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“Alex, you forget.  We say everything with soul have magic,” Luna said, gently reminding me of a previous conversation.  “Same go in reverse.  Everything with magic, have soul.  But… Well, when say sun, moon, planet have mind its own, that… true, but at same time… really not.  They have mind, dream, wish, but they different from ours… Alien, slow, ageless, but at same time so, so young.”

I thought about this for a few seconds, trying to work out what she meant.  “So… if the star tried to hold a conversation with me, it would act like…?”

“Best analog be small, three year old child with huge ego,” Celestia said with a barely restrained laugh.  “It be quite wise when wants be, but at same time it no concept simple thing, like sleep, or time.  It get petulant sometime when I say time move, but still obeys because it thing.  Have soul, but no real will.”

I giggled a little, the concept somewhat funny to me.  “You’re saying it whines at you when you tell it to go down sometimes?”

She thought about this, her stare a thousand miles away.  “Not… exact.  Hard describe, since sun no actual speak.  Just emotion, passion.  Like very large dog.”

“So... “ I said, as I stood up and brushed myself off.  “That’s the plan, then?  Use the sun as a demented tetherball, knocking any invading bugs out of the sky? And if they’re too close for that, we smack them with the moon?”

“Exactly,” Sun said with a smile.

I gave a low whistle.  “Boy, you weren’t kidding when you said that we’d have bigger problems if they destroyed your weapon…” I said, shaking my head in disbelief.

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