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Sins of the Sun

By NothingImpossible
Created: 2021-12-10 02:31:01
Updated: 2021-12-10 02:31:24
Expiry: Never

  1. 1.
    >Be Celestia
  2. 2.
    >For centuries you had ruled over your ponies with a firm yet maternal hoof
  3. 3.
    >You had watched countless ponies be born, grow old, and die
  4. 4.
    >The last time you had dared let your heart thaw and taken a stallion as your own was nigh half a millennia ago
  5. 5.
    >Of all the things you had grown used to pain was the most constant
  6. 6.
    >Your elation at Cadance ascending had been indescribable
  7. 7.
    >Centuries of loneliness forgotten in the first few years of her ascension
  8. 8.
    >She was the daughter you thought you could never have
  9. 9.
    >The foundation you hadn’t known you needed
  10. 10.
    >Her earnest and happy presence had made you once more rooted in the day to day
  11. 11.
    >For the first time in centuries the years didn't pass by in a blur, the days didn't flicker past like flashes of light
  12. 12.
    >As wonderful as your adopted niece was, she couldn't dull the ache in your chest when you saw mares with their husbands
  13. 13.
    >You had long ago resigned yourself to never knowing what it was like to truly share a life with a mate
  14. 14.
    >Perhaps that was why you so quickly abandoned all your morals when Anonymous appeared
  15. 15.
    >The poor man had been taken from his home, twisted into a creature not of his own species and left adrift in a strange new world
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    >You knew it was possible to undo what had been done to him
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    >A way to send him back to his home safely
  18. 18.
    >So you had lied through your teeth to the frightened man turned stallion
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    >He would be returned to his true form
  20. 20.
    >He would be returned to his home
  21. 21.
    >All the while research was undertaken to find a way back you had comforted him
  22. 22.
    >Befriended him, made him laugh and smile inspite of his pain and fear, even as you sabotaged every step of the efforts to return him
  23. 23.
    >Ponies believed you had lost control of the elements after you banished your sister
  24. 24.
    >A belief you never discouraged
  25. 25.
    >The truth was you became selfish
  26. 26.
    >Self serving
  27. 27.
    >Bitter
  28. 28.
    >You took whatever you could to dull the ache of being the sole immortal in Equestria with little regret
  29. 29.
    >But now...
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    >Now you were committing the worst act you had ever done in your life
  31. 31.
    >As you held the sobbing stallion you whispered your false remorse into his ears
  32. 32.
    >As you rubbed his heaving back you gave empty apologies
  33. 33.
    >As he wrapped his wings around you you told him it would okay
  34. 34.
    >As your horns brushed each you rocked him side to side
  35. 35.
    >As he broke down you rejoiced that you would no longer be alone
  36. 36.
    >You couldn't even pretend to feel guilt over your lies and obstruction
  37. 37.
    >A life you once thought denied to you for eternity was in your reach
  38. 38.
    >Even as Anonymous slipped into slumber in your embrace you planned the announcement of Equestria’s first true Prince
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    >He would be yours for eternity
  40. 40.
    >No matter the cost
  41. 41.
    >...Faust forgive you

Sins of the Sun

by NothingImpossible