Looking above toward her moon, she gazed upon the source that …show more content…
But that it reminded her of the thousand years spent on a barren moon with not a single soul to comfort her. She felt a kindred spirit. One that she felt obligated to reach out to.
Deep within EverFree, a blackened plume of smoke rose past the treetops. Glowing heat and cinder danced freely, lighting dimly the crater and the foliage that jutted from the scorched earth in an orange light. Entire scores of trees and flora cleared by the skidding impact leaving a barren trail to the darkened crater where the ominous lights leaked. Not just the light from the sweltering heat and charred trees, but another light. An unnatural, artificial white light.
From the depths, unseen machinery whirred to life. The sound, as if wheels of steel rotated at impossible speed. The metallic stirring frightened off droves of glowing eyes and stirred awake small critters hours shy of their proper waking hour.
As dawn approached and the heat quelled under the winds of an approaching rainstorm. A hiss emerged from the pit as Celestia's sun rose. The sound began life slowly, controlled, but loud. As time went on the noise died out, as if losing steam. A clunk of metal and humming emanated from the pit. From the hole, voices echoed from off the hollowed earth as if being trapped in a