Twilight should have responded by now. Celestia stopped pacing around her room and flopped down on her elaborately woven floor pillow.

The minutes stretched longer. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Tick-

Somepony knocked on her door.

Celestia stood and smoothed her stark white coat. "Come in."

Oh. It was one of her royal guards. "Princess Celestia!" He said anxiously. "Princess Twilight has come to Canterlot." He lowered his voice. "And she bought humans."

Celestia only barely stopped the gasp that came up her throat. Humans. She hadn't spoken with a human since…

"Do they come in peace or war?"

"Peace…I think."

"Lead me to them."

The guard saluted her and quickly walked down a hallway. They turned left at the end of the corridor, and the unicorn guard used his magic to open the door to Canterlot Castle's throne room. Celestia raised her head and shifted into a flowing gait. She stood in front of her throne, not bothering to sit down.

"Escort them in." Celestia ordered her guards.

Twilight and her friend Rainbow Dash led in a group of four humans. Celestia studied them until her eyes came to rest on a metal rod on one of the men's belt. She quickly checked the others, and sure enough, the three others also had them. Lightsabers. Jedi.

"Princess Celestia," Twilight began, then she introduced the humans. Obi-wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, Tiegan Drake, and Anakin Skywalk-wait, Skywalker? A flood of memories washed over Celestia. But then she pushed them away. This Jedi was obviously not her former Padawan.

"Our ship crashed not far from here, Princess," Obi-wan Kenobi said. "We have wounded. I am positive we can repay you for whatever supplies you offer."

"I will help you." Celestia gave one of her guards a nod, then turned back to the Jedi. "But only under the condition that you do not mention this repaying again. I strongly believe in offering help to those in need." She gave them a small wink and a smile. "Besides, Equestria has always been allied with the Jedi."

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Allied with the Jedi? Tiegan's eyebrows jumped at Celestia's statement.

So that means that this is not a new planet. Celestia knows about us. But how? I don't remember anything about Equestria in the Jedi Archives. And if we had an allegiance with them then certainly there should be some record of it. Something isn't adding up.

As Tiegan tried to come up with plausible answers to her questions, Anakin decided to say what everyone was thinking. "Allied with the Jedi? Care to elaborate?"

Celestia smiled again. "In time."

The door to the throne room was thrown open with a bang, and every head snapped around to look. A regal, midnight blue Equestrian strode into the room. Her long shimmering hair looked much like the night sky.

"Luna," Celestia said to the new arrival.

"Luna" tossed her head and strode to Celestia's side.

"This is my sister Luna." Celestia explained.

She's independent. Quiet, but not as arrogant as she looks. See the way she keeps glancing at Celestia? She cares what her sister thinks.

Luna; that means "night". Hmmm. Fitting. She has a crescent moon on her hip. She's also dark colored. I wonder what it all means.

Like Celestia, Luna wore a chest plate, crown, and shoes made of crystal. She appeared to be intrigued by the Jedi, but not as shocked as Tiegan had expected. So maybe Luna knows about us too.
Instead of addressing the Jedi, Luna turned to her sister. "I thought we were going flying."

"Luna, meet our newcomers."

Luna raised an eyebrow and glanced at them. "Hmph. Jedi. I haven't seen one of you for awhile."

"Yes, we were just getting to that." Obi-wan said. "Princess Celestia?"

Celestia straightened and said. "Very well. Follow me."