star still burning in a mixture of captivating colors. Formless and bright. Shimmering. Light flying across the galaxy and it did not escape our knowledge that some would not see it's light for an incredibly long period of time. Implacable the energy would carry on to touch where it was needed.
"We're the first to see it, you and I."
A foreleg slipped around my midsection and I could swear the fresh star was imprinted on my eye. I leaned back against her as the final rushes of what I had witnessed left me weightless. Her lips brushed my ear as she leaned in and kissed my bearded cheek.
Clutching her hoof we looked out beyond the artificial viewer and into the twinkling recess of space's infinite canvas. There were many stars, but the direction of there newest addition was easy to find.
We both knew where it was. The map was our experience.
Turning her face to me with a hand the only stars I saw now were her eyes, and in her radiance she exceeded them. We punctuated the moment with another lingering, soft kiss.