Many,
many years ago, there were no stars in the sky, and there was no moon
above. The night was simply blackness, and nopony ever went out in
it. This is the story of how the night got its stars, and of the
mare in the moon.
Once
upon a time there was a princess, and she ruled over all of
Equestria. Her ponies were happy and they loved her, and she loved
them too. But one pony, who she loved more than any other, was her
little sister. The princess and her sister would always be found
toget

Another lovely day was
dawning in the little town of Ponyville. One could call the town
backwater, but that wouldn’t quite do it justice. True, it was out
of the way and off the beaten paths of Equestria. True, it bordered
the Everfree Forest, a wild place mostly inhospitable to civilized
creatures for a millennium. And true that except for its rather
close proximity to Canterlot and Cloudsdale, it would probably be
populated entirely by earth ponies who would gawk in awe at ever
seeing an