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>Burns and blisters
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>Your own skin splitting
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>Your own blood boiling in your veins
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>Yet before these things can bother you they vanish
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>A trait you once savored and cherished
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>The ability that had saved you countless times and allowed you to save those you cared about in turn countless times
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>Your immortality
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>You remember a pony from long long ago tried explaining it to you in ways you could understand
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>Your forceful breach of the dimensional rift between your old world and here created a temporal lock
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>You were locked in the prime of life with no way to undo it
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>Everyday for what's felt like an eternity, you've remembered that kernel of knowledge
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>It's all you can remember about that pony
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>What was their name
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>What did they look like
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>You knew that once upon a time you knew their name
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>But not anymore
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>Your blood's boiling again
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>Of course, as soon as you notice it's gone
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>Forcefully pulling yourself out of your own head you lift your eyes to scan the horizon
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>Same as everywhere else
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>Barren flat earth, cracked and withered, the only noticeable landmarks being the collapsing crags in the distance
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>No plants grow, the heat's killed them all
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>No clouds offer any shade, the heat's completely eliminated all the water vapor in the air
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>Then you hear it again
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>The crackling of fire
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>You clamp your hands over your ears, desperately trying to block it out
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>But it's in your head now, the tongues of solar fire slithering into your brain
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>Reminding you of the reality you tried to escape in your mind
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>As your wracked nerves cause you to tremble, you turn your head
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>Despite being so far away, you could swear the sun was inches from your nose
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>The peaceful ball of light and warmth from a billion years ago is gone
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>Replaced by a mad titan of plasma and radiation
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>You could feel your retinas burning and reforming again
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>It means nothing anymore
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>Your body may have been time locked to remain the same way, but your mind wasn't
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>Mental adaptation has allowed you to no longer feel pain
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>A sweet surcease from the world, ultimately hollow
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>This is the way it's been for millions of years
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>No ponies, no-
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>There it was again, you knew that you knew about other species before
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>You met them, watched countless of their generations be born into the world and watched them turn to dust
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>Even the concept of time has turned to dust in your mind
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>There's no life here, no time, no dust
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>Just you
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>You and the only thing that's stopped you going mad
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"Not a thing! Pony! She's a pony! Alicorn!"
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>Smacking yourself a few times you try to resolidify that knowledge of her
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>Celestia
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>The first face you saw when you were first pulled here
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>She had been a steadfast constant in your life
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>Even more so when it was discovered you were immortal
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>You still remembered that day, at least fragments of it
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>Most of it was her
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>"Anon-" "-onely is our li-" "-uld stay if you wan-"
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>It was like trying to catch the spots in your vision
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>They were only there when you didn't pay attention
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>That's why you spent most of this past decade in your head
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>It helped you remember her
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>But you were sick of your own company after day one
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>You so dearly wanted to go back to her
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>Yet, ever the coward, you just fled faster and farther, until you were lost
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>But you were close again now
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>You could feel it
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>Feel her
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>The last immortal
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>Once more your eyes trace the horizon and there you see her
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>A single white dot painted against a barren landscape
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>Dragging your feet against the desert floor you slowly make your way over to her
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>After days, or months, or seconds passed, you weren't sure anymore, you finally arrive at her side
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>Her ivory coat as pristine as ever, her feathers still sharply pointed down
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>Even her mane's remained the same
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>The shimmering flow of ethereal light
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>It can still mesmerize you like it did when you first met her
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>You try to take a breath to calm your nerves
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>But you're reminded of the lack of atmosphere as your lungs ring hollow
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>With a brilliant burst of gold Celestia's horn bursts to life and cool air rushes your system
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>The rush of fresh cold air invades your system, and your decades starved, hollow body sucks in the air too rapidly
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>The air reactivates systems in your body you forgot about
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>The system overload feels like a hole's been blown in your chest, and it isn't healing
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>Collapsing to your hands and knees you sputter and cough and breathe trying to help your body correct itself
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>Eventually your body finds its equilibrium and you feel your strength returning
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>Taking one last gasp you chance a glance up at your oldest friend
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"Hey Ce-"
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>Your interrupted as over a ton of celestial white fur, soft downy feathers and ethereal hair envelops you
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>As you press your hands into her to stop you both from collapsing onto the ground you feel her shake and sob
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>Pushing her back to regain your balance, you do your best to wrap the entirety of your being around her
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"Hey Celestia"
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>You barely whisper it into her neck but the hitch of her breathe and new waves of tears tells you she heard
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>"You remember me"
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>Her voice is broken, unsure and trembling, nothing like you remember
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>You have no reply
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>Your cowardice, your failure, everything, and yet all she cares about is her name on your lips
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>At least she's still the same mare
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>The same mare who sacrificed everything she was to try and fight the sun
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>The same mare who failed but planted her hooves, gritted her teeth and kept fighting
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>The same mare who lost everyone as they used themselves to slow it down
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>The same mare you failed
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>You tried locking the sun in time, the same way as happened to you
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>But it was fruitless
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>Like that pony said all those eons ago
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>No way to undo it
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>If that wasn't enough, you ran
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>When all that was left was the two of you and the dust you lost your strength and ran
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>But she held you all the same, and you held her
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>And you were never letting go again
by Sunn
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