Celestia didn't want very much. She was happy to spend her youth learning how to farm with her adoptive father. She was happy learning how to cook from her adoptive mother. She was happy to play hide and seek with her little sister Luna, and stare at the stars with her on those warm summer nights. But when the world began to freeze with unnatural snow and ice, and the pony tribes began to go for each other's throats, Celestia's world is undone, and all she wants is to protect her little sister, no matter what.
But between ravenous snow spirits, superstitious ponies, and the machinations of those who would use them for their own ends, Celestia will struggle at every corner. Matters only become that much harder when her little sister begins to hear a voice in her dreams, calling her across the frozen wilderness with the only words Celestia remembers her true mother saying.
"Rise and shine."
A special thank you goes out to my editor, Chromio.
It is best to read this story with Night Mode turned on.
Chapter and cover art were all made by me.
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Prologue [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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I - The Mare in The Storm [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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II - A Foal's Tears [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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III - Growing Bonds [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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IV - The Two Sisters [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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V - Cold Omen [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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VI - Creeping Cold [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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VII - Closed Doors [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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VIII - Into The Cold [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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IX - Under The Ice [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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X - What The Snow Stole [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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Interlude I - A Shared Loss [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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XI - Haunted and Hunted [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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XII - Silence [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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XIII - Flatstone [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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XIV - Left Behind [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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XV - Throb and Fester [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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XVI - Another Turn [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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XVII - Sparks [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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XVIII - Smoke [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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XIX - A Helping Hoof [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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XX - Across Frozen Hills [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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XXI - Innocence Lost [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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XXII - Frostbite [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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Interlude II - What Fury Wrought [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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