Rarity looked at the mirror and frowned. Her mane was a mess. She tried to levitate a brush to fix it but couldn´t get a hold of it. Spike heard her very unlady like cursing and walked in to help her. Rarity giggled.

"What´s so funny?" Spike asked while combing her mane.

"I was just remembering. When you were little you had to use a stool to comb my mane now look at you, so tall and handsome," she said.

The adolescent dragon blushed and kept brushing her mane in silence.

"Thank you darling, that would be enough. Tell me, where is Twilight?"

"I think she is at the balcony."

"Think I will join her. Could you be a dear and get us a cup of tea? it´s getting cold."

"Sure thing Rarity!"

"You´re such a sweetheart," she said and gave him a little kiss on the cheek.

She giggled once more when she saw him stumbling downstairs. After all these year, he still acted like a little child around her. Rarity went upstairs, cursing her old legs for complaining. She regretted that she never bothered to learn a proper teleportation spell but then again at her age she was in no shape to try stunts like that. She finally reached the balcony and found Twilight in a couch, next to her telescope.

For a second she saw her like she used to be, a regal alicorn princess with her radiant wings and flowing mane. But the illusion faded and Twilight was still a simple elder unicorn.

"Oh Rarity, didn´t hear you coming," Twilight said, obviously squinting behind her glasses.

"I´m surprised you´re not at the library, honey."

"It´s a little too late to be reading. Besides, it´s such a wonderful night," she said, looking back at the night sky.

Rarity smiled and moved next to her. Twilight levitated a blanket and extended it over Rarity. Rarity smiled at her, keeping quiet the little sting of envy at watching her still able to perform magic. They both looked at the stars that twinkled in harmony.

Rarity soon grew bored of the silent stars and looked at Twilight. Time had make a work on her, her mane was a light tone of purple, heading for gray in some areas. There were some clear wrinkles under her glasses and the eyes behind them had that peculiar glow, the one that told of memories that replaced childhood dreams. Twilight noticed she was watching her and turned to look back, a gentle smile on her face.

"Do you hate me, Twilight?" Rarity suddenly asked.

Twilight´s eyes returned to her youthful state, filled with confusion at such a question.

"You had everything you always wanted. You were a Princess with all the power and knowledge of that title plus the gift of immortality, the gift to have all the time to search for more answers. And I stole all of that from you with just one kiss...", Rarity said and hold Twilight´s chin.

The memory of that day returned to them, a day decades ago. Rarity remembered little details like both wearing their respective Elements of Harmony or how Applejack was missing her hat that day. Twilight remembered a bigger picture like Spike and the grown up Crusaders being there and the tears on Shining and Cadence. They both remembered the vows and Celestia´s warning that there was no turning back, that Twilight will never recover her powers and that there was no escape from death now. They both remembered nodding and then the kiss, the magic flowing between them and then Twilight´s body shining as her wings faded.

Rarity remembered one more detail, a tiny gray hair on Twilight's mane appearing just after they finished kissing.

"That kiss sentenced you to death. Some nights I can´t sleep knowing that, knwoing that because I was unable to turn into an alicorn you had to lower to my level. I can´t help but think that you must hold a terrible grudge against me," Rarity said.

Now it was Twilight´s turn to lift her chin, "Why would you even think such a thing? I don´t hate you and I never will and, if we got a second chance, one to run you into an alicorn so that we can both share eternity...I would have turned it down."

Rarity´s face rejuvenated this time, looking at Twilight with a very silly and confused expression.

Twilight giggled while she explained. "I love you Rarity and I treasure every moment I spent with you. But if time has taught me a lesson if that every one of those moments had a purpose. I don´t need to spend eternity searching for an answer, I only need to share every day until the last one with you."

She then leaned her head against Rarity´s. She returned the favor and they both laid i the couch, their eyes closed and a smile on their faces.

Spike sit down in the stairs holding a tray with two steaming cup f tea. He decided to wait a few minutes, letting them share that moment under the bright stars.