Anothter posting from my Equestria dreamscape. Recently I had in my sleep succeeded in creating a horrible monster in Twilight's kitchen http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6272094/ . The fallout of that was Twilight immediately sending a letter to Princess Celestia and then informing me that first thing in the morning we'd be traveling to Canterlot to see her. Well things moved faster than that.

At about five in the morning we were woken by someone knocking at the library door. Outside we found three pegasus of the Royal Guard and a waiting sky chariot. In quick order and without much explanation myself, Twilight, Petina and Spike were piled into the chariot and we were on our way to Canterlot. The third pegasus paid a visit to Fluttershy's home to retrieve one of the whookits I had also created http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6271825 . In no time we were landing at the palace and being quickly escorted to an atrium garden on palace grounds. We were told to stay there and then our escorts departed.

Several minutes later after sunrise a small entourage arrived in garden with Princess Celestia at the head. With practiced grace and efficiency the servants set up a table with a breakfast spread on it and silk cushions for us to sit on. Then with equal grace the servants departed leaving us in alone in the garden.

At this point formal introductions were made. Now I was afraid I'd find myself utterly tongue tied however I found much to my surprise it was very easy to speak to Celestia. So my first impressions of the Ruler of Equestria. The closest comparison I think of is to compare her with one the high elves from Tolkien's Middle Earth. Fair, beautiful and terrible to behold. Her essence exudes Royalty.

However having now met her face to face I better understand the other ponies relationship with her. It is my impression that ponies do not worship Celestia as much as they revere her. She is not some deity worshiped out of fear and dread, but instead she is someone that the ponies try to by like. She is a role model which other the ponies look to for inspiration and hope. Each one striving to find that little bit of Celestia in them. And no pony wants to fail her, for I am left with the feeling that far worse than any cursing she could give you the look of disappointment in her eyes would be far more terrible to behold.

Now I was expecting to receive relentless questioning from her Highness but much to my surprise we instead had a very pleasant breakfast in garden. She asked me several questions about my impressions of Ponyville and the ponies I'd met there. She examined the sketches that I've drawn but had not transformed into three dimensional objects. She examined the whookit that the one guard had retrieved from Fluttershy's home. She then asked me to draw something and bring it to live. As a result the palace garden now has one more butterfly. She also cast a couple spells on me.

It was her opinion that all the creatures I had created possessed a unique individual spark of existence which meant they were actually living beings and not magically animated props of my magic. She also determined that their creation was not tapping into my or any other ponies vitality, life force, or soul. This made Twilight feel better but she was still very bothered that I could wield such powerful magic since she could find no reference to any other pony possessing the talents I was exhibiting. Although Twilight's comments did result in Celestia giving me a couple of very penetrating stares; as if she was trying to pierce some mask that hid my true nature from her.

Meanwhile I was starting to wonder where this whole discussion was heading since Celestia had not yet asked me any real probing questions about my past or where I had received my schooling. On top of that I was very certain that our little breakfast in the garden was wreaking havoc on the Princess's carefully choreographed schedule of audiences and meetings. Still here we sat in the garden and enjoyed our scones and tea. What I was soon to find out was that Celestia had a test planned for me.