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- >To be honest, you don’t know what you should have expected
- >But it wasn’t what you got
- >The room was modestly small
- >In the back, an elderly diamond dog sat on what looked like a cushion seat
- >There are no guards
- >Just the old dog in an average room
- >Scratch that, average-sized room
- >You realize that on the walls are beautiful paintings
- >Each one seems to depict an event
- >Some show wars
- >Others show treaties being signed
- >Still more show what look like ancient cities
- >Each one was done in oil, and seemed to reveal the essence of the event it depicted
- “Impressive works, are they not?”
- >Shit
- >You must have spaced out
- >You nod
- >The old dog is watching you with a kind gaze
- >Much like Celestia, the few times you’ve caught a glimpse of her
- >Wonder why she never noticed you?
- >Surely Twilight said something
- >She was, after all, the one who started the town against you
- >Your thoughts are broken by the leader speaking again
- “My name is Dux, the last King of the Diamond Dogs. What is your name, newcomer?”
- >Damn!
- >Royalty?
- >You should’ve dressed up
- Anon. Pleased to meet your highness
- >Not that you could have, but still
- >With him being the leader of at least the three that you’ve met, is seems appropriate
- “Ah, please. No formalities. They make me seem less… relatable”
- >You suppose you can understand that
- >Being called your highness must get tiring sometimes
- “Anon, I’d like to hear your story”
- >Your story?
- What do you mean?
- >You barely stop yourself from adding sir
- “How did you come to be with my friends outside?”
- >Oh
- >That's... not a fun story
- >It almost hurts to think about it
- >But who are you to refuse him?
- >And what good reason would you even have?
- >Nothing to lose [spoiler]though there hasn't been for a while[/spoiler]
- >Better start from the beginning…
- It started with a party….
- >You tell him what you can remember
- >Everything from before was…. hazy
- >You were heading home from a party
- >There was a wreck
- >A huge wreck
- >Flames everywhere
- >Next thing you knew, you awoke in the streets of Ponyville
- >For the first few days, you lived on pity
- That was my start here. I had planned to restart my life from a fresh perspective
- >And you did
- >Just not the one you wanted
- >What little was given to you should have been enough to get you started
- >But nobody would hire you for a job
- >Nobody would even give you the time of day
- >And pity ran out
- >Living turned into surviving
- >Ponies were pretty good about using up what they buy, so there wasn’t too much in the dumpsters
- >Random berries and fruits from the forest sustained you
- >That and the occasional apple theft [spoiler]they taste so damned good[/spoiler]
- >Then Twilight Sparkle got everyone in town for a meeting
- >That’s when surviving became much harder
- >Literal mobs were constantly after you
- >You learned to sleep fast and light
- >You learned all the good places to hide
- >You would have just left for another town, but they’d probably treat you the same
- >Besides, you don’t know where anything is in this world
- >Eventually they got you
- >Chased you to the lake before they finally got you and tied you up
- >Threw you into the lake
- I ran out of breath and passed out. When I came to, I was here
- >Silence reigns for what seems like an eternity
- >But couldn’t have been more than a few seconds
- >…
- >Somehow, you feel good
- >Lighter, as though some great weight was lifted from you
- >From sharing your struggles?
- >Who knows
- “Ah. Spot had simply told me he found you at the entrance to our caves.”
- >Wait
- >How’d you get there?
- >You were at the bottom of the lake
- >If anything, you would have floated to the top
- “You have told your story. In return, I shall tell mine”
- >This could be… interesting to say the least
- >If he’s as old a leader as he looks, he could probably tell you in detail what every painting meant
- “In the beginning…”
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