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A Lifetime of Dreams

By Sunn
Created: 2021-03-06 12:17:13
Expiry: Never
anonluna

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    >In all her years Luna had only ever felt true fear once
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    >When she knew naught the fate that awaited her, Celestia, or Equestria as Nightmare Moon took over her mind
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    >But that fear returned when she found herself facing the loss of the human she had come to love
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    >Anonymous was his name, and he was a curious being from beyond her stars and perhaps even further still
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    >Luna's curiosity began in his dreams
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    >The dreams of ponies were holistic in nature
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    >They all had some meaning to them
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    >But his were beyond rhyme or reason
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    >The laws of physics and reality needed not apply to the subconscious of the alien creature
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    >Strange events and characters intermingled and countless environments of countless periods of times churned and writhed in his mind
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    >She had given up trying to make sense of them or correcting them as his subconscious was all too eager to return to the maddening mindscape
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    >When she attempted to contact the human and enquire on his dreams his only explanation was that it was common for his species
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    >Finally after several months of observing the dreams, for amusement if nothing else, she felt as though she overstepped a line
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    >His dream that night had roiled and spun endlessly as had all the others
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    >Then suddenly it stopped and the world seemed to shatter like glass
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    >So violent was the tearing of the mindscape it nearly hurled her out of it
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    >But this new sensation intrigued her, so she rooted herself in the dream as best she could until the dream settled
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    >Then, as quickly as it came, the shift ended
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    >Luna found herself glancing into a small room, decorated with pictures of other humans, some of them resembling Anonymous
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    >Scattered in corners of the room were pieces of plush furniture
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    >Upon one of them sat a sight most curious
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    >A human, now what she knew to be Anonymous in his younger years, enshrouded in a tangling of limbs from two much older humans
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    >They simply sat their, locked in embrace
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    >Were it not for the slight shifting of their gangly limbs and soft huff of breathes, Luna would have thought them to be a statue
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    >Before she could step into the room Luna was halted by the sound of a gentle sniffle
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    >With a blink, Anonymous in his present form appeared in front of the family, yet was left unnoticed
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    >His eyes were locked solely on the three, flicking between the three with greater intensity and speed with each passing second
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    >Each flick of the eyes caused his gasps to grow shallower, his chest heaving deeper and deeper
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    >His whimper becoming more pronounced
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    >Finally, like the breaking of a dam, he collapsed, as if he no longer had the strength to bear the weight of his own body
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    >He fell to his knees and his face fell to the floor, sobs wracking his form, and tears falling endlessly but never hitting the floor
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    >Yet still, he went unnoticed, the three were blinded by the shared bliss of the tender familial moment
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    >Luna could only make out two word through his cries
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    >"I'm sorry"
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    >She thought she knew what to do here
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    >She was sorely wrong
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    >Her hoof tapped the door as she made to approach Anonymous
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    >Yet it echoed and shrieked with such intensity she had to push her hooves to her ears
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    >She looked to Anon hoping for an answer as to what was occuring
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    >Yet her eyes only met rage
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    >Before she could try to explain, Luna's form was hurled out of the dream, slamming back into the magical hub of connected subconscious that linked her to dreams
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    >After that night she rarely found Anonymous' mind
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    >On the night's she did find it, it was sealed and locked tight, and her magic could not ease it open
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    >Torturing oneself with past mistakes, losses and memories of home
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    >Luna was all familiar with how deep that pit went, but knew little of its true extent
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    >All she knew is that it never ended
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    >She found resolve in that thought
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    >Even when she found naught but rejection from the human
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    >However, the moon's luck shined on her one night
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    >While walking the grounds to clear her head, she bumped into him
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    >He had been entranced by the architectural achievement that allowed a city to rest on a mountainside and decided to visit
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    >Luna seized this opportunity as best she could
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    >While she made little progress, she was able to convince him she was not purposefully invading
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    >He had even agreed to try and let her into his dreams again
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    >Over time, his dreams began to settle more and more
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    >According to him it only occured when she visited
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    >Luna could not deny that she took great pride in this knowledge
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    >As dreams shifted to meetings, and meetings shifted to something more, Luna found herself feeling closer to him
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    >He admitted to sharing her feelings of isolation and abandonment, and the violent afterthoughts of taking the attention back by force
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    >They shared their troubles of not understanding this new world or how it works
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    >Even with years of acclimation, Luna never felt like this Equestria was hers anymore
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    >She had no hoof in its moulding, no say in its goings on
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    >Celestia had done her best, and Luna faulted her sister naught for her own discomfort
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    >Celestia had even gone out of her way to try and recreate a millennium old celebration which Luna was quite fond of
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    >The celebration had fallen out of favor and Luna began to see why
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    >But she kept up the charade of enjoying it
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    >Seeing the normally stuffy and indignant nobles dress in millenium old garb was a priceless memory
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    >The laughter at the absurdity of the events and the remembrance of days gone by she shared with her sister was even more precious though
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    >But sharing this feeling of loneliness when surrounded by those who accepted you with another was a great comfort for her
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    >One evening, after sharing a bottle two centuries too old for the human's constitution to handle, his inebriation led to him letting his final wall fall
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    >Luna came to learn how he ended up in Equestria, and she felt like she had a greater understanding of his apologetic dream
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    >Equally inebriated herself, Luna brought up the dream that nearly killed their relationship before it began
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    >No words, slurred or otherwise, were spoken
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    >But a soft sobbed shook his body
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    >Luna simply took him into her wings and hooves, and let him lull himself to sleep
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    >Upon the next morning's rising sun, Luna felt nothing but dread
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    >She dreaded being pierced by those hateful eyes again
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    >Once more she had intruded where she wasn't invited
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    >His mind was slack with booze and nostalgia from his own past
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    >When she bumped into the human again, Luna was stunned to silence as he wrapped her in his arms and thanked her
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    >With no reconciliation needed, Luna was eager to enjoy her new found partner as deeply as she could
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    >She did not anticipate how deep that enjoyment would go for either of them
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    >As her own troubles and his linked, they spun synchronously, like cogs in a machine
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    >The two felt true belonging besides each other
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    >Strangers to each other and to the world they were in
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    >But they were strangers together
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    >Yet as their troubles fell into each other, so too did Luna and Anon fall into each other emotionally, mentally, and eventually physically
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    >The completeness of the connection shared that first night shook them both to their core
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    >Yet here she is, years later, and happily wed, but she felt nothing but dread
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    >His love seemed so serene
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    >So harmless
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    >But as she awoke each day a nagging thought poked at the back of her mind
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    >Eventually it broke through completely
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    >His mortality
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    >Luna was still so new to this world, and she knew she would not be truly accepted for several generations
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    >Not with the shadows of her past hanging on her head
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    >That familiar deep purple approached her once
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    >But she was far stronger than before, and sealed it deeper in her mind than before
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    >Even if it meant being alone, it would be better than returning to her
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    >As time passed her mind began to distance itself from her kingdom and more to her predicament
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    >Age spells were not possible, since Anonymous bore no magic
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    >Petrification was possible, but again his lack of magic brought her to question how well his constitution would endure it
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    >Finally her mind wandered to the dreamscape
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    >A place of near infinite potential, and a human subconscious mad enough to harness it
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    >With their beings so intimately entwined it was not too difficult to link their subconscious together
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    >Thus, Luna began her journey with her other half that crossed the cosmos to be by her side
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    >With his mind able to recreate endless worlds, and her magic able to stabilise and warp it, she found his immortality
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    >A lifetime to live and love each other
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    >Each and every night
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    >The first few nights left him muddled and dazed, living nearly a century a night was taxing on the constitution of his mind and body
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    >While the dreams were placed on hold briefly there was no need to worry
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    >The doctors, after quadruple checking him at Luna's behest, found no medical reason for concern
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    >Anonymous had stated a belief that waking up to her warmth each time helped settle him back into the waking world
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    >As countless lifetimes passed they celebrated yet another anniversary
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    >Such events were saved for the waking world, as neither of the two had any wish to retire from that world
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    >But neither were either of the two eager to retire from the dream or each other’s side
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    >Countless more lifetimes stretched out in front of them, and Luna was determined to remember every second

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