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Sins of the Sun
By NothingImpossibleCreated: 2021-12-10 02:31:01
Updated: 2021-12-10 02:31:24
Expiry: Never
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                                            >Be Celestia
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                                            >For centuries you had ruled over your ponies with a firm yet maternal hoof
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                                            >You had watched countless ponies be born, grow old, and die
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                                            >The last time you had dared let your heart thaw and taken a stallion as your own was nigh half a millennia ago
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                                            >Of all the things you had grown used to pain was the most constant
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                                            >Your elation at Cadance ascending had been indescribable
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                                            >Centuries of loneliness forgotten in the first few years of her ascension
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                                            >She was the daughter you thought you could never have
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                                            >The foundation you hadn’t known you needed
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                                            >Her earnest and happy presence had made you once more rooted in the day to day
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                                            >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
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                                            >As wonderful as your adopted niece was, she couldn't dull the ache in your chest when you saw mares with their husbands
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                                            >You had long ago resigned yourself to never knowing what it was like to truly share a life with a mate
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                                            >Perhaps that was why you so quickly abandoned all your morals when Anonymous appeared
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                                            >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
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                                            >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
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                                            >He would be returned to his home
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                                            >All the while research was undertaken to find a way back you had comforted him
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                                            >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
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                                            >Ponies believed you had lost control of the elements after you banished your sister
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                                            >A belief you never discouraged
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                                            >The truth was you became selfish
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                                            >Self serving
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                                            >Bitter
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                                            >You took whatever you could to dull the ache of being the sole immortal in Equestria with little regret
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                                            >But now...
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                                            >Now you were committing the worst act you had ever done in your life
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                                            >As you held the sobbing stallion you whispered your false remorse into his ears
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                                            >As you rubbed his heaving back you gave empty apologies
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                                            >As he wrapped his wings around you you told him it would okay
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                                            >As your horns brushed each you rocked him side to side
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                                            >As he broke down you rejoiced that you would no longer be alone
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                                            >You couldn't even pretend to feel guilt over your lies and obstruction
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                                            >A life you once thought denied to you for eternity was in your reach
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                                            >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
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                                            >No matter the cost
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                                            >...Faust forgive you
 
                         by NothingImpossible