Walking to the Castle was torture for Trixie. She kept thinking that she didn’t deserve any of this. Although she forgot about why she was in the post office what with having witnesses an irate Princess just after a mob descended upon her. The only thing that stuck within her head was that she didn’t know if she was able to take her life if she wasn’t able to get to the cliff side tonight. There was a gentle serenity there, and the only place she had, had peace over the last few months, but for some reason being near the Princess walking side by side with her made her want to bear her soul and tell her all the worst things she had done, “Princess I don’t remember why I was at the post office ... but I remember that I did something bad before I got there.”

The Princess gave her an inquisitive glance humming an affirmative tone letting Trixie know she was listening. “ Well ... This isn’t an excuse, what I did was wrong but I needed to send something to someponies. Seeing what I just saw kind of made my brain go blank at the moment. But since nopony will give me a job, and even when I tried panhandling I couldn’t get any bits. So ... I might have ... cut some purses to pay for Dragon Mail to send whatever I was sending.

So you see, I’m as horrible as everypony is saying I am. You and Princess Luna shouldn’t bother yourselves with me. At the very least stealing is worth of punishment.”

This was a testament to how much she had fallen. Where before she would have been prideful and would have shifted blame. Being without a home, monetary assets, or any form of acknowledgment of her exitance other than scorn. It had taken its toll on her and she was just tired. And it showed in everything she did.

“Well my little pony, it sounds as if you regret what you did, and if you had another way to survive you would have by the looks of you. But I’ll tell you what, I’ll assign you into three hundred hours of community service at the castle where my sister and I can see over your safety.” Celestia said with a soft smile. To which a disappointed Trixie just nodded as they walked past the scrutiny of the Canterlot Citizenry in silence.

Lulu can you hear me? I have some important news. Celestia said to Luna telepathically the irritation, anger, sorrow, and disappointment .

I can hear that it wasn't good. What is the matter?Luna replied. Celestia felt her very being freeze over at the coldness coming from her sister. It was a sacrifice of using telepathy, ones emotions were laid bare to who you were talking to. And Celestia could feel just how much this had hurt Luna, not Trixie persay, but what Trixie represented. The loss of Luna’s domain, the knowledge she imparted on the planet, and even the prejudice of those who were Lunarmancers. She couldn’t even begin to imagine the betrayl that Luna must be feeling.

Trixie we have found her and the guards were standing around when our subjects were assailing this poor mare? Or that actions of the thing we talked about earlier had made it impossible for her to get any form of income? Even as a beggar? I am highly disappointed at my little ponies. That they’d do this to a Mare who had no control over her actions. That I even went to the press and pardoned her, letting it known that, that particular amulet possessed and influenced its wielder. Apparently that wasn’t enough. I ... sister, I was wrong. I can't believe that I let this happen to our subjects, and I am so sorry that my negligence of your domain has helped lead to such a thing. Celestia gave both a physical and telepathic sigh.

Luna warmed a little after hearing the weight and truth of those ‘words’, I know. Well sister I figured this out last night when she went over her life. I’ve seen her memories that leaked into her dreams. I am disappointed as well. We seriously need to go over the laws and structure of this world and restructure things. I say it’s about time to shake things up. We’ll talk later about this, where is she though?

She’s with me. We’ll meet you in the Royal Dining Hall. You missed your diner and I don’t know the last time she’s had a decent meal.

As Luna broke contact Celestia felt an affirmative, je ne sais quio flutter through her mind letting her know that Luna agreed to what Celestia said. Looking over at Trixie she noticed that she was limping softly, and there were tiny abrasions that were leaking small rivulets of blood slowly trickling down her coat. Gently wrapping Trixie in an aura of magic Celestia lifted her. With a soft pulse of magic Trixie felt a cozy warmth that melted away her stress and caused her to drift to sleep as her body started to heal itself.

Luna had just arrived at the Dining Hall her mind ablaze if recent memories. Yes the things she told her sister while technically true, yet she could in a small degree sympathize with her. If there rules were reversed, and she had to send her sister to the sun. She would probably ignore the sun and it’s magic users just to avoid the painful memories and lack of familiarity of wielding the sun as well as the moon. But she would like to think that she was wise enough and filled with justice that she’d allow things to go as far as they did with her sister.

And the state of Equestria had truly sickened her in certain areas. How the nobility treated her and kept trying to pit sister against sister. Although she told Celestia, and her dear sister tried to help but like before nothing really seemed to help. Now that Twilight had ascended in Tartarus knows how, into an Alicorn status. Luna was getting even less attention than before most weeks out of the year. Even though she loved Twilight as a sister now in days, and was one of her few friends. She was known as ‘Princess Celestia’s Protoge’ ’. So her tie with the Ruler of the Sun was known enough to have the nobility swarm her. While she was treated with mistrust, malignancy, and the utter disregard for any life not their own. They were a corrupt, cesspool of tribalist and power grabbers.

And now the citizenry and those who upheld the very laws her sister sacrificed her heart to when she was younger, had failed her. Allowed a Mare whose crimes where unfairly judged without due process, and had been banished within the very land she lived in. It infuriated Luna not just because she could relate to this Mare, but that she was out right attacked with the support of the Guard. There was going to be hell to pay, but first there was the meeting of Nova’s descendant. both she, her sister, Cadance, and Twiligth had the first ever Princess Summit a week after Twilight’s ascension to get her used to duties. Seeing what needed fixed in Equestria, her having lived as a mortal in modern times, and to bounce ideas off one another. In that conference they had a marvelous idea, but hesitated on it seeing it as a plan c. If plans a - b flopped and by the actions of the citizens. It was at least better than plan bucking tartarus you’re fraked. Which was somewhere between z and throw the sun and / or moon at it.

Twilight and her list. It was truly a sight to behold. With Twilight’s help the education system had taken a huge overhaul, magic research had taken a good turn, and magitech was something that was going to be a viable commercial commodity rather than a limited item for the well to do, or those who could afford the more advanced labs. Luna shook her head getting her mind back on track, rather than the slight sense of pride at how fast a mortal took to godhood.

Even though physical injuries if big enough could kill them, poisons, and even black magic could end their lives. They were by no means invulnerable, but they ruled their providence, their divine domain, with an iron hoof. And was the conduit of it’s power throughout the planet. As well as a great amount of durability. But godhood had it’s drawbacks, and the current situation was that drawback. Living to see eons come and go, it was hard to stay connected with the short lives of mortals sometimes. It took time to get reconnected and was always a struggle to remain in the affairs of those whose lives passed all too soon.

The door creaking open as Princess Celestia and an unconscious Trixie entered the Dining Hall, “Why is she sleeping ‘Tia? I thought she was going to eat with us?” Luna asked her sister her eyes locked on the sleeping mare before them.

“Well the thing is, the attacks that were done to her had caused her body to limp, bones where fractured, and there were alot of cuts on her. I decided that she needed an Alicorn level healing spell to fix her up, and she might get a rejuvenating sleep while we talk before we get her talking about her last few months. Oh! I should tell you that she admitted to stealing money for Dragon mail, apparently the only one she could deal with that would deal with her probably. Ponies won’t give her the time of day. So to protect her she is working here for Community Service. It’s more of an excuse to keep her safe with us while we figure out what we’re going to do with our little ponies.” She exclaimed. A small smile struggling to dominate the frown plastered on her muzzle.

“So plan C? I’m thinking that we should go with plan C.” Luna said while clapping her forehooves together in an adorkable fashion. The excitement of finally doing plan C was oozing out of her very voice. As well as the mischievous spark that glowed behind her eyes.

“Honestly, I want to buck every single one of them to Tartarus right now. To think that her death would have been indirectly by the hooves of the ponies of Equestria makes me wish to show them how bad things could really be. I love all of them, but sometimes a more firm hoof is needed. But we’ll try plan C. When should we announce it to everypony?” She said that small smile at the start of the conversation long since died from what she was feeling.

“Not yet. Maybe in a week or so after we’ve gone through this for awhile and see what is really going on. I’m more interested in Trixie though. Say sister?” Luna said a distant look on her face.

“Hmmm?”

“Well Twilight was your student, and she turned out alright. I want to take Trixie as my own. Maybe after she’s settled and things are ready. We can make it part of the Community Service? Maybe?”

“And how Lulu is that Community Service?”

“Easy. We are part of the community, and she is serving me by learning what I have to teach. And I promise not to send them into the center of a Black Hole for punishments ... although I do not know why you have banned that, or Pony Transmogrification. They only needed to be done once to get a point across.”

“I banned them for being cruel and unusual, although the citizens were usually more well behaved when those punishments were one the table. Although brining those back was part of plan K. So we might just have to do that,” Sighing she shook her head, her mind awash with nostalgia, “I’m glad that my guesses were right about Starswirl’s spell and the Elements. Although they’ve yet to be effected as well. But Twilight really is good with those Checklists of hers. Well I guess I should wake her up.”

Trixie awoke to the smell of food. Not just any food, but the most divine smelling feast her nose had ever settled upon. Just as her stomach growled and her eyes lit up she saw the Princesses before her and every feature of her body visibly shut down. She kneeled before them waiting for her true judgment to pass now that nopony was their to witness it. The loathing and doubt that she had built around herself and the hatred that had been her life for three years had tarnished her ability to think that anyone would care for or about her. Especially not the Princesses who were the penultimate power of the world. The source of all light in the day and night for all the world.

Despite this the Princesses asked her to rise and throughout all of lunch didn’t accuse her of anything nor bash her for her past mistakes. It was just small talk, ranging from her thoughts on the food exquisite beyond imagination, to her thoughts on the weather no opinion., all the way up to her thoughts on the royal wedding was barred by everypony in charge of admittance because they didn’t want the place over run with Ursa “Majors”, and with my history with the Elements of Harmony I was to much of a threat to the peace. It's what in the end drove her to get the Alicorn Amulet. Imagine it, being banned from a public wedding for the masses, the biggest, most important wedding of her lifetime, all because of the bad parenting of two ponies..

Princess Celestia on the other hand was having a heated discussion with Princess Luna. Luna was giving Celestia a play by play memory from what was leaked during Trixies dreams accidentally as she was supplying supplimental information when relevant. But for the most part their talk fell on two particular things. How to keep her safe from herself without tipping their hooves, and how to get started on the biggest game plan of their lives, while setting up rules to prevent either of them to get too embarrased. It was those memories that to Celestia added a whole layer of information to what she was told by the Element Bearers, and she was going to have a long talk with them about it. Especially seeing as how they didn’t bother helping Trixie after she lost everything, and she knew she saw Twilight with that Cape and Hat last Nightmare Night.

With the tale tale sigh that Celestia was reaching the end of her considerable pool of patience, not at Trixie but at Equestria in general. Luna opted to speak up, “Well Trixie We have good news.”

“As part of your Community Service, you shall be my personal student until I say otherwise. How does that sound to you?” Luna asked.

“W-W-Why ... Why? I have failed to show that I can be great, or amazing. Why would you want me as your student?” Trixie asked Godsmacked.

“Because it’s not what a pony does when they succeed that defines them, but when they do when they don’t. That plus I can understand how you are feeling, having and in some areas still there myself. Think of it as a growing lesson for both of us. Also I think you would have the potential to be my protege’ more than you’d realize. So what do you say?” Luna said leaning forward with a small grin playing upon her muzzle.

Trixie let everything that Luna say sink in for all of five seconds before bouncing off the walls in ecstatically screaming, “Yes! Yes! Yes! ...” Repeatedly to the laughs of the Princesses before getting caught in an indigo aura of magic. This has to be a dream, no way would anything this good happen to me. The curse of our family states that for every good that happens to us, it’s like the moon, it waxes and wanes. But for use we never get another full moon in our entire lives. And I used all mine up just trying to findout what happened to the Mare on the Moon.

She saw the drifting closer to the horizon showing that she had only an hour before her messages were sent, “Um Princesses,” She said meekly, “I just remembered why I was in the post offices. I need to go and stop their delivery.”

“Don’t worry I already had it taken care of, and the letters will be returned to you once we get you set up in the castle.” Princess Celestia replied.

Even if looks had a monetary price on them, the look on her face would still be considered priceless. As her eyes widened, and a look of hope that had been missing in her life these last few months showed a trace of itself. Then she fainted.