A story inspired by some images of Princess Luna that popped up on Equestria Daily, combined with an over-active imagination perhaps. Perhaps some of you will know this but I dislike or shy away from permanent changes in stories sometimes. Personally, its because in most instances the change just doesn't work, but there is one change that I feel is a constant, that if you do it right, works very well. Life, death, taxes, the three constants of human existence. Everyone encounters them.<br /><br />Boys, girls, men, women, the old, the young. Life always ends for us in the real world. Of course in fiction there are exceptions. Obviously, immortality or resurrection are two good examples. My personal take though is this change should, unless previously indicated by the in story universe that there is a possible exception, always stick.<br /><br />In this case there is no indication of an exception, apart from that of Luna and Celestia. Storywise this doesn't connect to anything else and so has no exception. <br /><br />Diligent reading hopefully isn't needed to realised that whoever the change affects is not answered in the story. Everyone should note that it is kind of open as to who Luna was here for, but in a way this story is a sort of spiritual successor to, or evolution of a prior story called DABDA in theme and a few other things. A hint or two lie here and there, but as for who it was? Don't look too hard for an answer in the story, you'll be better off looking here.<br /><br />***<br /><br />If someone spots the answer, and given that there's a 50/50 chance you'd guess right, also explains <i>how</i> they spotted the answer, I might do a follow-up to this that explores the aftermath. But this one was written as a little experiment again, to try and see if I can pull off a sad story. I mention it was related in theme to DABDA, and indeed shares some of the same little tricks used there, minus the fact that there is a character present in the other story who can and may very well undo the change in that story.<br /><br />Here, the characters who could undo such a change in theory cannot. <br /><br />I had planned to put an aftermath as part of this but I hope that where I did end it has more of an impact. Plus, a separate aftermath after the initial cliffhanger/mystery means that I can avoid having to avoid naming a name if I want to take the aftermath far enough. <br /><br />I should also admit that when I first had the idea it <i>was</i> Granny Smith. But that's too easy to predict and too easy to accept.<br /><br /><br /><a class="external" href="https://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56dsP6SZkWE">[link]</a> <a class="external" href="https://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMHJ7ZxgP08">[link]</a> <a class="external" href="https://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKTECUF-F1k">[link]</a><br /><br />By the way, does anyone know how to get smallcaps to work on dA? <img src="https://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/r/razz.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="=P" title="=P (Razz)"/> I have a psuedo- workaround <br />&lt;sub*&gt;&lt;font size="2"*&gt;&lt;/font*&gt;&lt;/sub*&gt; but the real deal would be better.