Gazing to the Sky of Diamonds [Open - 1 or 2 slots available]

[Halide]

Canterlot University; a place of higher learning and understanding. A proud part of the Equestrian heritage, a pedestal upon which many wise and learned ponies stood, their heads turned to the future, to the beyond, and to anything else that one might turn their head towards to signify that they were full of brains, ingenuity, and themselves.

In stark contrast, there was Filly-Rye, who was mostly full of doubt, restlessness, and coffee cakes. Late into the night, the tubby orange student had been alone with her thoughts, her papers and her studies. Later and later into the night, she'd only managed to complete a paltry pair of assignments while further worrying a hole into her desk with her quills. Early, early, early before the morning, she sat alone where she rather didn't belong, at the very top of a hill, head tilted back and eyes agaze at the stars that hung above.

It was a clear sort of night to be out - a cold night for June, though the thick-coated farm-unicorn hardly minded such temperatures. But the stars hung about in all their infinite number, glittering with the promise of an endless void. They were beautiful, the stars. She never really stopped to look at them anymore, but they really were quite... beautiful. Her absence was unnerving her roommate, but right now, she didn't really need a roommate. She needed some way of setting her thoughts in order, and for all the candle-light, ink and quills in Equestria, one simply escaped her.

So, the somewhat squat mare's silhouette poked out at the top of the hill, the caramel-coloured unicorn with the stubby little horn feeling every bit as lost and distant from herself as the stars were from the earth. What was a student to do?