Twilight and her entourage were getting worried.

Princess Celestia hadn't moved from her spot for a week now. She had been staring off into space the entire time, her eyes glazed over, mumbling to herself in a language that nopony (or draconequus) could decipher.

Eventually, it was decided that Celestia had gone brain dead after she had realized a paradox in her storytelling, and had seemingly found no way out of it. Twilight Sparkle took over the mantle of Princess of the Day, learning to raise the Sun from Luna. As Equestria's newest ruler, much skepticism from the nobleponies was directed towards her newest plans, but eventually everything smoothed out. Celestia, who was still unmoving, was declared by doctors to be "in a waking coma of some kind." She was relocated to a large, marble tomb in a secret room behind where her old throne once sat. In her throne's place was Twilight's own, made of lilac crystals that she stole borrowed from the Crystal Empire. Celestia was placed on her throne and moved to her new sanctum, whose entrance only the living Alicorns know about. To this day, she remains there, locked in a stare with the wall.

A funeral was held in her honor by the remaining Alicorns, because none of them believed that she had any chance of recovering (they still don't.) Luna was sad at first, but then she took the opportunity to try Dream Walking with the comatose ex-ruler. What she found startled everyone: Celestia was alive and dreaming constantly. She was—and still is—locked in a constant battle with her psyche to fix the paradox she unknowingly created. The two ruling Alicorns visit her dreams often to aid her in her endless quest against her own mind.

Discord has taken to placing bets on who will win.