A/N: Alright, the new chapter.

This will be the last update for now as I will be going on a bit of a hiatus for some time, but I can assure you that will be back. It's not a writer's block to blame, my last year of college is about to begin this Wednesday. I will not give up on this story, so be patient and hopefully nobody loses interest. Besides, I could pull a surprise as I usually can have tricks up my sleeve like The Great and Powerful Trixie, not that I am a boaster... I really am not.

Also, I finally got to meet Tara Strong for the first time today! So my apologies if this author's note is BIG. But here's the story on how it happened:

I was next in line at Fan Expo, and I was shaking a little bit from the excitement. I was next after that and I approach the table she was sitting at and said hello to her. I told her how much of a role model the character Twilight was to me as my favorite character and how the show saved me from depression, and I would not be the person I am today if I hadn't stumbled onto the show. She really liked what I had to say, and talked briefly to me in Twilight's voice after having said Twilight would be proud to know that too, which made my day. She signed the picture I drew of Twilight and had a picture with her. Honestly I'm going to feel really happy for the rest of the day now.

My apologies again if this chapter comes off a bit short than the usual others I have done. But other than that, I hold a few new surprises in later chapters. I will explain a few of them to you, my fellow readers.

1. I will do specific Season 5 episodes. Don't worry steve03, Amending Fences is one of the chapters, as I'm pumped with having Brayden meet Moondancer. Others will be mentioned for if Brayden isn't involved with it. Though, it'll be in a different kind of way in which I'd be cutting some strings.

2. I will aim for chapters to be a little shorter than the usual, but that won't stop me from making some long chapters.

3. Two more relationships will bloom. One of them is a pretty big giveaway, but future chapters is what I will not spoil in any way.

4. A soon-coming chapter will reveal the purpose of the vial of golden blood after having been mixed by Luna, and what secret is behind it that has Celestia looking so sad... or is she?

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Beep... beep... beep...

My ears could pick up the sound of faint beeping as I slowly begin to regain consciousness from what might have happened while I was out. The funny thing is, that I can recall having been swimming in a fast current underwater and having my head hit on a bunch of rocks, but with this strange wrap on top of my head, I could see that wasn't a dream and I knew that it wasn't in the end.

My eyes begin to slowly open. They come off a bit blurred at first, but the more struggle I put in them the more clear my sight got. The room itself has that flat while ceiling and the usual sky blue wallpaper on the walls, giving it a bit of a bright color for when I awoke. My surroundings look really familiar, but it takes me a few seconds to decipher them and have myself realize that I am in the hospital, but I am not sure which it is yet.

My left hand is hooked up to the IV, and that weak feeling of it being in the top of my hand is already coming to me as I already had to deal with stuff like that when I was in the hospital long before on Earth for the removal of my wisdom teeth, as in surgery including having to put me to sleep which I could not remember ever getting to sleep. All that I would ever recall is all of a sudden ending up in another hospital room, my mouth bleeding inside from where the removal took place, so even with those white cloths they gave you, it was a terrible feeling I had to put up with the whole time during the process.

I turn my head to the right, taking a look outside of the window shining dimly as I couldn't tell if it was either morning on the rise or if it had just become the evening. Hmmm, if I collapsed... okay yeah it must definitely be morning then. From that instant by the valleys and the close town of Ponyville, I must have already recognized being in the local hospital I last went in before, just a different room for that matter.

I wasn't sure if anypony was on the bed to my left, so I decide to check quickly when I turn my head to my left once again. Then again, there is the usual hospital curtain that blocks my view of who could be behind there. I'm not really sure, but all I can assume is another stallion having hurt his wing or broke a hoof.

So there I just lie in the hospital bed, an IV in my left hand that feels already painful to me though I understand that it is to help me out in order to get better. Whoever is on the bed past the curtain is probably still asleep and unaware of the morning rising over.

I can hear the door across from the room click for a moment, and then start creaking open. I thought I had recognized that mare coming in with a cutie mark of a first aid symbol with four hearts around it, not mention the white natural coat and the light pink mane. Nurse Redheart, hmm? I am not sure if the last time I was here, I ended up seeing her... no, that was a few different nurses.

Her eyes were perched upon me when she had come into the room, using her right back hoof to close the door quietly behind her as the patient on the other side could be sleeping, so it was best to not disturb him or her. In her left front hoof, she is holding onto the medical records of my history at Ponyville's hospital perhaps. She trots steps forward and when she is by my bedside, she placed the billboard of papers detailing my health onto the hospital's nightstand positioned next to my bed.

"Good to see that you are awake Mr. Brayden," She told me from there, a smile upon her face even when she had come into the room. "You were out for quite some time, and we almost thought that we lost you during the operation."

"Operation?" I asked, sounding confused.

"Miss Sunset Shimmer came in with a few others and told the whole story of what happened. I know you're just a little confused as to why you're here, but I'll explain the best way I can," Nurse Redheart continues. "You were found flowing underwater in the rivers out of... 'that place', and by the time she and your other friends got you out of there, there was no waking response from you. All bookings to see the doctor in Appleloosa was taken, so they had to take the train back here to Ponyville."

"I was... out?" I still sound confused.

"Not only that, but there were some laceration upon your head which questioned to us that you may have bumped it on some rocks presumingly, and that there was water from inside of your lungs and we needed to pump them out as soon as we could," Nurse Redheart had finished. "You almost were the victim of drowning, and you no doubt worried all of your friends."

I look at her, no longer sounding confused as to the events that happened to me. "Well, that does explain a lot of things more clearly to me." I said to her.

"I think you have visitors coming by shortly as well, but from what I know they haven't arrived yet," She confirmed, getting me a little excited as visitors were always a good sight to see even in a rough time like this. "The others that brought you with them, one of them couldn't stay because I think she's associated with the author A.K. Yearling. That mare though certainly knows how to pick an adventure, not saying that I have read any of the Daring Do books."

"That is typical of Daring Do herself." I commented to myself, though she was standing right there, so she could hear it.

"Great... Celestia..." I could hear her say, sounding a bit shocked for a moment. I thought at that very moment she'd straight out tell me she was a fan, but it was different. "To be honest, I should have seen that coming, but I never did."

"Anyways, while I am here, what should I do?" I asked.

"You'll be released later in a few hours when the moon rises," Redheart said to me. "I say this so a full recovery is insured by Dr. Stable that you're able to do just fine and that your vitals are alright, especially after having water logged into you."

"That does explain everything then." I commented to her.

Nurse Redheart wasn't one for these things, but she had to assure my safety by the look on her face. "While you were asleep, we also had to draw out a bit of blood from your arm to study at the labs, and there pretty much needs to be two of the samples to match." She says.

This rose one eyebrow upon my face, under suspicion. "What?" I said, not catching on to what that meant.

All that could be answered to my own question right there is Redheart going outside of my room, leaving me there all alone. But her tail was still in sight from outside in the hallways of patients' rooms. When she pulled back, she had a cart in front of her, heading into the room with all these medical equipment, heading to the right side of my hospital bed. My heart pounded with fear when Nurse Redheart used one hoof and took a syringe with it in my sight.

"No... no, please!" I started to beg, hyperventilating a bit in panic upon seeing that. The beeping on the heart rate monitor began to speed a little bit from the relaxed state it used to be in.

She put the syringe back onto the cart and puts her hoof onto my right hand. "Calm down Mr. Brayden," She says to me, gently rubbing my hand. "Dr. Stable informed me the last time you were here with the flu, you were afraid of being put to sleep. But do not worry, it's not going to hurt..."

"It will though, it always will." I said, sounding a little worried.

"All you have to do is just look away, and it won't hurt as much. Some ponies getting their blood drawn out have also said that it doesn't hurt at all. Though... because you're a new kind of species among us, it would be hard to understand the type you have, unless we mixed those two with the usual Equestrian blood to see about cracking the code." She said to me, still rubbing the top of my right hand with her soft hoof. My heart rate gradually drops down to being relaxed while she does this to calm me down.

She wasn't on my mind at this point, as I have a few others that I know too well there. Fluttershy, Coco Pommel, Twilight... all of my friends. I already know that Coco was probably too busy with her job as a costume designer to get out of Manehattan unless I came there to visit her. As soon as word spreads out about me getting into the hospital, there is no doubt that the other two plus all my other best and closest friends will be coming straight here to see if I am alright.

"Are you feeling ready now?" Nurse Redheart asked me, a soft smile upon her own face.

I nod my head in silence, but still feeling unsure. She takes her hoof off of my hand and turns to the cart, taking both the syringe and attaching the other end (not the needle point) to a tube used for I believe will draw out my blood. I cringe for a moment at the sight of it, but I turn my head away, awaiting the pain of a small tiny needle to pinch and pierce through my skin.

The moments pass and I eventually feel a small pinch on the other side of my right elbow, piercing through my skin. I don't scream at this, but I resound out a bit of a very weak grunt at this as it feels like it is burning really hard, but at the same time not because a sample of blood was being taken from me. I was tempted to turn my head and look at the needle drawing out my human blood, but I keep my head right where it is, away from such a sight.

The needle eventually slides out from my right arm and the sting is still there, but I can feel it being wrapped over and around it by a bandage. "Don't worry, that was the second and last time we'd have to draw out any blood from you."

I was in relief right there. I wouldn't have to suffer from any more needles going into any part of both my own arms. I turn my head back to Redheart, seeing her take the cart and begin pushing it out into the hallway once again after having pulled it in. "I'll be back with your dinner, so give me a few moments." She tells me, and she slips right into the hall.

However, she stops moving and I can still see a bit of her light pink tail there. From outside of the room, I can hear a bit of talking, and I thought I had recognized a few of those voices talking alongside hers which seemed to sound distant, but nevertheless... all I can assume really is her talking to the rest of the nurses.

Well, you could sort of say I was wrong though, especially when I was able to recognize six... no, seven of my best, close friends coming into the room from right behind Nurse Redheart whose tail had disappeared from my sight from beyond the door. Twilight, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie, Rainbow and Applejack... they were all there.

All of my friends gasp at the sight of me, each of them quickly trotting over towards me, gathering around my bed in that hurried state. Each one of them had pulled me towards them, which end with all of them hugging me as if it were a group hug.

"Thank Celestia you're alright!" I could hear Fluttershy say to me during the hug.

I could feel Twilight's recognizable nuzzle gently against my left cheek. "We were all so worried about you!" She says to me, a bit relieved that I was still there with them and kicking. "Had I known you would have been placed in a dangerous situation like that I would have been there to help you!"

"You don't have to worry," I said to them, sounding like I was a little squeezed by all of their hugging at the same time. "I had no idea something like that was going to happen, especially at the end of our quest. But if I could say one thing as of right now to get all of your attention, if you don't mind... I'm feeling a bit squeezed, so can you go a little easy on me please?"

All of them move back, releasing the hug from me. All six of them place one hoof on each arm to gradually show me some support as I wait for my release from this hospital room. The IV starts to sting a little bit, and I felt rather uneasy because of that. However, I am doing the best that I can to resist against how much it stings while placed inside of me.

"Please promise us you never will do something crazy like going into that place ever again without us alright?" Twilight says to me, her soft and gentle hoof holding onto my left hand, not letting go of it at any rate if I was thinking of even going into Mortem yet again, by myself or not.

"I promise you, that was only one time so it shouldn't happen again," I assured to them, my voice remaining gentle but yet annoyingly pained because of that IV. "But now that I am back here with you the six of my best friends, I want to know: Did anything happen here in Ponyville while I was away?" I had asked them, the tone of my voice still gentle but having changed to sounding questioned at the same time.

All of my friends look at one another in silence, and then me with Pinkie Pie just shrugging the both of her hooves. She was the first to speak out and answer my question. "Well, besides me hosting a few birthday parties for a few fillies... not much has changed really around Ponyville. But again, there are some upcoming events bound to happen eventually like the Grand Galloping Gala! You have no idea how we are all excited for that!"

"Honestly, I would go but I am not sure if I have got that golden ticket to the Gala yet." I commented, knowing that such an event would be quite grand to attend but even then I wouldn't have a ticket and Prince Blueblood would be laughing with triumph about me not being able to go, probably cause of that damn 'ego' he has and the arrogance included on how I'm scum.

"That'll be something I'll tell Princess Celestia about," Twilight says to me. "I'm sure she'll be able to sort something out and let you attend before the tickets run out. We might not be able to attend together, but you never really know. Somepony might be there that will want to befriend you."

I nod my head in understanding. "That's true, and I sometimes become friends with others that way." I stated, a smile slowly growing upon my face, but stops when something else comes to mind in regards to where I had gone off to Mortem with. "Oh, I almost forgot for that moment there. Where are the others I had been with on the journey? Is the book delivered safely to Princess Luna?"

"Brayden you don't have to worry about it," I could hear a voice from across the door, going all the way over to the hospital room door. My eyes turned from Twilight, and over to the door frame's end, seeing the recognizable amber coated mare standing there with a confident smile upon her own mouth. I knew very well it was Sunset herself just checking up on me. "While the train stopped in Ponyville for the case of emergency, we took the next train headed up to Canterlot by the new Express system they installed before the changeling attack, and Princess Luna has the book now."

I sigh in relief, lucky to know that the book made it back to Princess Luna safe and sound, hopefully without any water damage, but again this book probably holds a fiery darkness inside, so probably not... just my guess. Sunset trots forward towards my hospital bed from the door, putting the both of her hooves onto the iron railing at the end of the bed where my bare feet would almost be touching.

"Princess Luna has also asked me to relay a message to you upon delivery of the book and of the news of what had happened to you," She continued. "She just wanted to let you know that she holds high concern for your health and well-being just like all of us."

I responded to her. "I didn't mean to let anypony be frightened of how I was going to die."

"Brayden," I can hear Rarity acknowledge to me with concern. My eyes stray from Sunset and onto the white unicorn. "Never say anything on how you would or were going to die. None of us want to lose you from being our good friend and no doubt all of us would not be happy if such a thing happened to you unexpectedly."

"We'd all miss you if it happened." Fluttershy says to me, still worried and gently rubbing my right arm with her soft hoof.

"My friends," I said to them. "I would never leave any of you, and that is a promise I am keeping for as long as I live in this life of mine. I hope you know that."

All of them nod their heads in understanding. But Applejack was one to start speaking after that. "Sugarcube, ya Pinkie Promise?"

I looked at her and then Pinkie, who is most eager to hear me make the Pinkie Promise to make sure I won't die while they're still around. "I cross my heart... hope to fly... stick a cupcake in my eye." I even made sure that I was doing the right hand motions as mine are not obviously hooves. She had been watching me the whole time, and within that instant of motioning a hand to my eye carefully, a face of joy and happiness lit up upon her face.

Everypony else smiled in that relaxed, yet relieved way. With my promise made, I couldn't possibly stumble back into Mortem, that cursed place. Doing that again would be the death of me should something like that happen. The promise... it was already made though so the chances of going back there is one in a billion. To ensure my safety, that place is definitely off my list anyway.

"Now, I think that all of us should ever forget about what happened that day, and go about with our lives shall we?" Rarity spoke out, a happy tone in that voice of hers. "Let us never speak of that dreadful place again."

Me and everypony else in the room nod our heads in agreement to the statement that Rarity had made. Beside me, I can hear the blinds on my left moving to reveal the other patient. I turn my eyes to the left from the sight and towards the mare who had been lying in bed the whole time, probably listening in to our conversation, but again, she might have only heard the end of it.

Well, I didn't expect it to be Derpy Hooves herself, that familiar grey mail-mare with those eyesight of hers crossing or rather 'derping'. Most of the back right hoof was covered up in white bandages going from around the bottom all the way up the leg towards her flank. I did notice something was wrong, so I can assume really that she had broken her hoof.

"I don't think I would ever go to wherever you guys were talking about," The pegasus reluctantly said, revealing those derped gamboge eyes with a smile upon her face. "I will definitely make sure of that."

"Derpy?" I asked her, surprised to see her. I did expect a random stallion of the sort, so I am a bit embarrassed briefly for thinking that thought. "You're in the hospital as well?"

She gave a brief frown upon her face when her eyes turn to the bandaged hoof and back at me afterwards. "Well, I ended up breaking my right back hoof," She began to explain to me. "I was just delivering mail around Ponyville, just minding my own business. I didn't see any of those large crates full of heavy stuff though... so let's just say I ended up slamming right into it causing a chain reaction that I always end up doing... now not only do I have my back hoof and leg broken... I am pretty sure the mail office is probably holding a grudge against me for not doing my job properly that day."

"But you always tell them that it was only an accident, and they should believe you." I suggested to her, feeling a little bad for her.

She frowned again with a silent sigh from her mouth. "It won't work really," She replies, with her frown on her mouth disappearing as she continued. "I step into the office everyday, so I have to expect them as usual to tease me about how I misplace my letters numerous times. I get used to that every time."

I can hear hooves coming into the room from the door, revealing another nurse different from Redheart. She is coming in with a cart with two trays of food on them. One tray of it on the top and one on the bottom. Safe to say, I believe that this is probably me and Derpy's dinner, coming our way.

"Alright girls," The nurse kindly informs my friends around my bedside, keeping a close eye on me while my brief talk with Derpy. "It's time for Brayden to have his dinner but don't you all worry, he will be out of the hospital by tonight."

They knew that visiting time had already run out by the time that dinner was being placed right before me onto the bedside's table, extended in front of me for the sake of eating food in bed for the healing process. Each of them had a smile on their face when they looked at me and knew very well that was meant for me to get well.

"I hope you feel better soon Brayden," Fluttershy said to me. Her hoof gently rubbing the top of my right hand departs and she trots off with the rest of her friends.

Twilight was still there when our friends were headed outside. I know very well from there, she was definitely going to have her say. She trots closer to me, while I lie there on the soft mattress. A kind and loving smile is abroad on her mouth, and I share the same type of smile she was showing.

"Do feel better, okay?" She says to me, placing her soft and gentle hoof on my hand. My hand took her hoof and I am holding onto it.

My brown eyes are focused on those beautiful violet eyes of hers, locked in a gaze with her, as my right hand stretched over from my side to gently touch the side of her face, in a smooth caress.

"I will." I said to her, my head moving forward and hers moving towards me as well. Our lips collide once again, and we are briefly locked together in a brief, yet loving kiss between the both of us. Her wings didn't unfold, as she probably didn't want to warm me up just in case the hospital staff was putting me in the right temperature after that journey. They lasted only a few moments before our lips separated once again.

She made no haste after her head turned to see the kind nurse waiting impatiently for her to get going with the rest of her friends possibly already making their way out of the hospital. She left the room with the nurse right behind her, leaving smiles on both of our faces. Totally glad to see that she would still care for me even after I had been hurt.

I took a look down at my tray, positioned up close to me. On my plate, there is the mashed potatoes sitting there with only a tiny bit of steam as it was already cooling off most likely, with carrots and a bowl of tomato soup before me provided with a spoon for me to dip into the dish. In my glass cup, there is milk inside of it. This seems like this will be a decent meal to the least while I'm in.

My head turns over to Derpy, who is just putting her head and stuffing loads of the mashed potatoes. When her head was clear from that, I can see that all around her mouth were the coverings of the potatoes mashed, some crumbs of them around while she was chewing and swallowing them.

"Are you going to eat your dinner Brayden?" She asked me with question in her tone.

I turn to my food and take the fork, digging into the mashed potatoes. "You know the exact answer to that." I said, putting a smile on her face.

"Alright," She says excitedly. "I'm sure Dr. Stable doesn't want to let you out until you finished at least most of your dinner, so chow down! It won't be too long when the stars come out."

My eyes strayed briefly to the window beside my bed, seeing the sun setting over the western horizon. So I guess Nurse Redheart was right after all about the moon going to rise in a few hours after sunfall. Hmmm, best to start eating right away as I don't want to leave hungry and I am sure the doctor will see to that as well.

"Well, best for me to get started doing so Derpy." I said to her.

"That's the spirit!" She says to me excitedly. "By the way, you can just call me Muffins."

"Alright then Derpy." I stated to her with a smile upon my face.

I said no more to abide time, and use the fork of silver to dig right out a patch of mashed potatoes to begin having my dinner right away. By the time the doctor comes to see me, I'd already have finished every bite and drink of milk out of the cup. I am relieved inside to just be alive in the end.

Inside at the same time, I can feel relief that Equestria is safe once again from danger, and this relief... it was a good feeling to me and always would be good.

Nightmare Moon's POV

Canterlot Castle, 10:45pm

My eyes are perched down from the castle balcony of the tower towards the view of Ponyville below, each light from each house eventually starting to dim into black by a few passing minutes that come and go. I can feel the autumn wind against my coat, but I am not feeling a chill in any way. It's kind of what it felt like during my thousand year banishment to the moon while I was still a part of Princess Luna.

Where could she be you might be asking? She and Princess Celestia are hosting a bit of a private party for them and the Canterlot Council for the night after having recieved the final black book of the Dragon Queen from Sunset herself.

I remember being there this evening in my seat, no even speaking a single word and letting Celestia talk to the council cycling around the room while she showed the very book itself to all of them, acknowledging that it had existed after all. The council was in shock and there was a vote taken to keep the book locked up along with the rest of the other black books already been stored in the Forbidden section of Princess Luna's private library in her tower. Though there would be the exception where she will study it and learn a little more about this Dragon Queen and what she exactly is and what her prophecy would be if it is against Equestria in any way.

The meeting passed and I overheard Princess Luna saying that Brayden ended up in Ponyville Hospital. This brought great worry to me, but she was assuring me that she had checked up on Brayden while he was unconscious, and knew water was being pumped out of his lungs as one of the incidents mentioned was him getting hit by a bunch of cavern rocks on his escape from Mortem.

I was in great relief to hear that Brayden was still alive, and I had begged to myself that he wouldn't die. I guess I was lucky that time as the next time he goes someplace dangerous, he might not be so lucky that time. I could finally relax that there had been no losses during the group's journey into the darklands. It is time to put that to rest, for now.

With the ninth and final book in our possession, Luna can finally delve into the mysteries, for it could mark the beginning of a new, yet terrifying secret in the end of those dark pages. But what she studies will not be of my concern as I have different thoughts at the moment rather than studying and focusing on the danger that would threaten Equestria if it could.

It is no doubt that my heartbeat would increase a bit every time Brayden came into my mind, and those eyes just looking into my own. There is no doubt that these feelings I have been hiding from him... he is probably going to find out the next time that I talk with him in the dream realm. I understand he was thinking that he would like me at first, but I am not mourning that he had gone with Princess Twilight. She made the decision of allowing him to have her plus three other mares to love: one of them being Coco Pommel, the earth pony from Manehattan.

I keep these questions to myself each time he came to my mind. Would he be able to understand my love that has bloomed for him? How would he react? Does he still hold a secret affection for me as well?

I turn from my view of Ponyville below, heading into Celestia's room from her tower, where I had been standing on her balcony that whole time. Her room looks rather tidy tonight, and no guard in the presence there. Probably out to defend Celestia and Luna during the private party in case there are any intruders who would dare try to attack either of them... but me, I don't have any guards protecting me from those still trying to bring harm to me, though I would be with Celestia during that time.

Nopony is daring to fly in or come in though, so I feel a little safe in my mind. I do not even use my power for evil anymore, as mine is for good after that day Brayden spared me from death itself. My dark power is gone, so only half of my magic is still there for me to use in regards to reading books or studying. Other than that, I can't really have any of it fighting off others.

Wait a moment... that vial of golden fluid there... I recognize it.

My hooves trot over towards the vial sitting there alone with another vial of white fluids right by on the desk with ink and quills upon quills inside that she probably uses. Her phoenix pet Philomena, is also perched upon her stand, taking some rest while still guarding the rest of the princess' private chambers. The phoenix recognizes my presence, but I hear no objection coming from it, allowing me to roam and take a look about the room.

My horn channels magic and I can see that aura of mine cover up the vial of golden fluid inside. I bring it closer towards me, showing a little bit of curiosity about this and why she had been hiding it and the truth from Brayden for so long. The bits of various blood inside it, there's something rather strange about it.

"Soon enough... Brayden will find this and know the truth about the mystery behind this vial and the golden blood inside..." I thought to myself, knowing time would run out from hiding it anyway.

The white fluid filled inside the vial looks like it was already drunk out of by Celestia herself, probably looking back into the past to see exactly what happened in regards to this vial and why it is important. I don't want to take the risk of looking into the past yet as I could end up seeing my own banishment before my very own eyes. But what she might have seen might be the explanation of why she had been quiet and rather silent during the meeting of the duke and duchess of Maretonia to the attack of Lord Tirek. I will admit though... it was a rather brief time of her being so quiet, yet she looked so sad...

I am not sure, but I already know the mysery behind it after being told. Now Brayden has to hear of it, and once the word spreads of him finding out... I am clueless to whether Equestria's society will go into mass hysteria or they will take the news well enough without delving into something like that. But that is not what I should be thinking of... Oh my, I am overthinking the situation again.

I turn myself back to the view of Luna's moon and the stars far beyond in the galaxy, shining brightly as other worlds. The cosmos beyond our world, brings the brave human I know into my mind and a warm caring smile forms upon the mouth of my own face.

Brayden, I know you cannot hear this from my own thoughts, but know this. My heart is always with you, and will always love you, even if you don't know of it yet. But I hope you will understand these feelings I have been hiding from you and everypony else, who are unaware of it as of yet.

May the warmth of the night and stars be with you and keep you safe from harm... for I am always with you. That is a promise I am keeping, just for you...