“Dream! My dearest sister!”

Princess Golden Dream heard the familiar sound of her jubilant sister and her prancing up and down the hall. Knowing Golden Darkness would just let herself in, she waited sheepishly on her bed.

“Look, look!”

Her elder sister exclaimed, her long beautiful mane bouncing as she whipped her head back and forth. It was beginning to make Dream incredibly dizzy.

“You sure seem excited, I’m surprised to see you home so early.”

She paused for a moment. Whether it was royal duty or a diplomatic outing, Golden Darkness was always doing one thing or another and Golden Dream waited around for her.

“Stand still!”

Dream grabbed the sides of her sisters head with her hooves and observed the beautiful silver stars that she didn’t have on that morning. She absolutely adored them, everything in the kingdom was so colorful, but the white sparkles of these little things danced in her heart as they did her eyes.

All at once it was torn from her as her sister began to prance around again.

“That’s exactly it! I had to rush back home right away! Oh you should have been there! All of the kingdom should have been there!”

Golden Darkness’ voice echoed through the room as she only got more excited, her arms raised above her head acting as the stage for her tale. The younger princess could only feel herself begin to shrink beneath it.

Her sister went on to describe accompanying her love to her quarters. Pieces of crystal that hung above the window made colors dance upon the walls, fooling Darkness into thinking Sterling Rainbow wanted to show off her latest project.

She had to admit the retelling was so vivid it was almost like she could live vicariously through her sister, something that became all the more real as the earrings were removed and placed in her hooves.

“I asked her about the biggest crystal that I couldn’t reach. When she brought it down I realized it was huge! She broke it in half for me and these were inside.-”

Golden Dreams heart began to swell, the warmth of the light, the warmth of a pony in love as her sister held them with her.

“-Don’t you get it? Don’t you get what this means? We’re going to be married.”

These words were muffled by a ringing in Dreams ears.

Even she didn’t understand why it surprised her so much, Darkness was being dramatic about the whole thing after all, she and Sterling Rainbow had technically been betrothed since they were both three.

She was soon left alone with her own thoughts, her sister putting the earrings back in and prattling off more happy nonsense to herself.

It slowly began to dawn on her, her sister would go off to be the Queen of somewhere while she couldn’t even get a prince to notice her with a horn on her head and wings on her back. There was little time left.

She would have a love like that no matter what it took, unaware that there was somepony out there who felt the same way as her.

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Here we have a flashback scene with Golden Darkness https://www.deviantart.com/glitterfleshgum/art/Celestia-and-Luna-have-two-mommies-910147539 and her younger sister. You all know Princess Golden Dream as the alicorn princess from the love potion story.

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