-Overflow- for 24 - Autumn Reception

[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Autumn Reception
When: September 30, 6 PM
Where: The Gods' Meeting Hall
Summary: The Heavens are throwing a formal party! Old and new gods alike are invited, so put on your nicest outfits and some good dancing shoes, and come see what this shindig is all about.

Continuing from HERE!

Comments

[letteropener]

Cadence is my adopted niece, and Twilight Sparkle was my prize pupil.

[She can't describe them as friends. Her own position and her history make for too much of a gap between them all for the title to be genuine.]

[pure_radiantics]

[ Kairi nods. So she knows them well, then. That was kind of her point. That Celestia could be proud of them not just on principle of becoming alicorns, but also based on their history. ]

I'm happy that you have some more alicorns to return to, regardless.

[ She smiles then. It's hard to say that she hopes she can meet them, because she realizes that they could arrive as shinki, not unlike herself, and not recognize Celestia apart from being a pony. ]

[letteropener]

[And she is. But friendship is a very special thing, after all.]

[As for the possibility of a shinki pony arriving here? Well -- Celestia has concluded that would be an absolute disaster. Doubtless said pony would quite logically conclude they ought to know Celestia, thus putting them automatically in danger of the corruption that comes when a shinki grapples with the past they don't remember. It is far, far better that this never come to pass.]

As am I, I assure you. If I am being perfectly honest, the last thousand years were a little lonely.

[pure_radiantics]

[ She gives Celestia a sympathetic look. ]

I don't think you should feel bad admitting that. It's such a long time.

[ She knows she has no concept of what a thousand years would feel like, maybe some of the gods here do, but not her. At best, she has a grasp of a decade being a long time, guessing that that is just over half of the time she'd been alive back home. ]

And it sounds like you couldn't have done much to change that yourself, either.

[letteropener]

I did what I could. [Which puts a gentle gloss on her efforts to teach and guide Equestria as a whole, and several young ponies in specific, over all that time. But it doesn't really matter, not for the purposes of this conversation.] And that time is well past now, so there is no reason to dwell on it.

Wrap for me

[pure_radiantics]

[ Kairi considers Celestia's words before eventually nodding in assent and smiling. ]

That's a great way of looking at things, Princess. I'm glad I bumped into you again tonight.