The dream realm shimmered around me as I flicked through the bad dreams, the portals moving before me.
Not a single Nightmare yet today.
While it was boring, boring was a good thing. Boring meant no ponies being terrorized, which was a very good thing.
Didn’t change the fact that things were boring though.
Even worse, since I learned how to do this, normal dreaming didn’t work. No random entertaining dreams.
It just didn’t work, I tried.
It was either fully… well, awake was the wrong word… but it was this or completely asleep with no dreams.
Getting up, I stretched and spread my wings before looking around. Sleep until morning or stop by a friend?
Sorting out their portals, I looked around them. A couple were just deep calm sleep, Swift Spear and Silver Leaf were deep asleep.
Thunder Cloud was having a pink dream which meant not touching it with a large pole.
Sunset and Twilight were missing which was amusing but also not surprising considering Twilight was leaving early tomorrow morning.
Luna was still awake.
Applejack was also having a pink dream so that’s out, we weren’t that close anyway. Rarity was having a mild nightmare.
Not uncommon, she was always so stressed, that often leads to nightmares. Except on Thursdays I noticed. Then her dreams were always calm and sometimes even pink.
Reaching out, I tapped my horn against the dream. The mirror of her dark silvery portal calmed down to a smooth silver shine of calm sleep.
There, she’ll sleep better now.
Well, don’t want to bother her now. I sent her dream away with a smile and a flick of my hoof before I looked at Cadence’s dream.
It shimmered a bright pink. I think I've only seen her have a nightmare a couple of times and blue maybe a dozen times.
Pink was normal for her as expected of the alicorn of love. No way in hell I stepped a single hoof in there, no matter how curious, if just for the fact that I’m pretty sure she would be able to tell. Out of all the Alicorns, her Realm was the closest to mine, even closer than Luna.
She couldn’t Dreamwalk, but that’s likely because she never learned to. Even before I learned, I could feel when Luna entered mine. At least as soon as I realized what that feeling was.
I visited her a couple of times in the past, I bet she would be able to tell by now.
So, while I may be a bit curious about exactly what the Alicorn of Love might dream of so strongly so often, there was no way in hell I’d check. Also, the 'not being able to look her in the eye afterwards' also factored in heavily.
Shining Armor was missing. Working late wasn’t uncommon but him pulling longer hours than me was rare. Must be preparing for something big, wasn’t there some kind of holiday coming up that I knew of? Maybe something special for just the Crystal Empire?
Turning to the next portal, Celestia was sleeping a calm blue dream.
I think I’ll drop by and see how she’s doing today.
Touching my horn to the dream, I passed through the portal to find myself on a mountain cliff overlooking the ocean. The sun was shining far above and the grass was waving in the soft wind. By the edge of the cliff was a smaller Celestia, looking out over the ocean far below. She had a pink white coat and long pink mane.
She looked…
She looked like she was younger than I was.
Quite frankly, she was adorable! I couldn’t wait to tease her about this!
Tapping my hoof against the grass, I solidified the dream to make her fully aware of what was going on instead of the normal dream state.
Celestia flicked her right ear and blinked, looking around before she smiled, “Page. Welcome.”
“Hi Sunshine,” I said and trotted over to sink down next to her, “This is a nice dream.”
Celestia nodded and shifted a bit, looking up at me, “It’s close to where Luna and I grew up.”
“It’s beautiful,” I said and looked down at the sea, “Where is it?”
“Was,” Celestia sighed softly, “It fell into the sea thousands of years ago.”
“Oh.”
Celestia nodded, “Time always moves on. Even landscapes are not forever, Page,” she said and then smiled a bit, “It may not exist anywhere but here, but in here it’s still real.”
“This can be as real as anything out there,” I said and smiled back, “If only for a little while.”
She nodded and shifted to stretch her wings, “That’s very true,” she agreed, “I wouldn’t mind dreaming about this place a bit more often,” she admitted after a moment.
“I’ll see what I can do, Sunshine.”
“Thank you,” she said before looking up at one of the clouds, “…That one looks like a bunny.”
“…Maybe if you squint?”
Can't really decide whether Celestia and Page's connection is anything more than of a sibling sort.
A lovely chapter. I really enjoyed interaction between Page and Celestia here, thank you. Looking forward to the next installment.
I'm reading this story even though I barely remember the past books, helpfully I start recalling as I read more chapters.
Begging your pardon, but could you please explain to me how a pink dream works?
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"Pink" dreams are dreams which are... erotically charged, shall you say. You know, like that one, which woke you up when you were sixteen...
I don't remember if Page learned that the hard way, or if Luna was feeling responsible enough to teach him that. Anyway, he avoids those.
Now- I wonder what a cross between a nightmare and a pink dream would look like...
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Makes perfect sense. So what about blue dreams?
Too bad the chapters aren't longer, but every chappie is worth reading.
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Hellraiser?
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Based on what Celestia's dream is like blue seems to be a pleasantly calm memory type dream.
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I initially assumed that blue was a sad dream.
Thanks for the update!!
I would complain about the fluffy nature of the content, but this story is basically a giant cotton ball with some plot yarns thrown in. I like it.
a soft caring chapter vary touching.
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The last two have been really heavy on foreshadowing, i am fine with this one being just a bunch of vignettes
Hold up, when’s Page going to talk to Discord? It was brought up at the end of last story and hasn’t been mentioned here yet.
Also, I really want to see Page check out a pink dream, if only because he was dared too or something.
Heh.
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Does he actually give a f at this point? I mean he did when he didn't knew where Discord were and what he were up to. But if he seeking refugee at Fluttershy's and doing nothing beside minor pranks then why bother? He didn't like the guy even before that mess.
KILL IT, PAGE! KILL THE INVADING NIGHTMARE!!
THAT'S ANGEL BUNNY!!!
oh, i just remembered a story where Twilight learned to dream-walk after dealing with Tirek (because she had Luna's magic for a while), and she and Luna visited a sexy dream Rainbow Dash was having.
Or you could just be missing something
Reeeally ?
Returning years after to a city i lived for years...
It had changed a lot... Millenia later? Perhaps its not there at all...
Hiver inspired a few aspects of my Dragon Displaced story. Now that I think about it, this chapter inspired a chapter of my Marksaline chapter with the drawbacks of immortality.
Places you once know changed or done, foods and other commodity coming and going away.
Today Page enjoys his tea, in a million years or ten the plant for it might die out...
I recently found my childhood town on Google Earth. I hardly recognized it. That's after only 30 years. I can only imagine how different our world will look in a millennium.
This has been Deep Thoughts by OB.
This chapter makes me sad... but nothing last forever, even the universe will end in a eternity away
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It's Angel Bunny!
DUN DUNN DUUUNNN!!!