The stars were shimmering outside her window as Celestia turned her back to them in order to look over the papers lying on her desk.Some magical mishap in Ponyville had delayed her work and she now found herself tending to the paperwork for this years Grand Galloping Gala late into the night. A knock echoed through her room as she settled down to read."Sister, are thou in there?" It was Luna."Yes Luna, come on in" Celestia answered in her calm and soothing voice.The door creaked open and in stepped the queen of night."Celestia, thou shouldn't hath to deal with these preparations all on your own. Please, let us help.""Thank you for the offer Luna, but it's fine really. There isn't much left for me to do anyway. The gala planners did most of the work already, I just need to approve their choices." Celestia smiled reasuringly yet couldn't keep herself from uttering a small yawn."Uh-hu" Her sister responded with a raised eyebrow. "I do not think so sister" she said and levitated the papers off of Celestia's desk and towards herself. "I can handle these whilst thou head of to sleep""Luna really it's fine, you have plenty of other things to do I'm sure. Besides I have always worked on the arrangements of the gala" Celestia protested in a still very calm and collected tone."Nonsense sister. I hath plenty of time to go through some simple documents. Besides it is long since my turn to plan for one of these" She said playfully and browsed through the papers with her magic."But I already had a theme in mind" Celestia said and tried to grab the papers back with her own magic.Luna quickly yanked them out of her magical grip."Forget it Sun-Butt, these are mine now" Luna said and stuck her tounge out in a childish gesture. A side of her only a select few got to see. "Now marsh to bed young lady!" She continued and backed out the door."I'm older than you Lu-Lu!" Celestia shouted as her sister slammed the door shut and could be heard trotting down the hall.The white queen laughed slightly at her little sister and smiled. She turned to her pheonix companion sitting on the perch next to her."Maybe Luna has a point" Clestia yawned once again "I could use some sleep"Philomena chirped in agreement and then went back to preening her feathers.But before Celestia could get up from her seat she could hear ruckus coming from outside her open window. It sounded like her guards apprehending someone down on the castle catwalk below. Curious, Celestia sat and listened.The night guards could be heard clearly telling someone to stay put."Identify yourself!" the intimidating growl of Noctis echoed as she assumably just swooped in from her patrol."Please just listen to me. I need to talk to queen Celestia!" a mare answered meekly, obviously scared.Celestia stared blankly at the desk infront of her. That voice. She recognized that voice!But how? Was she... alive?Celestia snapped out of her thoughts and spun around to quickly dart out the window and fly down to the comotion below her. Not even pausing to check if her ears had been correct.---------------------------------Cliffhanger.Some people already know who it is out there, kind of, because of my stream.This is part of the "major" storyline.I also wanted to throw in some casual interactions between Celestia and Luna.A tiny bit of Noctis thrown in too. She patrols around the castle and Canterlot at night and was passing overhead when she saw a strange mare sneaking around the castle walls.On a random sidenote, in my verse Celestia and Luna are not Princesses but Queens. Twilight and Cadence are still titled Princesses though.